Bomgardner has carcass show champ By JOANNE SPAHR PINE GROVE. Pa Charles Bomgardner of Blue Mountain View Farms, Annville, a purebred Hampshire breeder in business with his father and two brothers, was named grand champion of the Tri- County Fork Producers’ carcass show last Saturday evening at that group’s annual dinner meeting. Although Bomgardner won the award individually, he pointed out that the trophy is the family’s honor since they are all involved in the business. Each member of the clan has a main Start With Quality Sires: USDAII/77|-96 Daughters in 68 Herds Average Predicted Difference 180“' rpl | H-FAType 21 Clas Daus Ave 78 91actual) 80 6)age adj |, -I 07PDT Sire. Sunnyside Standout VG & GM Dam Diamond S Knight Pielie -VG |B7| Standout - and more Profit-Makers - are available daily from all our Professional Technicians. Atlantic BREEDERS COOPERATIVE fT, I I VSupplMT# 24-Hour Toll-Free Phone Nos. for Service. Pennsylvania 800-732-0391 Lancaster 569-0411 Del. & Md. 800-233-0216 I I I I I I I I I I I I I I EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Occasionally, Atlantic has job openings for capable and qualified people with a dairy farm background to work as a Professional Sales-Technician. If you are interested, please complete and forward this reply. ■■ ■ Mail to: Atlantic Breeders 1575 Apollo Drive Lancaster, Pa. 17601 responsibility on the farm, and Charles’ is taking care of the hogs. Mue Mountain View Farms has -15 sows The final scores for the contest were computed by adding the ham-loin per centage, the visual score, and twice the daily gam of each animal. Bomgardner’s animal averaged a 1,31 pound daily gain, a 31.5 ham lorn percentage, and an on foot score of 3.25. Reserve champion honors went to William Herring of Schuylkill Haven. Herring’s animal averaged 1.38 pounds per day, had a 30.5 ham-loin LIVESTOCK SERVICES peiienlagi 'id had a ’ iMial score of 4.0 Third plan in the contest went to I Iwoud Houser, Lebanon I’j, fourth to I>enms loy, 1 *ine Grove: and fifth to William Herring. Also during the evening’s festivities, the pork producers elected new members to the board of directors for the coming year. The Tn-County organization consists of the three counties of Lebanon, Schuylkill, and Dauphin and has two directors representing each county, Christian Seaman, Grantville, and Leon Arnold, Lebanon, now represent Lebanon County; Clair Hartman, Grata, and Douglas Hancock, Hershey, 16.703 M 3.45", 577 F 4 1.433 M 4 $lOl 417 F Member NAL Affiliated Breeders I am interested in employment with Atlantic Breeders as a Professional Sales-Technician; Name Address Town Phone, Dairy Farm Experience represent Dauphin f’ounty and 1 -emus i n 1 ‘me ' .rove and 1 wov Hinkle. Vshland, represent Si huylkill ( ounly Directors at large are Llwood Houser. I ebanon, Larry Arnold. Myerstown, and I'Tancis Wilder, 1 ’itman Also chosen at Saturday evening s meeting were executive officers for the organization. Larry Arnold, was chosen president; Dennis lx>y, vice president; and Christian Seaman, secretary-treasurer. The entertainment for the banquet was provided by 1 .ugene Wengert and his wife from bt. Thomas. The Wengerts went on a People to 1 ’eople tour of Europe, and showed slides of their trip to the pork producers. 15H157 Diamond-S Pietje STANDOUT Good Plus & Production Qualified (Jan./77) $8 per service late-Rite Strengths: average stature balance of dairyness with body strength fore udders have moderate length teats are correct size and shape legs have correct set feet have deep heels rumps have wide pins fast milk-out State Zip Code .ancaster Farming. Saturday, Ai Larry Arnold, left, president of the board of directors for the Tri-County Pork Producers, congratulates Charles Bomgardner for exhibiting the grand champion hog of the Tri-County carcass show. ini 9.1977 27
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