Going once! Going twice! Sold!

Buyers filled benches in the 4-H arena Friday evening and by-standers filled the bleachers to watch the auctioning for chickens, tobacco and rabbits.

Every child went home with a little more cash to go in the pocket, bank or college fund and buyers got chickens, tobacco or rabbits.

The amounts buyers paid do

not reflect typical market value. The prices are much, much higher.

"It sure beats two dollars a pound," Wiseman said about receiving $600 for his Reserve Champion Market Tobacco.

He said at market tobacco is worth two dollars a pound. With his bundle being one-tenth of a pound, Wiseman said he would have only received 20 cents. He said that last year he placed last, only getting $150 out of his tobacco.

Six-hundred dollars is a bit of an improvement.

"I'm not complaining," Wiseman said.

The real money seems to be with rabbits though.

Karissa Gilmore unexpectedly got $1,375 for her Reserve Champion Market Rabbit.

"I wasn't expecting to get that much," the 15-year-old from Kitts Hill said. "The reserve usually doesn't get that much."

That only means the Grand Champion is up there, $1,500 up there.

This being Erin Morris' final year in 4-H, she said receiving that much money "feels good."

The 19-year-old said last year she only got $225 last year.

Morris has already got a hole burning in her pocket having decided where the $1,500 is going.

"I can use the money for college," she said.

She will be attending Eastern Kentucky University in the fall.

$5,775 was spent for the Grand and Reserve champion chickens, tobacco and rabbits alone.