12 —Lancaster Farming. Saturday, Feb. 8, 1975 “Sold!” Buyers came from all over again this year, and they spent some $1.3 million for farm equipment of every description at Wenger's Farm Machinery, Inc.'s, annual sale held Tuesday and Wednesday. Carl Wenger, a partner in the firm, said the first day’s sales this year were just about the same as the two-day figure for 1974. when the gross was just under $l million. * < . i Wi Acres and acres of farm equipment, Tuesday and Wednesday at Wenger’s some $1.3 million worth, was set out Farm Machinery winter sale, before prospective buyers’ eyes this DO YOU NEED BALANCE IN YOUR FARMING OPERATION? BROILER BREEDER HATCHING EGG UNIT LONGENECKER’S HATCHERY, INC. Stanley Saylor, RDI, Elizabethtown, Pa says that Longenecker’s broiler breeder hatching egg program works well with his hog and steer operation Saylor's two-thirds slatted floor house is specially designed for efficient operation EARL GERLACH - 717-367-1545 <.A Consider a FOR ELIZABETHTOWN, PA CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION For *1.3 Million "The market wasn't quite as high this year,” Wenger said, "but we had more equipment to sell, This year we sold 171 tractors. Last year it was 144 The smaller tractors really took hold this year. And a lot more of the buyers were local, in a five or six state area. We had excellent support from local dealers and farmers." There were again some dealers from the Midwest • I* YOU CAN COUNT ON US AGRI : EQUIP. CARL L. SHIRK R D 2, Farmersville, Ephrata, Pa 5 Colebrook Road. Lebanon, Pa 717-354-4271 717-274-1436 M. E. SNAVELY DEPENDABLE MOTOR CO. 455 South Cedar Street Lititz Pa East Mam Street, Honey Brook, Pa - 717-626-8144 215-273-3131 M J*J! ARSIEY & SONS GRUMELLI FARM SERVICE 110 114 East Market Street. West Chester Pa Robert Fulton Highway Quarryville, Pa 215 696-2990 717-786-7318 HENRY S. LAPP LANDIS BROTHERS _ RDI Cams Gap Penna 17527 1305 Mantieim Pike P 0 Box 484 717-442-8134 Lancaster Pa 717-393-3906 ERB & HENRY EQUIP., INC. 22 26 Henry Avenue New Berlmville Pa 215-367 2169 Auctioneers Jack Snell, left, from Mexico, Mo., and Bob McWhirter, Jr., Baxter, lowa, were kept busy on Tuesday as they faced a packed audience of tractor buyers. and the Southwest, Wenger noted, but not nearly as many as there were last year when the used equip ment market was about as tight as it's ever been In addition to the big interest in small tractors, Wenger said combines and other farm machinery sold very well, and this year’s industrial equipment volume was double the 74 mark. The high price paid this year was $27,000 for a brand new John Deere 4630 In all, some 1100 people registered to buy over the' two-day auction, and Wenger figures that there were easily 5000 people there buying and looking.
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