—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Fab. 28,1976 14 Berks-Lehigh pork producers hold annual spring sale By Judy Mitchell _ BerkaCo. 'Correspondent KUTZTOWN - It wu easy to see that pork producing is often a family affair as men, women and children gathered at the Fairgrounds here on Saturday for the Spring Sale of meat type breeding stock-consigned by Eastern Pennsylvania’s top breeders and sponsored by ll&Eaas SPECIAL BULLETIN: With our revolutionary new Hexapod Installation System WE CAN INSTALL A NEW JAMESWAY DISTRIBUTOR-UNLOADER IN YOUR SILO NOW No longer do you have to wait ’til your silo's filled to enjoy the benefits of Jamesway's * True Three-Point Suspension * Power Ring Drive Now you can replace your old silo unloader with a new Jamesway Volumatic II silage disiji butor-unloader whether your silo’s empty, full or partially filled. With no weights to adjust, no bull wheel to manhandle, you have fewer trips up the silo. Call us today Replacement Chain For Most Make Barn Cleaners in Stock. HENRY S. LAPP RDI (Cains) Gap, Penna. 17527 Phone 717-442-8134 . the Barks-Lehigh County Pork Producers Association. As Association officers, sales committee members and directors tended to the auction preliminaries, members’ wives set up a display of food which guaranteed that no one at tending the sale would go home hungry. Two very professional young men, Leslie Lazarus and his nephew Todd Bennecoff, ages ten and nine yean respectively, stood by ready to field the hogs as each was presented to prospective bidden. Auctioneering the sale was Ralph W. Zet tlemc/er, Breinigsville Rl. At the close of the bidding, total sales stood at $10,320 for an average of $2ll per hog. Top seller* of the day were two bred gilts purchased at $350 each; Mini Acres Matilda, consigned by Ed ward H. Oswald, Slatington R 2, purchased by Walter Melton of Allentown, New WE DO. The Farm Credit System. We’re agriculture’s own credit source. Owned by and operated for the benefit of farmers, ranchers, and growers. We help farmers buy and improve acres that produce millions of bushels of grain, cases of eggs, crates of oranges, gallons of milk, board feet of Jersey; and Loch Valley TiUi , consigned by Warren C. Loch, New Tripoli Rl, purchased by Mart Hoppes, Lehighton Rl, A total of 49 head were purchased with bred gilts averaging $287, open gilts $l3l, and boan $lBO. One littermate pair brought $l9O. Saturday’s sale was th> first of two such auction* which will be presented dus year by the Berks-f.< high County Pork Producers and the Eastern Pennsylvania Pork Prouur ( u \ the second of which wlu be held in the Fall. Earl Rabenold, Kutztown R 2, serves as president of the pork producers group with Edward Oswald of Slatington R 2 as vice president. Terry Bennecoff, Kutztown R 2, is the secretary-treasurer. who finances acres, bushels, cases, crates, kilowatts, gallons, board feet, tons, head,bales, and lugs? lumber, tons of hay, countless head of livestock, bates of cotton, lugs of peaches. And all other kinds of products of American Agriculture. There’s more. We provide money for feed, seed, fertilizer, feeder calves, baby chicks, machinery, and all the other supplies to operate a modern farm. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT YOUR LOCAL COUNTY OFFICE. ALLENTOWN - Robert P. Barry, president of Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, said recently he expects the Co-op to show a profit in 1978 after several years of losses. Barry took over the presidency of LeHl in June of 1974. "We have instituted substantial changes over the last year, improving ef ficiency and adding profitable new lines to our product mix,” Barry said. "Operations have been centralized' with internal controls developed in all divisions. Volume is in creasing steadily in both fluid and products.” "Earnings for 1975, while VI Lehigh expects to be in the black for 1976 non-fluid It’s pur job to gather the most important crop of all - capital. Money for all the things it takes to keep agriculture at full capacity, able to feed and help clothe the other 95 percent of our population ... plus untold millions in other lands. we do •till in the red, thow significant improvement over last year," Barry reported. "We have every reason to believe that dramatic positive trends established by the end of 1975 will continue and put us in the blade (or 78.” LeHl is one of the largest dairy cooperatives In the Mid-Atlantic region, marketing dairy products in five states. The cooperative represents 600 producers and in 1975 processed over 390 million pounds of milk. Sales volume for the fiscal year ending Jan. 31, 1976 was dose to 6100 million. Try A Classified Ad It Pays!
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