B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 19,1980 Nix Besser ewe (Continued highest selling Dorset ram at the sale. The top selling Hampshire ewe, owned by Gillespie Sheep Company of Fulton, Missouri, equalled the price paid for the Supreme Champion Hampshire ram. She sold for $l3OO to Wendy, Bobby, and Holly Harmann, Woodbury, Connecticut. M.A. Bosse, Old Trail Farms, Fostona, Ohio consigned the high selling Suffolk ram. The junior lamb was purchased by Sheeps Meadow of Chalfant, Bucks County for $6OO. Northumberland County’s Lynn Laudenslager, Dalmatia, bought the top priced Suffolk ewe at Saturday’s sale. $650 bought her from Tim Hall, Farm dale, Ohio. The champion Ram bouillet ram brought the best price in his breed sale. Owned by Kenneth T. Moore, Nichols, New York, the Fall lamb sold to Gretchen Johnson Family, Alliance, Ohio for $550. The Johnson’s offset their purchase by selling the highest priced Rambouillet ewe to Sterling Farms, Dayton, Armstrong County, for $3OO. The Berks County Shropshires, tagged champion ewe and ram at Friday’s show, were the high selling animals in their breed. Donald Shepard, Charlotte, Minnesota, bought the WEY ram for $325. And William E. Yoder’s junior ewe lamb beat that with a price tag of $BOO. She sold to Dr John Wood of Lexington, New Jersey, J.M. Stowell, Hollidaysbuig, Blair County, is keeping the top selling Comedale ram in Penn sylvania. He paid $4OO for the ram consigned by Rodney Wildermuth, Canal Win chester, Ohio. dagger Brothers, Mt. Gilead, Ohio received top price for their reserve champion yearling Comedale ewe. The ewe sold to Jack Baird, Spencer Port, New York for $275. Centre Countian George A Downsbrough, State College consigned the high selling Southdown ram, the breed’s reserve champion. Robert Pokowitz, Rosendale, New Yoric bought the ram for $3OO. The high selling ewe in the Southdown sale brought $25 more than her male coun terpart Roger Clark, Minerva, Ohio, bought the ewe from Tempel South downs, Wiley Colorado for $325. Budd Martin, Willard, Ohio, consigned the top selling Cheviot ram which brought $4OO from the Homer Long Family, Ballard, West Virginia The ram will be joined on the trek to the hills of West Virginia by the top selling Cheviot ewe The Longs bought the third place junior ewe lamb for $4OO from Howard and Kerry Doolittle of Lafayette, New Jersey A total of 295 sheep crossed the auction block of Kenneth Brubaker, Lancaster and Hobart Farthing, Findlay, Ohio, grossing $78,675 The average price paid for these rams and ewes came to $265 79, up from last year’s average of $235 55 The 49 Dorsets sold grossed $14,350 for an average of $292 85 per head, from Page B 3) up from last year’s breed average of $279 49. A sale average of $394.23 was paid for the 39 Hamp shires that crossed the block to gross $15,375 This was a significant increase from the 1979 average which was $296.87 per head. The 73 Suffolks sold for an average of $307.26, also up from last year’s sale average of $272.24 The breed sales this year totaled $22,430. Rambouillet sales were up from last year. An average of $263.52 was paid for the 17 head to gross $4480. This is what Laminated Rafters are all about... r**sst 1 * *m *rm d 33 ”S J 3;- J Calf Nursery A VERY FUNCTIONAL BUILDING designed especially for the care of young stock and the individual attention a cow needs Only the laminated arch provides this satisfying design with both flexibility and strength One ol ine breeds that showed a shght decline in price was the Shropshires An average of $lB5 96 was paid this year for the 26 head last year’s average was $187.11 per head. Comedale sales were up from last year, with the 24 individuals averaging $194.16. 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