STATE COLLEGE The 1981
Ram Lamb and Invitational Ewe
Sale grossed 119,313, averaging
$174 per head.
The'hale was held recently at the
Department's Meat Animal
Evaluation Center. A total of 49
rams averaged $217 while 62 ewes
averaged $l4O each.
Paul H. Leader of York, York
County, topped the entire sale at
$7OO with his senior Suffolk ram
lamb. The October, 1980 twin ram
was sired by Reed Shepherd 55 out
of an Oakland Farm’s dam. The
ram sold to Penns Cave, Inc. of
Centre Hall, Centre County.
Seventeen Suffolk rams averaged
$312.
Two Dorsets rams topped the
Dorset sale at $4OO each. The
Kenneth Staver family of
Palmyra, Dauphin County, sold
their semor twin lamb to John
Itry ot Mechanicsburg, Cum
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Tops 1981 Rom Lamb and Invitational Ewe Sale
• Suffolk ram lamb brings $7OO
berland County. The other top
bidder at $4OO, was Robert L:
Holmes, of Oxford, Chester
County, purchasing a twin junior
lamb from Penn State University.
Nine Dorsets rams averaged $139
each.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Brubaker,
Blu-Acre Farm of Lancaster
consigned the top selling Hamp
shire ram. The January, 1981
junior ram 'was purchased by
Robert Fuller of Carmichaels,
Greene County, for $2OO. Nine
Hampshire rams averaged $319
each.
In other ram breeds, three
Shropslures averaged $92; three
Southdowns averaged $3O; one
KambouiUet brought $175; one
Oxford sold for $133; while a Tunis
and Montdale brought $3O and $3O,
respectively.
Carol McConnell ot
Fredencktown, ' Washington
County, was the top buyer ot the
Dorset ewe sale, taking home six
ewes for an average ot $202.50. The
two high selling ewes ot the sale, at
$3OO each, were purchased by
McConnell from the Kenneth
Staver family of Palmyra and
Penn State University. Eighteen
Dorset ewes averaged $177.
Another high seller at $3OO was a
Suffolk ewe sold to Kelly Mc-
Connell and Bob Weaver, also ot
Fredencktown. The ewe was
consigned by Paul H. Leader of
York. Twelve Suffolk ewes
averaged $172.
Four Shropshire ewes brought
$125 each. Two of these were
purchased by Hickory Hill Farms,
Port Royal, Juniata County from
Warm G. Menhennet of
Cochranville, Chester County.
Roberta and 'fed Kirby of
Macungie, Lehigh County, sold two
Shropshire for $125 to John F.
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Matthew of Fallen 'Timbers,
Fayette County. Nine Shropshire
ewes averaged $ll2.
In the Hampshire ewe sale, Kelly
McConnell and Bob Weaver bought
the high selling ewe from John
Nordm of Russell, Warren County.
The ewe sold for $225. A total-of 14
Hampshire ewes averaged $l4l.
Dawn Madden of Lake Ariel,
Wayne County, sold three Tunis
ewes which averaged $lB2. The top
price paid was $lB5 by Richard
Heit of Bedford, Bedford County.
Three Cheviot ewes sold by
Calvert Farms of Spraggs, Greene
County, averaging $7O. Brian
Barkely of Manns Choice, Bedford
County was the successful bidder
of the high selling Cheviot which
brought $B5.
Pete Levan of Bellefonte, Centre
County was the high bidder on
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987.
Arnold ti. Walker of Moun
toursvilie, Lycoming County took
home a Kambouillet ewe con
signed by Emil Meliott of Need
more, Fulton County. Three
Rambouillets averaged 905.
Meliott also sold his Corriedale
ewe for 9185 to Ben and Mary Bow
and family of Annville, Lebanon
County, and an Oxford ewe to
Anthony L. and Ellen C. Rishel of
Bellefonte, Centre County, f0r985.
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Tested Ram Lamb Sale and In
vitational Ewe Sale is sponsored
by the Pennsylvania Sheep and
Wool Growers Association in
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