People and communities
Two dairy-farm auctions, one week apart
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Two advertisements reveal the machinery, animals and household goods offered when local farmers dispersed their equipment in 1967.
Sunny Lawn advertised machinery
Robert T. Haines’s sale was scheduled for February 25 at Sunny Lawn Farm. The advertisement lists tractors, a 1947 Ford truck, a 1959 Chevrolet El Camino, hay-handling equipment, cow clippers and forty-quart milk cans. No cattle appear in the list. That absence describes the advertised sale; it does not establish when the farm last kept cows. Sunny Lawn sale notice.
Clover Leaf advertised a herd
Mervin Fletcher’s March 4 notice says that the farm had been sold. It offers 59 Holsteins, a 300-gallon milk tank, four milking machines, hay, silage and equipment, alongside a china closet and secretary desk. The inventory puts domestic possessions and commercial dairying in the same transaction. Clover Leaf sale notice.
The auction was an event
Both notices name Allen Nixon as auctioneer, specify cash terms and advertise a lunch counter. They establish planned sales, not the prices realized or identities of buyers. THS identifies the clippings as advertisements from the Allentown Messenger’s February 23 issue. Sunny Lawn sale notice; Clover Leaf sale notice; THS dairy-farm notes.
Sources and research limits
Both clipping images were inspected directly. Publication identification comes from the hosting collection; the advertised sale dates are legible in the originals. These two auctions do not establish the end of all Tabernacle dairying.