York 4-H Meats Judge Equally At Home In Show Arena
JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
DOVER (York Co.) Place
him in the show ring and he often
takes champion honors.
Put him through the auction
arena, and he may seta new price
record.
Send him to a national competi
tion, and he brings home the top
award.
“I like to compete, to see what I
can do,” grinned Mike Burrell, an
affable and easy-going York 4-H
member who has managed to snag
top honors in just about every
competition he enters.
In November, the 16-year-old
Dover High School junior took
first place in the national 4-H
meats judging contest, held at
Kansas City, Kansas. With that
top placing came a $l,OOO schol
arship and more awards to add to a
trophy and ribbon collection that
nearly overflows the family’s
Mountain Road home.
Burrell found his interest in
livestock spurred eight years ago
while visiting the York Fair. He
spied a classmate showing sheep
and decided it looked like an inter
esting thing to do.
When Burrell sets his mind to
do something, he works at it; and
his parents, William and Carolyn
Burrell, arc a supportive team in
all his efforts.
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He settled on sheep because of
their smaller size and the lesser in
vestment needed than for a beef
project. The Burrell family has a
10-acte farm on Mountain Road,
north of Dover, and sheep better
fit their facilities.
I like sheep more,” Burrell says
of this livestock choice. “Steers
are so difficult to train and get
ready for a show. And there’s al
ways a steer at the shows that
manages to get loose. Sheep are
easier to handle, but they do take
as much work as a steer.”
A Suffolk enthusiast, Burrell
has both purebreds and some un
registered stock of the large,
black-headed breed, as well as one
Hampshire in his small flock. For
market class competition, he has
done well with Suffolk cross
breds.
“The Suffolks usually have
more meat and better carcasses,”
said this accomplished meals and
livestock judge. “They’re meatier
and leaner. Judges seem to like the
black-faced sheep better, too.”'
It was his knowledge of meats,
off the hoof, as well as on; that
earned Burrell his national meats
judging honors.
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sons are long-time junior sheep
exhibitors in York County, en
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Mike Burrell sits with his trophies, plaques and awards for Junior livestock and 4-H
activities that fill his family’s home.
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