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McCOMSEY & SONS Hickoiy Hill, Pa Acres to Coin Manheim, Pa Lancaster Farming Saturday, December 26.1970—* -| Buveis appaienth paid SI 00 [ to SI 50 a hunch edw eight pie 1 rmum ioi pie conditioning tieatments given 1653 calve s : auctioned Oct 14 at the Fiede ncksbuig Feedei Celt Sale Inc All calves otteied bv the Fiedencksbmg Feedei Calf Association vvete vaccinated two weeks to a month befoie the sale to piotect against bovine ihinetiacheitis dednose) bo vine vnus cnauhea and paia mfluenza 3 (IBR-BVD-PI-3) All also were tieated with Ruelene to control cattle guibs Those tieatments weie in ad dition to vaccination against blackleg and malignant edema a tieatment that has been le quned loi all calves sold in Association sales in Vuginia for seveial yeais The offering was billed as a “tual to see vvhethei buveis would pay enough at auction to cover pioducei costs in piovid mg such tieatment and vvhethei the treatments actually would help buyers stait the cattle on feed with less sickness death loss, and ditliculty Calves sold through tho ving included 1007 steei s that dVei aged 491 pounds and brought an average of $36 47 pei hundred and 646 heileis that weighed 444 pounds each on avei age and brought $2984 a bundled Across the boaid, the 1653 calves aveiaged 474 pounds and biought an aveiage of $34 02 By buying tieated calves Total revenue was $266,571 12 Quesenbenv is striving to avoid for the 1653 head the kind of tioubles he got into These figures lanked highest two years ago when he bought of the 10 Vnginia Beef Cattle 350 calves that had not been Association sales held in the treated “I lost eight head and same week “without question,” doctored 50 moie loi six according to Mai tin Sti ate, Har- weeks,” he said “It cost nsonburg, executive secretary $l,OOO cash But woise, the cat ,. °t the Association They also tie never did do as well as they | placed Fiedencksbmg puces in should have It cost me much the “top five pei cent” ol the moie in pounds of gain lost due feedei calf sales held hi the to sickness ” state this fa!l, added K C Wil liamson, extension specialist in Ken Binkley, who feeds about beef cattle maikctmg at Vn gin- 400 bead a yeai at Lancastei, la Polytechnic Institute Pa, was 1,1 agicement ‘Last In a duecc compaiison, the ve ai I got cattle that had pie Fiedcucksbiug puces weic $1 conditioning tieatment,” he to $2 highei than those paid at said ’ “ ancl t] iev started leal a sale held at Richmond that well rd iath ei pay $lOO to same evening (Oct 14) which ? 150 a bundled extia anytime offeieci Association cattle that lot cattle tlu,t have been tieat had been similarly giadcd ioi ed befoie shipment ” uniloimity but had not bom lpj . j c- , n , , tieated foi IBRBVDPI3 oi ® Favloi, pies’dont ° of the Fiedentksbuig Feedei iff , f 6l ? 110 . 1 Call Association said most of m. . at ' the 02 pioduceis who pait.ci p R7n ° same buy- pated in the pie conditionme a ' elagHlS 43/ u la l and sold calves at the sale pounds biou a hl an aveiage ol W eie veiv nleised with ip $3408, actually $2 39 less P ei " ult !J 6 ' P ‘ e ‘’ SeCl Wlth IG ‘ hundiedweight than was paid " foi the steeis at Fiedeucks- Fol * l6 tua 1118 ' eai vac " bing A total ol 460 heiteis cines and guibicide weie donat aveiaging 382 pounds at me ed b ' The Do " chemKal Com - Richmond sale bi ought S2SB9 pan ' pioduceis continue the on aveiage compaiod to the Ptogiam on then own lav lor aveiage heilei puce ot $2984 ai Baid * bt ' es^im * dt ’d cos! will be Fiedencksbmg $95 difteience ‘ 00 *° S 1 a 0 a bead toi the The aveiage puce ioi all caulrlk matenals At this iate cioweis at Richmond was Sl2 98 pc , lhopo to get back about S 3 00 tor bundled compaicd to the 534 S 1 00 imested liguie at Fi odeucksbui g Fiedeucksbuig lesults also bettoied those at a sale at Pe teisbiug on the lollowmg da* Oct 15 vvheie a high pei cent age oi calves had lecened stnnlai tieatment but vvheie the tieated calves weie sold in Vr same ung with calves loi which tieatment could not m ceilitied fins appaieidh tompoiod bnvei enthusiasm loi the mi\ ed pens Hovvovei buveis chd bid highei loi the stoois m Peieisbiug than thov did ioi the nn(leafed stems n Rij, mond The steeis -±2 n ol then avei aging 477 pounds bi ought an aveiage of $36 pei bundled And 317 heifeis avei aging 452 pounds bi ought $2B Overall aveiage puce foi all cattle at Petersburg was $33 02 per him died comp.uea to 532 98 at Richmond and 534 08 at Fieae ncksbmg It appeals that vouie going to have to be able to guaiantee that all cattle in a pen have been tieated umfoimiv vvhh the same shots it vouie going to get the lull value ot the tieat ment in the auction ring ’ said Glen Hess agucultural lepie sentative oi The Dow Chemical Companv who worked with cat tlemen at both Fiedencksbuig and Petersbuig to set up the pie conditioning tuals ‘That seems to be the lesson we learn ed at Peteisbuig Seveial of the 28 buveis at Fiedencksbuig said the> were willing to pav SI 00 to SI 50 a hundredweight extra foi cahes that had been pre-txeated against shipping fever disoideis and to contiol giubs and were bidding accotdirglv One of them was the sale's laigest buvei James E Quesen benv of Stewaitstown Pa who said T m bidding a good SI 00 to $l5O a bundled highei be cause of the tieatment these calves have received I think Us vvmth a lot foi the cahes to have the shots befoie shipping, when thev need them And it saves me having to give them the same shots vv hen I get them home ” msm/*> Robert K. 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