Fl2-Uncaster Fanning, Saturday,. August 13,. 1988
Record Sales Reported
At Lebanon Livestock Sale
LEBANON Eighty-eight
buyers and numerous well-wishers
gathered at the Lebanon County
4-H and FFA Livestock Sale last
week where 159 animals and two
carcasses were sold for a grand tot
al of $61,165.27.
The grand champion market hog
owned by Kelly Bachman was pur
chased by People’s Bank for $7.10
per pound. Next was Jason Slates’
grand champion 103-pound mark
et lamb, which MikeFiresline, rep
resenting Lebanon Valley Nation
al Bank, purchased for $160.50.
The last grand champion to be sold
was Bachman’s 1,260-pound
Angus steer. David Martin, owner
of Dutchway Farm Market In
Mycrstown, offered the.top bid of
$2.15 per pound.
The grand champion carcass
lamb sold for $l9O, while the
grand champion carcass hog sold
for $290. The money from these
sales will go into a fund to build a
show bam.
A total of 104 hogs were sold at
Help Available For Plant Problems
ROCK SPRINGS Is there an
unexplained brown spot on your
lawn? Are your tomato plants
stunted? Did the leaves on your
apple tree turn yellow and drop
off? You can get help from the
experts at Penn State College of
Agriculture’s Ag Progress Days on
August 16-18.
A lawn, landscape and garden
tent will feature faculty from the
Plant Disease Clinic and the
departments of entomology, horti
culture and plant pathology. They
will be on hand from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. daily.
“We’ll answer questions on any
dent, left, and Joseph K. Kreider, director, purchased the
grand champion hog from Kelly Bachman for $7.10 per
pound.
an average of $1.56 per pound or
grand total of $36,838. Forty-three
lambs were sold at an average of
$2.14 per pound. And the 12 steers
plant problem that a homeowner,
gardener or grower might have,”
says John Pcplinski, director of the
Plant Disease Clinic at Penn Slate.
“With the variety of experts at the
tent, we should be able to figure
out if it’s a disease or an insect
problem or some cultural
problem.”
Visitors to Ag Progress Days
may bring leaves, vegetables or
fruit in to be looked at, but often
the experts can diagnose the prob
lem by asking the right questions,
Pcplinski says.
Ag Progress Days is held at the
Rock Springs Agricultural
sold for $14,247, or $1.02 per
pound.
The volume buyer was Carlos
R. Lcfflcr Inc. of Richland, Penn.
Research Center, nine miles south
west of Slate College on Route 45,
August 16-18 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission and parking arc free.
E
g . .. pion market lamb to
Lebanon Valley National Bank for $6.50 per pound. Repre
senting LVNB are, from left, Mike Firestine, vice president;
Larry Groff, ag loan officer; and Sean McKinney, ag loan
coordinator.
son, Glenden, purchased the grand champion market steer
for $2.15 per pound from Kelly Bachman.