PPHA celebrates St, Patrick’s Day with “Blue & Gold”
BY JACK RUBLE Y
QUARRYVILLE - C Vindi Jane
accompanied by her January bull
calf by BF Juryman was the top
selling animal at the Pennsylvania
Polled Hereford Association’s
Spring Blue & Gold Sale held last
Saturday at the Shady Lane Sale
Bam in Quarryville.
Purchased by Huntingdon
Farms of Alexandria, this Vin
Pictured with Pa. Polled Hereford Queen Lisa Brudney, and
Blaine Clowser is the Blue and Gold Sale’s Champion Bull, PS
Maine Frame. Consigned by Penn State, Maine Frame was
sired by JRM Framework 821.
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dicator daughter brought $l5OO. to
her owner, John Charles Clickner
11, of Huntingdon.
Second highest selling animal
was PS Prospectra 228, an April,
1982, daughter of PS Prospector
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at her side.
Purchased by Sheila Miller, of
Womelsdorf for $1300., the Penn
State-owned animal was also
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named the sale’s Champion Senior
Heifer.
Penn State-consigned animals
dominated pre-sale grading,
winning three of the four
categories. Champion yield grade
cow was PS Miss Victor 123, a Gold
Rush daughter, later sold to Mike
Firestein of Womelsdorf, for
$1200., and Champion Bull was PS
Main Frame 302, sired by JRM
Framework 821.
Five Point Pastures, of
Greensburg, took Champion
Junior Heifer honors with FPP
Saras Vicki 6R, daughter of FPP
Saras Rndp 114 M. The heifer was
sold to Debora Klair of Hochessin,
Del., for $llOO.
Pre-sale grading was done by
Bill Holloway, farm consultant for
the Glatfelter Insurance Agency of
York.
Guests on hand to help celebrate
the first PPHA sale since 1981 were
PPHA president John Hausner,
PPHA vice president Les Midla,
APHA area representative Ernie
Smith, PPHA Queen Lisa Brudney,
and president of the Maryland
PHA, Ron Mills who, together with
Andy Schmidt, acted as nngmen.
Preceedmg the sale were
remarks by Ernie Smith, APHA
area rep., who noted that grading
was consistently high among the
animals registered.
Total receipts for the sale,
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Champion yield grade cow selected during the Pa. Polled
Hereford Association’s Blue and Gold Sale was PS Miss Victor
123, a Gold Rush daughter owned by Penn State, shown here
with Pa. Polled Hereford Queen, Lisa Brudney and Blaine
Clowser.
auctioneered by Ken Brubaker of
West Chester, were $22,700., for the
29 animals sold, yielding an
average of $783. Homer Myers, of
Conewago Farms of Manchester,
was the purchaser of the most
animals.
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Commenting on the quality of the
animals brought to Shady Lane,
sale chairman Craig Peterson
expressed the hope that PPHA
sales such as the “Blue and Gold”
would once again become an an
nual event.
Route 30 West
at the
Centerville Exit.