12—Lancaster Farming, Friday, October 17, 1958
Multiple Farrowing System
Confinement Hog
CAYUGA, NY The first
multiple farrowing, confinement
iearing hog unit in the East
was center of an Oct 11 open
house here. More than 200 pork
producers and other interested
agriculturists, including several
from Lancaster County, attended
the open house program.
Multiple farrowing is a pro
gram for the use of a 30 to 36
sow unit in a rotation breeding
system Willard D Lashbrook,
manager of the Beacon Milling
Company research faim where
the unit is located, told visitors
that such a system enables feed
ers to market more than 500
pigs per year at intervals from
six to eight weeks.
By getting away from the tra
ditional two farrowing periods
per year, continuous use of all
facilities, greater labor efficiency,
steadier income and higher sell
ing prices for pigs are achieved.
A sow colony. farrowing hut,
nursery and finishing shelter
make up the unit The sow col
ony consists of three 12 ft by 22
ft shed type resting shelters for
10 to 12 sows each
A similar three-sided shed for
two boars, and a shade area
where feed and water are pro
vided completes the colony
The 18 ft x 36 ft farrowing
hut is fully insulated on all walls,
ceiling and floor. Farrowing and
nursing facilities for ten sows
and litters are provided in this
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Electric floor heating provides
heat, with higher temperatures
maintained under the pigs than
under sows This helps keep the
pigs away from sows except when
nursing, decreasing danger of
injury and speeding weaning.
Sows are exercised twice daily
on a concrete platform on one
end of the building. Intake and
exhaust fans ventilate the build
ing
Eighty pigs, four to eight weeks
old, can be housed in the nurs
ery This building is 16 ft. x 30
ft] plus the 12 ft x 30 ft. out
side cement feeding floor. At
eight weeks, market pigs move to
the finishing porch, a 77 ft. x
28 ft shed with a concrete floor,
but no heat.
An outside-fill, bulk self feed
er runs the length of the build
ing, and the building is con
structed for mechanical cleaning.
Professor Ellis Pierce, Cornell
University, conducted several live
hog grading demonstrations dur
mg the open house to emphasize
the importance of meat type hogs
Further emphasis of the desir
ability of meat type hogs was
provided by a display of dress
carcasses.
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Tobacco Supports Up From *57 Level
The U S. Department of Agriculture today announced the
average price support loan levels for 1958 crop Burley, tire-cured,
dark air-cured, Virginia sun-cured, Maryland, cigar binder, and cigar
filler and binder tobaccos. f
The average levels of support are shown below, with compar
able levels for 1957: 1
TV PE OF TOBACCO
Burley, Type 31
Virginia Fire-cnied, Type 21
Kentucky-Tennessee Fire-cured, Types 22-23
Dark Air-cured, Types 35-36
Virginia Sun-Cured, Type 37
Maryland Type 32
Cigar binder:
Conn. Broadleaf, Type 51
Conn. Havana Seed, Type 52
Cigar filler and binder:
Ohio filler, Types 42-44
N. Y. & Pa Havana Seed, Type 53
Souhtern Wisconsin, Type 54
Northern Wisconsin, Type 55
(The loan level for Puerto Rican cigar filler tobacco will b“
announced later)
In its announcement April 7 giving the minimum average
leves at which 1958 crops of these tobaccos would be supported, the
Department stated that the actual level of support would be the mini
mum then announced on the basis of April, 1958, parity prices or the
level computed on the basis of parity prices as of the beginning of
the marketing year (Oct. 1 lor these types), whichever was higher
Levels of support for most types are slightly highe than the minimum
levels announced, the increases ranging up to one-half of a cent per
pound.
Growers of Pennsylvania Seedleaf, Type 41, tobacco will
not receive price support, as they disapproved marketing quotas
on the 1958 cion.
For those kinds of tobacco
marketing quotas, puce support
parity, except for fue-cured and
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1958 Average
Loan Level
Cents per lb
53.4
38.8
38 8
34.5
34 5
50 8
56.2
48.0
23 4
25.5
25.5
31 0
for which growers have approved
is mandatory at 90 per cent of
dark air-cured (including Virginia
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Farm Show Deadline
(Conttmuea -«m page one;
show to be presented Thursday;
night ot Farm Show Week. Rid
ers will be members of 4-H Light
Horse and Pony Clubs through
out the Commonwealth An ini
tial try-out of this type of show
proved successful at the 1958,
Farm Show
1957 X\ erage
Loan Level
Cents per lb.
517
38.8
388
34.5
34.5
480
Entry blanks for any depart
ment in the Farm Show are pro
vided within each copy of the
1959 Farm Show premium list.
Premium lists will be available
m early October from John B.
McCool, Farm Show Director, oi;
from any one of the State's 67
county agricultural agents.
53 8
48.3
Show r the Commission has sane-;
tioned a light horse and pony
232
23 3
23.3
29 9
A good plowing job at the nghti
soil moisture is all tillage needed
for corn, states Michigan State
University Soil Scientist
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HEAD ANIMALS
REMOVED PROMPTLY
Dealers in Bones, Tallow
and Hides
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BALANCED
BREEDING
Pays Off Again!
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Phone. Mr. Joy OLdfield 3-9891
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