£—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 29 r 1973
Changes Planned for Traditional
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Auction of Farm Show Entries
HARRISBURG
traditional Friday afternoon
wind-up of the Pennsylvania
State Farm Show -- the auction of
all entries in the 4-H Baby Beef
and the 4-H Market Lamb classes
- will have a total change of
format at the 58th show which
opens at the Farm Show com
plex, Monday, January 7, for a
five-day run.
First of all, the sale will be
shifted from the Mam Arena to
the newly refurbished small
arena which is really not all that
small, with a comfortable seating
capacity of 1,500
Secondly, the Vocational
(F F.A ) Market Hogs class has
been expanded to include, for the
first time, a Market Hog Sale in
the small arena, Friday af
ternoon, starting at 12:30 p.m.
and immediately preceding the
market lamb and baby beef
(steer) sales.
And third, all three shows and
sales have been redesignated as
Junior shows so that both 4-H and
FFA members will be able to
enter all three events.
It is anticipated that buyers
from the Commonwealth’s
leading abattoirs will patronize
the hog sale in the same manner
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If she is under two months of age, a dairy replacement
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heifers fed a hay-free ration. Be sure to see your Purina
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that they have the steer and lamb
sales in the past. That is, the
junior livestock feeder with the
grand champion hog can expect
to take home a check for many
times the current market price
for a slaughter hog
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The tradition of paying a
premium for the honor of taking
home the grand champion baby
beef started a long time ago, in
the mid-20’s, but records prior to
1948 are unavailable Howard
Johnson Restaurants v fed the
tradition and succeeded in
pushing the bidding to $5.31 per
pound in 1966 for a 1,060 pound
Hereford steer In 1972, Donnie
Dorwart, Lancaster County, won
and although he was bid only
$5 17 per pound, the 1,175 pound
weight of his fat Angus pushed
the total price to a new record,
$5,992.50.
At last year’s show, all records
tumbled. Myers Fbodtown,
Dillsburg, York County, bid $5.48
per pound to gross $6,439 for the
tearful but happy youthful
exhibitor, Linda Miller, Halifax,
Dauphin County.
A record that is likely to stand
longer than Babe Ruth’s
homerun total was the paycheck
that Julia Staver, Dauphin
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County, took home two years ago
for her 91 -pound Dorset market
lamb. In 1971, the grand cham
pion market lamb brought $9.00
per pound, a 50 percent jump on
the top dollar paid six years
earlier But in 1972, Julia stood by
in a state of happy shock as she
watched the bidding to to $32.00
per pound and a payoff of $2,912,
generally believed not only to be
a Farm Show record, but
probably the most money paid
anywhere in the world for a
market lamb
What will the first grand
champion junior market hog
bring 7 No one will really know
until the auctioneer cries,
“Sold!” but you can be sure it
will be much more than the
current market price of 45 cents
per pound
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