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
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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.
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KIMBERTON - W.B. Saul High
School of Agricultural Sciences
had a successful debut in their first
try in the competition at this year’s
Kimberton Community Fair
Holstein Show.
In the open show Saul’s animals,
exhibited by seven Saul FFA
Members, took home blue ribbons
in the Junior Calf, Junior Two
year-old, Four-year-old, and Dairy
Herd classes. Caryl Mosley, at the
halter of the Saul bred Junior Two
year-old, W-B-S Penny Creek
Cyndi, also took honors for Senior
Champion female and Grand
Champion female.
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
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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.
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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.