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Solanco Livestock Sale Prices High
EVERETT NEWSWANGER pound bid on Tiffany Dean’s grand
Managing Editor champion lamb. The total was
QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster $1,270. Then the fun began. Dr.
Co.) Officials called the youth Albright donated the lamb back to
livestock sale at the Solanco Fair be resold with the proceeds going
last Friday evening one of the best to the travel fund for the Lancaster
in recent history. And the numbers County 4-H judging team,
confirm this opinion. Richard Wcimer, Quarryville,
Dr. Richard Albright, DDS, purchased the lamb the second
Lancaster, got things rolling in the ame lor $6.00 per pound or a total
market sheep sale with a $lO per of $762 and again donated the lamb
iy grand champion market lamb to Dr.
Richard Albright, Lancaster. The lamb was then resold two
additional times with the money donated to the travel fund
of the Lar Cr mty 4-H ll* ;k Judgir
Bill Hostetter, Hostetler Grain, Oxford.
The Lancaster 4-H Livestock Judging Team swept a stunning victory with a 60-point
lead in competition at the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield Mass, on Sept. 16.
The team, which represents Pennsylvania, will compete at three other Interstate con
tests before the National 4-H Judging Contest to be held in Louisville, Ken. The team
travel expense fund got a boost from the sale and resale of the grand champion lamb
at the Solanco Fair livestock auction. From left are team members and coaches: Fred
Weaver, coach: Gerald Boyd; Greg Musser, coach; Lisa Reiff, Dean Livinggood, and
Regina Landis.
to be resold.
Edgefield Dairy Farm. Quar
ry vile, then bought the lamb for,
54.50 or a total of $571.50. And the
4-H travel fund had increased by
$1,333.50.
Brent Landis had showed the
reserve grand champion earlier in
die week and at the sale. Weaver’s
Insurance, Quarry ville, paid $4.10
per pound for a total of $475.60 for
the 116 pound lamb.
In the steer sale Hope Long’s
first place heavyweight and grand
champion of the show sold to Fer
guson and Hassler grocery store,
Quarryville, for $4.70 per pound.
On the 1263 pound steer that made
the total $5,936.10.
The reserve grand champion
steer, shown by Bryan Byers, sold
to K & S Equipment, Quarryville,
lor S2.(X) per pound or a total of
52,450 on the 1225 pound steer.
In the hog sale Rusty Herr’s
grand champion sold to Shady
Birch Farm, Inc., Quarryville, for
$3.25 per pound or a total of $Bl9
on the 252 pound hog.
The reserve grand champion,
shown by Amanda Shearer, sold tc
Hosteller Grain, Oxford, for $2.25
per pound for a total of $576.
The average price without the
champions were: steers, $1.07
sheep, $1.46, and hogs, $1.52
There were 60 hogs, 55 sheep; anc
13 steers in the sale.
/pe. jq*l /grh. champion steer to, from left,
Jim, Tim holding Timothy, and Chip Hassler, Ferguson and
Hassler, Quarryville.
Brent Landis sold his reserve champion market lamb to
Roger Slusher, Weaver Insurance, Quarryvllle.
Bryan Byers sold hit reserve champion steer to Tom
Snyder, left, and Jim Kreider, K & S Equipment, Quarryville.