ALLENTOWN - The sale of grand champion swine, lambs and steers during the Pennsylvania Farm Show is not for penny-wise, pound-foolish, penny-pinching buyers. Buyers have paid nearly $lOO,OOO for 18 champion swine, lambs and steers sold during the past six Farm Shows. The Sale of Champions at the 1987 Pennsylvania Farm Show is scheduled for Friday, January 16th, at 10 a.m. in the small arena of the Farm Show Complex. In a change of format, the champion and reserve champion market swine, lambs and steers Hai ■■■■ i— FINANCING Low-rate financing, $3OO implement purchase bonus. Choose from nine diesel models with hydrostatic or gear-drive transmissions. Finance with John Deere for 36 months, pay only BV2 percent APR. Plus, get a $3OO bonus ~~d the purchase of any implement to be used with your new tractor (except 655,755,855 Tractors). At our low rate, and with the added $3OO bonus, there’s no reason to wait. Come in and make us an offer today. 717 665-2407 Man . Thun I Pn till 9 DO • Tun t Wad nil 6DO • Sat till S DO Farm Show Market Livestock Sales Change Format will be displayed and sold at auction at one time in the show ring, according to Charles Itle, assistant to the Farm Show director. Itle said the new format will generate more enthusiasm from the buyers and more exposure for the junior exhibitors. The change to a combined sale of champions was recommended by the Junior Show and Sale Committee and approved by the Farm Show Commission at their April meeting. Itle estimated that 100 steers, 180 hogs and 125 lambs will be sold throughout the .day. The junior /% '2 market swine sale will follow the champions at 11:15 a.m., with the junior market lambs at 1 p.m. and junior steers at 2 p.m. The record price for junior market swine was set in 1981 when Hatfield Packing of Montgomery County paid $19.50 a pound or $4,680 to Michelle Banker! of Hanover, Adams County. Last year’s champion owner, Todd Bennecoff of Kutztown, Lehigh County, received $lO a pound or $2,360 from Hatfield Packing for his champion. The record was set in 1984 for the grand champion market lamb. Susan Falvey of Bedford received f ' \ >837 1967 fib Ljomnoeire,/ ELM. PA ROPE IN SOME EXTRA #j Af CASH! *#ft- Advertise With A ,'SH Lancaster Farming ' [ ; CLASSIFIED AD JU 1 A' Phone 717 394 3047 or 717 626 1164 When you’re the best ... xx,, ~U " Kent woodstoves have received more honors and People all over North America are talking about awards from consumer magazines, industry pub- Kent Visit our showroom and see tor yourself the hcations, governmental groups and other orgamza- glowing reports from satisfied Kent owners tions than any other wood heater on the market We’ll tell you why Kent has received more rcc- More important to us, though, are the praises we ognition than the competition, give you hro receive from happy Kent owners chures, and help m any way we can. IdUSSINGER’S |quauTY stoves! •vsr $6O a pound or $6,120 for her lamb Gladfelter of York bought his from Fox’s Market of Middletown, neighbor’s 4-H project for $l2 a Dauphin County. Fox’s Market pound or $15,060. George’s also bought last year’s champion, Foodliner Market of Northampton paying Joe Kuzemchak of Pleasant County paid $9.10 a pound or Gap, Centre County, $5O a pound or $11,648 to Mike Messick of Mid s6,Bso. dletown, Dauphin County, for his “J.D.”, a 1255-pound steer champion last year, owned by Annette Walter of Air- Farm Show Schedule of Events ville, York County, holds the are now available through County record price for the grand Extension Offices. In Lehigh champion baby beef. Arthur County, phone 820-3085. PA Grange Keeps Growing The 1986 statistics for the applied for membership. Penn- National Grange shows Penn- sylvania will soon close the new sylvania in outstanding form. Of charter. the 10 new granges formed in the The name of the newly organized nation, five are from Penn- group is the Kistler Valley Grange sylvania. “That is 50 percent of the which is located in Kempton. nation’s new granges,” said a Four of the newly elected of proud Master Charles E. Wismer, ficers are: Master James Gaffney, Jr. Overseer Richard Herbal, Approximately 700 new mem- Secretary Bernice Lenhart and hers joined the Grange through Treasurer Tammy Beck, newly chartered granges. Of the The Grange is a rural farm 700, over 75 percent of the mem- organization with 42,200 members bership can be found in Penn- in Pennsylvania and 450,000 sylvania. nationwide. Grange chapters can With the 1987 figures underway, be found in 553 rural Pennsylvania Pennsylvania can find itself with a communities in 66 counties and nice start a new Pennsylvanian often serve as centers for com group recognized quality and munity activities and planning. PLE WELL TALK. 2533 Old Phila. Pk., Rt. 340 Smoketown, PA Tues., Thurs., &Fri. 10-8; Wed. & Sat. 10-5 (717) 397-7539 s KENT The flame of the future today
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