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North Carolina, South Carolina,
There were hundreds of lambs Last year there were four re- and Tennessee for sale at New
human sheer or oc . Holland, where the demand
in the air after sheep re- at tbe samc tjme which good from a wide range of
ceipts reached 1,676 head resulted in the record numbers. bu y ers lar B e and small “>
(™ ost } y , amb ?) , M o nda y at the The Christian Easter and the volume packers and individuals J^l|^B
New Holland Sales Stables. Greek Easter were obse rved for religious observances. jf. s^l
The goat sale began at 9 a.m. Sunday, April 14, and it was also Smoker has been involved in
and bidding was active from the the first day ol the Islam Year the livestock trade for more than
outset. Auctioneer was Dale 1421 and the last day of the 8- 25 years. He got his start in the
Stoltzfus with Roger Floyd, re- day Jewish Passover obser- “short legs’’ division with the r' *^&!t
tired manager of'the New Hoi- vance. Record numbers ot 4,884 Walter M. Dunlap commission
land firm, clerking (via sheep and 6,953 goats were sold flrm at the Lancaster Stock
computer). Ring man was Tom at four sales within 10 days at y ards in the mid '’ 70s “ back ;;#|JB
Sharpe, a perennial figure in the New Holland from Monday, in the da ys when Horace Plank > ->f ’ &y*J. V<|m|9
area livestock trade. By the close April 2 to Monday, April 9, was in charge,’’Smoker said. , ' ,«H9
in late afternoon, 1,697 head 2001. With the influx of mideastern B&afcfe ,--13fc
were sold. Ken Smoker, New Holland’s ethic groups of the Islamic faith
At the three main sales for the manager of the sheep and goat in the eastern metropolitan , , . .
Easter trade at New Holland division, said most of the sheep areas, Smoker has experienced This pen of lambs awaits sale for the Easter trade early
this year, sheep and lambs were and goats went out of state to be ever increasing numbers of meat Monday evening at the New Holland Sales Stables. Sheep
recorded at 4,816 head and slaughtered. He said they went goats being marketed at New and lamb receipts totaled 1,676 head,
goats numbered 4,466 for a to New York, New Jersey, Mass- Holland Sales Stables, where market prices for lambs and wbe n the proposal in USDA
grand total of 9,282 head. This is achusetts, Connecticut, and the y had the facility in place to goats were j n tbe same ran ge. channels to sell goats per hun
probably a record for sales for Rhode Island. handle the trading. Lambs are sold on a per- dredweight will begin, Smoker
the Christian Easter (March 30) Goat and sheep receipts at Compared with last year, hundredweight basis and goats said he doesn’t think that will
and the Passover trade. Passover New Holland come from 24 Smoker said, this year the n _,. . h a *ic u/h„„ happen. Buyers on the market
began at sundown Wednesday states. In addition to the seven P Das,s ‘ When asked are not pushing it.
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