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
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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
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