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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 18, 1961
Hippy Buys All Champs,
Top Hogs Bring $2.70
Samuel W. Hippy, Willow Street meat packer, bought
every championship winner in the market hog show at the
Lancaster Stockyards Wednesday, paying top price of $2.70
per pound fpr one pen of ten Hampshires
Hippy bid in both the
champion and reserve cham
pion single barrow, the
champion and reserve cham
pion trio, and the champion
pen of ten in addition to the
reserve champion pen often
+hat brought top price In
every case, the reserve
champion entry brought a
higher price than the top
exhibits
Grand champion barrow
of the show was exhibited
by Norman Kolb, 355 Pit
ney Road, and purchased by
Hippy at ' $1 05 per pound
The 225 pound crossbred
Yorkshire barrow was pur
chased by Kolb as a shoat
and fed out with his litter
mates. Kolb, who feeds out
from 400 to 500 head of
hogs per year, entered the
barrow in the Yorkshire
class because of the breed
ing of the sire, and because
of the breed characteristics
of the barrow.
Millarden Farms exhibited
the Reserve champion bar
row, a 195 pound Hampshire,
and took away $l9O per
pound for their entry.
Masonic Home Farips, of
Assistant County Agent
Is Former Vo-Ag Teacher
Arnold G. Lueck, a former teacher of vocational agri
culture and research agronomist began work' Thursday as
Assistant County Agent for Lancaster County.
In announcing Lueck’s ap
pointment, Dr. Herbert Al
brecht, director of Extension,
Pennsylvania State Universi-
ARNOLD G. LUECK
ty, said he will fill the va
cancy created by the retire
ment of Associate County
Agent Harry S. Sloat on Feb
ruary 1.
Lueck brings to Lancaster a
farm background and -a wide
experience in the fields of
agriculture research and edu
cation.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Max L. Lueck, Brownstown,
Wisconsin, he spent his boy
hood years on dairy farms in
the northern section of the
cornbelt.
After graduation from the
University of Wisconsin at
Madison, where he majored
in agronomy, Lueck came to
$2 Per Yeas
Elizabethtown, took grand
champion honors in the trio
class with a pen of three
Duroc-Jersey barrows aver
aging 190 pounds per head
Selling price was $1 00 per
pound.
Second highest price in
the sale, $2 00 per pound,
went to George Cogley, of
Ronks Rl, for the reserve
champion trio His three
Yorkshires weighed 650 lbs.
nds
John J. Hess, Intercourse,
carried away the grand
championship and SI 70 per
pound for his pen of 10
Yorkshires The hogs weigh
ed 1,795 pounds and went
to Mr Hippy for a total of
$3,051 50.
Hippy, buying IS head in
three other lots, took a to
tal of 46 of the 199 hogs
sold at the sale and paid
$12,522 70 of the $20,541.35
sale total.
Average price at the sale
sponsored by the Lancaster
County Swine Producers
Association, was $44.66 per
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the Pennsylvania State Uni
versity where he did gradu
ate study.
From 1942 to 1950, Leuck
was an agent of the United
States Department of Agri
culture at PSU as a scientific
aide at the U. S. Regiona ;
Pasture Research Laboratory
While at the Pasture Re
search Laboratory, he work
ed on forage crops research
under Dr. V. G. Sprague an
Dr. W. M. Myers, nationally
known agronomist and gene
ticist respectively.
Lueck conducted research
on pasture management tech
nology and grass-legume
breeding problems He was
one of the researchers on the
first problem of the relation
ship of plants to climate at
the ground level to be con
ducted in the United States.
During his years at the
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FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday ■ Wednesday
Temperatures for the
next five days will average
two to eight degrees be
low the normal range of
33 at night to 53 in the af
ternoon. Moderate tem
peratures during Sunday
will become cooler Mon
day and Tuesday and war
mer on Wednesday- Pre
cipitation may total .5 to
.7 inches or more occuring
as snow or rain during
Sunday and again on Wed
nesday.