—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 23,1971
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Manheim Fair Steers Sold
The grand champion FFA steer
at the Manheim Fair was bought
by Kunzler & Co., Inc., Lan
caster, for 66 cents a pound.'
The 1,070 pound Charolais,
shown by Doug Shenenberger,
brought a total of $706 20.
Kunzler also paid 41 cents or a
total of 436 65 for 1,065 pound
reserve champion, a Hereford
shown by Doug Rohrer
The 1,000 pound champion
Angus, owned fa> Ken Groff, was
sold to the Fulton National Bank
for 41.25 cents a pound
Nineteen steers were auctioned
at the sale They weighed a total
of 19,165 pounds and brought an
Fulton Junior
Grange Meets
Fulton Junior Grange held its
regular meeting at 8 p.m Oc
tober 11 at Oakryn.
Michael E. McDonough,
history teacher at Solanco Senior
High School spoke on “Hunting
and Gun Safety.”
■ The organization will hold a
roller skating party from 7 to 10
p.m. October 26 at Buck Heights
Skating Rink*
On October 29 the Junior
Grange will Trick or Treat for
UNICEF in the Quarryville area.
Members will meet at the Grange
Hall at 7 p.m.
Junior Grangers are to bring 1
inch to V/z inch aerosol can lids or
plastic caps which are 1 inch high
to their next meeting November
8. They are also to being all the
Rubbermaid books, orders and
money to this meeting.
Pennfield No. 556
40% Concentrate . . .
average price of 39.4 cents a
pound.
Other buyers at the sale were
AF. Moyer and Sons; Bom
berger’s Store, Elm; Manheim
Auto Auction; Elmer Geib,
Manheim, Flower and
Wolgemuth Auctioneers,
Manheim National Bank, Amos
Bruckhart, Manheim, Stiegel
Developers, Manheim RDI;
Jacob Ruhl Insurance; Hershey
Abattoirs, Jacob Geib, New
Holland Sales Stables Inc , and
Elmer Murray
The auctioneers were Murray
and Ken Miller
Jesse Erway, Manheim Cen
tral FFA Chapter advisor, said
early reports on dress-out of the
animals were good.
Groff's top Angus had a dress
out of 64 6 per cent
A 930-pound Angus shown by
Gary Buchen dressed out at 66 1
per cent and a 1,140 pound cross,
which was second in its class and
shown by Marlin Becker, dressed
out af6l 05 per cent.
Project records show that the
FFA youths kept the animals on
feed for periods ranging from 249
to 361 days, most of them from
340 to 355 days.
Initial weight of the animals
was 340 to 550, with most of them
beginning between 400 and 500
The selling weight ranged from
810 to 1,270, mostly between 900
and 1,100.
The weight gain ranged from
470 to 835, with most ranging
from 470 to 615. Gain per day also
varied considerably, with a low of
1 36 pounds per day and a high of
2 36 pounds per day.
Shenenberger’s champion
Charolais was on feed 325 days,
starting at 540 pounds, gaining
530 pounds at the rate of 1.63
pounds per day to a sale weight of
1,070.
Members of the Lancaster County
Poultry Association board elected last
Thursday night at the organization’s
banquet are: left to right, front, J. Harold
Esbenshade and Kenneth Roth; back,
Aaron S. Click and John W. Melhorn.
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