BY MONTIE TAK
Special Correspondent
HARRISBURG With some
people, horse power - the vintage
kind - is still in vogue.
Farmers who prefer the feel of
leather lines in their hands instead
of steering wheels. -Those who
raise the oats to feed the teams
who work the earth to feed the
families. People who feel there’s
not much a man and a. good team
can’t get done.
So when the auto show, the boat
show and the motocross cham
pionship are merely memories in
the Farm Show Complex, then the
Pennsylvania Draft Horse and
Mule Association holds its annual
sale. On February 20, the fifth
annual sale was underway, with
auctioneers Steve Andrews and
Dennis L. Brownawell presiding.
“There was good demand for
teams and broke horses,” says
Elmer D. Lapp, Association
chairman. He noted there were a
number of buyers from Maryland,
New York, Virginia, Connecticut
and West Virginia as well as
Pennsylvania. They vied in the
bidding for the 53 draft horses who
were sold for an average $550.
Top price of the sale was $l5OO
for the Belgian mare, “Windy
Willow Katie,” consigned by Ezra
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Kanegy, Belleville, Pa., and
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Flash,” sold by Donald and Janice
Kuhl of Manheim to Franklin
Harkins, Forest Hills, Md., for
$ll5O
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was “Dick,” a three-year old
Belgian consigned by Elmer Lapp,
Kinzers, Pa., and bought by Daniel
Dienner of Gap for $lOOO. The top
selling team was a pair of Belgian
mares, “Polly” and “Nell,”
purchased by Ivan K. Stoltzfus of
Narvon for $2300 from Tom Stayer,
Alleghany, New York. No mules
were consigned to the sale.
“Only a few of the horses were
grade horses,” says “The
rest were registered. I didn’t feel
the sale averaged too badly.” He
noted tack sold well, with good
used collars in demand. “People
were also hunting good used
harnesses but there weren’t too
many complete sets there.”
One item Lapp did not anticipate
seeing pass through the sales ring
was a 36 year old photograph of
’ himself driving a hitch of six
Belgians pulling a Conestoga
wagon. The photograph has been
taken when Lapp drove, the team
from ILancaster to Wheeling, West
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The top-selling team was a pair of Belgian mares, Polly and Nell, consigned by Tom
Stayer, Allegany, NY.
Virginia to commemorate the 200-
year anniversary of the making of
the Conestoga wagon. “We even
had bells on the horses,”
remembers I.app. “And we had
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over 3000 letters in mail bags in the
wagon. Each one had a special
stamp on it, too.”
He says during the journey, he
and the Belgians spent a week in
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ferent schools. For part of the trip,
he drove 97 miles on U.S. Route 40.
“That used to be an old Conestoga
wagon trail,” he notes. “That was
all history.”
Belgians have been central in
Jacob L. Kanagy’s life, too. He
says he has been raising Belgians
all Jus life as bis father did.
Kanagy also raises Morgan horses
but uses them for road work since
he has enough Belgians for draft
use.
“I’d rather walk behind a team
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