Young buyers mine a 4 Pot O’ Gold’ at NAILE Jersey Sale
BY DONNA McCONAUGHEY
Staff Correspondent
LOUISVILLE, Ky.-The 1984
Jersey Pot O’ Gold Sale was held in
conjunction with NAILE. “Quality
was way up this year, and prices
were down slightly,” said Jack
Holbreck, Kentucky Cattle Club
Treasurer. “It was a buyer’s
market,” was his summary of the
sale.
Jersey breeders consigning
heifers to the sale were hand
chosen by the sale’s executive
committee. Each calf was
reviewed and its pedigree
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scrutinized before it was con
sidered for the sale.
Fifteen Jersey heifers were
offered for sale, with only young
people ages eight to 19, eligible to
purchase the animals. Over the
next three years the calve’s lac
tation records will determine
winners of the production contest.
The Pot O’ Gold contest, funded
with 17 percent of gross sales of the
previous auction, is divided by the
top 12 finishers in the production
contest. The 1984 winner, Kelly
Young of Yellow Springs, Ohio,
received a purse of almost $3,500.
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Her cow produced nearly 18,000
lbs. of milk-70 percent above the
breed average. The total purse
presented this year was $12,387.
“The payback far outweighs
costs of the program. Those
animals were well pedigreed and
will be the foundation of the kids’
herds,” said Richard Rigs, Junior
Show Committee Chairman. “The
kids are making an investment in
their future through these
animals.”
Topping the 1984 sale was Koons
Top Doris, a September 1983 Top
Brass calf, which sold for $4,900 to
chick mum
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Kirby Jarrell of Texas.
The second high selling calf was
Funk Soldier Boy Sweet Cidly
consigned by Funk Jerseys of
Liberty, Illinois and selling for
$3500 to Herby D. Lutz of South
Carolina.
Two heifers sold for the third
highest price of $3lOO. Louis Spann
of Washington, New Jersey pur*
chased W.F. Brass Allure, a Top
Brass daughter consigned by
Robert Stiles and Sons of dear
brook, Virginia.
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consigned a
Yankee F.W. Chief daughter which
sold for $3lOO to Kim Clauss of
California.
The average for fifteen Pot O’
Gold heifers was $2320.
Farm-City
proclaimed
HARRISBURG - Citing the
unique reltionship between Penn
sylvania’s rural and urban
citizens, Governor Thornburgh has
proclaimed Nov. 16-22 Penn
sylvania Farm-City Week.
“The interrelationship between
our rural and urban communities
forms a powerful economic force
in Pennsylvania,” said the
Governor following special signing
ceremonies marking the week. “It
adds strength to the traditions of
cooperation and progress that
make agriculture Pennsylvania’s
‘Keystone Pride’. Indeed, the
cooperative effort between rural
Pennsylvania and our cities and
suburbs ensures a dependable
supply of quality foods for con
sumers at home and abroad,” he
added.
Counties throughout the Com
monwealth have planned ob
servances to honor the efforts of
Pennsylvania’s 59,000 farm
families and the hundreds of
agribusinesses that make
agriculture the number one in
dustry in the state.
Farm-City Week is sponsored by
the Pennsylvania Farm-City
Council, in cooperation with the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture, and various state
agricultural groups.
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