8 No. 45 THIS PLYWOOD SHELTER IS ALL THE protection tier litter on the farm of Walter and Jacob Augsburger, sheets of exterior plywood form the sides and two more ter Augsburger, shown" here,- places the shelter over the are bornv-^ Second Generation Dairy Heifer n •1 v ,1 o r 1 In Cloister FFA Calf Chain L)anish Youth Sees Farms The Cloister Future Farmers'its calf chain go into the sec- T ' I 'nAQP Af* HaIYIA of America Chapter has seen ond generation. * **VOCntl IV/11IC ■ iLast week Irvin Schannaueir -L thought there would he form the major portion of the ■i I ■ J r • RemhOlds’Rl, received the more_ difference m agriculture roughage for dairy herds, and rdflH CdlfiVlOdF first bei * er aadif offspring of intths^United States and Den- almost every farm has dairy B ca ix ring. marf%Frede Helth, and Inter- cows, he said. oet 24 7-30 pm Soil Tlle orJsmal calf in. the ring national Farm Youth Eschan- The .beet tops are chopped Conservation watershed Vas 'P urchaS6d the chapter gee said this week. for the silo but the roots are meeting at Ohiirchtown fire from the herd af 'George Rutt, Helth is staying in the home stored in trenches or on open !h a il_ . Stevens Rl, and presented to 0 f Mr. and Mrs. Leroy G. Myer, ground with straw and soil Oct. 15 7-30 pm Soil Ray Kline - Stevens Rl, two Willow Road, while he is ov er them. During the winter, Conservation District meet- year 9 as °’ Kline ’ s cow ’ Gar " « the county. the beets are chopped and fed mg with Associate Directors wood Posc , h ’ was bred t 0 When asked to name the ra ']T alons w ; th a ba riey, oats at Production Credit. Rose- Goch J aa Geaeral and dropped most Interes ting thing he has an * ?*’ pro * em mixtura ’ ville Road. her first dunEg the aum ' noticed since he came to Am- 1 5Ieltb ’ ****** J two ’. said he 8 p.m. Manor Young Far- mer ' erica in May, Helth pointed out plans to return to his native mers Association meeting in A committee, composed of the similarity of agricultural enmaric aM apply lor Penn Manor High School. Thomas Hartman, Thomas Spit- production in the two countries. 9 *° n tp an .agriculture college. Subject is Insurance. ler, Stanley Leininger, Dave However he did point out His education was interrupted 8 p.m. Southeastern Penn- Zimmerman, Barry Hirneisen, BOme differences. Very little at . t T e , eM sev ® l ß tt g raaa > eylvauia Artificial Breeders aa d Paul Weaver, all students corn j S grown m his native but be learn f d English through 'Cooperative educat ion a 1 at Ephrata High School, selee- Jutland Peninsula. Sow beets a correspondence course, meeting in the Landisville ted the freshman vocational He has two sisters and one fire hall. agriculture student to receive brother, all younger, but he Oct. 16 10;.30 a.m. State the calif. SCD S©tS Meet says his brother who plans to Dairy Herd Improvement Irvin was selected from ¥*!•.'■' \ • . (Continued on Page 6) Association directors meet among 10 boys on the basis of Wltll ASSOCIEICS at The Pennsylvania State an outlining his - A tiniial University. feeding and' health program, The Lancaster County Soil JcCOIIU /uinUol Oct. 17 6:30 p.m. 4-H and a list of the approved prac- Conservation District Directors r 1 O|_ beekeeping club roundup at tices he plans to use in caring have set October 15 as the date » CCUvI | Ralph Camber’s honey house, for the calf. He has agreed to for their annual meeting with | SrllA/Inlpfl 810 State Street, Lancaster, breed the heifer to a proven Associate Directors. *** OvIICOUICU 8 p. m . -Comity Honey bull and return the first hei- Henry E. Givier, secretary of Producers meet at Ralph fer calf to the chapter. the district this week urged w .'^® T f eCon^? nu s'L Farmer s Clifford Bollinger. Lititz R 4. all associate doctors to be Annual 8 P.m. Manheim Young has , the chapter’s other chain tend the meeting m the Pro- Feed are s || d ;ied for the Farmers Association meets calf , a 15 mollth old Holstein Auction Credit Building, Rose- "J Union stock Yards at Manheim Central High he]fer . The chapter also has ville Road, to discuss several 25Ui ® School. (Continued on Page 7) problems facing the district octoDer 8 pm. 4-H Wildlife club Beginning at 7;30,p.m., die- At the all day affair, the Meets at the home of Roy 1 t«r« cussion, will cover such sub- yards will be entertaining the Genfzler, 2337 New Holland Cxll*lS Wjn jeets as “Are we in Lancaster cattle feeders of Eastern Uni- Pike, Lancaster. . “* , , County'ready for project 70?" ted States. Last year farmers Oct. 19 9 ; -30 a.m. 4-H FflllPm XJfjA 1 “How can associate directors from seven Eastern states were 'Entomology club roundup at do a-better job of promoting represented at this event, tte Lancaster County Farm a pair of 4-H girls won hon- conservation?” “How can more Feature of this year’s Far- Bureau Cooperative, Biller- _ors for the fourth consecutive young people toe interested in mers Field day will toe a pres ale Pike. time at a meeting of the North- the job of conservation?” entation and demonstration 5; 30 p.m. —'Manheirp Young eastern Poultry ■ producers Representatives from cooper- “Your Beef From Feed Lot To Farmers' Council Conference h*M ia the fcting agencies are also invited Table”, by Mr. Monte Flebt, . ~ -s J ' v Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 12, 1963 * - ••x >.> 4* V 1 ■* * vV. '*C' S** y* ' / ' "1.- needed by a sow and Reinholds Rl.- Four* make the roof. Wal little pigs after they L. F. Photo Hogs Like To Be Alone On The Augsburger Farm B'hould the herdsman be m constant attendance when a sow is farrowing*' Waltei Augsburger and his father, Jacob, of Reinholds Rl, do not think so. “A hog likes to be left alone, but you have to know what she is up to ” Jacob said recently as he des cribed his sow program. The Augsburger partnership farrows about 30 sows, twice a year, without the use of cra tes, farrowing house, or any special fai rowing equipment The sows are on pasture 365 days a year and the pigs are born wherever the sow decides to make her nest. » St “When the sows are farrow ing, we may walk through the meadow three or four times a day, but we don't go near the sow while she is farrowang,’’ Walter said. The sows find a, quiet place in the pasture, cut down grass and weeds for a bed and farrow their litters with no help from the owners. After the sow has finished far- J .yjCV, $2 Per Year rowing, Airgsburger picks up a shelter with the loader on his tractor and sets it down over the nest of pigs The 30 sows have the run of about 20 acres in two lots and they, or their litters, are never confined to a shelter un til the pigs are weaned to go into the feeding pens. With a stream for water and the ground for a feeding door, the only equipment needed for the sow program is a fence and a movable shelter Augsburger made the shelters out of six sheets of outdoor plywood one for eadh side and two for the roof and has found them to be very satisfactory. But what about number of pigs per htter?, some hog men ask. Augshnrger says he has marketed nine pigs per sow - (Continued on Page 12) Stoltzfus Cow Tops DHIA A registered Holstein Jeaw in the herd of Dan S. Stolta fus, Mount Joy Rl, finished the highest 305 day lactation in the Red Rose Dairy Herd Improvement Association dur ing August. Candy raa.de 883 pounds of butterfat in 20,540 pounds of milk with a 4.3 test. David S. Smucker had t.h e second high icow with 846 pounds of butterfat, 23.429 pounds of milk and a test of 3.6 per cent. The cow was a grade Holstein. The high average for the month was made by the 29- cow mixed herd of Pbares K. Huber, Reinholds Rl. The herd made an average of 58 pounds Of butterfat in 1,542 pounds of milk with a 3.8 per cent teat. Second high average iwas. the 56 pounds of butterfat and 1,607 pounds of milk with a 3.5 per cent test. The averages were made by the 27 cows in the herd of the Red Rose Re search iFarm, 221 Pitney Road, Lancaster. Other cows completing lac tations with over 800 pounds of butterfat were in the herds of Elam iP. Bollinger, John U. Lapp, Elam B. Beiler, and B. (Continued on Page 13) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Temperatures during the next five days are expected to average near the normal temperatures for this time of year. Normal tempera tures range from 67 in the afternoon to 46 at night. Cooler temperatures over the weekend will he followed by a moderating trend each day thereafter. A few widely scattered showers are expec ted Saturday.
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