ASMancastar Pannino, Saturday, August 14,1993
Womelsdorf Youth Has Grand Champion Hog At Berks FFA Hog Show
CONNIE LEINBACH
Berks Co. Correspondent
LEESPORT (Berks Co.)
Mark Gelsinger didn’t mind one
bit that it was now his turn to buy
ice cream for his 14 other col
leagues at the annual Berks County
FFA Hog Show and Sale recently
at the Leesport Farmer's Market
and Auction.
Gelsinger, IS, of Womelsdorf
and a member of the Conrad Weis
er FFA considered it an honor, for
his cross-bred gilt hog had won
grand champion.
“It’s a tradition,” Gelsinger said
about the practice of the grand
champion winner buying an ice
cream cone for all the others. “I got
Jason Manbeck, left, sold the reserve grand champion to
Jim Batz of Wayne Feeds, Chamberaburg. Manbeck
received $1.90 a pound for his 235*pound crossbred gilt.
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This was his third time at the
hog show and his first grand
champion.
Oelsinger’s hog weighed in at
230 pounds. Hatfield Quality
Meats purchased the hog for $2 a
pound for a total of $460. Gelsin
ger figured that will gamer about
$250 in profit.
It was not the heaviest one in the
show, but it had the best volume,
he noted. Good breeding was the
chief factor in winning the top
prize, he said. And he got his well
bred hog from his uncle Oscar
Manbeck. from western Berks.
Qelsinger’s cousin, Jason Man
beck, Oscar’s son, won reserve
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breed gilt weighing 23S pounds.
Wayne Feeds Inc. purchased Man
beck’s hog for $1.90 a pound for a
total of $446.
Manbeck is a member of the
Tulpehocken High School FFA
chapter.
Daniel Lynch, FFA advisor at
Kutztown High School and show
chairman, said the S 3 hogs brought
a total of $7,156 or $135 per ani
mal, or 60 cents per pound at the
sale.
Following is a list of show
placings.
BERKS COUNTY
FFA HOG
SHOW AND SALE
RESULTS
Wwght Classas: Class I (200 pounds): 1.
Jason Manbsck, Tulpahocton; 2. and 3. Ran
dy Balthasar, Hamburg.
Class II (205); 1. Jad Vrt, Tutpahockan; 2.
Richard Karpar, Olay Valtay; 3. Laon H untar,
Olay Vallay.
Class 111 (210 to 216 pounds): 1. Jannlfar
Hass, Hamburg;' 2. Tray GaMngar, Conrad
Waiser; 3. Brian Tworkoski, Kutztown.
Clms IV (220 Pounds): 1 .Jason Manback;
2. Brian Tworkoski; 3. Richard Karpar.
Class V (25 pounds): 1. Jannlfar RabanoM,
Kutztown; 2. Richard Karpar; 3. Randy
Balthasar.
Glut VI (230 pound*): 1. Mark Qddngw;
2. Jmmi Manback; 3. Jed Vail.
data VII (2SSpounda):l. Jaaon Manback;
2. and 3. Brian Tvwrkoakl
Oat* VII (240-245 pound!): 1, loon Hum
an 2. Richard Karpan 3. Brian TworiuaM.
Claaa IX (280*230 pounda): 1. Jaaon Man
back; 2. Jamlfar Haaa; 3. Jennifer RabanoM,
Kuo town.
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Todd RabanoM; 3. Eric Kallor, Conrad
Walaar.
Junior fitting multi: 1. Richard Kaiptr; 2.
Laon Huntar; S. JannHar RabanoW.
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lingar: 2. JannHar Han; 3. Richard Karpar.
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Mark Gelsinger of Womelsdorf, right, sofd his 230-pound
grand champion gin tor the Berka County FFA Market Hog
Show and Sale to Hatfield Quality Meats for $2 a pound.
Kenton Good represents Hatfield.
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