A32-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 12, 1998
VERNON ACHENBACH JR-
Lancaster Fanning Staff
ALLENTOWN (Lehigh
C 0..) A 4-year-old Jersey cow
owned by Amy Plummer of Chal
font was named supreme dairy
cow of the Greater Allentown Fair
on Wednesday.
Plummer’s supreme champion
was Neshaminy Imperial Prestige,
and it marked another honor for the
young woman who has been a
perennial exhibitor at the fair,
along with her father, Paul
Plummer.
The family also shows sheep
and goats at the fair.
For years, the Allentown Fair
has selected a supreme champion
dairy cow from among the grand
champions of each breed show.
As well, the fair has selected a
supreme champion dairy bull, a
remnant honor from days when
dairy farmers commonly kept bulls
for breeding, though mostly
replaced now with modem artifi
cial insemenation technology.
There was one bull exhibited at
the fair, a young Ayrshire bull calf,
Amber-Knoll Tri Shiloh, exhibited
by Seth Wolfgang. The Wolfgang
family owns Amber-Knoll farm.
Judge for the show was Chris
Wocd, of Perm-Gate Farm in Lit
tlestown, where she and husband
Steve, their son Clayton, and her
From the left, show judge Chris Wood stands with Amy
Wolfgang who holds the halter of the family farm’s Ayrshire
bull calf, as it is named supreme champion dairy bull of the
Greater Allentwon Fair.
Show judge Chris Wood presents the banner for showing
Showing the champion Ayrshire of the Greater Allentown Fair are, from the left, the supreme champion dairy cow of the Greater Allentown
Amy Wolfgang with the junior champion, Seth Wolfgang with the reserve grand Fair to Amy Plummer, who holds the halter of her Jersey
champion, and Karen Sterner with the grand champion. cow.
Jersey Is Supreme
father Bob Gitl breed Holsteins
and dairy farm.
In the rest of the Jersey breed
competition, Jill Neiman showed
the reserve grand champion, a
3-year-old; Paul Plummer showed
the junior champion, a summer
yearling; and Amy showed the
reserve junior champion, a junior
calf.
In the rest of the Ayrshire breed,
Karen Sterner showed the grand
champion, Anchormere R Johnson
2, an aged cow. Seth Wolfgang
showed the reserve grand champ
ion, the second place aged cow,
Mars Haven Heligo Sprinkle.
The Wolfgang family '"also
showed the junior champion Ayr
shire, an intermediate-aged calf,
Amber-Knoll DMD Snow
Annabelle; as well as the reserve
junior champion, a junior calf.
In the Holstein breed, Seth
Wolfgang also showed the grand
champion, a 3-year-old, Gail-Bert
Tams Shelby.
Stacy Dietrich, of Lynnacres
Farm in New Tripoli, showed the
reserve grand champion, also the
youth division grand champion, a
3-year-old, Lynnacres Blackstar
Frolic. She also showed the open
and youth division junior champ
ion, a senior calf, Lynnacres Mas
cot Lisa.
The open division reserve junior
Cow At Greater Allentown Fair
From the left, with the champion Jerseys of the Greater Allentown Fair are Bill Leib
at the halter of Paul Plummers junior champion, Jill Neiman with her reserve grand
champion, and Amy Plummer with her grand champion.
Showing the champion Holsteins of the Greater Allentown Fair are, Steve Dietrichat
the halter of the youth division reserve grand champion for sister Stacy Dietrich, while
Stacy holds the halter of her youth division grand champion and reserve champion of
the open division, and Seth Wolfgang holds the halter of his open division grand
champion.
champion was a junior calf exhi
bited by Paul Semmel. The youth
division reserve junior champion
was a winter yearling shown by
Jennifer Rassler.
In the Brown Swiss show. Shan
non Semmel exhibited the senior
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