VOL. 27 No. 5 NY Holstein brings $440,000 bid Balls Pollyboots Demand sold for $440,000 last Saturday at the Poverty Hollow Dispersal and set an all-time sale record. The Excellent Demand daughter out of a Bootmaker was Inside This Week’s... Penn State’s John E. Brockett, tafm management agent at the Lewistown office will be writing his Ag Advice for Lan caster Farming readers each week. See his first column on .... A 26. A Bradford County dairy family turns in the high DHIA state average. Learn more about their double-enterprise farm 0n....A36 Several Pa. exhibitors return from the North American International Livestock Exposition with ribbons in livestock and dairy. Find out wh00n....A40. Lane. Ag Preserve Board gets $83,000 LANCASTER - A grant totalling over ?83,1HK) has been awarded to the Lancaster Plan ning Commission and the Agricultural Preserve Board to turther their work in agricultural preservation. The majority oh the tunds, provided under the Federal Community Development Program, are to be used by local municipalities in their agricultural preservation planning etlorts. So tar, eight Lancaster County townships—Brecknock, Clay, East Cocalico, Ephrata, Manor, Paradise, Pequea, and West Cocalico—have submitted ap v- .< , , purchased by B. Giles Brophy and John Knight/ owners of Hilltop Hanover Farm in New York, plications totalling approximately one-half ot the $3U,000 earmarked tor local grants. Municipalities may still apply tor the remaining tunds. Any local official interested in applying tor some ot the grant money or in learning more about the program should contact Robert S. Yates, Chief Community Planner, at the Planning Commission, phone 717/299-8333. The remaining s33,lbU of the Community Development Program grant will be used to employ a stall tor the Agricultural Preserve Board. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 28,1981 Espy tops alfalfa competition BY DONNA TOMMELLEO UNIVERSITY PARK - Herman Espy, Spruce Creek, was named grand champion alfalfa grower, Monday evening, during the 1981 Forage and Seed Conference sponsored by Penn State in cooperation with the Pa. Forage and Grasssland Council and the Pa.Seedmen’s Associaton. The grand champion alfalfa grower, Herman and Connie Espy, left of Huntington County and the reserve champions Norma and J. Allen Baker, right, of Bedford County display the fruits of victory Monday night following the ** t - 9 ».£ t . Jb .. w . v 7 ..... .. SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A 5-year old Poverty Hollow Burkgov Demand daughter set an all-time sale record, Saturday at the Poverty Hollow Dispersal, with a price tag of $440,000, said auc tioneer William Kent, Bergen, N Y. But before the day ended, the large crowd of investors and many foreign buyers saw yet another record broken. The Designer Fashion Sale held in conjunction with the Poverty Hollow Dispersal and the Hanover Hill Sale grossed $3,671,500 and averaged a record-breaking $50,013 for the 60 head sold. Hilltop Hanover Farm owners, B. Giles Brophy and John Knight purchased the $440,000 Demand daughter, Balls Pollyboots Demand The record-breaking Black and White is a fourth generation Excellent out of an Excellent Bootmaker, Balls Ned Pollyboots. Boasting a top record of 30,184 pounds of milk and 1,073 pounds of fat as a 4-year-old, the Demand carries a Cow Index of +2J63M and is due to freshen in March to Espy, who owns a large feeder steer operation in Huntingdon County, competed with 77 other participants in the contest. He turned in an all-time high yield of 10.7 tons per acre. . Espy’s 18 acres were seeded with Saranac AR and Penlate Orchard Grass in April 1980. The field, previously in corn, was made up of Pennsylvania Forage and Grassland Banquet. Espy turned in a first place yield of 10.7 tons per acre. Baker finished with 9.8 tons per acre. $7.50 Per Year Gold Medal Proven Sire, Sweet- Haven Tradition. The top-pedigreed dispersal averaged $22,315 on 60 head. Claude Pieket Ontario. Ca., paid (Turn to Page A 27) Home and Youth Homestead Notes; B 2; Home on the Range, B 2; Kid’s Korner, BIO; 4-H news, B 17; FFA news, B 30; Food processors, B 8; Contraband Food, B 20; FWS news, B 14; Cumberland Farm Women, B 12; Hazardous dump, B 15; Farmland Preservation, C 5. Columns Editorials, A 10; Now is the time, A 10; The Milk Check, C 6; Ladies, have you heard? B 5; Ida’s Notebook, 823; Joyce Bupp’s column, B 12; Farm Talk, C 3. Dairy Montgomery DHIA, D3O; Berks Holsteu, A2g; Mel wood Farm, A3l, Dauphin DHIA, A 34; Chester DHIA, 839; York DHIA, 834; Berks DHIA, CB. Hagerstown soil. The grand champ bandseeded and cuitipacked the field at a rate of 18 pounds of' alfalfa per acre and 5 pounds of orchard grass per acre. In the fall of 1979, Espy fertilized the field with 20 tons of dry steer manure per acre. The following spring he added another 20 tons per (Turn to Page A 22)
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