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Bicksler Consignment Nets Highest Bid
LEBANON The crowd milled
around the sale bam studying the
consignments trying to determine
which one they would bid on and
which one would sell for the top
price of the Lebanon County
Holstein Sale.
Several animals were con
sidered as contenders for the title,
but when the sale ended Ray
Bicksler’s consignment netted the
high bid of the evening.
Russelldale Chairman Regal sold
for $1,650 to David and Ruth
Schrack, Womelsdorf.
When Regal entered the sale
ring, announcer Dale Hoover
Kelly Elected
Treasurer
of NACAA
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Kelly, Westmoreland County
Extension director and 25-year
veteran of the Cooperative Ex
tension Service, has been elected
treasurer of the National
Association of County Agricultural
Agents.
Since Kelly began his ag career
as a farm manager in 1956, he has
moved on to become a senior ex
tension agent and county extension
director involved in projects
ranging from a beef and forage
demonstration farm to a yearly
county-wide rat control program.
In 1983, he received the
Distinguished Service Award from
NACAA for the role he played
developing a 400-acre gift farm
into the beef cattle and forage
demonstration facility. It became
the site of numerous demon
strations and workshops for farm
ers and agricultural associations.
The farm also generated
quality research and data that
eventually led to Penn State taking
over the operation and continuing
it at the southwestern Penn
sylvania Pasture Research
Laboratory.
During his years m West
moreland County, Kelly also
initiated livestock production
programs and organized com
modity groups for cattlemen,
sheep, wool growers and pork
producers. He set up milk
marketing schools for, dairy farm
ers and arranged.?;! annual junior
livestock show arid sale tor 4-H and
FFA club members.
Working with Westmoreland
County cattle producers, Kelly
organized the county feeder calf
sale, which markets nearly 300
head annually.
CIBA-Geigy, a farm chemical
company, recognized Kelly’s
achievements several years ago
when the company named him the
state recipient of their
Agricultural Recognition Award.
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HENRY K. FISHER INC.
■y, September 6,1986
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noted, “You can hardly put
together a better pedigree than the
one behind this bred heifer.” Sired
by Cal-Clark Board Chairman, she
will freshen in early October to Sir
C Valor.
Her dam, Russelldale Kingpin
Ritzy, produced a top record of
20,110 pounds of milk as a 7 year
old. All of Ritzy’s fat records have
ranged from 4.3 percent to 4.7
percent. The second and third
dams back have also been con
sistent producers of fat records
over 4.0 percent. Ruth explained
the consistently high fat records
attracted her and her husband to
Regal.
Regal’s maternal pedigree in
cludes the sires Whirlhill Kingpin,
Winterthur Apollo and Pawnee
Farm Arlinda.
A bid of $1,550 proved to be the
second highest bid of the sale when
the final tally of the prices was
made. Darryl Baimer, Lebanon,
purchased the bred heifer Restful-
Acres Jet Stream Malin for this
price. Consigned by Frank and
Virginia Graybill, Hershey,
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Malin’s credits include a VG-88
dam with four records over 22,000
milk and up to 27,000 milk.
Her next dam back classified
VG-89 with an excellent mammary
and three records over 23,000
pounds of milk. Sires on Malin’s
maternal side are Vincent-View
Molly Chief, Pawnee Farm
Arlinda Chief and Penstate
Ivanhoe Star.
Malin wijl freshen in November
1986 to Crescentmead Chief
Stewart. Her maternal sister is
projected at 30,055 pounds of milk.
A bid of $1,500 for Arnold-Acres
Basic Picasso rounded out the top
three prices. Consigned by Arnold-
Acres, Lebanon, Picasso sold to
Charles and Jean Dodson,
Lebanon. Sired by Marlu Basic,
she will freshen in September to
Bossir Glen-Valley Starlite Al.
Her dam, a Plushanski Per
suader daughter produced a top
record of 19,248 pounds of milk.
The most active bidding of the
evening came on a 45-day-old
heifer calf sired by Whittier Farms
Ned Boy. Her dam, Mil-Harv Jade
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Of Lebanon Holstein Sale
Citation Jo, produced a top record
of 19,8% milk with a 4.1 test as a 9
year old. The calf sold for $650.
Harry Bachman, auctioneer for
Consignor Ray Bicksler holds the top-selling animal of the
Lebanon County Holstein Sale. Russelldale Chairman Regal
sold to Ruth Schrack, center, for $1,650. Standing with Ruth
is her father Roy Miller.
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the sale, reported a total salt
average of $1,087 on 47 lots. The 4-
bred heifers and just-fresh cow:
averaged $1,112.
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