LEHIGHTON On August
17th the Carbon County 4-H
Swine Club held its annual market
hog show at the 109th Carbon
County Fair. Lehighton’s Craig
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of Arnold’s Hog Farm and Craig Snyder look over
Snyder’s grand champion Carbon County 4-H market
hog. Hatfield purchased the grand champion for $3.55
per pound.
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heavy weight take the grand
champion honors, while his pen
of-three was also judged to be the
best of the show. Snyder said he
was unsure of his chances at the
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cr with the judges decision. Snyd
er’s hogs, purchased from
Arnold’s Hog Farm in Lebanon,
also lopped Thursday’s sale. Hat
field Packing Company took home
the grand champion for a sale top
ping $3.55 per pound. The champ
ion pcn-of-three brought 90 cents
per pound from successful bidded
Arnold’s Hog Farm.
After naming the champion.
Judge Rod Gilbert, professor and
farm manager at Delaware Valley
College in Doylestown, went witlr
a duroc cross owned by Kirk
Crcsslcy for the reserve champion.
Cressley’s heavy weight hog was
also a member of the reserve
champion pen-of-three and was
bred by calvin Lazarus and Sons of
Whitehall. Merchants Bank pur
chased the reserve champion ani
mal, on Thursday, for $2.75 per
pound. Representatives for Mer
chants Bank said they purchased
the hog with the intention of raf
fling off the pork for the benefit of
the Carbon County Easter Seal
Society.
Other weight class champions
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by Merchants Bank for $2.75 per pound. Pictured are
Cressley, Gary Kuehner of Merchants Bank and
Paulene Mertz of the Carbon County Easter Seal
Society.
were exhibited by Travis Steiger
walt in both the medium weight
and heavy weight divisions,
Heather Green in the heavy
medium weight class, Marcy
Shoemaker in the heavy light
weights, and Laura Steigerwalt in
the light weight class.
Thursday’s sale average on ihe
45 head of hogs was 82 cents per
pound and 70 cents per pound
excluding the grand and reserve
champions. Including the grand
champions Hatfield Packing Com
pany was the successful bidder on
27 head. Other buyers included the
before mentioned Merchants Bank
and Arnold’s Hog Farm, as well as
George’s Foodliner of Bethlehem,
Kuehner Brothers Farm of
Lehighton, Snyder Ford Inc. of
Lehighton, and Farm Credit.
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