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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1962
Page
2
Farm Show page continues with events at Manheim including queen crowning at 7:15 pm and a Roherstown Band concert. A tractor driving contest is set for 1 pm on October 5 with prize awards at 8:45 pm. Final day features the New Holland Fair.
Public notices advertise sales by Frank B. Koch in Strasburg 141 acre dairy and steer farm near Nine Points on Oct 3 at 2 pm DST. Diller and Kreider auction Oct 5 for 112 acre farm near Chestnut Hill Mennonite Church along Rt 340 from Marietta to Lancaster. Irvin Hess auctions Oct 18 61 acre Espenshade Turkey Farm two miles east of Strasburg. Claude F. Smith auctions. estate of Ellis H. Espenshade.
Nine Angus steers averaged 44 per hundredweight at the Solanco Fair FFA sale held Friday. Hog show averaged 34 per cwt with a champion pair at 42.50 per cwt. Top hogs and champion steer bought by Joseph Bowman at 65 per cwt. reserve hog pair at 42.34 per pound. Champion steer weighed 1,062 pounds shown by William Wilson. reserve steer 902 pounds shown by John Frey. Buyers included Samuel Happy, Hal DeBrand Meats, Kunzler and Company, Mussers at the Buck, Walter Dunlap. auctioneers Everett Kreider and Carl Diller.
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