BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LEBANON - What do dairy
calves and heifers off Penn
sylvania farms have in common
with coastal residents of North
Carolina who just suffered multi
nullion-dollar losses from
Hurricane Diana?
They have a lot in common - as
was in evidence over the past
weekend at the Church of the
Brethren Relief Auction at the
Lebanon Fairgrounds.
Proceeds from the sale - and
this year’s goal was $125,000 - are
used for disaster relief
domestically and overseas. The
latest example was the aid
dispatched to North Carolina to
help the hurricane victims.
Bidding continues on heifer that's resold several times at
Brethren Auction to raise funds for disaster relief.
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‘Calves with complexes’ aid
Just before the start of the heifer
sale on Friday, Sept. 14, two vic
tims of the recent flood in Bedford
County personally paid witness to
the help given them by Brethren
volunteers.
“While the National Guard had
the heavy equipment, the Brethren
volunteers helped with the heavy
hand labor of carrying the pails of
mud and debris from what was left
of our homes,” one of the victims
explained.
“It is the kind of help that you
never forget.”
And the Brethren Heifer Sale is
getting the reputation for
developing a new kind of dairy
animal - one that might be called
“calves with complexes.”
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These animals are developing
their ’’complexes” because their
early years are being spent at least
annually in a sale ring in which
three or four or more buyers are
purchasing them and then
reselling them immediately.
In this way, participants in the
Brethren heifer sale are raising
the maximum amount of disaster
relief funds possible from the sale
of the donated cattle.
The September 14 sale started
off in fine style with the purchase
of a just freshened two-year-old by
Mel Kolb for $4500. Kolb was
volume buyer at the sale.
“Shelmar-Acres Sky High Hertha”
was in the relief sale last year and
was bought back by the sale
committee for this year’s auction.
A calf with a “real complex”
might be the year-old Dongla
Blend Lucille out of the Mount Joy
area, Three times A.D. Matz
bought her and each time turned
her back into the ring for resale.
Thus, she brought well over $2,000
for relief purposes.
Another little girl that is already
scheduled to return to next year’s
sale is a grade calf out of the herd
of Cyrus and David Bomberger.
She ended up with three “step-
HARRISBURG - Milk and
fitness are natural allies, and to
emphasize this union the Penn
sylvania Dairy Promotion
Program is sponsoring an exhibit
at Hess’s Capital City Mall store
today from 12-4 p.m.
The exhibit is part of an overall
fitness promotion sponsored by the
department store. The dairy
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Yea The
owners - including Messick
Farm Equipment and Young‘s
Minerals, who turned her back for
resale and Wenger’s Inc. of And, in addition to the heifer
Myerstown, who bought and sale, everything from quilts to
donated her for next year’s sale. crafts and from chicken corn soup
Thus, these calves with com- to truck loads of hay come into
plexes, who are bought and sold play at the relief auction to lessen
multiple times, become heifers the load of someone who must bear
with hearts full of hope and the fury of fire, flood or some other
eventually cows with compassion type of disaster.
Milk exhibit set today
Unrest Price.
Today!
Lancaster
disaster victims
Sale of used farm machinery launches Cf
Brethren Relief Auction at Lebanon Fairgrounds
exhibit boasts three county dairy
princesses offering lowfat milk
samples - both plain and chocolate
- as well as yogurt samples.
Agriculture is the com
monwealth’s leading industry,
with dairy products the number
one component of that industry.
The milk and dairy products in
dustry contributes $2 billion to the
• BERG “the Workhorse”
Featuring the New Berg Split Chute
Berg Barn Cleaners
• Out Runs
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• Out Cleans
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• Outstanding
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Drive Units
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• Double 7 Automated Milking Parlor
• 10 Universal Weigh Jars
• (1) Surge 3 ' around the barn pipeline
• (1) Used Zero Pipeline complete
• (1) Used Bou Malic Carousel with 8 units weigh iars
low line designed for 60 cows and up
• (10) Automatic Take-offs w/Meters
• Therm* Stor 100
• Assorted Dumping Station
• 300 Gal Esco • 600 Gal Zero
• 450 Gal Dan Kool (round) • 1000 Gal Dan Kool
• 600 Gal Mojonnter * 1000 Gal Zero
• 600 Gal Jamesway • 1000 Gal Mllkeeper
• 800 Gal DeLaval • 1200 Gal Zero
• 800 Gal Mueller
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for possible disaster
around the world.
state’s economy.
In addition, dairy products are a
primary source of dietary calcium,
a nutrient needed in everyone’s
diet, especially women. Calcium is
important both to bone health and
overall health - not only during
childhood and adolescence but also
throughout life.
Chutes, etc,
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• 1250 Gal DanKool
• 1250 Gal Surce
• 1250 Gat DeLaval
• 1500 Gal DanKooi
• 2500 Gal Mueller