 Arbogast & Bastian ( also A & B Meats ) was the name of a slaughterhouse and meat packing plant located in Allentown , Lehigh County , Pennsylvania , in the United States . Once a national leader in hog slaughtering , the company had the capacity to process most of the 850 @,@ 000 hogs raised annually in Pennsylvania for slaughtering . In 1965, the company was purchased by the Armour Meat Company and later by Smithfield Foods .

## History

Arbogast & Bastian was founded in 1887 by William Arbogast , a butcher from Northampton , Pennsylvania . Ar