12—Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 11, 1958
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LH. Brubaker fj||* Nissley Farm Service
Lancaster, Pa. ' Washington Boro, Pa.
Mann & Grumelli Farm Serv. R. S. Weaver
Quarryville, Pa. Stevens, Pa.
Sna\elys Farm Service
New Holland, Pa.
N. G. Myers & Son
Rheems, Pa.
Thomas A Edison was dis
missed from a iob as a young
man for sleeping while on duty
L. H. Brubaker
Lititz, Pa.
Bus Shoemaker Likes to Watch Hogs
Grow—Four to 500 Head at a Time
Raising market hogs in herds
of four or five hundred is gen
erally assumed to be done in
the Midwest. But if you want to
see such an operation, you need
go no farther than the farm of
Bus Shoemaker, R 2 Quarryville;
Shoemaker now has about 470
head of barrows and gilts on
feed on his 450 acre farm. The
hogs range in size from feeder
pigs to market weights.
His present program calls for
selling a lot of 25 to 30 head
each week throughout the year.
BUT HE ADMITS that this
can change. ‘I play the market
quite a bit,” he says.
Shoemaker, a transplanted
Mmnesotian, was in the dairy
business until about three years
ago. He then was faced with
the prospect of remodeling his
barn and building a new milk
house or getting out of the dairy
business. He got out.
He then raised replacement
heifers for a period while getting
his swine enterprise set up and
operating Now the only dairy
animals on the farm are some
Holstein heifers being raised as
4H projects by the children
Finding good pigs is the big
gest obstacle to overcome in the
market hog raising business in
this area, Shoemaker says. When
asked where he got the good
‘quality pigs he has in his herds,
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(Farm Service Bulletin No,
| A disease which attacks growing pullets and
1 young laying chickens.
ORIGIN: Not of bacterial origin, but otherwise suggestive of a con
tagious or infectious disease. Current view point: Probably a
virus disease.
SYMPTOMS: Sudden decreased feed consumption, drop in egg pro
duction, depression and whitish watery diarrhea. Individual
birds may have crop distension, sunken eyes, dark blue combs,
shriveled shanks.
Post Mortem usually shows pale breast muscle resembling the
flesh of fish. Crop is often filled with sour-smelling food. Small
yellowish spots may appear on the liver. Enlargement of kidneys
is common with the accumulation of urates.
CAUTION: Accurate diagnosis is necessary to differentiate between
Blue Comb and Fowl Cholera.
TREATMENT: Several types of treatment formerly recommended
have mostly been replaced by the use of the Broad Spectrum
antibiotics or a combination of one of these with Furazolidone
contained in a highly fortified feed.
For treatment of Growing Pullets we recommend the use of
our EARLY BIRD No. 50 Medicated Ration.
For treatment of Layers we recommend our EARLY BIRD
No. 49 Medicated Ration.
Feed these for sto 7 days. We have found them quite effec
tive. When a mash and grain program is followed it is well to
discontinue the grain and replace it with a limited amount of our
EARLY BIRD No. 33 Poultry Fitting Ration.
If you have birds that “do not look just right”, or trouble
strikes your flock please call your Miller & Bushong representa
tive or call Lancaster EXpress 2-2145 Collect.
v X \iif/,/ Miller|& .
Bushong, Inc. |
Rohrerstown, Pa. ||
IH Manufacturers of Poultry and Live Stock Feed Since 1875. Hi
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he said that it was a trade sec
ret .
IBut he did imply that it took
a lot of looking and trading to
find the kind of pigs he needed.
SHOEMAKER is using a con
finement feeding program for all
the various weights. The hogs
are separated by size and age
into lots of about 70 head. In
the winter when more head can
be handled in a smaller area,
the herd numbers are increased
slightly.
To handle the hogs he has
converted two dairy barns into
feeding areas for the pigs. He
has installed self feeders and
automatic waterers. In the sum
mer a sprinkler system is used
to cool the barns.
This summer for the first time
he is keeping a lot of hogs out-of
doors. The feeding is still cen
tered around the self-feeder and
water is provided by a creek. A
simple sheet roof structure pro
vides shade.
THE FEEDING program is
not elaborate The hogs are on
full self feed continuously on a
shelled com-protein supplement
mixture This mixture is blown
into the self feeders.
Sanitation practices help keep
down mortality. The hogs are
vaccinated by a veterinarian and
the cement floors are kept clean.
Shoemaker has been selling
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Ph. Lancaster EX 2-2145
Chemical Devised
To Stop Evaporation
A chemical called hexadecanol
may save as much as one or two
feet of water that would nor
mally evaporate from farm ponds
m one year, according to exten
sion engineer Ted Willnch of
lowa State College.
In experiments by the Illinois
State Water Survey Division,
the powdered chemical has been
mixed with water to form a slur
ry, or thin water mixture, which,
is dripped onto the water’s sur
face from the windward side of
the farm pond.
This forms a one-molecule
thickness of chemical which
spreads over the water like an
oil slick and keeps the water
from evaporating.
Wiljnch says the various chem
icals used in the Illinois tests
ranged from 60 cents to $2 a
pound Approximately eight
pounds of hexadaconal an acre
is needed annually.
his pigs through the Lancaster
Stockyards where he has been
getting top prices for his ani
mals This reflects the type of
pigs he picks and the efficiency
cf 'ho feeding program.
This year he has placed most
of his corn land in the soil bank.
ißut with an 80 bushel an acre
barley crop, he feels that there
will be plenty of feed for the
herd this winter. He plans to
buy supplemental corn.
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