Reserve
BY SUSAN KAUFFMAN
Staff Correspondent
QUARRYVILLE - The Solanco
Fair FFA steer sale took place last
Friday afternoon at the closing day
of the fair. Bernie Houghton,
Christiana, showed the grand
champion steer for the third year
in a row. His 1235-pound steer
brought a 30 cent increase over last
year’s champion. The $2.05 figure
totaled $2,531.75.
As has been the tradition for the
past 27 years, local grocer,
Truman Ferguson was on hand to
bid in the top bid for the FFA steer
at the Solanco Fair. Swayne
Disposal of Quarryville was the
final contender to bow to
Ferguson’s buying bid.
A total of 17 steers were sold
Friday afternoon. The reserve
grand champion shown by Brett
Holzhauer, Holtwood, was pur
chased by K and S, Inc., R 1
Quarryyille, for $1.37 a pound.
Holzhauer’s heavyweight weighed
in at 1185 pounds which cost the
local equipment firm $1,623.45.
The total sale amounted to
$17,018.60 for the 17 head bringing
the average paid to $l.lO a pound.
Tom Herr’s fourth place light
weight sold for 90 cents to James
G. Kreider and Son. Willie the
Butcher, Wilmer Kreider,
Washington Boro, paid 87 cents for
Jamie Frey’s first place light
weight. Three other steers went for
Oley Valley Fair
showmt pion showman while his younger
Ha riey lke S ' rauss 2 6 brother, Kent was champion fitter.
12-14 years oid The champion market hog was
1 Kemanne Hand??lrk Fisher. 3 Karen exhibited by Charlie Seidel,
Rabenold, 4 Michele Harley. 5 Greg Strieker LenhartSVllie and KeSCfVe
1 Kirk Fisher, 2 3 Troy Wer.ey, Champion honors Were given to
4 Kemanne Ranch, 5 Karen Rabenold Greg StTlCker, BemVlUe.
9-u years old Greg is an eighth grade student
1 Kent Fisher, 2 Travis Werley. 3 Lon in the Hamburg Area School
Rabenold, 4 Matt Harley, 5 jane Zook District and is 13-years-old. The
1 Kent Fisher, Werley, 3 Lon SOn Of Mr. and MrS. Gene Strieker,
Rabenold. 4 JaneZook, 5 Marianne Yanos Greg has been showing hogs and
Champion Fitter-Kemanne Ranch otoppc in 4-H for the D3St fOUT
Reserve Champion Fitter-Kirk Fisher in 9-n lor uic paoi ujujl
Champion Showman Mike Strauss yeHTS. HIS rCSCrV6 CtiaillplOn IlOg
Reserve Champion Showman Kent Fisher was a 220-pOlUld DUTOC CFOSSbred
The swine show competition found which place fi rst in the hght-
Kirk Fisher being named cham- heavyweight class.
STOCK REDUCTION ON THE
FOLLOWING ITEMS:
188 Pieces B’-3"
GREEN TWIN RIB ALUMINUM
75 Pieces 8’ -3"
RED TWIN RIB ALUMINUM
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RED TWIN RIB ALUMINUM
113 Pieces 21’-11”
MILL FINISH TWIN-RIB ALUMINUM
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MILL FINISH RAIN-LOCK ALUMINUM
DESIGNERS & BUILDERS of SYSTEMS
champion brings top price at Solanco
over eighty cents a pound. Mussers
at the Buck, Fredd-Eddy Realtors,
Quarryville, and Willie the But
cher paid 80 cents, 83 cents and 84
cents for Ernie Frey’s second
place middleweight. Bill Coyne’s
third place lightweight and Dwight
Herr’s third place middleweight,
respectively.
The remaining ten animals sold
for prices in the seventy cent
figures. Brian Trimble’s 1080-
pound middlweight sold for 78
cents to Kreider Brotners ivxuk
Transportation. The check for
$842.40 for Trimble’s steer will be
given to Teen Challenge,
Rehrersburg, it was announced at
the close of the sale.
Farmers National Bank of
Quarryville, Vemoy from Hickory
Hill and Agway also bought steers
at the sale.
At the market hog sale which
concluded immediately before the
FFA steer sale, Friday,- the
champion hog, shown by Vickie
Warfel, R 1 Quarryville, brought a
record $2.05 from Wilmer Kreider.
Her hog weighed 239 pounds,
bringing the total to $489.95. Scott
Trimble, Peach Bottom, sold his
reserve champion hog to Fowl’s
Feed Service, Peach Bottom, for
$2.35 a pound. Hatfield Packing
contended with the local feed
dealer for Scott’s 219-pound hog.
Fowl’s Feed Service paid an
even $1 a pound for Karen Kauff-
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man’s first place 220-pound
middleweight. Hatfield shelled out
85 cents a pound for Richard
Bayhs’s champion pen of two
which totaled 435 pounds for the
pair. Lancaster Bone, Quarryville,
paid 80 cents a pound for Sandy
Kauffman’s 225-pound second
place middleweight. The First
National Bank of Lancaster
County paid 78 cents for Tracy
Landis’s reserve champion pen of
two which totaled43s pounds.
New Holland Sales bought Mark
Welk’s 200-pound hog for 76 cents.
Hoober Feed of Paradise and paid
Welk 73 cents a pound for his pair
lightweights which weighed 39D
pounds.
The remainder of the eighty hogs
brought prices in the upper 50’s
and 60’s. Agway, New Holland
Sales, Fulton Grange #66, Dr.
Larry Schmuck, Peach Bottom,
Walter Dunlap, Lancaster
Stockyards and Vintage Sales
Stables, also bought hogs at the
sale.
Penn State
adds to staff
UNIVERSITY PARK - Mat
thew J. Parsons was recently
appointed to Penn State
Cooperative Extension Service
staff as an animal scientist, ef
fective September 1.
Thomas B, King, Penn State
associate dean for extension,
points out that Parsons is coor
dinating Extension swine
programs in Pennsylvania.
• A native of Hadley,
Massachusetts, Parsons received
three degrees from Michigan State
University; a bachelor of science
m animal husbandry in 197 B;
master of science in swine
nutrition in 1979; and doctor of
philosophy in swine' nutrition and
management in 1981.
Prior to being named to the
‘College of Agriculture faculty, he
was an assistant Extension swine
specialist, a research assistant,
and animal caretaker, all at
Michigan State University.
Wilmer Kreider, Willie the Butcher, poses with Vickie
Warfel, R 1 Quarryville and grand champion market hog which
sold for $2.05 a pound at the Solanco Fair last week. The hog
was a 239-pound heavyweight.
Bernie Hoguhton, Christiana, sold his 1235-pound grand
champion FFA steer to Truman Ferguson, Quarryville, 1235
pounds. It was Ferguson's 27th year to buy the champion
steer for the local grocery store.
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