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Rappahannock Calves
Again Draw Top Rating
hannock Angus calves proved to be at the.top at their 10th Annual Feeder Calf Sale held at the Front .JRoyal Livestock Market October.. 18, with about 82% being offi-^ daily graded as good and choice. Rappahannock breeders sold 431 feeder calves for a total of $58,009.76, or an average of $29.75 per, hundred.
Top price received for a single calf 'was 50e per pound paid by -Hugh Atkins of Sperryville for a fancy calf weighing 470 pounds and produced by John S. Buckner. There were four other calves grading fancy, Of which three v were produced by James W.
-tfc* other came from the farm.. of John S. Buckner. ' ^
Newbill Miller, 4-H member and son of Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Miller of Washington, purchased one of these'calves to put on feed as a club project while Henry Balmer of Pennsylvania was the high bidder of the other three; Top price' for a single pen of calves was $33.25, per hundred for 24 head/rf good steer calves averaging 421 pounds each which went to New Jersey.
While many of the calves went to New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New York, the largest buyer in number of head purchased was Mac Claggett, a Virginian, * who purchased 75 head.
Another sale> characteristic of. which the consignors are proud - is that each year a number of ^ heifer Calves return to Rappahan- • nock .for the purpose of establishing new commercial herds or to serve as replacements in herds already established. V 's At the conclusion of the feed- \
. er calf s^Je 23 yearlings were auctioned and brought an ive-... erage of $23.95 per cwt. While ; the quality of these animals was far beloit .that of those offered in the regular calf sale, total re- i ceipts amounted to $3,279.32.
Again the quality of Rappa
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