Good quality evident at Bucks, BY ROBIN PHILLIPS Staff Correspondent QUAKERTOWN - The Bucks and Montgomery County swine 4-H clubs gathered at the Quakertown Livestock Auction on Wednesday, July 18th, for their annual show and sale. “The over-all quality was real good, said Chet Hughes, Lancaster County extension agent who served as the judge. “The quality was deep all the way through,” he added about the 71 pigs shown by the 23 4-H exhibitors. Eleven-year-old Debbie Cass, Pineville, took the top honors with their 200-pound lightweight division winner. The daughter of Stan and Linda Cass, she is in her first year of the swine club and says that she enjoys showing pigs. “The pigs are easier to show,” Debbie says and adds that hers “has a lot of meat on him.” Named Bucks County champion, the Cass entry was also named grand champion over the two counties. The reserve champion over the two counties went to John Mentzer, Royersford, Montgomery County. The Mentzer entry took first place in the middleweight division before taking the second high spot. Thirteen-year-old John stated that his secret was to let his pigs get used to him. Mentzer said that his father and grandfather are both swine breeders and helped him get more experience for this year. He T, T iTy, - • A <,** 4 V ft 5 Overall reserve champion of the show went to John Mentzer, Royersford. His entry was also named Montgomery County champion. Montgomery swine show The overall grand champion market swine went to the lightweight entry of Debbie Cass. Her entry was also named the Bucks County champion. Here Debbie poses with her entry and judge Chet Hughes. “The best as far as uniformity and completeness," Hughes said as he tagged the champion. was also named the champion for younger sister also showing pigs, Montgomery County. the Wiley family considers this a Bucks County reserve champion family hobby, went to Debbie Wiley, Montgomery County reserve Buckingham. Eight-year-old champion honors went to 13-year- Debbie is the daughter of Ben and old Dan Cochran, Trappe. “I raise Sarah Wiley and said, “I practiced them on good feed”, Dan said at home.” With an older and matter-of-factly. “I look for a long hog that doesn’t have a lot of fat on it,” he added. The son of Gary and Alice Cochran, Dan makes this the second year that he has captured this placing. “That’s Dan’s thing, it’s his pigs,” his father said, smiling. Placings in the Market Show and Fitting and Showing classes were; Lightweight iLLY BALAI 0$ HI lans To Cl '.95 2. 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In addition, Saul’s five com peting FFA members took home a total of six second place, one third place, and one fourth place in the open show and comparable honors in the Junior Show. Other com peting students were Darlene Kozlowski, Patti O’Donnell, Cyndi Keen, Bob Angell, Rodney Byrd, and Mary Piezlowski, all of Philadelphia, as are all students at 1 Debbie Wiley Bucks 2 Oan Mentzer Montgomery 3 Conrad Fisher Montgomery Grand Champion Debbie Cass Reserve John Mentzer Bucks Champion Debbie Cass Reserve Debbie Wiley Montgomery Champion John Mentzer Reserve Dan Cochran Pen of Three Lightweight 1 Bill Scott Bucks 2 Jesse Ruth Bucks 3 Conrad Fisher Montgomery Heavyweight 1 Dan Cochran Montgomery 2 Rich Troxell Bucks 3 Mike Cans Bucks Champion Bill Scott Reserve Jesse Ruth Showmanship and Fitting Senior 1 Mike Cans Bucks 2 Mindy Cass Bucks 1 Ricky Troxell Bucks 2 Shannon Lawley u r . Any Size Saul wins daily blues 7 < 't'-J Heavyweight Junior Silage Pit Walls Manure Pit Walls Retaining Walls Storage Saul High School. The mostly first tune exhibitors were coached by Saul’s resident farmer, Gary Schwetz. Schwetz maintains the school’s twenty milking cow herd of Registered Holsteins. The farm on the school grounds also accomodates a 50- cow beef herd, a 40-ewe flock, 4flo laying chickens, broilers, hogs, laboratory animals, two production greenhouses, and 200 acres of crop fields and pasture Saul is a multi-faceted vocational agricultural school m the_ Philadelphia School district with areas of emphasis including; animal science, lab animal technology, aquaculture, agricultural mechanics, agricultural resources, hor ticultural and crops management, greenhouse management, meat cutting, and floriculture. Saul School, located on Henry Avenue, maintains the largest FFA chapter in the nation with over 650 mem bers. NEED MORE ROOM? Read The Classified Real Estate Ads Bucks First Year 1 Renee Allibach Montgomery 2 Shawn Mentzer Montgomery Champion Ricky Troxell Reserve Renee Allibach Extension Agent Mike Fournier said the sale following the show “was well above market price.” The 71 head averaged 86 cents with the grand champion bringing the high price of $3.65 a pound on the bid from Hatfield Packing. The reserve champion brought $2.25 on a bid from Leidy’s Inc., Soudertown was the two county reserve winners sold for $1.50 a pound to Landis Supermarket, Telford, and Leidy’s, respectively. Hatfield was the biggest sup porter of the sale, selecting 11 head for their market.
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