Nothing new for this 12-year-old

The Knox Township sisters fared well in their first dairy showing at the fair.
By NANCY TULLIS
VINDICATOR SALEM BUREAU
LISBON -- Becky Glasser had a busy day at the Columbiana County Fair.
Becky, 12, was in the show ring four times Tuesday afternoon with her 4-H projects, a 244-pound Duroc hog and a Holstein calf.
The Glasser children -- including Becky, Katie, 14, and Ed, 11, all of Knox Township near Homeworth -- brought sheep, hogs and Holstein cows and calves to the fair.
Katie and Becky fared well in their first attempts Tuesday at showing Holstein calves.
Ed and Katie will take lambs and Holstein cows to the show ring later this week.
On Tuesday, Katie won her intermediate class in dairy beef feeder showmanship and was second in showmanship of all dairy beef feeder classes.
Becky was second in her dairy beef feeder junior showmanship class.
Just a few minutes before the start of the dairy beef feeder shows, Becky was in the ring twice with her Duroc hog.
Becky showed the hog with about 15 others in its weight range. Judges ranked the 244-pound female hog fifth in its class.
Earlier Becky finished seventh in junior showmanship.
Show ring
Becky said at 12 she is a veteran at showing hogs, starting when she was 8. While waiting for her turn in the show ring, she brushed and hosed the hog to try to calm it down.
The hog for some unknown reason kept trying to escape its pen just prior to going into the show ring. Then, when Becky's name was called to enter the ring, the hog moved to the back of the stall and didn't want to move.
With a little help from her dad, Phil, and encouragement from her mom, Brenda, Becky shoved and pulled and prodded the hog out of the stall. Armed with a brush to keep the hog clean and calm, and the standard wooden cane used to direct it, Becky moved her hog toward the show ring. Its next trip to the Coliseum ring will be tonight, where it will be sold.
She explained that because the hogs will go to market, she never names them. One fairgoer, however, suggested she name it "Bacon."