Lebanon Co. Roundup
(Continued from Page B 12)
the grand champion and
bought the steer for a
whopping $1.40 per pound,
beating their 1979 bid of $1.20
per pound and earning Kelly
Heisey $lBO6. Contending
bidder on the steer was
Wenger’s Farm Machinery,
Myerstown
The reserve grand
champion steer went to
Glenn Kilmer of Kilmer’s
Country Meats, Myerstown,
for $9O a hundredweight.
The twenty-two steers
auctioned at Saturday af
ternoon’s sale averaged
$82.70 a hundredweight and
averaged 1335 pounds.
In the market hog show,
Tom Arnold guided his
Yorkshire x Duroc crossbred
to grand champion honors
tor the hog and himself. The
hog was selected as grand
champion by Lancaster
County’s Mark Nestleroth,
Jodi Kreider exhibited the champion buddy hog.
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while Tom was chosen
champion showman.
Keeping it m the family,
Tom’s sister Bonnie showed
the reserve grand champion
market hog. Her entry was a
Yorkshire x Duroc cross
whose mother was also the
dam ot the top-indexing bos’-
at the Delaware Test Station
this past year, according to
Arnold
The champion fitter
honors went to Mark Deaven
of Fredericksburg He also
exhibited the reserve
champion buddy hog
The champion buddy hog
ribbon went to fifteen-year
old Jodi Kreider and her
Duroc x Yorkshire
crossbred.
This year’s hog sale was a
record breaker in both price
and numbers. There were
over sixty hogs sold tor an
average price of $BO per cwt
Last year, only 19 hogs were
sold, with then sale price
averaging $79.56 per cwt
The grand champion’s
price tag was no exception to
the record-breaking trend.
Auctioneer Harry Bach
man’s gavel rapped down on
the stand when bidding
stopped at a new high for the
winter sale of $4OO per cwt.
Contending bidder on the
champion was Hatfield
Packing who purchased the
1979 champ for $2lO per cwt.
Hatfield then settled for
the reserve champion hog
and purchased it for $240 per
cwt.
Other buyers contributing
to the success of the sale
included LeAnn
Yorkshires, Henry Arnold
and John AnsbaSi, Wenger
Farm Machinery, Lebanon
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