Hwry K. .. Bettendorf, IXbxwim Agricultural Library ife Pezma. State Qhiwrsltr i-.. AgRKJULTURAL I r r :,'.aY ,w»ity *mrk, Vmam. PENNSYLVANIA cta,e COLLE Uhl- Vol. 111. No. 21. Integration, Management Changes Are Coming, Swine Producers Told Integration, larger operations, multiple farrowing and confine mcnt rearing are coming to the swine industry and in a hurry, Dwight Younkin, Penn State Swine specialist, told the County Swine Producers Assn at a din ner Thursday night. Younkin said that integration in the swine industry is already firmly established in some other parts of the nation and is starting in Pennsylvania. The farmer, he said, should be expecting such a t) (nd and ready to meet it. Figures on the size of opera tions m Indiana were cited to show how efficiency, grows as the . operation grows A study by Pr.r due University was made on farms where the number of sows kept were 10 head, 40 head and 60 head A return of $2 an hour was realized in the 10 sow operations Where„4o sows were kept, the pei hour figure jumped to $6, an increase of 300 per cent The return per sow and two htteis was even more dramatic, with the increase being some 420 ln the 10 sow herds, the ' raged $2O per sow and ln the 40 sow herds, sB4 for .each ... ,u utters. But in the 60 sow herds, a drop in both profits and labor were noted This was because the op eiators had not changed their equipment enough to cope with the number of animals on the farm Packers are'forcing the farmer into multiple farrowing, Younkin said. To keep their plants busy the year around, packers are de manding good" quality' slaughter hogs the year round. This will mean that the famer now will start breeding his sows and gilts to farrow each two or three THE EASE WITH which the new flaked potatoes may be prepared was demonstrated Thursday by Mrs. Ada B. Korihaus, Cumberland County Home Economist. The dem onstration was made at the new foods luncheon of the Food Marketing Advisory Council. (LF Photo) months, rather than in the spring and fall as at present While this sort of farrowing arrangement will help the packer by allowing his equipment to be in use at all times, it will also help the farmer for the same reas on. It will also tend to level off some of the peaks and valleys in the hog price cycle Feed reseach has come a long way in the past few yeans, Youn kin said This is allowing hogs to be raised on concrete safely with no need for or supple mental roughage In the next few years, he said, the only hogs that will ever be on pasture will be breeding stock. All other hogs will be raised on concrete He announced that a feeder pig sale will be held May 20 at the Farm Show Building m Harris burg. Anyone may consign pigs that they have raised to this sale. The feeder pigs will be sorted in to uniform lots and will be sold disease free Iron Dextrin, a new drug being manufactured by the Armour and Anchor Companies, is a good, sim ple, inexpensive way to prevent anemia in spring pigs, Younkin. said.-T'he drug is injected into the ham in a 2 cc dose. Total cost per pig is about 27 cents. A new feed additive, Hygromy eia'n, was also recommended by the specialist He gave it the nod for all pigs up to seven months of age and as a supplement to the diet of brood sows during the last month before farrowing. Three directors of the associa tion were re-elected for three year terms. They are C. Warren TTeimnger,' Denver; Arhe Ander .son, Elizabethtown, and Howard Siglin, Millersville. The dinner was held at the Blue Ball Fire Hall. Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, April 4, 1958 THE THREE re-elected directors of the Lancaster County Swine Producers Assn, hold a brief discussion with Dwight Youn kin, Penn State animal husbandry special ist after the association’s annual meeting March Prices Highest Since October 1953 HARRISBURG, Apr. 2 Near ly all Pennsylvania farm products during the month ended March 15 averaged higher prices to farmers than month earlier, the State Department of Agriculture said today Milk, the number one cash income of Pennsylvania agricul ture, was 20 cents a hundred weight less at wholesale. Despite the dairy price de crease, the Pennsylvania index of prices received stood at 257 per cent of the 1910-14 period and was the highest since October 1953 A year ago the price index was 237 per cent. In mid-Febru ary it was 255 per cent. j Food Industry Representatives Try New Foods, Find Some Delicious Some 68 people in the food in dustries in Pennsylvania proved that some of the new food now in the research laboratories and on the market are just as good as the fresh version and that some taste even better. The background for this fact finding session was a new foods luncheon held Thursday at the annual meeting of the Food. Mar keting Advisory Council. Four new foods were offered at the luncheon with the standard version right beside it. Included were an apple juice concentrate, turkey steaks, frozen dessert and flake potatoes. When a vote was taken, almost as many people thought that the recombined concentrated apple juice was the natural product. Most trying the steaks for the firs) timp expressed a liking for them. They are turkey white meat compressed into steaks, rolled in bread crumbs and seasoned. The flake potatoes, while undis tinguishable from the natural pro duct by most persons, failed to pass the taste test. Four times as many people prefered the nat ural mashed potato to the recon stituted product. However in a taste and identi- Thursday. They are, left to right, Howard Siglin, Millersville; C. Warren Leininger, Denver; Arlie Anderson, Elizabethtown; and Younkin. (LF Photo) Community Meal */ Planning Meeting Re-scheduled 1 A meeting on “Planning and Organizing Community Meals” has been rescheduled, announces Mrs Ruth K. Kreibich, extension home economist. The meeting now will be held Friday, April 11 from 10 a.m. to 3 p m. in the Pennsylvania Power and Light Co. basement audi tonum, Griest Bldg., Lancaster. Any wontan who helps with dinners sponsored by churches fire hall or any organization is invited to attend. Women who have' not previously registered should contact the Agricultural and Home Economics Extension Office, Post Office Bldg, Lancas ter, by Wednesday, April 9. The phone number is EXpress 4-6851 fication test between ice cream and a six per cent fat dessert call- Mellonne, ice cream came out second best in the taste decision, although most persons were able to identity the dessert. The Mello nne, brought into Pennsylvania by special permission from the state, uses soybean oil as the fat source. That fact that Mellorine was a fruit mixture helped weigh the decision of some tasters. The meeting was a two day af fair sponsored by some 40 agen cies and organizations affiliated with and interested in food and food merchandising in Pennsyl vania Experts discussed future pros pects of food production, pack aging, handling, retailing and nu trition. In “brainstorming” sessions, such problems as transportation, standards, promotions and re search were thrased out. The re sults of these uninhibited sesions will be evaluated by standing committees of the Council. Tom Raser, marketing counsel or of the food store products de partment of Farm Journal, Inc., was the speaker at the annual ban quet. His topic was “Food Market ing Challenges. 7 ’ Least Tobacco, Least Price Mark 1957 Crop Sales Lancaster County tobacco farm ers accomplished two leasts last year they pioduced the least amount of tobacco since 1953 and. they got paid the least for it since 1951. The quarterly tobacco situa tion report of the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture shows that the total yield for Type 41-46 fil ler was 412 million pounds and that the average price was 22.2 cents a pound This was a drop of 9 8 million, pounds from the 1956 crop, or about 19 per cent less than the year before. The price dropped by 7.5 per cent. On the other hand, cigar manu facturers reported that sales were up by about 1.5 per cent the last year. Per capita consumption of cigars bears this out with the av erage American over 15 years old smoking nearly one additional cigar last year. But the joker in the deck shows when you look at the weight figures Although an extra cigar was smoked, the amount of tobac co smoked stayed the same at 1.11 pounds per person. Consumption stood at 52 cigars pei person with the 20 year con sumption average being 53.4 cigars per person Supply and demand for farm sales of type 41 tobacco seem to have very little relationship to the price, according to the figures given Production has varied from 38 2 million pounds m 1953 to 51.0 million pounds in 1956. But the price has gone down ‘ steadily from the 27 5 cents a pound high established that year The most disastrous price for filler in recent years was the 19 cent average established for tho 1951 crop. That year total sup plies were at 182 4 million pounds including a 56 2 million pound crop. The total supply of tobacco has never again reached such a figura (Continued on page thirteen) ;GE $2 Per Year
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