A VETERAN SHOWMAN at 18, Ned Z. Paes, Strasburg, showed this Ayrshire heifer, Rock Acres Dixie to the Grand Championship in the District FFA Show Sat., Sept. 7 Senior Extension Club chick en barbeque and square dance— -5 to 8 p. m. at Buchmiller Park, Lancaster. The public is invited. Sun., Sept. S Reading Fair—runs through Sept. 15. Mon., Sept. 9 Ayrshire 4-H Culb—7 30 pm. at SPABC, Lancaster. Diet you. know that in addition to concrete block, pipe, ready-mix We also selt these items : Aggregates Cinders Permalite Sand Stone Zonahte Bagged Materials Calcium Chloride Lime Mortar Cement Portland Cement - Sakrete _ White Cement Building Materials Areaways Clothesline Posts Lally Columns Louvres Outdoor Fireplaces Orangebug Pipe Package Receivers Shoe Racks Steel Lintels Telo-posts Ventilators Vis Queen Vapor Barrier Wall Bolts Cast Iron Products Cellar Drains Foundation Vents Manhole Covers Concrete Floor Materials Color Hardeners Curing Compounds Expansion Joint Metallic Hardeners Sealers Wax _ , When Building See Us ' Friday at the Guernsey Sales Pavilion in Lancaster. The heifer is a half sister on the sires side to the Grand Champion of the 4-H District Show. (LF Photo) Farm Calendar Tues., Sept. 10 York Interstate Fair runs through Sept. 14. Elizabethtown - Donegal 4-H Club at the home of Christ Miller, R 1 Elizabethtown. Wed., Sept. 11 Lititz Farm Show through Sept. 14. Guernsey 4-H Club 8 pm. at Farm Bureau Cooperative, Lancaster. Concrete Products Coping Drain Tile Pence Posts Lot Markers Pier Caps Splash Blocks Doors and Frames (Steel) Closet Doors (sliding) Flush Doors Half Glass Doors Louvre Doors Vision Panel Doors and Anchors 'Hinges ■Locksets Fireplace and Chimney Material Ash Dumps Arch Supports Chimney Blocks Cleanout Doors 'Dampers Fire Brick Fire Clay Flue Liners Flue Rings Grilles Heatilator Fireplaces Outdoor Fireplaces -Straight Angle Supports Machinery and Contractors’ Equipment Master Power Trowels Master Space Heaters Mortar Boxes Syntron Electric Hammers ’Syntron Electric Hammer Drills Syntron Power Saws atkkWEW HOLLAND IffgM CONCRETE PRODUCTS Holland. Pa ELgin4-BH4 Thurs., Sept. 12 Lititz - Manheim Community 4 H Club 8 p m at the home of Quentin Buckwalter, R 3 Lititz. Wed., Sept. 18 Solanco Community Pair, Quarryville through Sept 20 Elizabethtown Kiwanis Com munity Farm Fair through Sept. 21. Syntron Vibrating Floats Western Mortar Mixers Wheelbarrows Pafnte and Waterproofing Caulking Compound Cement Paints Foundation Coatings Medusa Waterproofing Thoroseal Waterplug Weldcrete Reinforcing Deformed Bars Dur-o-wal Key Wall Rib Lath Steeltex Floor Lath Wall Tiles Welded Wire Mesh Wire Tiles Tools Concrete Finishing Tools Masonry Tools Windows (Aluminum) Awning Basement Casement Double Hung Sliding Utility Windows (Steel) Basement Casement Pivoted Projected Utility Lancaster Farming, Friday, Sept. 6, 1957—' Pilot Tests at Beltsville Indicate Swine Artificial Insemination Likely Results of a recent pilot fest on the pieservation of swine semen for use in artificial insemination reemphasizes the possibilities for future dissemination, within this country of superior germ plasm needed to increase meat-type hog bleeding stock, the US. Depart ment of Agriculture said today The preservation method used ixtends life of the semen to about 50 hours, or considerably moie than its present normal life in methods used in this count! v This makes possible shipment of the semen greater distances and with greater chance of successful use Methods of preserving swine semen were developed nearly 20 years ago by Missouri Agncul tuial Station researchers and were then applied experimentally in aitificial insemination Since that time, interest in artificial in semnation ot swine has increased in the United States and foieign countries because of the growing demand for high quality breeding stock in meat type hogs. Scientists of USDA’s Agricul tural Research Center at Belts ville, have conducted tests on the keeping qualities of semen when shipped long distances by air ‘Samples of semen were collected and processed daily and flown to Beltsville over a 15-day period last December In each case, 30 to 40 hours had elapsed from the time the semen was collected until the • sows weie inseminated. Of 24 sows used in the test, 11, or 46 per cent farrowed litters of strong, healthy pigs The average litter farrowed was 9 2 pigs, and OLIVER MOUNTED PICKERS for today’s 100-150 bushel yields Here’s your best choice of two-row mounted com pickers. Long, eager snapping rolls with spacing you can adjust from the tractor seat. New roller-type gathering chains cut upkeep costs . . . are twice as strong, last three times as long as pressed steel or pintle types. Side and wagon elevators are bigger . . . handle your big ears and bumper crop jields. Long, live snapping roll points lift the down and leamng stalks . bring in more corn every year ... in every field condition. You get more safety in an Oliver Mounted, too. Safety clearing of the snapping rolls . . . safety clutches on all main assem- blies .. . safety roominess on the plat- ** form. If you own an Oliver row-crop I tractor, be sure you see the Oliver ~ ~y Mounted before you buy a picker. V Farmersville Equipment Co. N. G. Hershey & Son 7 4 pigs per Jitter or 80 per cent were alive at 21 days of age These results on litter size and survival eompar favorably with litters noi rnally produced in the same seas on at Beltsville which averaged 10 1 in pigs farrowed and 8 6 or 8d 6 per cent in pigs weaned at 56 days Results of the test salisfactoi ily demonstrated that boar semen, treated with sodium citrate and egg yolk as diluters, can be shippe long distances However, greater experience in inseminating tech niques may be the. means of in ci easing the rate of conception, USD A scientists point out In the tests, the semen was shipped m small collapsible plastic bottles that weie used in th inseminating pi ocess The pilot test was undertaken to detrmme teasibility of shipping the tratecl semen long distances. It was m no sense a breeding piogram Experimenters found that they obtained the best re sults with semen that had been kept within a tempeiature range of 59 to 68 dgrees during ship ment. This was indicated by the fact that only one sow conceived among the last eight sows to be bred artificially because the sam ples of semen, used were flown during stormy weather m late De cember when presumably lower tempeiatures encountered at higher flying altitudes, affected motility and livability of the se men. Unlike senlen from bulls, swine semen is destroyed by freez ing under any method currently known. Ephrata, RD. 2 Manheim, RD. 1 E. L. Herr Peach Bottom 7
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