Second U.S. Observer Group Leaves
For Agricultural Tour of USSR
The U.S Department of Agri
culture today announced that its
second official group named to
conduct agricultural studies in
the Soviet Union left lor Moscow
July 12
The second gioup’s obicctive
will be to study temperate and
subtropical Russian plant mater
ials not grown in the United
Slates but which could be devel
oped here
The team is one °1 six USDA
groups which will go to the Soviet
Union to make agricultural ob
seivations under an echange ar
rangement An equal number of
Russian observer gioups will
come to the United States
LIKE THE OTHER teams in
the U S -Soviet Union exchange
the second gr°up is composed of
specialists seeking information
beneficial to U S agriculture
There has been little previous
L S -Russian agricultural scienti
fic and economic contact
The crop'' study team, on reach
mg Moscow, will visit the Rus
sian Ministries of Agncultre and
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Pesearch Institute of Grain
THE GROUP WILL then go U>
Kiev to visit taims, the Ukrainian
Academy of Agricultural Science
and the Mironvovskaya Exper>
ment Station, and to confer with
the Ministry of Agriculture offi
cuds
Traveling by automobile plane
and tram, the group will visit the
Cornßesearch Institute at Dnepio
petrovsk, the Research Institute
ol Oilseed ’ Crops at Krasnodar,
the Institte of Gram Farming at
Saratov, the Lenin Academy (Ka
/akh Branch) at Alma-Ata, the
Siberian Research Institute of
Giain Farming, and the Research
Institute of Plant Piotection, the
Research Institute of Crops, and
the Physico-Agiononuc Research
Institute at Leningrad The team
will visit farms near most of its
stops
The crop study gioup is com
posed of Herman A Rodenhiser,
John R Magncss, and Carl O Er
lanson, Production Research Divi
smn, USDA’s Agricultural Re
search Service, Herbert H Kram
er, Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion, Purdue University, Lafay
i/ation Research and Development
cite, Ind , and Ivan A Wolft, Util
Division, Agricultural Research
Service, Peoria, 111
The team will be in Soviet
Union about 30 days
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Automation
Invades Hog
Feeding Field
Automation in the care and
feeding of hogs has been made
possible as a result of research
by an engineer ot the U S Depart
ment °f Agriculture and two co
operating scientists of the Illi
nois Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion at Urbana
They have devised facilities us
ing both experimental and coin
meicial equipment, operated by
electronic conti ols, to automatic
ally (1) maintain constant spphes
of feed arjd water, (2) provide
sanitation by periodic washing of
an eercise area, and (3) dispose
of waste by drainage mt° a sep
tic tank
These completely automatically
housing and feeding facilities for
hogs were described to membeis
ol the American Society of Agri
cultural Engineeis at the final ses
sion of their 51st annual meeting
at Santa Barbara, Calif
H. B. PUCKETT. USDA engi
neer, was chiefly lesponsible foi
airangement of the electronic dc
vices useu to operate the facili
ties He was assisted in design and
arrangement of the housing and
leeding layout by E L Hansen
pioiessor of agricultural engi
neenng and S W Terrill, pro
lessor of animal science, both of
the Illinois Agricultial Expen
meat Station
The cooperative pioject Puck
eft explained to the ASAE mee*
mg, was undertaken to determine
the engineering icquirements of
a system that wold have the ad
vantage of raising hogs in con
flnement without the relatively
h'gh labor costs normally in
voiced in such operations
The facilities developed at Ur
bana represent a step toward
more fully mechanized hog pro
Auction, Puckett indicated He
pointed out that mechanization of
field-crop production has in
creased by 300 per cent per man
hour since 1939, while mechaniza
tion of hvstock production has in
ci eased only 20 per cent.
RAISING HOGS in confinement
is possible with improved sanita
tion and management practices
Puckett said, but these practices
call for added labor, unless thev
can be accomplished by self-op
crating machines
The new hog-raising facilities
feature a feeding system that (1)
automatically maintains a con
stant supply of feed, (2) provides
given quantities of feed at speci
fied times, or (3) can be manually
controlled to supply feed as the
operator desires
Under automatic operation, a
supply of feed is earned to the
troughs by motor-driven auguis
fiom hoppers ot mixed feed De
livery starts automatically as the
level °f feed in the troughs runs
lon, and it is stopped when the
troughs are filled
HOPPERS CONTAINING the
mixed feed are supplied directlj
fiom a commercial feed mill,
which is also automatically oper
nted and is a part of the feed
pieparation system The mill is
fitted with built-in metering de
vices to measure the required
quantity of each feed ingredient
The feed is ground and mixed be
fore it is conveyed to the troughs
bv a high-pi essure pneumatic
sj stem.
Storage bins hold large quan
lilies of the feed ingredients
which ai e c°nveyed to the mill by
automatically controlled augurs
The bins hold reserve supplies
adequate for a week or moie
Failure of the feeding system
to operate automatically switches
cn a warning signal
The hogs are housed and fed
in a small'building located at one
side of a circular concrete exer
cise floor H°usmg and feeding
accommodations are prpuosely le
stneted to force hogs that are
neither eating nor resting into
ihc exercise aiea This arrange
nient has proved to be an aid to
maintenance of sanitary condi
tions m the housing and feeding
quarters
The exercise aiea is cleaned au-
Lancaster Farming, Friday, July 18, 1958—13
Baltimore Sales
Slow, Weaker
On Fat Cattle
BALTIMORE, July 15
CATTLE AND CALVES The supply
was made up or approximately 40 per
cent slaughter steer, 50 per cent cows,
8 per cent bulls and 3 or 4 loads ol
slockers and feeders Slaughter hetl
ers were very scarce Trading was
slow on led steers with choice to
prime selling fully steady and other
glades steady to 25 cents lower Cows
v ere very slow Utility and commer
cial cows sold unevenly steady to 50
cents lower, canners and cutters open
ed steady but closed 50 cents lower
v itli instances $1 00 oil mostly on light
canners Bulls were moderately active
am' strong to 25 cents higher Vealers
were scarce and steady to strong
Sloe kers and feeders nominally steady
About 3 loads of 997-1045 lb average
choice to low prime fed steers $29 50,
package prime $3O 00, bulk 900 1170 lb
good to low-choice steers $26 75 28 25
Few standard and low-good 525 25
26 50 Few small packages 800 1000 lb
standard and good slaughter heifers
$24 00 27 50 Utility and commercial
cows $lB 75 21 00, few high commercial
ant standard S2l 50 22 00, canners and
cutters $l6 00-18 75 with light-canners
down to $l3 00 Utility and commercial
hulls $23 00 25 00, bulk $24 00 and up
individual 1930 lbs $25 00 Good and
choice 160 230 lb vealers $25 00 30 03
with few scattered head choice at
$3l 00 Load 583 lb mostly good stock
$26 00 One lot 823 lb medium and good
steers $27 00, one lot 645 lb choice
leeder steers $26 00 two small lots'B4o
961 lb medium $24 50 24 65 Load 264
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Ihc floor of the area slants towau’
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