A32-Lancaster Firming, Saturday, May 21, 1994
COBLESKILL, N.Y. An
Ayrshire heifer consigned by Oliv
er Cottrell, of West Kingston, R. 1.,
sold for $1,900 to top the recent
26th Annual Empire State Spring
Sale, held at Cobleskill, N.Y.
The offering of 83 head, includ
ing five calves, went to 37 buyers.
Forty-five of the animals were pur
chased by New York residents, 23
head went to Pennsylvania buyers,
13 went to Connecticut, and two
Ripken Growth
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BALTIMORE, Md.
Dairy farmers scored
a big win with local
baseball fans Tuesday
evening. May 17, at Bal
timore’s Camden Yards
Stadium with a Cal Rip
ken, Jr. Growth Poster
giveaway to all fans un
der 14. Dairy Night with
the Orioles was spon
sored by the Middle At
lantic Milk Marketing
Association.
Nearly 15,000
youngsters took home
the six-foot posters fea
turing long-time milk
drinker and milk
spokesman, Ripken.
The posters carry the
words “Drink Milk and
Reach for the Star” to
encourage youngsters to
drink milk and see if
they can measure up to
Ripken, the All-Star
Baltimore Orioles short
stop and two-time Most
Valuable Player of the
American League.
For more than a de
cade Ripken has been
touting the benefits of
milk. He credits his
good health and longe
vity to his life-long milk
drinking habit. Ripken
is on his way to setting a
new “Ironman” record
for the number of conse
cutive games played. He
could achieve this goal
in 1995.
In addition to the Rip
ken Growth Posters,
10,000 women received
a complimentary copy
of the Cynthia Kereluk
Workout & Fitness
Planner. The planner of
fers information on fit
ness and nutrition, dairy
recipes and exercises.
More than 3.3 million
copies of the popular fit
ness planner have been
distributed since the
first edition in 1992.
Dawn Downey,
Maryland State Dairy
Princess, threw out the
first ball for MAMMA.
More than 47,000 fans
watched the Baltimore
Orioles defeat the Bos
ton Red Sox 3-2.
The Middle Atlantic
Milk Marketing Asso
ciation is the only quali
fied regional program
that includes advertis
ing, promotion, nutri
tion education, retail
merchandising, school
food service, communi
cations and public rela
tions for the entire Mid
dlc-Allanlic milk mar
keting area. More than
Empire State Spring Ayrshire
were purchased by Delaware
buyers.
The sale was managed by Tom
Whittaker, of Brandon, Vl, with
Del Haynes, of Tully, N.Y., serv
ing as sale chairman, ai)d Mark
Kent, of Sennett, N.Y., acting as
auctioneer.
In all, Cottrell consigned 21
bred heifers to the sale, with 13
selling for $l,OOO or more. In addi
tion to the high-selling animal,
other top Cottrell animals sold for
Dairy
5,000 dairy farm fami
lies support the MAM
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The buyer of the top selling ani
mal was a syndicate of McNeil,
Bumc and Cottrell. The heifer is a
daughter of a son of Jade, out of a
Rebel dam with a 322-day first lac
tation record of 14,220 pounds of
milk with 554 pounds, or 3.9 per
cent, of fat.
Don McNeil, of Ellcnburg Cen
ter, N.Y., a member of the syndi
cate, purchased the next highest
selling animal himself, paying
$1,850 for a Reliable daughter.
Another Reliable daughter from
an Elite dam with a 3-10,305-day
record of 19,439 pounds of 3.5 per
cent fat milk, was purchased by
Sale
Charles Dye, of New Berlin, N.Y.
Dye also purchased a Bonnie-
Brae Jordon daughter for $1,500,
and a Lagace Maya daughter for
$1,400. The Jordon daughter is out
of a dam that made 17,753 pounds
of milk, 702 pounds of fat in a lac
tation (length of time not
reported), started as a 5-year-old.
The Maya daughter’s dam made a
4-10, 365-day lactation record of
18,578 pounds of milk, with 4.4
percent, or 809 pounds of fat.
According to Whittaker, sales
manager, another large volume
buyer was Charles Pent, of Belle
ville. “His investment of $7,350
included a $1,225 fresh cow by
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