B4—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 19,1980
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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.
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