Show champion prices drop to reflect current market FARM SHOW Record prices, usually plentiful at the Friday junior market sales at Farm Show, were scarcer than hens’ teeth this year. The closest anyone came to a record was Michele Bankert, R 3 Hanover, whose grand champion junior market hog tied the all-time sale record of $19.50 per pound The total price of $4680 was a swine sale record Michele’s entry was a heavyweight Duroc, one of 143 pigs shown in the com petition The per pound sale price tied the record set in 1979. Michelle is the daughter of Rodger and Darlene Penn Manor to hold meetings MILLERSVILLE - A pair of livestock meetings, one poultry and one cattle, will be held this week at Penn Manor High School. The first meeting is will deal with poultry disease identification. It is slated for Tuesday, January 27 at 7 30 p m. Guest speaker will be Veterinarian Wilson Miller, a well known poultry doctor. He will be on hand to examine laying birds, and to point out areas on a chicken’s body to check for disease symptoms. Each farmer should bring a pair of 10 or 12 inch tin snips to the meeting The second session will be E.W. List Price 2200 1 2190°° ’1715“ 1300 ’399” The World's Finest Twine 50 1 50 50175 «. ■ A Bale ■ A Bale W EXCELLO ® 1 For 50 or more bales For 10-50 Bales V • 2 Rolls Per Bales Pay by Jan. 31,1981 fe excello baler twine Feet Per Bale 10,000 or 9,000 Guarantee; Feet Per Pound 231 Ail twine manufactured by Sisafana SA is guaranteed to work AvGtdfiG TGnSIIG Strength . .• . 350 satisfactorily in anv properly adiusled baler or binder If by ttininM Dor Rale AO ih<t chance a ball should be found defective you may return it to uTOSS YVGIgITL rci your dealer and receive another ball in exchange ———————— Bankert, hog farmers in Adams County. The reserve champion hog, exhibited by first-tune Eric Sheiss of Cham bersburg, brought a respectable $7 50 per pound, although that price was $1 off the pace set for a reserve champ set in last year’s sale. Sheiss’s brother Donald had taken the grand cham pionship in last year’s show, and his hog had sold for $l7 a pound. “Work your pig a lot, and talk to it,” Eric advised “When your pig does something bad, you have to correct him immediately In your spare tune, have some fun,” he added an embryo transplant discussion and is open to all people interested in embryo transplants in beef and dairy animals. Guest speaker will by Dr. Carl Troop, a vet with Pennstar Embryo service The embryo transplant meeting will be held Thursday, January 29, at 7.30 p.m Both meetings will be held at the Penn Manor High School ag room For further information on either of the meetings, contact Jeff Hart, Penn Manor Young Farmers Advisor at the school His phone number is 717/872- 5431 A COUNTRY STORE FOR COUNTRY FOLKS II PRESSURE °g «« CLEANER VIJIPPW You Can Renl I*Kkl the 2200 * W 9 or 1300 ~JzT PSI for Both of this year’s top two hogs were purchased by Hatfield Packing. Auctioneer Abe Dif fenbach labored long and hard to get prices up, especially in the junior beef sale. Blame Clowser, Dayton, had showed his 1255 pound Angus x Chianina x Limousin crossbred to the championship on Thursday afternoon. But try as he might, Diffenbach could not get the price on dowser’s steer above $6.10 per pound. That was a full 50 cents per pound under the price fetched by last year’s grand champion. Final bidder on “Monkey Lip” was Sizzlin’ Steak House, a Carlisle restaurant. The steer brought its 17- year old showman a total of $7655. Although the bidding ran up quickly at first, it stalled at the $5 level and never quite recovered its earlier momentum. Buyers Terry Sellers, Anil Thakrar, and Susan Bratie, in the restaurant business two years said they hope to buy the grand champ every year Ernie Frey, R 2 Quarryville, had the reserve champion at the 1981 Show He was last year’s grand champion exhibitor Frey’s 1350-pound reserve champion steer was auc tioned for $2 60 per pound, or just over $3500. That price was far under last year’s reserve champ record price of $3.35 a pound IUST ARI Box Type DOOR TRACK 8’ -18’Sections with all the accessories • 16 gauge trolley rail • adjustable trolley roller hangers (4001 b Door) FROSTED 1 WE UPS ANYWHERE - JUST CALL 717-464-3321 HEAT LAMPS SALE PRICES GOOD THROUGH JANUARY 31 Reg J 1 99 $ i.69 nlr • 125 or 250 Watt VjP // / • infrared Also Available am BALER TWINE ippoi ig pi per pc p. dowser’s grand champion steer at Farm Show. That’s 50 cents under last year s record. Reserve champion also was lower, but worst price drop was in the lamb sale where the grand champion went for about half of last year's bid. Frey’s steer was pur chased by Carlos Leffler, Richland, Lebanon County. During the sales, tune was taken to honor Lancaster County Extension Director Max Smith, who has an nounced he will retire at the end of March. Julie Kuzemchak, Pleasant Gap, saw her grand champion market lamb go for an even $lO per pound Buyer was Fox Markets, Middletown, Dauphin County It was the fourth time Kuzemchak has blocked out a grand champion in the sale ring at Farm Show. FROST PROOF HYDRANTS Reg. Si 3’ 30,79 4’ 32.95 5’ 34.49 1 MILE SOUTH Ol Mon -Thurs 7 30 A M 600 PM TO EM HERR IE SUPPLY . DIRECTION’ FARM & HOJ N . S' / Ml 30 W :astu LANCi WILLOW STMCTI HcnVILIIAOAB 1 -MILC SOUTH Of WILLOW ITHfCT HIK / •> * IM HERR PARMA HOME SUPPLY OUAnrviui >F WILLOW STREET Store Hours Sat 7 30 A M 500 PM Fn 7 30-9 00 Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 24,1981—A31 That fact alone may have dampened bidder en thusiasm. Last year, Julie’s reserve champion entry fetched 50 cents more per pound than her 1981 champion She had sold the 1980 champ for $22 per pound, and the 1980 reserve for $lO 50. Reserve grand champion at this year’s show was showed by Barbara Herr, R 2 Narvon. Her 112 pound market lamb was sold to Larry Bubbenmoyer, Mainland, Montgomery County, for $7 a pound, well below the record price FARM A HOME SUPPLY R. 0.1, Rte. 272 Sooth, Htrnritle R 4. Hilfcw Street, Pa. Phone: (717) 464-3321 The grand champion carcass lamb, weighing 70 pounds and consigned by Julie Kuzemchak, bought $3.50 a pound, again reaching only half of last year’s record price of $7 a pound. The carcass was pur chased by Raymond Seidel, Kutztown. Gerald H. Hess, Dun cansville, purchased the reserve grand champion carcass lamb, a 66 pound entry consigned by Cham pion Acres, Champion, Fayette County. The second place carcass went for $1.75 a pound
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