—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 31,1971
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Mike Grube Tops Co. FFA Hog Show for Second Straight Year
Mike Grube of Elm 'has won
the Lancaster County FFA Mar
ket Hog Show and Sale top
honors for the second straight
>ear
His 205 pound crossbred was
named grand champion Tuesday
and was latei purchased by the
Penn Packing Company of Phil
adelphia for $1 12 a pound. The
Warwick FFA Chapter member’s
champion animal last year sold
for $ll7 a pound to Penn Pack
ing
The reserve grand champion
was a 220 pound cross shown
by John Weaver, 501 N.
Academy Drive, Ephrata His
animal sold for 51 cents a pound
to the E. W Martin Company,
Lancaster.
Grube is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Jay Harold Grube and
Weaver is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Paul Weaver
Henry Gruber of A & B Pack
ing Company, Allentown, was
judge.
In the showmanship competi
tion Marlin Becker of Manheim
Central FFA Chapter was first
in senior showmanship and
Gerald Musser of the Cloister
Chapter of Ephrata was first in
junior showmanship.
In fitting competition Frank
Ruoss of Grassland Chapter,
New Holland, was first in senior
fitting and Barry Wissler of
Cloister was first in junior fit
ting.
Breed champions sold at the
afternoon auction for an average
of 23-24 cents a pound with
seven packing companies buying.
A total of 203 hogs were sold
for an average price of $22.93
per hundred pounds Total
weight of the sale 'hogs was 43,-
345 pounds with receipts of the
sale reaching $9,939.15. The
averge weight of the hogs this
year was 213 pounds.
Hampshire—champion, James
Weaver, Ephrata; reserve cham
pion, Barry Wissler, Ephrata.
Spotted Swine champion,
Clark Stauffer, Ephrata; reserve
champion, Ken Mull, Grassland
Chapter.
Champion junior showman and junior fitter show their
animals Tuesday in the Lancaster County FFA Hog Show.
Gerald Musser, left, was junior champion showman, and Barry
Wissler, Ephrata RDI, was junior champion fitter.
Chester White champion,
Barry Wissler, Ephrata.
Landrace—champion, Eugene
Nolt, Ephrata; reserve cham
pion, Irvin Saylor, Elizabeth
town.
Duroc—champion and reserve
champion, Kerry Boyd, Ephrata.
Berkshire champion, Roy
Gramm, Elizabethtown; reserve
champion, Marlin Gruber, Eliz
abethtown
Crossbred champion, Mike
Grube, Warwick; reserve cham
pion, Joseph Lefever, Manheim
Central.
Open Class champion, John
Weaver, Ephrata, reserve cham
pion, Clark Stauffer, Ephrata
Breeder Exhibitor—champion,
Frank Ruoss, Grassland Chapter;
reserve champion, Roger Lea
man, Pequea Valley.
Junior Fitting first, Bany
Wasslei, second, Gerald Musser,
Ephrata, third. Bob Gruber,
Elizabethtown
Junior Showmanship first,
Gerald Musser, second, Barry
Wissler, third Daryl Sensenig,
Grassland Chapter.
Senior Fitting first, Frank
Ruoss, Grassland Chapter, sec
ond, Marlin Bollinger, Ephrata,
third, Russell Kline, Ephrata
Senior Showmanship first,
Marlin Becker, Manheim Cen
tral; second, Clark Stauffer,
Ephrata; third, Doug Shenenber
ger, Manheim Central
Roger Beaman, Pequea Valley
FFA, had the champion pen of
10 in competition with six other
entries Nelson Weaver, Eph
rata, was second and Bill Her
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Dr. Harry K. Gerlach, executive director FFA Hog Show Tuesday. It was the second
of the Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate straight year Grube won the title. Looking on
School Unit, presents the championship is John Weaver, 501 N. Academy Drive, Eph
trophy to Mike Grube, Elm, for showing the rata, who was runner up.
championship hog in the Lancaster County
Looking on as the top winners in the Lancaster County
FFA Hog Show display their animals is Henry Gruber A & B
Pac £"g Co-* Allentown, show judge. Displaying their Animals
are Mike Grube, Elm, right, grand champion, and John Weav
er, Ephrata, reserve champion.
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