—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Jan. 15. 1977
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Bomgardners take Hampshire swine show
HARRISBURG, Pa. - This
year’s Pennsylvania Farm
Show week proved to be
quite a memorable few days
for Jay Bomgardner, Arui
ville R 3. Not only did he
receive the Future Farmers
of America Keystone Far
mer Degree on Wednesday,
but two days prior to that, he
showed his Hampshire
February gilt to the
championship title of that
breed of swine. His stiffest
competition in the show
tinned out to be his brother,
Charles, who took the
reserve champion title with
his animal.
Although Charles took the
championship four years
ago, this was the first double
win for the family, and Jay’s
first Farm Show cham
pionship. The gilt was his
FFA project.
Judge Henry Freter from
Missouri saw the grand
champion as the most
feminine and as a longer
bodied, sounder animal than
all the others in the breed.
She also displayed the most
breed characteristics of all
the animals in the show.
Freter, who has been
judging swine since he was
in 4-H, and who has been
judging nationally for four or
five years, compared this
year’s show with last year’s,
and said he found this year’s
top end as good as last year,
but that the quality in the
Hampshire breed didn’t go
as deep as it did last year.
Comparing the grand
champion Hamp with the
USDA considers
consumer views
WASHINGTON
Secretary of Agriculture
John A. Knebel has ap
pointed 17 persons to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
newly-formed National
Consumer Advisory Com
mittee.
The members, who are
from diverse geographical
areas and represent a cross
section of consumer in
terests, will advise the
department on: (1) policy
matters of significant in
terest to consumers; (2) the
effectiveness of USDA’s
efforts to consider consumer
viewpoints when making
policy changes that will
affect consumers; (3)
problems of importance to
consumers; (4) means by
which consumer need can be
met by the Department.
The formation of the
committee is another step in
the department’s continuing
series of measures to bring
consumers into its decision
making processes. The
committee charter grew
directly out of the USDA
Consumer Representation
Plan which was published in
the Sept. 28 Federal
Register.
The committee will be in
effect for two years, and its
members are scheduled to
meet twice a year. They will
report to the secretary
through the assistant
secretary for marketing and
consumer services, who will
serve as chairman. The
special assistant to the
secretary for consumer
affairs will serve as both
vice chairman and executive
secretary.
Jay Bomgardner (left) and his Hampshire swine in the open show,
brother Charles (right) took the Jay had the grand and Charles had
grand and reserve grand champion the reserve grand champion.
reserve champion, Freter
explained that the grand
champion was bigger in
framework and heavier in
bone than the reserve.
At Tuesday’s sale,
Bomgardner’s grand
champion brought $470 and
was purchased by Jeff
Pontius of Sunbury R 3.
The Bomgardner reserve
champion went for $6O less
than the champion and was
sold to Heather Hemley of
Lebanon R 3. The number of
animals in that sale was 22
The members of the
National Consumer Advisory
Committee are:
Mercedes A. Bates, vice
president, Consumer Center,
General Mills, Inc., Min
neapolis., Minn.
Hassell G. Bradley, food
editor, Sentinel Newspapers,
Littleton, Colo.
Zoe Coulson, director, The
Institute, Good
Housekeeping, New York,
N.Y.
Treesa W. Drury, con
sumer reporter, consumer
consultant, Tujunga, Calif.
Naomi Faison, civic
leader, elected member of
Summit Council, Summit,
N.J.
Solomon Harge, executive
director, Consumer
Protection Association,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Laura L. Heuser, founder
of Women for the Survival of
Agriculture, board of
directors of Agriculture
Council of America, Hart
ford, Minn.
Dean H. Hill, editor,
Bethesea-Chevy Chase
Tribune; consumer
columnist; Maryland Civic
Leader, Chevy Chase, Md.
Mary Kittel, president of
National Council of State
Garden Clubs, Ft. Worth,
Tex.
Sylvia Lane, agriculture
economist, Department of
Agricultural Economics,
University of California,
Davis, CaUf.
Michael Marge, dean.
College for Human
Development, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, N V
Beatrice G Marks, vice
president, Botsford Ket-
and the average price per
animal was $239.09.
A complete listing of the
top animals in Monday’s
show follows.
SWINE-HAMPSHIRE
January Gilt .
1. Todd Bennecoff, R D 2,
Kutztown; 2. Terry Ben
necoff, R D 2, Kutztown; 3.
Todd Bennecoff,, R D 2,
Kutztown; 4. Alan G Miller,
R D 2, Saxonburg; 5. Jay L
Bomgardner, R D 3 Box 556,
Annville; 6. Jay L
Bomgardner, R D 3 Box 556,
Annville.
chum, Inc.; nutrition
communicator, San Fran
cisco, Calif.
Mary Ellen McFarland,
president of American Home
Economics Association, St.
Paul, Minn.
Currin V. Shields,
president, Conference of
Consumer Organizations,
director, Community Ser
vices Center, Continuing
Education Division,
University of Arizona,
Tucson, Ariz.
Rosalyn L. Schoonmaker,
president, Wallhill Women’s
Club; chairman of New York
Farm Bureau Women’s
Committee, Wallkill, N.Y.
James S. Turner, attorney,
Swankin and Turner,
founder and co-director of
Consumer Action, Inc.,
Washington, D.C.
Jane Wyatt, consumer
officer, Oregon Department
of Agriculture, Salem, Ore.
Beste chosen
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
For the first time in the
organization’s 30-year
history, members of the
Northeastern Weed Science
Society have named a
University of Maryland
research and Extension
worker as president.
He is Dr. C. Edward Beste
of Salisbury, stationed at the
University’s vegetable
research farm on the lower
Eastern Shore Dr Beste
took over the president’s
gavel during the
organization’s 31st annual
meeting, held Jan. 4-6 in
Baltimore
February Gilt
1. Jay L Bomgardner, R D
3 Box 556, Annville; 2. Jay L
Bomgardner, R D 3 Box 556,
Annville; 3. Terry Ben
necoff, R D 2, Kutztown; 4.
Earl H Rabenold, R D 2 Box
97, Kutztown; 5. Earl H
Rabenold, R D 2 Box 97,
Kutztown; 6. Earl H
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