A3B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 16, 1999
Detwiler’s June Heifer Captures Champion Banner At Farm Show
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
HARRISBURG (Dauphin Co.)
Spending time with an early
summer heifer calf, what exhibitor
C.A. Detwiler calls “The June
Heifer,” and giving it lots of
“work, time, and money,” he said,
paid off handsomely when the
Angus champion brought home
the supreme banner here at Farm
Show Monday afternoon at the
open beef show.
C.A., 18, son of Allen and Joy
Detwiler, Roaring Spring, walked
proudly away earlier cm in the day
with the champion heifer of the
intermediate division. The senior
at Northern Bedford High School
purchased the animal from a
breeder, Bolsen’s Angus Farm, in
Lovington, 111.
The animal, Bolscns Golden
Hannah (S; Bushes Montana
Truck, D: Boise ns Taurus Gl2),
won supreme at the Eastern
National Angus Show in Timo
nium, Md, last fall. C.A. helps
with his family’s 30-hcad purebred
Angus farm in New Enterprise.
When he hoisted up the banner
for hundreds of spectators at the
Polled Hereford heifer champion went to Margeaux Fire*
stine, Womelsdorf, at halter.
Champion Hereford bull went to Saiunga Acres, Mount
Joy. Herdsman C. J. Furlong is at the halter.
Angus heifer went to the early summer heifer calf shown by C.A. Detwil
er, Roaring Spring, at halter.
Farm Show, he said, “this is the
best feeling I’ve ever had my
whole life.” He said this is the fifth
year he has been showing at Farm
Show and his first champion.
C.A. also said he brought eight
animals to the show. He said he
spends two hours a day with the
heifer, since mid-November, get
ting her ready for a championship
drive.
For her last year at the beef
show, Dorothy Metzler of Salunea
Acres won champion bull with her
Hereford 3-year-old bull, Salunga
Form 19F (S: Bar B Yankee, D:
CSSBRN RSHING DL
306R21C). The same bull won
champion last year at Farm Show.
“Two years in a tow!” shouted a
friend, Martene Firestine,
Womelsdorf, as Metzler accepted
the banner.
Metzler said she intends to
spend more time with her potato
purchasing business in the future.
This was her last time in competi
tion at Farm Show.
Angus bull grand champion was
Dale A. Rains, Mercer.
In other breed division competi
tion, Cliff and Lynn Orley, Leba-
CA. Detwiler is congratulated by Sam Hayes, state secretary of agriculture, for
Oetwiler’s “June Heifer,” which won supreme champion heifer Monday at the Farm
Show. Photo by Andy Androwo
non, swept the Charolais show
held the previous day, winning
champion heifer and bull.
In the Hereford division,
Margcaux Firestine, 13, daughter
of Mike and Martene Firestine,
Womelsdorf, won grand champion
heifer. A fust for Margeaux, she
won the breed division with a
senior heifer calf, MAP Miss Kai-
T (S: Boyd Pinnacle 34, D: BT
Nan 57 W).
In the Limousin division, Ron
Kelly, of Maple Lane Farm, Enon
Valley, swept both the bull and
heifer classes.
In the Simmental division, Lar
ry Hughes, Triple L Farms, New
Oxford, won grand champion heif
er with the champion heifer calf.
Simmental bull champion went to
Lee V. and Linda W. Snyder of
Harvest Plantation, Franklin, for
his summer bull calf, which won
junior bull champion.
Following is a list of placings.
FARM SHOW
OPEN BEEF SHOW
RESULTS
ANQUS
Junior Hollar CalvM, (May 1998 and Altar
1. Carl Oatwilar. 2 Haathar Fult. 3. Brad W.
Linton.
Junior Hollar Calvaa, April 1998, Clata 1:
1. JDH Cattla Company. 2. Chria WMhida. 3.
Work Land and Cattla Company. Claaa 2; 1.
Cart Dalwilar. 2. Data A. Bain*. 3. Waavar
land Valley Farm*.
Junior Haifar Calvat. March 1998, Claaa 1:
1. JanicaW. Barbour. 2.Cart Oatwilar. 3. JDH
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Champion Simmental bull at the Farm Show went to
Harvest Plantation, Franklin, with the Junior champion bull.
At halter is Lee V. Snyder.
ion Monday at the Farm Show.
Grand champion Simmental heifer at the beef ahow was
awarded to Triple L. Farms, New Oxford, who won the call
division.