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Show World's Record Price For Guernsey Bull 1 1 t ' ' - - 3 I ' 'I ' J , CHICAGO, ILL. Highest priced Guernsey bull in the world is Curtiss Franchester Levity Ace, sold for $37,000 by his joint owners, the Curtiss Candy Company Farms, Chicago, and the Franchester Farms, Cleveland, Ohio, to Charles G. Lang of Lang-valley Farms, Glen Arm, Md. The previous highest price for a Guernsey bull was $35,000, paid for Langwater Eastern King in 1929 by William H. Lyons, Lyon Mountain, N. Y. Left to right are Delbert Kingston, livestock manager of the Curtiss Cur-tiss farms (holding the bull); Jack Fralinger, manager of Langvalley Farms; Otto Schnering, president of Curtiss Candy Company; and Mr. Schnering's son, Robert Schnering. Curtiss Franchester Levity Ace, calved August 10, 1943, on the Curtiss Candy Company Farms, was sired by Coronation King of Pine Manor, one of the leading Guernsey bulls in production and show yard winnings. His dam, Green Meadow Levity, is considered by many as one of the greatest cows the Guernsey breed has ever produced; pro-duced; and her dam, Shuttlewick Levity, twice National Dairy Show champion and producer of the world's butterfat record as a two-year-old, was sold for $25,500, the world's record price for a Guernsey female. |