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Vol. 42 NO. 47
Reading Champion Sheep
Easy To Name, Hard To Tick
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
KUTZTOWN (Berks Co.)
Supreme champion ewe may have
been a challenge to select for Mar
lyn Stroh, Cheviot sheep breeder
and Erdenheim Farm manager
from Lafayette Hill, on Monday at
the Reading Fair.
But for exhibitorToddLee Ben
necoff Jr., it was no trouble to
name.
The Dorset yearling ewe was
named "Dufus,” according to
Todd. It was all in the way she
Todd Lee Bennecoff, right, won supreme champion ewe
with a Dorset at the Reading Fair Monday. At left Is Marlyn
Stroh, Judge.
Wind Drift Natema Wins Third State Holstein Fall Championship
VERNON ACHENBACH JR.
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Wind Drift AJ Natema, a
cow owned by the Ford City syndi
cate of Alex Claypoole, Mark
Campbell, and Doug Beatty, on
Tuesday was named grand champ
ion of the Pennsylvania Holstein
Association’s Fall Championship
Show at the state Farm Show
Complex.
Bom November 1988, it is the
third time the large-framed cow
won the state fall championship
title. She previously won it in 1994
and 1995.
Natema, a Bridon Astro Jet
daughter was entered in the
125,000-pound production class
for the show. That class recognizes
those cows that have made at least
125,000 pounds of milk in then
lifetime, as evidenced by Dairy
Herd Improvement Association
records. It was reported that Nate
ma had made 135,000 pounds of
milk to date, and has a 305-day lac
tation record as a 6-year-old of
35,728 pounds milk, 1,428 pounds
Four Sections
acted kind of clumsy, was the
word.
For Stroh, sheep judge, it was an
“easier job selecting die supreme
ram than (it was) selecting the
supreme ewe,” he said. But in the
end, the Dorset ewe was a “nice,
correct individual, with good size
and scale for the individual that it
is.”
Stroh indicated to the exhibitors
that the strength and weaknesses
for any flock reside in the ewes
themselves.
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fat, and 1,032 pounds protein.
The second place animal in that
class, New-Direction Jet Cameo,
owned by Alan McCauley, of Eli
zabethtown, was the reserve grand
champion of the show. Cameo has
also been a high achieving showr
ing performer for the McCauleys,
who operate Em-Tran Inc., in
Elizabethtown.
Cameo is also a Bridon Astro Jet
daughter. While her total produc
tion was not available, she made
27,157 pounds of milk as a 4-year
old in 305 days.
Alan McCauley received best
bred and owned honors for Cameo
in the open division of the show.
The PHA Fall Championship
was held in conjunction with the
Pennsylvania All-American Dairy
Show, which features national and
regional level dairy shows for six
dairy cattle breeds.
The PHA showing program
- holds a spring state show, district
shows throughout the summer, and
the fall show.
Animals that accumulate the
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 27, 1997
At the pageant held last Saturday, Nichole Meabon, center, Is crowned Pennsylva
nia Dairy Princess. First Alternate Heather Riley, left, and Second Alternate Eileen
Murphy will assist Nichole in dairy promotion at the state level. For more about the
pageant, turn to page B 2 for story and photos by Lou Ann Good.
Pennsylvania National Horse Show For
America’s Top Riders
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
From October 9 to 18, the State
Farm Show Arena in Harrisburg,
PA will bustle daily from dawn
until long after dark with a thou
sand horses and riders. These
equestrians, “the best of the best”
from throughout the United
States, Canada, and Mexico will
travel thousands of miles to Har
risburg to compete for more than
$225,000 in prize money and a
number of coveted national
championships in the 52nd annual
From the left, show Judge Robert Fitzsimmons stands with Pennsylvania Dairy
Princess Nichole Meabon, while Mylin Good, Alan and Sandy McCauley hold their
reserve grand champion banner and Tom McCauley holds the halter of the animal,
leadsman Gary Culbertson holds the halter while Mark Campbell and Doug Beatty
stand with their children and the grand championship banner. Sarah Campbell holds
the banner, while Lindsey Beatty, Kayla Beatty, Rachel Campbell and Thomas Beatty
stand in front.
Pennsylvania National Horse
Show.
The Pennsylvania National
Horse Show is truly the “Show of
Champions," as horses and riders
spend a year competing for
enough points to earn acceptance
in the hunter, jumper, and equita
tion divisions. Draft horse, sad
dlebred, western, roadster, and
hackney pony divisions add to the
show’s attraction, as do special
events such as the Budweiscr
Clydesdales, who appear nightly
$28.50 Per Year
from Wednesday, October 15,
through Saturday, October 18.
The show, sponsored by the Ki wa
rns Club of Harrisburg, has raised
more than $1.4 million for central
Pennsylvania youth organizations
since 1945.
The show opens with Junior
Weekend, October 9 to 12. Riders
under age 18 fight to control their
own nerves as well as those of
their horses as they compete
against the top young riders from
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