26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 10,1978
Chester Co. rams top performance sale
UNIVERSITY PARK -
Two Chester County sheep
breeders had the top in
dexing rams in their
respective breeds in Penn
State’s 2nd Annual Per
formance Ram Test and
Sale. William J. MacCauley,
Jr. of Atglen had the highest
indexing Suffolk ram with a
score of 121 and Warn G.
Menhennett, Cochranville,
had a Shropshire Ram 563,
who topped the Shropshires
with an index of 110. These
rams were on test for 90 days
at Penn State’s Meat Animal
Evaluation Center.
Menhennett’s ram was
also the top selling Shrop
shire ram at the Per
formance Tested Ram Sale
on June 3rd. It sold for $320
compared with the breed
average of $195. Mac-
Cauley’s ram, a single lamb
Seen holding his father’s ram, Billy MacCauley,
shows the Suffolk ram that topped the Suffolk
breed. The ram was sold for $3BO.
bom in March, Was well
above the breed average
when it brought $3BO as
compared to the $294
average.
The top selling Suffolk was
a triplet ram owned by Paul
H. Leader of York, Pa. In
index it ranked third among
the Suffolks with a 116 ratio
while a Penn State Suffolk
stood in second place with an
index ratio of 117.
All breeds represented in
the test and sale showed
healthy increases in sale
prices with the exception of
Southdowns. Prices were
generally 20 per cent better
than last year. Breed
averages were as follows:
Cheviots $lOO, Dorsets $241,
Hampshires $l9O, Shrop
shires $195, Merlons $BO,
Southdowns $67.50, Suffolks
$294, and Oxfords $l7O.
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The Menhennett Shropshire Ram 563 topped
the Shropshires with an index of lift He sold for
$320.
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Market hog show and sale at
Lancaster Stockyards;
judging 10 a.m., show and
sale at 1 p.m.
Fruit growers’ meeting and
tour at the Richard
Slaybaugh orchard, north
of Brysonia on road to
Wenksville, Adams
County.
Thursday, June 15
Hunterdon County (N.J.)
dairy princess contest,
Ringoes Fire House.
Public hearing for South
central Milk Marketing
Area No. 4, 10 a.m. in
Room 103, Ag. Building,
Harrisburg.
Cumberland Wool Growers
Wool Pool, 7 a.m. to 3
p.m. Carlisle
Fairgrounds.
Friday, June 16
Kempton Country Fair
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Livestock Field Day,
Penn State University.
Pennsylvania Egg
Marketing Association
meets, 7 p.m.- at the
Treadway, Lancaster.
Adams County dairy prin
cess pageant, Biglerville
High School, 8 p.m.
Twenty-third annual Craft
Days Festival at the
Pennsylvania Farm
Museum, today and
tomorrow, noon to 5 p.m.
Sunday, June 18
Dairy Farm Open House,
Hunterdon Hills Holstein
Farm, Rosemont, N.J.
Demonstrations, tours,
wagon rides - public in
vited 1 to 5 p.m.
Lancaster County 4-H Horse
Club Gymkhana, 9 a.m.
at Click’s Trailer Shop,
Bareville.
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