Bred gilts paraded through small arena sales
FARM SHOW Bred gilts
by the score were paraded
through the small arena on
Monday and Tuesday
Sale for four breeds were
held on Monday.
The grand champion
Poland China gilt, consigned
by Barbara J. McConnell,
Volant, was sold to Ed
Huntzberger, R 5
Elizabethtown, tor $350. The
reserve champion in tne
breed, consigned by Keith
McConnell, of Volant, was
sold to Robert Mikesell, ot
Marion Center, tor $225.
The Poland China sale
totaled $1715.04, with eight
head averaging $214 38.
The grand champion
Berkshire gilt, consigned by
Clayton Wmebark and Sons,
ot Rochester Mills, was also
sold to Ed Huntzberger tor
$620. The reserve champion,
also consigned by the
Wmebarks, was sold to
Mikesell for $430
The Berkshire sale total
was $5480, with 22 head
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In the Chester Whites, the
grand champion was con
signed by James Parlett, ot
Airville, and sold to Bambi
and Kama Homan, of Centre
Hall, tor $275. The reserve
champion, also consigned by
Parlett, was sold to Conrad
E Stipp Jr., of Paulsboro,
N J , for $2OO
The Chester White sale
total was $2,555 with 15 head
averaging $170.33
fhe grand champion
Duroc gilt, consigned by
Glenn O- Ebersole, ot
Duncannon, was sold to
Lawrence Arnold, ot
Lebanon, tor $B2O The
reserve champion Duroc,
consigned by Sweigard’s
Durocs, ot Halifax, was sold
to Smith Hog Farm, of
Washington, Pa.
A total of 36 gilts were sold
in the Duroc sale, averaging
$282 77, for a total of $lO,lBO
The tirst 10 head averaged
$420 and the first 20 head
went tor an average of
for
* 'estimate
$346 50.
The grand champion gilt in
the Hampshire sale, con
signed by Terry L Ben
necott and Son, R 2, Kutz
town, was sold lor $2BO to
William E. Brown, R 1
Hershey The reserve
champion, consigned by Carl
H Rabenold, R 2, Kutztown,
was sold tor $2lO to William
H. Lyons, R 3, Saltsburg.
The Hampshire sale on
Tuesday totaled $2190, with
12 head averaging $182.50.
The grand champion
Landrace gilt, consigned by
Barbara Mummert, ot
Tunnel Hill Farm, Seven
Valleys, was sold to William
and Michael Lyons, R 3,
Saltsburg The reserve
champion, consigned by
Reno H. Thomas, Rl,
Beavertown, was sold for
$525 to Mitch Rogers,
Mayville, M.Y
The Hampshire sale total
was $5400, with 19 head
averaging $284.21.
In the Yorkshire bred gilt
sale, the grand champion,
? Sons 1 " ot a granu , , iP .On_
Whitehall, was sold to Huntzberger, of R 5, Elizabethtown, and the
William Tyner for $620. Her Rochester Mills. Huntzberger bought six head,
granddam was the 1978 champ.
Farm Show gilt champion Lazarus brought only $2O
and brought $875. l ess than the grand cham-
The reserve champion, pt o n and twice the amount
also consigned by Lazarus, paid tor the reserve
was sold to Delaware Valley champion. The gilt was sold
College tor $3OO to Smith Hog Farm, ot
A third consignment by Washington, tor $6OO
Glenn O. Ebersole, of Duncannon, who con
signed the grand champion Duroc bred gilt, is
congratulated by Penrose Hallowell, state ag
secretary. This was the first Farm Show for
Ebersole as an exhibitor since FFA showing in
1967.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 17,1981—C17
in potatoes,
FARM SHOW - Jeffrey
Schwartz of Rl, Begins,
Schuylkill County, won the
grand championship in open
class potato judging com
petition at the 65th Farm
Show.
Charles Martin of RZ,
Willow Street. Lancaster
County, captured the
championship in vocational
classes.
The heaviest potato,
weighing two pounds, three
and one-half ounces, as
exhibited by Sherwood
Geiger of Monoclay Drive,
Bath, Northampton County.
Duane and Betty Shuman
ot RB, Bloomsburg,
Columbia County, exhibited
the grand champion hay
sample at the 65th Farm
Show.
Then - entry was a field
cured later cutting of alfalfa
The reserve champion, a
field cured alfalfa-grass
mixture, was exhibited by
Balmer Brothers of R 2,
Manheim, Lancaster
County.
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