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
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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
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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
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represent Dauphin f’ounty
and 1 -emus i n 1 ‘me ' .rove
and 1 wov Hinkle. Vshland,
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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.
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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.
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