JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Correspondent
FAWN GROVE (York Co )
She started out raising black
and whites, then accented her
herd with a dash of red
Now Susan Richardson is
making her mark in the regional
Ayrshire arena, both with her
junior project animals and as
the 1998 Pennsylvania Ayrshire
Princess.
Susan, 16, is the oldest of
three daughters of Charles and
Ruth Richardson, Fawn Grove.
The Richardson operation
includes 400 acres of crops and a
milking herd of 60 mostly home
bred Holsteins and some colored
breed cattle that entered the
family dairying picture as 4-H
project calves.
Encouraged by her dad and
an aunt who had been 4-H’ers,
Susan enrolled in the dairy pro
gram when she was 10 years old.
“My dad really wanted me to
join,” she recalls. “He dug out
his old clippers and halters for
me.” Two years later, younger
sisters Barbara, 14 and Tracy,
11, followed in the family’s 4-H
dairy footsteps.
As her involvement with
showing cattle developed, Susan
became interested in the
Ayrshire breed. This season she
is exhibiting two cows and two
heifers.
“I’ve been lucky enough to
have them calve out well,” she
says as her heifers have
matured and developed. Her
Wentworth-Farm Ms. Merrilee
and Wentworth-Farm Heidi-Ho,
junior and senior two-year-olds,
took Ayrshire breed champion
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Ayrshire Princess Shares Love For Breed
and reserve honors at the York
4-H roundup in late July That
same week, Heidi-Ho was select
ed the supreme champion at the
Cecil County, Maryland, open
dairy show
Fellow Ayrshire enthusiasts
encouraged Susan to become
more active in the breed associa
tion’s youth programs. Initially,
she shunned the idea of running
for the state Ayrshire princess
title.
“I don’t particularly like to
get dressed up,” she admits with
a chuckle. But after watching
Marylander Becky Patrick
crowned a_ the national
Ayrshire princess last year,
Susan began to give the idea
more serious thought.
Along with three other con
testants, she participated in the
princess contest at the 1998
Pennsylvania Ayrshire
Association’s annual meeting,
held at Towanda in late March.
When the interviews and
impromptu questions were over,
Susan was the new
Pennsylvania Ayrshire Princess.
In June, she attended the
national Ayrshire convention in
lowa, not as a princess contes
tant, but as a member of the
four person quiz bowl team rep
resenting Maryland and
Pennsylvania. The team took
second place out of eight.
As a spokesperson for Ayshire
cattle, Susan participates in var
ious youth and general events,
helps with ribbon and trophy
awards at shows, and promotes
the breed. Part of that responsi
bility includes speaking before
groups, a skill that Susan both
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She credits her speaking abili
ties in part to 4-H public speak
ing and demonstrations, and
especially to dairy judging.
“At first I was not interested
in judging; I didn’t think I would
be any good at it,” she confesses
She credits youth dairy judging
leaders, including Jerry
Paul Knight, Scott Cooper, and
Jeff Rutz, for their encourage
ment and help in honing her
dairy judging skills.
“I love it,” she says of the
challenge of placing, remember
ing and presenting oral judging
reasons for classes of dairy cat
tle. Her skill is evident in that
she finished third in dairy judg
ing at the recent 4-H State Days
held the first week of August at
Penn State, and was part of the
York County team which placed
second. As state third-high indi
vidual, Susan will be part of the
four-member dairy judging team
representing Pennsylvania at
the national youth judging con
test at the October World Dairy
Expo in Madison, Wisconsin.
Susan is also an accom
plished cattle showman and fit
ter'who thoroughly enjoys the
challenge of training, preparing
and exhibiting her animals.
“Showing gives me a chance
to present them to others,” she
says. The showing has also
helped expand her interests in
other aspects of dairying, includ
ing a keener interest in the fam
ily herd feeding program.
“I do all my own fitting,”
Susan is quick to emphasize. “I
think 4-Hers especially should
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Pennsylvania Ayrshire Princess Susan Richardson pauses
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