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 * 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