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
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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
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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
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