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Paste Museum To Conduct Silent
Auction At Ag Progress Days
ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.)
Penn State’s Pasto Agricul
tural Museum will conduct a
silent auction during Penn
State’s Ag Progress Days, Aug.
15-17, to help generate hinds to
preserve the rich heritage of ag
riculture and rural living.
Proceeds will benefit the Penn
State Ag Alumni Endowment
for the Pasto Agricultural
Museum.
So far, more than 40 items
have been donated for this first-
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 17, 2000-03
time auction, according to
Darwin Braund, volunteer cura
tor.
Items include a John Deere
lawn tractor, special edition F
-20 Farmall toy tractors, a year’s
supply of Penn State Creamery
ice cream, meat from the Uni
versity Meats Lab, sought-after
Penn State College milk bottles,
antique tools and signs, a ton of
Agway textured calf-starter,
dinner at The Tavern restaurant
in State College, a pedal tractor
and doll bed painted and ac
cented in Penn State Nittany
Lion colors, and ten units of
Holstein bull semen.
Items for the young and youn
g-at-heart include collector’s
dolls; T-shirts with butterfly and
insect motifs; “Got Milk?”
shirts, hats, and glasses; “Bi
zarre Bugs” books; framed art
works; a framed 1936 “Sheep
and Wool Map of the
World”; a 100 Mhz
Pentium computer
with components; and
a volleyball signed by
the 1999 NCAA Na
tional Champion Penn
State Women’s Vol
leyball team.
A hand-carved
matching pair of draft
horses depicts the mu
seum’s current theme,
“The Role of Animal
Power in 19th and
20th Century Agricul
ture.” Carved by Don
Ace, professor emer
itus of dairy and
animal science, the
team is complete with
leather harness and is
hitched to a wood
beam walking plow in
an active plowing
scene.
Donations for the
auction catalogue will
be accepted through
June 30. For informa
tion and donor forms,
call the museum office
at (814) 863-1383.
Items from individuals
should have a mini
mum value of $5O and
from companies, a
$lOO value.
Auction items will
be on display at Ag
Progress Days, Tues
day and Wednesday,
Aug. 15-16, in the tent
beside the museum.
Bidding will close
promptly on Wednes
day at 6 p.m.
Successful bidders
can pick up their items
after payment is pro
cessed Wednesday
evening or make ar
rangements for ship
ping.
For more informa
tion, contact Darwin
Braund, volunteer cu
rator, 236 Ag Admin
istration Building,
University Park, PA
16802,(814) 863-1383.
Penn State’s Ag
Progress Days features
more than 500 acres of
educational and com
mercial exhibits, tours,
and machinery dem
onstrations. It is con
ducted at the Russell
E. Larson Agricultural
Research Center at
Rockspring, nine
miles southwest of
State College on Rt.
45. Hours are 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. Tuesday, 9 a.m.
to 8 p.m. Wednesday,
and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Thursday. Admission
and parking are free.
For more informa
tion, call (800) PSU
-1010 toll-free from
July 10 to Aug. 17 or
visit the Ag Progress
Days site on the World
Wide Weh at
http://apd.cas.psu.edu.