tuAKERTOWN - Karen
Leidy of Souderton exhibited
the Grand Champion Market
Hog at the annual Bucks-
Montgomery 4-H Swine
Show and Sale held recently
at the Quakertown Livestock
Auction.
- Ha --Id Packing,
represented by Jerry
Clemmens. purchased the
animal for $4.80 per pound
from Leidy, whose entry was
also named Montgomery
County Champion.
Leidy’s Meats of
Souderton was high con
tender for the Reserve
Grand Champion animal
(and Bucks County
Champion) owned by Mike
Gans of Bucks County
Leidy’s paid $3.25 per pound.
All phases of the Bucks
%»ntgomery 4-H Roundup
tjlre judged by Henry
Gruber, head of Livestock
procurement for A & B
Packing Inc., of Allentown.
Complete results of the
show are as follows; In
dividual market swine and
light weight class, 180-200
lbs. 1. Mike Swartley,
Bucks; 2. Lon Gruver,
Bucks; 3. Phil Merryman,
Bucks; 4. Qumtm Lawley,
Bucks; 5. Brad Gruver,
Bucks. Light medium class,
205-215 lbs. 1. Beverly
Bergey, Montgomery; 2.
Roy Teaford, Montgomery;
3. John Gruver, Bucks; 4.
Shawn Callahan, Mon
tgomery; 5. Larry Bray,
Bucks County.
Heavy medium weight
class, 220-230 lbs. 1. Mike
Garis, Bucks; 2. Pat
Teaford, Montgomery; 3.
Glen Bateman, Mon
teomery; 4. Michelle Rice,
5. Ricky Moyer,
Bucks. Heavyweight class,
235-255 lbs. 1. Karen Leidy,
* Montgomery County; 2. Joe
Landis, Montgomery; 3.
Matt Anderson, Bucks; 4.
Dave Huff, Montgomery; 5.
Jame Rice, Bucks.
Grand Champion Market
Hog and Montgomery
County Champion was
shown by Karen Leidy;
Reserve Grand Champion
Market Hog and Bucks
County Champion by Mike
Cans; Reserve Champion,
CHAMBERSBURG -
Record prices made the 38th
Annual Franklin County 4-H
Pig Club Round-up and Sale
m memorable occasion for
v %e 55 club members in
volved. The round-up, held
last Thursday, at the
£ Jere Wingert, 722 Loudon Road, St. Thomas is
shown with his Grand Champion pen-of-three
shown at the recent Franklin County 4-H Pig Club
Round-up. Jere was also champion showman for
the third consecutive year.
Bucks-Montgomery 4-H
Bucks County, by Mike
Swartley; and Reserve
Champion Montgomery
County by Joe Landis.
Pen of three, lightweight
class - 1. Pat Teaford,
Montgomery; 2. John
Gruver, Bucks; 3. Steve
Graver, Bucks; 4.-Quinton
Lawley, Bucks; and 5. Sean
Callahan, Montgomery.
Heavyweight class - 1. Roy
Teaford, Montgomery; 2.
Mike Gans, Bucks; 3. Bev
Bergey, Montgomery; 4.
David Samkavitz, Bucks; 5.
Wendy Worthington, Bucks.
Grand Champion pen of
three - Pat Teaford; Reserve
Champion pen of three - Roy
Teaford both of Montgomery
County.
Grooming and
Showmanship, Senior
Mike Garis of Perkasie is shown here with his
Bucks County Champion Pig at the Bucks-
Montgomery 4-H Hog Roundup held recently at the
Quakertown Livestock Auction. With Mike are Tom
Leidy, left, and Terry Leidy of Leidy’s, Inc. who
bought the pig for $3.25 per pound.
Franklin 4-H pig sale sets record prices
Chambersburg Livestock
Market had 87 pigs shown
and sold. '
The Grand Champion, a
218 lb. Yorkshire Crossbred
was shown by Greg
Christman, Jr., 2965
Sollenberger Road,
49 9
Division - 1. Bev Bergey,
Montgomery; 2. Steve
Graver, Bucks; 3. Mike
Swartley, Bucks; 4. Wendy
Worthington, Bucks; and 5.
Pat Teaford, Montgomery.
Junior Division - 1. Mike
Gans, Bucks; 2. Joe Landis,
Montgomery; 3. Mike
Bergey, Montgomery; 4.
Sean Callahan, Mon
tgomery; and 5. Bob Bray,
Bucks.
First Year Members - 1.
David Huff, Montgomery; 2.
Nadine Stack, Bucks; 3.
Ronnie Stack, Bucks; 4.
Mamie Coleman, Mon
tgomery; and 5. Qumtin
Lawley, Bucks County.
Grand Champion was Bev
Bergey, Montgomery
County.
Chambersburg and pur
chased by Wayne F. Craig &
Sons Livestock Co., Orr
stown for the record price of
2.51 per lb.
The Reserve Grand
Champion shown by Donald
Sheiss, 967 Manon Road,
Chambersburg was pur
chased by W. R. Sellers,
Livestock Dealer, from
Greencastle for 1.30 per lb.
to establish another record
price.
The Grand Champion Pen-
Of-Three was shown by Jere
Wmgert, 722 Loudon Road,
St. Thomas and purchased
by W.R. Sellers for 1.01 per
lb. The Reserve Champion
Pen-of-Three shown by Greg
Christman, Jr , Cham
bersburg was purchased by
Buttermilk Farm Meats,
6032 Buttermilk Road,
Waynesboro, for 90 cents per
lb.
The Grand Champion was
purchased by Greg
Christman at the Spring
Feeder Pig Sale sponsored
by the South Central PA
Pork Producers Association,
and was consigned by Daryl
Sheiss, Marion.
The 87 market hogs
averaged 209 lbs. selling for
> •»*
swine winners named
Hatfield Packing out bid all contenders to purchase the Grand Champion
Market Hog at the 1980 Bucks-Montgomery 4-H Swine Show and Sale held
recently at the Quakertown Livestock Auction. Pictured are Jerry Clemmens of
Hatfield, left, who bid $4.80 per pound for the hog exhibited by Montgomery
County 4-H Member Karen Leidy, shown, of Souderton.
USDA to hold loan
WASHINGTON - Three
public hearings will be held
on the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s proposed
regulations implementing
provisions of Title II of the
Energy Security Act
(Biomass, Energy and
Alcohol Fuels Loan and Loan
Guarantees), Deputy
Agriculture Secretary
James H. Williams an
nounced today
The proposed regulations
will determine how the
Farmers Home Ad
ministration, the credit
»T'
Wayne Craig and Wayne Craig 111 are shown with
Greg Christman, Jr who showed the Grand
Champion at the Franklin County 4-H Pig Club
Round-up. Wayne F. Craig & Sons Livestock of
Orrstown purchased the Grand Champion for a
record price of $2 51 per lb.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 16, 1960—89
agency of the Agriculture
Department, will carry out
certain parts of the Act.
which was signed mto law by
President Carter on June 30.
The public hearings will be
held at Macon, Ga , August
25; at Des Moines, la.,
August 27; and Lubbock,
Texas, August 29.
The Energy Security Act
authorizes |6OO million for the
Department of Agriculture’s
(USDA) program of loans
and loan guarantees to
alcohol fuels and other
biomass energy projects
f hfV fW
f
hearings
over the next two years (FY
1981 -1982). USDA funds will
be used to assist energy
projects which use
agricultural or forestry
products or residue. USDA
has responsibility for
projects up to 15 million
gallons of capacity.
USDA will also participate
in similar hearings to be held
m the near future by the
Department of Energy
concerning DOE regulations
for financial assistance to
biomass energy projects.
an average price of 52.94 per
hundred wt. and a total sale
value of $10,798.58
representing 18,220 lbs. of
pork-on-the-hoof.
In the showmanship
competition Jere Wingert,
722 Loudon Road, St.
Thomas took championship
honors for the third con
secutive year. Reserve
Champion honors went to
Enc Sheiss, 967 Marion
Road, Chambersburg.
The show was judged by
Vem Hazlett, Swine Herd
sman at Penn State.
Milton Silver, owner of the
Chambersburg Livestock
Market treated each 4-H
member to a noon luncheon
at Wendy’s, this being the
38th consecutive year that
Silver has sponsored the
annual 4-H Pig Club Round
up and Sale