ASO-Lmctster Fanning, Saturday, Octobar 7,1889
BY
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) —The top of the All-
American Holstein Sale here last
Thursday night at $35,000 was a
two-month-old calf. But what a
calf it was. The daughter of
Plushanski MarkFife-ET (VG-88,
3y) with a two year old record of
29,368 m 4.5% 1325 f 3.5% 1042 p.
Next dam was Flute
(VG-87-GMD) with records to
35,745 m 5.2% 1828 f 3.4% 1193 p.
9Third dam was Fancy
(VG-87-GMD with records to
35,614 4.4% 1584 f 3.5% 1231 p
and the fourth dam was Charles
Plushanski’s famous Faith cow
(4E-94-GMD with records to
37,718 m 5.1% 1813 f.
Art Acres Bell Pontiac was the
sire making every animal you can
see in the pedigree excellent or
very good. The buyer by telephone
was Doc-Trim Holsteins, Waupa
ca. WI.
Wilmer Hosteler, Oxford,
bought the first choice female from
five pregnancies due April 1990
from Valiant Elea-Nor-ET for
$12,500 consigned by Woodbine
Farms, Airville. The future heifer
will be from the heart of the Ella
family (4E-97 EEEE-GMD) all
time All American aged cow with
five records over HOlf to
48,731 m 4.2% 2028 F.
The third highest selling price at
$35,000 Calf Tops All-American Holstein Sale
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All In The Selling Of A Calf
When the $35,000 calf was told In the small arena at the Farm Show Building In Harrisburg
during the All American Dairy Show last week, teams of sale staff members manned two dlrct
llne phone calls from potential buyers from across the nation. One team was on the phone at
the front of the arena and the contending bids came over the phone at the back of the arena. In
this sequence of photos, Managing Editor Everett Newswanger caught Auctioneer Harry
Bachman In auction as he relayed the bids from the peron at the phone to the auction ring
above. You be the Judge. Did Harry’s team win or not?