Winter 1998-99 . Issue No. 48 What you will find inside issue No. 48 Links will connect you to the author's email address. Cover Illustration - by Paige McGrath

Editorial

• Hydra-Headed Mailing - Jo Ann McGrath

Letters to the Editor

News

• Grand Nationals Make a Big Squish - Paige McGrath
• Fall Celebrity Sale - Gordon Cucullu
• ILR Update Released
• AAA Ousts Incumbents In Highly Charged Race - Sylva Barns
• Open Houses: A Marketing Strategy - Sheila Fugina

In Short

Health

• Camelids Excluded From Johne's Screening - Art Kennel, MD
• Removing the Yoke of Johne's: Dr. Fowler Comments on Research Benefits - JAM
• OSU Taking Leadership Role, Ed Lee, MD

Husbandry

• Training: Utilizing Your Environment - Jim and Amy Logan
• One of the Worst Tragedies of All: The enemy within - Michelle Hoyt
• On the Soap Box - Dena Thurmond & Jo Ann McGrath

Conferences

• GALA Recaptures Enthusiasm Found in Conferences Past - Lynn Lenker
• CLAA Conference: Building a 'Bridge' - Lorraine Guyn
• LANA Expo '99 is a Summer Camp - Shari Miller

Fiber

• Llama Fiber: Fact, Fiction and Fabrication - Heather Bamford
• Making Guard Hair Lead Ropes by Hand - Paige McGrath
• Where to Send Your Lama Fiber? How About Canada? - Janis Schole
• Breeding For Fiber - Sylva Barns

Breeding

• Legendary Sire: Del Fuego
• Grand Dam: Condessa Dempsey

Showing

• LLII Judging Llama Conformation with Carol Hicks
• New Twist to 'Spring' Llama Magic - Sheila Fugina
• Minnesota Show Superintendent Dies - Sheila Fugina
• Rogue River Gold Debuts - Joyce Abrams
• Interest in Shows Expanding In Australia - Sylva Barns
• Sidebar: Judging the Judging - Paige McGrath
• Humdingers at the Nationals - PFM
• First Canadian W.C. Sweepstakes - Trudy Handel
• Show Results:

  Uintah County Fair Llama Show

  New York State Fair Llama Show

  1st Annual Central States Fair

  Rogue River Gold Llama Show

  Frederick County Llama and Alpaca Show

  State Fair of Oklahoma

  State Fair of Virginia

  Eastern States Exposition

  Sonoma County Harvest Fair - Llamas of the Wine Country

  ALSA Central Regional Championship Show

  ALSA Eastern Regional Championship Show

  American Royal Llama Show

  ALSA Grand National Show

Carting

• Logic of Driving and Triple Hitch Training - Roxana Baechle
• Adventure Llama Carting - Niki Anderson
• The Carriage that Bill Built - Sheila Fugina

On the Trail

• An Object Lesson - Dick Sheehan
• Canada/US Llama Hike - Brian and Jane Pinkerton

People

• Why Llamas? - Alvin Bean and Lance Hardcastle
• All I Want for Christmas - Jackie Deems
• Mother and Child

  Little Dipper Comes up a Winner - Sheila Fugina

  Let's Pretend - Jo Ann McGrath

  Baby Brooke and The Bottle Battle - Gene Wells

Online

• Year 2000 Compliance - Simon Van Der Heijden
• How a Web Page Began... and Grew - Brian Pinkerton
• eMail & URL Directory
• Op-Ed On the Web

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