A24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 4,1981
Brief answers
to short questions
Sheila's
Shorts
By Sheila Miller
Equal tune
A letter which was printed in my
last week’s column generated a
number of comments concerning
the Leesport Auction.
I received this signed letter from
Irvin W. Shirk, R 1 Mertztown:
He writes.
1 am writing in response to the
anonymous letter printed in your
column on March 28.
For one thing, the writer claims
the auction ring wasn’t cleaned for
several weeks. That is incorrect,
as my brother can verify because
he cleans it out every week. (He is
an employee!. What the writer
probably saw was fresh saw dust
watered down to eliminate dust.
As for the fact that farmers buy
heifer calves to take home, the
calves are the first animals
through the ring each Wednesday,
followed by sheep and goats after
which come feeder pigs. So, there
are no “cripple or 90 percent dead”
animals sold before calves or pigs
being taken home.
Further more, a steer with his
rectum hanging out or hogs with
ruptures are probably no more
carriers of viral diseases than are
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1 am sure most any farmer
realizes there is a risk in buying
animals from auctions to some
extent and will isolate such
animals for a period of tune.
My own opinion of Leesport
Market and Auction is it is one of
the finest auction barns around.
And Leroy Weist, one of the
owners and manager of the
Leesport Auction stated
“We’ve run this auction barn tor
the past 33 years. If we didn’t run it
right, we wouldn't be here."
Weist went on to explain the
auction voluntarily employs a
private veterinarian to inspect the
animals going through the barn
He added, “There is some scrap
livestock, but they are tagged and
put in an isolation pen."
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tor the Lansdale office of the
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Industry, confirmed theie is a
licensed disease conti ol technician
inspecting the Wednesday auction
"As at any other auction, all sick
animals that are brought in are
sold for slaughter under permit
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through the ring. Ail quarantined
animals that are brought into the
auction are branded and sold
strictly tor slaughter,"he said
Baker also pointed out theie ai e
tew calves sold tor breeding
purposes at Leesporl Auction,
except dui mg private sales bo, he
said no inspectoi checks health
papers at the Wednesday auction
since the calves are mostly week
old bull calt vealers.
And, he concluded, the dauy
cows that entei the Wednesday
sale ring aie on then way to be
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