A3O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 29, 2000
Western Spring Spectacular
SANDY BRADLEY
Mercer Co. Correspondent
GROVE CITY (Mercer Co.)
- The Mercer County Holstein
Club recently hosted its West
ern Pennsylvania Spring Spec
tacular at the Mercer County
4-H Park in Grove City.
The 21st annual event, a
Holstein auction designed to
benefit buyers as well as
sellers, attracted a crowd of
more than 250. Fifty-three ani
mals were sold.
The top-selling animal, a
fresh two-year-old Lindy
daughter from eight genera
tions of excellence, sold for
$4,050 to Bill Casper of Car
rollton, OH.
Dean Kind of Slippery Rock
consigned the cow, whose
pedigree can be traced to the
Gray View Farms Crissy cow
family of the early 19605.
The second high-selling cow
was a fresh Jolt two-year-old
consigned by Ron and Eleanor
Kalinowski from Cochranton.
The cow’s dam was a GP-84
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$2450 to Jeff and Susan
McFarland of New Wilming
ton. As the auction’s volume
buyers, the McFarlands spent
more than $lO,OOO for a total
of five fresh cows. Cows in the
sale averaged $2,135.
The top bred heifer, an
Adonis cow, was sold for
$1,650 by Ken Challener of
Meadville to Robert Shine of
Jamestown. Bred heifers aver
aged $1,387.
Yearlings averaged $1,030.
March 2000 calves averaged
$475, December ’99 calves
averaged $635, September ’99
calves averaged $725, and the
June ’99 yearlings averaged
$B5O. Top calves included a
September ’99 Tesk Terry con
signed by Ransom and Kathy
Riedel of Corry.
While the annual sale pro
vided a service to farmers look
ing to expand or reduce their
herds, said sale chairman Jim
Bates, it also offered a service
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to local kids by featuring a
number of calves that were
suitable for 4-H and other
show projects. The auction of
fered a five-percent discount
bn animals born after June
that would be used by kids for
show, said Bates.
In addition to the annual
sale discounts, said Bates, the
Holstein club participates in a
number of other youth
oriented causes. In addition to
giving to the Les Firth memo
rial scholarship fund, which is
awarded to students attending
Penn State, each season the
club provides plaques to all
Mercer County 4-H kids who
show Holsteins. The club also
presents kids who show with
gifts such as grooming equip
ment or halters. Because sales
and sponsorship, said Bates,
profits from this year’s event
will be put toward future com
munity giving projects.
The Mercer County Holstein
Club has existed for more than
40 years and has between 50
and 60 members.
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