NEWPORT (Perry Co.)
“Today, I’m going to do some
thing I have never done befqre,"
explained swine showmanship
judge Henry Holloway of Bel Air,
Md.
He then went on to name two
junior exhibitors, 9-year-old
John Ebersole and 10-year-old
Cole McGuire, as champion
swine showman and reserve
champion swine showman of the
28th annual Perry County Fair.
In the swine showmanship
event, these two enthusiastic
young men placed highest in a
group of 48 showmen, which
included intermediate and
senior exhibitors up to 21 years
in age.
John and Cole are active, sec
ond-year members of the Perry
County 4-H Livestock Club,
which has grown considerably
during recent years and present
ly has 84 members. Members of
the livestock club and local FFA
chapters showed 23 steers, the
most entered in any Perry
County Fair, and 53 market
lambs, which represented a con
siderable increase from last
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Bart Gill and Abigail Finkenbinder with their grand
champion and reserve champion market goats.
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Exhibitors Make Grade At Perry County Fair
.year. Twenty-tour market goats, *
81 market pigs, and five meat
pens of rabbits also were shown.
The fair held in August, also
featured dairy cattle, dairy goat,
and dog shows. Showmanship
competitions were held for each
type of animal present at the
fair. This year’s fair also includ
ed a stockman’s competition.
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. Mark
Schweiker and Secretary of
Agriculture Samuel E. Hayes,
Jr. attended the market steer
and swine shows. Patrick
Finkenbinder’s 1,275-pound
Limousin steer won grand
champion honors, and Amber
Hetrick’s 1,120-pound Maine
Anjou was reserve grand cham
pion. Sheena Hines was master
market steer showman, Patrick
Finkenbinder was reserve
champion showman
“This was a very competitive
lamb show, with large numbers
of lambs in each class,” said
market lamb judge Dick
Kuzemchek of State College.
Junior Exhibitor Katelynn Curtis
won grand champion with her
122-pound Suffolk lamb. Bart
Gill won id chr
on with his 127-pound Dorset
lamb. Bart was also master
sheep showman, John Hines
was reserve champion sheep
showman.
Honors for grand champion
market goat went to Bart Gill’s
Boer crossbred goat, and Abigail
Finkenbinder’s Alpine crossbred
market goat was reserve grand
champion. Abigail Finkenbinder
was master market showman.
Reserve champion market goat
showman was Bart Gill.
From a total of 81 market
swine, the honors for grand
champion went to John
Ebersole’s 268-pound Yorkshire/
Hampshire crossbred hog. Keri
Rowe’s 265-pound Hampshire/
Duroc crossbred hog was reserve
grand champion.
In the rabbit competition,
Tracy Lindgren received honors
for the grand champion rabbit
meat pen, and Cole McGuire
won honors for the reserve.
Cortney Pontius was rabbit
master showman and Tracy
Lindgren was reserve master
rabbit showman.
Kassy Snyder showed the
best 4-H dairy goat at the fair
and was also dairy goat master
showman. Amanda Myers showed
the 4-H grand champion dairy
cow, and Brian Salzburg was
dairy row master showman.
Regan Walker was master dog
showman.
On the fourth night of the
fair, master showmen from each
of the above animal categories
participated in the competition
for supreme showman, one of
the highest honors associated
with the fair’s livestock shows.
Animals from «U of the above
categories were *shown by each
contestant. Sheena Hines was
supreme showman of the fair,
and Bart Gill won the reserve
title.
Area business leaders and
other buyers provided strong
support at the annual livestock
auction held on the last night of
the fair. Mutzabaugh’s Market,
Duncannon, and Hatfield, Inc. of
Hatfield, Pa. led the buying with
the purchases of nine animals
each. H.F. Campbell and Son,
Millerstown, purchased eight
animals. One hundred eighty
two animals crossed the auction
block for a record sale of
$68,800. Buyers came from six
counties to purchase animals.
Record prices were set for the
sell™ade
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