Vol. 11. No. 2
Top Steer $1
Per Pound in
Four-H Auction
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Although the over-all average
of $29 44 cwt topped 1955, -the
highest price paid in the Thurs
day auction of Southeast District
4-H Livestock Show fell to $1
per pound, six cents under the
1955 high.
There seemed to be a lack of
buyers in the stands at Lan
caster Stock Yards, or a lack
of buyers willing to pay real
money that would put the
Southeast on a par with others
in the nation. Nevertheless, al
most 144 tons of beef and three
tons of lamb sold, grossing a
total $86,272.76.
One buyer commented there
was a lack of prime quality in
the offerings, with but a small
peicentage that would dress out
choice No comparable offerings
weie listed in the day’s run at
Lancaster Union Stock Yards. In
the week to Wednesday, the day
preceding the 4-H auction, the
bulk of good and choice fed steers
sold at $2O 50 to $25 50 on the
open market with a few prime
and mixed high choice and prime
at $2B. - -
Grossing 387,355 lbs, the 290
head of steers figured $39.44,
and 70 head of lambs, totaling
6,395 lbs, sold at an average of
$36.26 cwt.
Miss Verna Landis, R 4 Lan
caster, whose trim Angus led all
breeds in the Round-Up, saw her
Mickey the 3rd sell at $1 per lb,
glossing around $950 on the bid
ot Ciystal Restaurant, Reading.
James Queisenberry, Jr , of R 1
Stewartstown, York County, sold
his 970-lb Hereford, show reserve
champion for 61 cents a pound
to Evans Restaurant, Manheim.
The champion Shorthorn, shown
bv Kenneth E. Miller, R 2 Man
heim, sold at 37 1-2 cents a pound
to Frank Fisher, York Reserve
Angus, shown by Donald G.
Herr, R 2 Quarryville, sold at $36
cwt, weighing 1060 lbs, to George
Greiner of Warnersville, Pa. Fred
Bernhard, R 2 Mt. Joy, saw his
reserve champion Hereford auc
tioned off to Hildebrand Meat
Market of Strasburg for $35 cwt.
Jav Esbenshade, R 2 Elizabeth
town, scored $34 cwt on his re
set ve Shorthorn, the 970-pound
ei selling to J. Fred Fisher of
York
Crystal Restaurant purchas-
ed several head. The Lancas
ter County National Bank,
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Notables Show in
Timonium Exposition
Reading the*' roster of exhibi
tors at the Eastern National Live
stock Show, one finds a galaxy
<>l noted names, from Oscar Ham
meistem II to Eveiett Crosby.
Others among those showing
weie Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit
ney of Kentucky, and breeders
whose names are far known m
purebred livestock circles Press
co\ eiage was perhaps the heavi
est the Timonium show has wit
nessed.
FRED FREY (Left) stands 'with his bro
ther T Ernst after the soul hern Lancaster
County youth placed reserve at the Eastern
National Livestock Exposition steer show
Mississippi Crops
Good, King Advises
Mississippi crops this year were
excellent, G Harold King, own
er of King Herefords at Canton,
Miss advises Lancaster Farming.
Mr. Kmg and his herdsman,
Allan Poe, were on hand at the
Eastern National Livestock Ex
position in Timomum this week,
and entered several of their* Zato
Heirs.
Rains came at the right, time,
and pastures were top-notch
Colerain and
Fullon Granges
Install Officers
Officers of Fulton Grange No
66 and Colerem Giange were in
stalled at the meeting of Fulton
Grange No 66 Monday evening at
Oakryn Grange Hall
Leslie I. Bolton acted as install-
mg officer, assisted by Ray A
McSpairan as Mai shall; Miss Jean
Moss, regalia bearer and Mass
Ruthann Armstiong. emblem
bearer. Master of Fulton Grange
for the coming year is Charles
G McSparran for Fulton Grange,
and Loran Brmton for Coleram
Grange Other officeis installed
overseer Bennett Coates. Col
erain, lecturei Miss Mabel
Brabson, Fulton, Mrs Bennett
Coates, Coleram, stewaid Rob
ert W Armstrong, Fulton, Henry i
Wenger, Coleram, assistant stew-,
ard Kenneth Piobst, Fulton,'
(Continued on page 16)
Quarryvilie (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, Nov. 16, 1956
Winner And Brother
Ernie Frey, 18, Wins Reserve with
Angus Steer at Eastern National
By ERNEST J. NEILL
TIMONIUM, Md. Compet
ing in a field of 266 Angus, Here
ford and Shorthorn steers, Ernst
Frey, 18, R 2 Quarry ville, - Mon
day scored reseive championship
in the quality packed Eastern
National Livestock Exposition 4-
H Club and FFA steer show.
His Angus. Champy, this fall
stood as champion of the South
ern Lancaster County Commun
ity Fan at Quairyville and stood
second in the big-league show
only to a Hereford, “Ike,” shown
by Joe Walker of Norfolk, Va
Ike pre\ lously had been crowned
junior champ'on steer at the 1956
Atlantic Rural Exposition
ERNIE FREY, R 2 Quarry
ville, this week walked off
with reserve championship in
the steer show at the Eastern
National Livestock Exposition
in Timonium, Md.
Just a few years ago, Fred accomplished
the same winning (Lancaster Farming
Staff Photo).
Ernie earlier topped a field
of 112 Angus that represented
entries from Maryland, Penn
sylvania, New York, Virginia,
and West Virginia. In doing so,
he repeated the reserve scored
by his brother, Fred, at the
Eastern National four years
ago.
Champv, who came to south
ern Lancaster County from Wil
liam W Bramard, Jr’s Downs
bragh Farms at Far Hills, N J ,
caught the e\e of Robert Long,
University of Kentucky beef cat
tle specialist, who judged the
event that packed the stands.
Later Ernie went on to help
Lancaster County score first in
County Group of Five honors,
’rtith Angus led into the ring by
him, Paul Mast, R 2 Elverson;
Kenneth Rutt, Peach Bottom,
Clyde Biubakei, R 1 Ephrata,
and Henrv Gi eincr, R 4 Manheim
This > ear’s Eastern National
shows the growth of interest
in east coast livestock, with
more than 2000 head of ani
mals entered from 27 states,
from California to Florida,
from Florida noith. More than
Ernie Frey Meets
Scotland Breeders
Ernie Frey, Lancaster County
youth whose Angus steer placed
reseive at the Eastern National
this week, had the opportunity of
meeting two breeders of Angus
from the home of Angus.
Visiting Timonium were Wil
liam F. Reid fiom Fordhouse of
Dun in Montrose, and Pat J.
Fairlie, from Kirktos Farm, Dun
dee, Scotland.
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$2 Per Year
Tap Steer At
Timonmm $5.10
Per Pound High
By ERNEST J. NEILL
Timomum, Md Selling to a
Pennsylvania firm, a pnzewm
ning Pennsylvania Slate Univer
sity Angus steer Wednesday set
a new Eastern National Livestock
Exposition sales recoid, going
at $5 10 per pound
Buyer was Abeigast and Bas
tion of Allentown foi a Pennsyl
vania Inn
Meanwhile one of the strong
est beef cattle shows in the
history of the nation’s fourth
ranking livestock exposition
laigest in the East, is becoming
history.
Champions were crowned Wed
nesday with some of the coun
try’s best herds rep-esented Hi-
Point Farms, Brighton, Mich,
showed the champion Hereford
bull, M & M Zato Dominie, a
Feb 1, 1955 son of TR Zato Heir
262nd out of Lady Dominie 3d.
Reserve was an entiy of Caw
Caw Plantation, Orangeburg, S.
C, the two-year-old Larry G.
Domino 51st
In Angus, Ankony Farms,
Rhinebeck, N Y showed the top
bull, Ankoman OB a sum
mer yearling Reserve was Dor-
Mac s Bardoliermere 60th, shown
by Mole’s Hill Faim, Millertown,
N Y and J C. McClean, Quincy,
111 Ankony returned m the fe
male division to take first on
their summer yearling heifer,
Ankony Elba Erica 56th. while
reseive was Miss Blackcap CLC,
shown by Marion Harper, Jr,
Staunton, Va.
Tables were turned in Short
horns where two veteran herds
were pitted against each other,
W. C. Anderson & Sons of West
Liberty, lowa, and Mathers
Bros., consistent winners from
Mason City, 111. The lowa bull,
a summer yearling, WL Ala
Prince placed as grand cham
pion for the Andersons, and
reserve was a senior yearling
bull, Leveldale Virile, shown
by Mathers.
In meat judging, collegiate
teams. from Wisconsin placed
first, Penn State second, North
Carolina State third, Michigan
State fourth and Ohio State fifth.
Penn State, continuing win
nings in the open steer show
and other purebred breeds,
placed first in lamb grading.
The Penn State steer was PS
Eileenmere. Ankony bred.
Second place was a Penn State
Shorthorn, PS Tioubadour,
bred at Penn State.
Throughout, quality was excel
lent, with breedeis in all divisions
saying competition here was as
tough as had been encountered
on the tanbark tiail this season.
Winners from 'the American Ro\-
al. herds that will enter the In
ternational. were on hand
TIMONIUM ANGUS S5OOO
Timonium, Md One female,
lot 39. Ruth of SNF 2d. sold for
$5,000 to top the Atlantic Angus
sale here Monday night during
the Eastern National Livestock
Exposition Consignor was Seek-
No-Further Farm, Jutland, N J .
buyer Angus Valle, Farms. Tul
sa. Okla Fifty females averaged
$856, totaling $42,805