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Suffolk ram brings
WHITNEYVILLE - A
record price for a Penn
sylvania performance tested
ram was paid June 7 at the
Fourth Performance Tested
Ram Sale, held at the
Whitneyville Fairgrounds in
Tioga County.
The top selling Suffolk
ram, boasting a height of 35
inches, a loin eye area of 4.59
square inches and final
weight of 354 pounds,
brought $1450 for owner Paul
H. Leader of York. The ram,
Leader G 1054, sold to Linda
Adler of Bloomsburg,
Columbia County.
A total of 37 yearling rams
crossed the auction block,
averaging $362.57 for a
grand total of $13,415.
Five Dorset rams
averaged $372; 16 Suffolk
rams averaged $538; three
Corriedale rams averaged
$126; six Hampshire rams
averaged $253; six Shrop
shire rams averaged $154;
and one Southdown ram
brought $llO.
The top selling Dorset
ram, Carolair D-80, was
owned by Carolair Farm of
Knoxville, Tioga County
The ram, which claimed the
largest loin eye among the
Dorset rams on test, sold for
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 21,1980—C19
record price
$520. C & J Farms of
Columbia Crossroads,
Bradford County, was the
buyer.
Charles McCrae of
Mohnton, Berks County, sold
the top Cornedale jam,
C.R.M. 94. The ram "which
weighed 248 pounds ana had
a 4.75 square inch loin eye,
went to Donald VanVhet of
Wellsboro, Tioga County, for
$l7O.
The high Hampshire ram,
recording a 1.04 pound
average daily gam, was
owned by Shober Farm of
Berlin, Somerset County.
The ram sold to C & J Farms
for $3OO.
Kelly McConnell of
Fredenckstown, Washing
ton County, was the suc
cessful bidder on the top
selling Shropshire yearling
ram. The ram, which had a
final weight of 244 pounds
and a loin eye area of 3.89
square mches, was owned by
Warn G. Manhennett of
Cochranville, Chester
County. The ram sold for
$230.
C & J Farms, the top buyer
of the sale with 10 rams, was
again the successful bidder
on the Southdown yearling
ram. The ram, which sold
for $llO, had a 4.25 square
loin eye and was owned by
W. L Henning of State
College, Centre County.
“This was quite a suc
cessful sale,” said a PDA
spokesman. “There were
several exceptionally tall
rams which also carried
length and good con
firmation throughout. These
are excellent indications
that Pennsylvania sheep
producers are striving for a
complete package, rather
than show ring fads. ’ ’
There will be a Per
formance Tested Ram Lamb
Sale, September 6 at the
Department’s Meat Animal
Evaluation Center in State
College, Centre County.
Along with the ram lamb
sale will be an invitational
ewe sale.
Nominations are now
being accepted for nezt
year’s Fifth Performance
Tested Yearling Ram Sale.
Entries close August 31,
1980
For further information
write to Robert Kimble,
Director of the Meat Animal
Evaluation Center, 651 Fox
Hollow Road, State College,
PA 16801.
This year’s sale was
sponsored by the Penn
sylvania Department of
Agriculture in cooperation
with the Pennsylvania State
University, the Penn
sylvania Sheep and Wool
Growers Association, and
the Tioga County Sheep and
Wool Growers Association.
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