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Sale
reports
A Public Sale of farm
machinery and old tools was
held Sept. 4 by Mrs. Bill
Humpton 3 miles east of
Cochranville in Chester Co.,
Pa. with a good crowd.
Some items sold were:
Farmall A Tractor $BlO, 7 ft.
Cultipacker $5O, Horse
Drawn Potato Plow $3O and
Conestoga Wagon Jack $3O.
Leon Kurtz and Leroy
Zook were the auctioneers.
A Public Sale of hotel
furnishings and antiques
were sold Aug. 31 by Widow
Brown’s Inn at Wescoeville,
Pa. It was a very good sale.
Prices received were:
Pine Dutch Cupboard $B9O,
Oak wardrobe $650, Tavern
Table $325, and radiators to
$35 each.
Two large Dairy Sales yere
held Aug. 27 and Sept. 3 at
Shady Lane Dairy Sales with
221 head sold. The owner is
Glenn Fite of Quarryville
No. 2, Pa.
The top purebred cow sold
for $2BOO and the low cow
' sold for $290. The top priced
fresh cow brought $1390 with
the top springing cow
bringing $l2OO.
Fresh and close cows were
in demand. The sales were
well attended with active
bidding.
Auctioneers were K.
Bradley and E. Kreider.
SPECIAL YEARLING
SALE
September 7,1976
There were 1,071 head
sold. All steers were graded
by Representatives of the
VDAC’s Division of Markets,
Livestock Section on VDAC
standards and sold by the
hundredweight.
STEERS: Choice 350-500
lbs. $35.50-38.80, mostly
38.00-38.80; 501-700 lbs. 37.20-
39.00, mostly 38.10-38.50; 701-
800 lbs. 35.25-39.00, mostly
37.90-39.00; 801-1000 lbs.
33.25-35.80, mostly 34.50-
35.70; 1000-1300 lbs. 29.00-
33.00, mostly 31.50-33.00.
Good 400-500 lbs. 36.00-
39.10, mostly 38.50-39.10; 501-
700 lbs. 37.10-38.70, mostly
37.20-38.70; 701-800 lbs. 36.20-
37.20, mostly 36.65-37.20; 800-
1000 lbs. 31.50-34.35, mostly
33.75-34.35.
Medium 400-500 lbs. 33.50-
37.25, mostly 35.50-37.30; 501-
700 lbs. 33.60-37.50, mostly
34.80-37.30; 701-800 lbs. 31.00-
33.75, mostly 32.50-33.75; 800-
1000 lbs. 31.30-33.50, mostly
32.5033.50.
Common 500-700 lbs. 27.00-
35.00, mostly 28.5032.50; 701-
850 lbs. 29.0031.75.
Public sale was held on
September 4 for the Samuel
Hahn estate. A 91 acre farm
consisting of frame house,
bank bam, tobacco shed, and
other buildings located along
Stauffer Road, one mile
south of Blue Ball was sold to
Elam F. Huyard, New
Holland R 3. The price was
$4,600 per acre. The total
sum came to $420,601.A150,
four acres of woodland sold
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' Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Sept. 11,1976—9
Brandt asking for it
HARRISBURG - Rep.
Kenneth E. Brandt, R-
Lancaster, announced
Tuesday that his mobile
district office will follow this
schedule for the remainder
of September saying that
anyone having state-related
problems should meet with
him at the following
locations:
'"‘-Mrunt Joy, Friday,
September 24, Titus Rutt
Office, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Maytown, Saturday,
September 25, on the square,
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
as a unit located in the Welsh
Mountain, East Earl
township, sold for $4,200 to
the New Holland Borough
Water. Approximately 250
people attended the sale.
Nevin Z. Martin and Lewis
B. Groff were auctioneers.
SPECIAL SLAUGHTER
CATTLE SALE
Sept. 2,1976
There were 30 head sold, in the United States reached
All steers and heifers were a record high 309.8 million
graded Jjy Representatives pounds for the year ending
of the VDAC’s Division of 3Q ( 1975. This topped
Markets, Livestock Section j as j year’s output of 299.1
on USDA standards and sold million pounds by four per
by the hundredweight. cen t, and continued the trend
STEERS: Choice 100-275 0 f constant production in
lbs. $35.50-37.00; Good creases since the survey
Singles 33.0036.25. began in 1966. A total of 25
SPECIAL SLAUGHTER states are included com-
CATTLE SALE pared with 28 states the
September 8,1975
There were 150 head sold.
All steers and heifers were
graded by Representatives
of the VDAC’s Division of
Markets, Livestock Section
on USDA standards and sold
by the hundredweight.
STEERS; Choice 950-1050
lbs. $37.5037.60; 1050-1365
lbs. 35.2537.80.
Single 37.5038.00.
Good 965-1050 lbs. 34.75-
36.80; 1050-1200 lbs. 35.50-
37,00.
Single 33.75-38.00.
HEIFERS: Choice 820-920
lbs. 32.00-34.30.
Good 760-950 lbs. 29.25-
34.00.
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SPECIAL
Brandt utilizes the Mobile
Office as a regular function
of his office after discovering
it was the most effective way
to meet with all of the people
of his district.
Pa. tops in
mushrooms
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania led all states in the
production of mushrooms
with a record total nearly 180
million pounds. The value of
sales for the fresh market
mushrooms for the 1975-1976
season was $45 million
compared to $33 million for
the 1974-1975 season. The
value of sales for the
processed mushrooms for
the 1975-1976 season was
$60.3 million compared to
$45.9 million for the 1974-1975
season.
Production of mushrooms
previous crop year. Penn-
sylvania continues to
dominate production with 58
per cent of the Nation’s total.
During the 1974-1975 crop
year Pennsylvania produced
60 per cent of the U.S.
mushroom production.
Growers received $l9l
million for the 1975-1976 crop,
up 30 per cent from the 1974-
1975 value.
Pennfield Corporation, in
the Pennsylvania Dutch
country, the state’s largest
egg farm. Within a 50-mile
radius of Lancaster, nine
million hens are cooped.