A36-Lanc«ster Farming, Saturday, January 15, 2000
Brown Swiss Wins Top
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Yoik Co. were awarded reserved
champion Guernsey with their
five year old
In the Holstein breed.
Hickory Green B Star Patty, a
five year old owned by Scott
Walton ot Cumberland Co. took
grand champion. A tour yr old
owned by Robert Gitt of Adams
Co. took reserved champion
Melissa Wolfe of
Northumberland Co. took both
grand and reserved champion of
the Milking Shorthorn show.
Plumside Snowflake, a senior
two year old took grand, while
Melissa's junior three year old
took reserved champion.
The reserved champion
Brown Swiss was a five year old
owned by James Kennedy of
Butler Co., while a junior three
year old Jersey owned by Curtis
Reichard of Franklin Co. was
awarded reserved champion
Jersey.
Also honored during the show
were premier breeders and
exhibitors in each breed. In the
Ayrshire show, both titles went
to Audrey Gay Rodgers of Plum
Bottom Farm in Mifflin Co.
The Brown Swiss premier
breeder and exhibitor titles went
to the James Kennedy family.
Audrey Gay Rodgers received reserved grand champion
Ayrshire, while James Findley’s Ayrshire received grand
champion.
The Milking Shorthorn championship went to Melissa
Wolfe, who is holding her grand champion animal while her
father holds Melissa’s reserved champion Milking
Shorthorn.
Champions of tho Guernsey show included (from left)
Rutters Brothers who received reserved grand champion
and Aaron Gable who received grand champion.
who own Four Seasons Farm in
Butler Co Rutters Brothers Dairy
from York Co. was named both
premier exhibitor and premier
breeder for the Guernsey breed.
In the Holstein breed, the
Walton family, who own Tower
Vue Farm in Cumberland Co.,
received the premier exhibitor
title, while the Doll family of
Dar-Dale Farm in York Co. won
premier breeder.
Both premier breeder and
exhibitor of the Jersey show went
to J. Craig and Susan E. Whicker
of Centre Co.
Brian Scholl of Dauphin Co.
received premier exhibitor of the
Milking Shorthorn show, while
the Whiting family from
Designer Genes Farms in Butler
Co. took premier breeder.
For the Heilingers, earning
the title of supreme champion
"felt great." According to judge
Curtis Day’s remarks to the
audience at the end of the show,
"Norm" is an animal that stands
out as "just what you're looking
for in a dairy cow."
The Heilingers own 250 head
of Brown Swiss with 100
milking. Although the animals
are in Bruce’s name, Laura does
most of the showing for the
family. She has been showing
Honors At Farm Show Dairy Show
The ttolllngere of Lebanon Co.’e Brown Swiss took supreme champion of the 2000
Farm Show dairy show. From far left are Lori Connelly, Pennsylvania Dairy Princess;
Laura and Bruce Helllnger, along with their daughter Emily; and Pennsylvania Secret
ary of Ag Sam Hayes, Jr.
since she was a kid in 4-H. "We
show because it's a lot of fun,"
said Laura.
Several youth members were
in this year's grand champion line
up. Gable, Walton, and Wolfe
also took grand champion in the
youth division of their
perspective breeds.
For Melissa Wolfe, who took
both grand and reserved
champion of the Milking
Shorthorn breed, winning the
championship was a shock.
"It really feels good to win,"
said Wolfe. "Especially since my
grand champion was bred and
owned."
"Snowflake" is the first bred
and owned animal that Wolfe has
shown. Wolfe had four animals
at the show. Three of those
animals won championship titles.
"I'm following in the family
tradition," said Wolfe, whose
father showed when he was
young. Melissa's sister, Alicia,
also showed at Farm Show.
Aaron Gable was also
honored to have won grand
champion this year. For seven of
the past eleven years. Gable has
won the grand champion
Guernsey of the youth division.
By winning grand champion
youth, he also was awarded the
Scwickley Guernsey Cattle Club
Trophy, a huge silver trophy the
travels from winner to winner
and has the past winners’ names
inscribed on it.
Gable proudly displays the
trophy in his living room. "It's
such an elite trophy," said Gable.
"It's really nice to have it in my
house."
While Gable's family has
been exhibiting at the Farm Show
"forever", according to Gable, he
has been showing for eleven
years. "I like to win, but I
enjoying showing more."
440 animals exhibited in this
year’s Dairy Cattle Show, which
was the first dairy show
anywhere in the new millennium.
Judges included Curtis Day of
Shippensburg in Cumberland
Co., Michael Health of
Westminster, Md., and William
Schnebly of Clear Spring, Md.
Placings in 1/22/00 issue.
Pictured are the winners of the Holstein show. With Pen
nsylvania Alternate Dairy Princess Amanda Gllkinson are
Steve Wood, holding Robert Gltt's reserved grand champ
ion, and Scott Walton, holding the grand champion.
Jersey winners Included (from left) Patricia Huff and her
daughter with their grand champion cow, Curtis Reichard
with his reserved champion, Pennsylvania Alternate Dairy
Princess Rebecca Kilgore, and Pennsylvania Jersey Queen
Meredith Bally.
From left are the champions of the Brown Swiss show—
Justin Kennedy with the Kennedy’s reserved champion and
Laura Hellinger with grand champion.