VOL 30 No. 39
Art-Acres Marbeth Kay U - ET, a Chairman daughter,
brought the top bid of $25,500 at Wednesday’s Sire Power
Sale.
Average on Sire Power
Sale soars to $3813
BY WENDY WEHR
KUTZTOWN - A torrential
downpour beating on the pavilion
"roof literally drowned out the
auctioneers’ voices. But while the
rain beat down, the prices shot up
during the 1985 Sire Power Sale,
held Wednesday in Katztown.
Spirited bidding brought the sale
average to $3813 on the 53 mature
animals consigned to the sale. Last
year’s Sire Power extravaganza
averaged only $2,221.
Chairman daughters captured
most of the attention during the
day, with two of the sire’s offspring
bringing prices over $20,000.
Easily topping the sale was Art-
Acres Marbeth Kay U - ET, a
Chairman daughter out of the well
known Art-Acres Elevation Kay.
As bidding began on the two-year
old, Horace Backus didn’t hesitate
to call the Kay cow “one of the
great brood cows of this
generation.”
Art-Acres Elevation Kay has
four daughters in the top 200 of the
CTPI list and a slew of remarkable
progeny to her credit.
But Kay U’s purchaser didn’t
need to be reminded of her out
standing pedigree. For a bid of
$25,500, Arthur Rhodenck brought
Kay U home to Art-Acres,
Hagerstown, Md.
Rhodenck bred Kay U and sold
her three years ago as an embryo
for $B7OO. She was consigned to this
year’s Sire Power Sale by Owen E.
Martin, also of Hagerstown, Md.
Fresh March 27, Kay U milked 72
pounds on the May test. She was
bred July 23 to the increasingly
popular Ned Boy bull.
The Ex-91 Kay has a wealth of
credits to her name, including a
34,000 pound milk record and over
1115 pounds fat. Her cow index
stands at + 1273 M and +sl43
Following the Kay daughter,
Del-Myr F H Chairman Pasta B
brought a $20,000 bid. A Chairman
out of Del-Myr Bell Peggy, she was
consigned by Fair Hill Farm,
Chestertown, Md., and purchased
by The Pasta Syndicate, in care of
Ed Fry of Fair Hill.
Four Sections
Pasta’s dam is a GP-83 Bell
daughter with 26 210 pounds milk
and !|4O of fat Her index stands at
+ 784 M. The October, 1982 Pasta is
scored very good with an excellent
mammary.
A Jetson daughter carrying a
valuable embryo brought the third
highest bid of the day. Mike
Wilson, in care of Jumper Farm.
Gray, Maine, purchased Brooks-
Twain Jetson Puzzle-ET from
Walter Brooks of Spnngville
Puzzle is out of Brooks-Twain
Elevation Penny, whose
production as a five-year-old
reached a remarkable 34,813
pounds ot 4.1 percent milk and 1412
of fat. Penny is scored VG-87 with a
cow index of + 1437 M and +slB2
But Puzzle’s sale value w'as
increased by the embryo she
carries from a Whittier Farms Ned
Boy and Y-Brookside Chairman
Snow mating. The Snow cow also
has production records over 32,000
pounds milk and 1320 of fat.
Also exceeding a $lO,OOO price
tag was another Jetson offspring.
For $12,000 Greg and Pat Mitchell,
of Davidsonville, Md., purchased a
choice of a Jetson flush from
Coldspnngs Elevation Insert.
Marlin Hoff, of New Windsor,
Md., consigned the Jetson embryo,
which is due in August. The Insert
cow is a fourth generation ex
cellent with 34,760 pounds milk and
1216 of fat at five years and seven
months.
Bringing a $9OOO bid was Mims-
Dream Klansman Buttons, con
signed by Miriam Hess, of New
Windsor, Md. Out of Mims-Drearn
Cinnamon Brandy, Buttons is by
Coldspnngs Klansman - ET, also
out of the Insert cow.
Buttons was purchased by
Rosecroft Ltd., in care of Gary
Derr, Mt Airy, Md.
All of the 57 head, which included
53 mature animals and 4 calves
under a month old, were by Sire
Power bulls. The total sale volume
reached $204,500.
Following the sale, Sire Power
general manager DuWayne Kutz
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 3,1985
Producers 9 vote will set
fate of dairy promotion
BY JAMES H. EVERHART
LANCASTER The future of
dairy promotion hangs in the
balance as dairy farmers across
the country participate in a “vote
of confidence” in a national
referendum this month.
The referendum is the
producers’ chance to indicate
whether they are willing to con
tinue 'paying the bills for the
promotional activities.
The national referendum is
required under the provisions of
the Dairy and Tobacco Adjustment
Act of 1983, the same legislation
that created the promotion
program and the 15-cent-a
-hundredweight deduction that
finances it.
The vote began Thursday and
will continue through Aug. 20,
under USDA supervision. All
producers shipping milk during
April 1985 are eligible to par
ticipate.
Dairy coopera tm s can bloc-vote
for their membership, but are
required to send members ballots
to use if they disagree with the co
op’s vote
Independents can pick up their
ballots at their county ASCS office
and mail them after Aug. 1 and
before Aug. 20 in the postage-paid
envelope provided. Only one vote
per farm unit is permitted
A toll-free hotline is available for
anyone with questions. The
number is 1-800-423-7206.
A majontv of producers voting
must be in favor of the promotion
program for it to continue. If the
referendum fails, the promotion
program will expire with the rest
of the Act in September.
. Dairy leaders and promotion
advocates have mounted an im-
i —Triplets: Once in a blue moon?
While a “blue moon"-the second full moon in the month of July-shone over Lan
caster Farming country last week, another rare event took place on the Phares and
Martha Hurst farm, Leola, where a set of triplet calves got a healthy start on life.
Glendon (left), cousin Jerry, and Galen Hurst helped corral the rambunctious trio of
two heifers and a bull. Penn State Extension dairy reproduction specialist Larry
Specht says that only one set of triplets is dropped for every 50,000 bovine births.
(Photo by Wendy Wehr)
Members of the panel who discussed dairy promotion at
the Dairy Meeting Tuesday at the Farm and Home Center in
Lancaster were: Daniel Fox, dairy farmer and director of
Eastern Milk Producers: RichWd Shellenberger, general
manager of retail operation, Kreider Dairy Farms, and a
member of the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Board; William
Stout, Lehigh Valley Farmers: James Fraher, economist for
Inter-State Milk Producers: Earl Fink, executive vice
president of the Pennsylvania Association of Milk Dealers;
and Blair Smith, ag economics professor at Penn State
University.
pressive campaign to win the
support of the producers in the all
important vote
Representatives of several key
promotional organizations met
with about 120 dairy farmers in
Lancaster Tuesday to drum up
support for the promotion
program.
The session Tuesday was the
first of two dairy meetings held at
the Farm and Home Center and
sponsored by the Penn State Ex-
*7.50 per Year
tension Service, Dairymen, Inc.,
Eastern Milk Producers, Inter-
State Milk Producers, Kreider
Dairy Farms and Lehigh Valley
Farmers A second session, con
centrating on legislative issues
confronting dairymen, will be held
this Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.
Though the odds seem to be
overwhelmingly in favor of
referendum passage, none of the
program participants seemed
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