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The Citizen, 1987-11-25, Page 16PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1987. Royal championships come home to Huron Once again local livestock exhi­ bitors have come home triumphant from the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, having earned among themselves a total of three Grand Championships, five Championships, and five Reserve Championships - and that’s not even counting the three champion­ ships and one reserve champion­ ship brought back by George and Jennifer Procter and Bodmin Farms Ltd. of RR5, Brussels, as reported by The Citizen last week. Jan Van Vliet of RR 2, Brussels took one of the second highest awards in the entire swine show by winning a Reserve Supreme Championship with Hampshire female 10-12 months old, which means that the little black and white lady was the second best female over all the other breeds shown. This is the first award of this calibre to come to Huron from the Royal for a few years, and one that highlights the quality of the Van Vliet breeding stock. As well, the Van Vliets won class championships for both the above female and for a Hampshire boar, as well as the Champion Herd designation for their herd of four Farm Huron County’s top 4-H Dairy Club member, Anita Bos of RR 3, Blyth was recognized with more trophies than she could carry at the Hallrice 4-H Dairy Calf Club’s Awards Night at Westfield last Friday. Anita won the Harry Franken Award for Top Club Member; the McGavin’s Farm Equipment Award for Top Senior Showman; the Belgrave UCO Award for Top Senior Calf; the Swiss Valley Farms Award for Top Record Book; and the members’ Congeniality Award for her club work over the past year. In addition, Anita has wonanumberof awards in county 4-H competition, including Highest Score, Dairy Clubs; Highest Score with Holstein Calf; Highest Score, Silver Dollar Competition; and Highest Score, Senior Dairy Management. She is president of the Hallrice Club and a member of the Senior Dairy Management project, and has shown her project animal at the Brussels Fall Fair, the Seaforth Fall Fair, the Stratford Fall Fair, the Western Fair, the Silver Dollar Competition and the Hays Classic at the Royal Winter Fair over the past summer. 'Partners in Success' offered again Calling all farm couples! “Part­ ners in Success’’ - weekend Seminars for farm cbuples are again being sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Four seminars (three English and one French) will bq held during February at various locations Hamps. They also captured Re- serveChampionshipsfor both a Yorkshire boar and female, as well as taking six first-place ribbons, four seconds, five thirds and one each of a fourth and fifth-place ribbon for their purebred stock. The Rintoul girls, daughters of Lila and Leroy Rintoul of RR 2, Lucknow, also continued their winning ways, with 16-year-old Debbie taking the championship in her 4-H calf’s weight class (1228- 1270 lb.) in the Queen’s Guineas competition, later selling the Angus-Channinia cross for $2.50/lb. The calf that won the overall championship at the Queen’s Guineas was shown by Roseanne Calhoun of RR 2, Dobbington, and later sold for $20/lb. to Knob Hill Farms of Toronto, which in turn donated the beef to the city’s Sick Children’s Hospital. Debbie Rintoul also captured both the Reserve Junior Grand Championship and the Champion Junior Showman in the Charolais competition; and took the Reserve JuniorChampionshipin the Angus competition. Her sis ter, Kim, 18, won both across Ontario. Aside from the opportunity to get away from work and family responsibilities fora mini-vacation, this weekend 'pro­ gram offers a couple the opportun­ ity to gain new perspectives into their own personal situations. Workshops will be offered in communications, goat setting, the Overall Reserve Grand Cham­ pionship in showmanship and the Senior Reserve Championship in the prestigious All-Ontario4-H Beef Showmanship competition, competing against 4-H members from 36counties in the top class for animals not eligible for the Queen’s Guineas competition. Kim also won the Senior Reserve Grand Championship in Charolais Showmanship. Mrs. Rintoul alsoreportsthat the girl’s cousin, 10-year-old Kevin Rintoul of RR 3, Wingham, placed second in the Peewee Charolais Showmanship class, a promising start for a future champion to carry on the Rintoul name. Still on the Queen’s Guineas class, Dianne Black of Belgrave, a member of the Lucknow 4-H Beef Calf Club like the Rintoul girls, placed third in her weight class; while Brussels 4-H Beef Calf Club member Mike Salter of RR 1, Listowel, placed 7th in this weight class. Diane Black was also eighth in the All-Ontario4-H Beef Show­ manship class, while her sister, Darlene, placed fifth in Junior Charolais Showmanship. Clayton Salter, Mike’s father, was awarded the Reserve Champion­ ship in the Open Market Steer, confidence building and dealing with change. The entire weekend package, including meals and two nights accommodation, is yours for only $175 per couple. For further details and to obtain an application form, contact your nearest office of the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food. Galloway Division, the first year that Galloways have been shown at the Royal; he also took a seventh, eighth, 10th and 11th place ribbon for his Galloway market steers, and is now on his way to the Agribition in Regina to show cattle there, including a yearling bull that has already been purchased by a Scots buyer. In February it will become the first Canadian-bred Galloway ever to be shipped to Scotland, the breed’s native land. Still on market cattle, Larry Robinson of RR 1, Belgrave, showed a steer carcass to a fourth place win, the first time he has ever exhibited anything at the Royal Winter Fair. In Charolais competition, Neil Dolmage of RR 4, Walton showed a yearling bull, Donmoore Perfec­ tion 10 U, to a second place win in conjunction with his partner in ownership, Donmoore Farms of Glencoe. In Jersey competition, Jack and Fred Armstrong of Huronia Farms at RR 2, Auburn, won the Championship in the Royal Inter­ national Jersey Futurity with a three-year-old female, Huronia MCM Etta, an award that carries with it a cash prize of $1,000 to complement the trophy and banner for the championship. The Arm­ strong family also took two second place ribbons, one third, and one eighth with Jersey females, as well as winning fourth place in the Breeder’s Herd competition. As Western Ontario’s 1987 Jersey Princess, 15-year-old Lori Armstrong presided at the Royal Jersey Show; the entire family has just returned as well from compet- ingatNorth American’s largest jersey show, the American Inter­ national Livestock Exposition in Louisville, Kentucky, where both Lori, her 13-year-old sister Donna Lynn and their father, Fred, showed Huronia Jerseys to win an armful of ribbons, as well as helping to win the coveted title of State Herd for Ontario Jerseys. In sheep, Hugh and Jo-Anne Todd of RR 2, Lucknow, took Championships for both a South­ down ram and a Southdown ewe, as well as placing second in both the Southdown Flock and Get of Sire competitions. They also captured a second and a third-place ribbon in Market Lamb competition. In the National Market Hog Classic show at the Royal on November 13, there were other winners besides those from Bod­ £1. min Farms Ltd. reported here last week. Arnold Spivey of Belgrave took the Reserve Grand Champion­ ship, just below Bodmin’s Cham­ pionship, with a single live market hog; Mr. Spivey also placed seventh with a Pair of Market Hogs, ninth with a Market Hog Carcass, and 10th with a Group of Three Market Hogs. Gerry and Jo-Anne Camp- schroer of Jerran Farm, RR 1, Blyth, also showed swine at the Market Hog Classic, taking a third- place win in the Pair competition, a fifth in the Group of Three, and a eighth with a Market Hog carcass. The Citizen apologizes to Jeff Robinson for wrongly identifying him as Jeff McGavin in last week’s report from the Royal Winter Fair. Jeff showed at the Ontario Junior Barrow Show at the Royal, where he placed third in the competition sponsored by the Ontario York­ shire Association for barrows sired by a purebred York boar. Jeff also won a Ralston-Purina jacket in the Performance Plus Club for show­ ing a barrow with an average daily gain of 1 kg. or more; he also collaborated with his brother Brent and Jennifer Procter to take a second and fifth-place ribbon in the Inter-County Group of Three bar­ rows class. Other north Huron exhibitors at the Royal Winter Fair this year were Paul and Lorraine Franken of RR 1, Auburn, showing Jersey cattle; Eldon and Lorraine Cook of LoreldoFarms, RR 1, Belgrave, showing Brown Swiss cattle; and Vaughn Toll of RR 3, Blyth, showing a Clydesdale filly. All placed in the ribbons in their various classes, re-inforcing Hur­ on’s reputation as a top livestock­ producing county. Laura Hallahan and Anita Bos, both of RR 3, Blyth; Theresa Knox of RR 1, Blyth, Lori and Donna Lynn Armstrong of RR 2, Auburn and John Craig of RR 1, Walton all showed their 4-H dairy calves in the Hays Classic competition at the RoyalonNovemberl5andl6. A spokesman for the group said that all made the first cut in competition but that none placed in the ribbons in this most difficult show which saw 280 of the best dairy club calves and members in Canada competing in both conformation and showmanship classes. “You’re not going to ship a calf all the way from British Columiba for this show unless you are pretty sure it is going to win,’’ she said.