VOL 15 NO 16
At Swine Producers Show
Manheim Farm Has Best Hog
Dut*n Valiev Faims of Man
heim had the best of 19 pigs en
tered in the annual caicass show
sponsored this week by the Lan
castei Count} Swine Producers
Association.
The winning pig weighed 216
pound- It had one inch of back
fat and 7 6 square inches of loin
eye.
The winner’s ham and loin was
determ.ned to be 41 8 pei cent of
the total carcass weight.
The winner was decided on
the haas of the best ham and
loin percentage, piovided the
meat quality was accepted, Rob
ert Martin, association presi
dent, explained
The p-gs were judged inform
ally the Swine Produceis at a
live show at the Lancaster Stock
yaids Tuesday, then the butcher
ed animals were judged' and
rankeTby Dwught Yoilhltin. Penn
sSrate livestock specialist, at Mar
tin’s Meat in Bridgeport
Thursday afternoon
To ie eligible, the pig had to
between 190 and 220 poun
ds The pigs aveiaged between
Carl B. Herr
Renames Herr President
Couiifflfry Extension Assn.
Car] B Heir, 840 Penn Giant
Road, lancastei, was le elected
president of the hoaid of dnec
tois of ■'ne Lancastei County Ag
ricultural and Home Economics
E\{en c on Association at a noon
meetiriL Thuisdav at the Mea
daw H'.'is Dining House
The rnlv new officer elected to
the boa d was James G Kieidei
ot Qua. i\ Mile RDI He is vice
piesirkr
Reei'.led wcie Mis David E
Buckw-Aiter, L’titz RD3 secie
taiy, ana Melvin G Rohiei, Lit
itzßES 'leasuiei
The tcaid will meet bi-month
-I,' on tne fomth Tuesday of
each month at the Faim and
Home Center.
foiu and fi\e months* old, Mai
tm said
The othei lop 10 animals list
ed by owner, live weight, back
fat, lion eye, and ham and loin
peicentage, are as follows.
2 Real Farms, 212, 11 inches,
6 0 squaie inches, 41 7 pei cent
3 John Strawbndge, 205, 9
inch, 5 3 square inches, 40 4 pea
cent
4 Masonic Homes Farm, Eliza
bethtown. 208, 9 inch, 4 7 squaie
inches, 40 1 pei cent
5 Bob Armstiong, 194, 1.1 in
ches, 6 0 squaie inches, 391 per
cent
6 Melvin Huber, 204, 1 2 inch
es, 5 6 squai e inches. 38 9 pei
cent
7 George Smith, 212, 1 0 inch,
5 5 square inches, 38 4 per cent
8. Richard Sholley, 205, 13 in
ches, -4 6 squar6 i lnehfes'/3T3 pei
cent.
9 Fianklm Ruoss, 195. 1 2 in
ches, 4 8 squaie inches, 36 6 pei
cent.
10 Paul Bollmgei, 200, 9 inch
5 8 squaie inches, 36 5 pei cent
Mai tin descubing the Lancas
tei Stockyaids judging event
Tuesday as “educational” to bung
swine piocluce'S “togefhei, allow
compauson ol hogs, provide foi
education of faimeis to keep
ideas open so we don t lose om
sight as to what is a good hog ’
Burkholder Reelected
State Poultry Chairman
Btnjamin Buikholder, New
Holland, has been leelected chan
man of the Pennsylvania Poultiy
Maiketmg Advisory Council at
a lecent meeting in Hainsbm.g
Hauy Metz, Belleville, was re
named vice president, and Fied
Bloom, Bud-In-Hand, was elect
ed secietaiy.
The Poultiy Council is one of
nine commodity councils appoin
ted by State Agncultuie Secie
taiy Leland H Bull, to study
maiketing opportunities and
changing maiketing patterns, to
establish better communications
in all phases of maiketing. and to
piovide closei liaison between
pioduceis and the Agncultuie
Depai tment
Farm Calendar
Saturday, Maich 11
100 pm—Faim Women So
uety =7, Leacock Piesbv
teiian Chuich
630 pm—Faim Women So
cietj #2, Banquet at Gioffs
Farm neai Mt Jo>
Monday March 16
730 pm Sewage Disposal
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday Match 14. 1970
In the caiva«s judging I'hu s
da\, he said “the biecdei can
see if he has a supeuoi sue and
it also lets jou know how his
(the sne’s) oft-spang perfoim ’
He teimed it “a good manage
ment tool to get a bettei hog ”
On Tuesdaj, the swine produc
eis judged John Stiawbndge’s
Hampshue gilt the number one
pig But on the daj of decision
Thuisdaj, it was found the.v weie
close, but not light The Hamp
shue gilt was thud
Maitm explained the meatiness
oi a hog, which is actually what
vas being evaluated at the cai
cass show, is laigelj detei mined
Robert Martin. President ot the Lan
caster County Swine Producers Associa
tion, 18 n Tuesday in the Lancaster
Stockyards with the Hampshire gilt of
John Straw bridge of Stew art stow n In in-
b\ the boai, paihcula 1> o\ei a
long teim sw.iu piogiam
Since meatiness o the goal a
good boar is uta’h impoitant
Mai tin said
Unfortunately he noted swine
gioweis onh get about a 15 cents
pei hundiedweight piennum on
the auction market loi a meatj
hog
‘We need to educate the buj
ei to the impoitance of good
hogs” He added that the “bmei
knows what a good hog is Ma>-
be the hogs urn thiough the
img too fast ”
But bj selling duectlj to the
butchei, hog pioduceis can get a
tormal judging, the swine producers had
judged the Hampshire as the best of 19
animals submitted, but m the actual car
cass judging Thursday the animal was
third.
$2.00 Per Year
piemium of about SI to SI 50 t er
1 undiLdvu'U’hl foi meaU ho^s.
That moans an extia SO or
moio a head It the hoy pioducer
sells about a 1.000 head a >ear,
this means he gets enough extra
foi his meatj hogs so that the
good boai “will pav for itself ”
Martin believes that once the
auction people find out “they’re
losing out to dnect selling,
they’ie going to have to pay a
piemium lor the bettei hogs. - ’
He conceded that unless the
pioducer does sell dnectly to
the butcher foi a piemium puce
theie’s not much incentive at
present for growing good hogs.