f trr 27 - BIRTH WEIGHT OF THE LITTER is one of the records kept by Jphn Henkel, left, 6 Joseph. Little at their farm at Stihsßurg Rl.' The sign in the badkground tells how s management of Willow Glen feels about sanitation pisinfectant for the shoes is plac m the doorway where is is easy to see. These two young men believe in the value good records and strict santitation practices as the surest way to swine profits. »pril Milk Records In immerman Herd Tops DHIA The 23 registered Holstein ws in the herd of Paul mmerman, Ephrata HI, d the highest butterfat av age m the Red Rose Dairy sfd Improvement Associa n during the month of Ap- fhe Ztinmeiman herd with farm Calendar ay 28—4 00 to 7.00 p.m. pucken Bar-B-Que at the Lancaster Poultry Center. Chicken to lake out only, ly 30—10 am. - Secretary ® Agriculture, Benson to speak at E-town College Commencement jy 31—8 p m . meeting of j Extension Association Committee meets t Ine Farm Bureau Audi nnm, Dillerville Road, cancastei 6 I—4 30 pm. -"Meeting counH teachers of Vo >onal Agriculture at the b tw Holland High School. ' Meeting of the Rose 4-H Baby Beef S? Lan * dub at the ohrerbtown School. I 8 P m - 4-H officers [!^ k 1u P training con & 5 the John Neff S ol> Heffsville. in n day - Rose show W‘'°% of the Farm n e rhuildmg, Harrisburg (rfii Pm ‘ ‘ First me6i m 1 new 4 " H count y Pnnu ai the Lancaster i Sn ? nter - Roseville Dt if 0 inai pj.4 B * l 16 An -stau T , A week at Penn ttt bruversity. 17—The Penn ioQ 4 Poultry Federa °€ at Summer meet- Dmversi^ 1^8 an average of 1705 pounds of 2 8 per cent milk and 65 pounds of fat beat out the runner up by two pounds of fat. The herd of J. Mowery Frey, Lancaster R 7 had an average of 63 pounds of fat on 1531 pounds of 4-1 per cent milk from the 34 regis tered Holsteins. A registered Holstein cow owned by John H. Hershey, Lititz R 3 completed the highest 305 day lactation. Pat produced 19,161 pounds of milk with a 3-7 per cent test for 704 pounds of butter fat. Second high lactation was completed by a registered Holstein owned by Job Stoltzfus, Elverson R 2. Sup erb produced 698 pounds of butterfat in 16,355 pounds of milk with a 43 per cent test. Ten other cows in the as sociation completed lacta tions with more than 600 pounds of fat for the 305 days on test. Three other herds finished the month with 60 or more pounds of fat average. They were Elvin M Rohrer, Jr., — 61 pounds of butterfat in 1552 pounds of milk with 3.9 per cent test from twenty registered and grade Hol steins; C. J. Kurtz - 25 reg. Holsteins made 60 pounds of butterfat on 1559 pounds of milk with 3.9 per cent test; Raymond F. and Louise A. Witmer with 47 registered Guernseys made 60 pounds of butterfat in 1184 pounds of milk with a 5.1 per cent test. Twenty four other herds in the association made aver ages of 50 pounds or more butterfat for the month. Lancaster, Pa., Saturday, May 28, 1960 Cocalico FFA Presents Award To Robt. Hoover Robert Hoover, Denver E 2 an eleventh grade student at Cocalico Union High Scho ol was honored twice at the meeting of the Cocalico Fu ture Farmers of America on Wednesday. Hoover was selected to re ceive the national FFA found ation award for outstanding wprk in Farm Mechanics m the chapter before being el ected to servo as president of the group for the 1960-61 school term. In working toward the aw ard, Hoover constructed a hog self-feeder and recon ditioned three major pieces of farm machinery in the school shop. John Zimmerman, Rein holds-Rl>-accepted an aw ard for his work in dairy farming while Donald Nelz ley, Stevens Rl, the presi (Turn to page 12) ACCEPTING AWARDS FOR outstanding work in the Future Farmer program in the Cocalico Chapter are left to right John Zimmerman, Reinholds R 1 for Dairy Farming; Robert Hoover, Denver R 2, Farm Mechanics; Donald Netz ley, Stevens Rl, Chapter Star Farmer and the DeKalb award for general Agricultural excellence; Jerry Snader, Ephrata Rl, Star Greenhand. Presenting the awards is Russell Drumm, teacher of vocational agriculture at Cocali co Union High School. —F. PHOTO Records Are A Must' At Willow Glen Farm Willow Glen Farms, one of the newest and most mod ern swine farms in Lancas ter County, is the fruition of the dream of two young men who are not afraid to work hard and take some risks to make a dream come true. Joseph Little and John Henkel migrated to Lanc aster County from jobs as herdsmen on the sprawling Umbrian Farms at Lafayet te, New Jersey last January Benson To Speak AtElizabethtown Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, will be the mam speaker during commencement exercises at Elizabethtown College on Monday. May 30 at 10 am. EZRA TAFT BENSON During the graduation ce remonies, scheduled to be held outdoors in the campus dell if weather permits, Sec retary Benson will receive an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the college. Two other honorary de grees will be conferred at the 58th annual spring com mencement when 110 under graduates will be presented their sheepskins. Mrs Shirley Watkins Stemman, well known local author and lecturer, will re ceive an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters while John L. Pivncy, president of the Harrisburg Committee for Higher Education, will be the recipient of an hon orary degree of Doctor of Commercial Science. $2 Per Year and have already gone a long way toward their goal of a 60 sow herd of pure bred Yorkshires producing breeding and feeder stock with performance registry records to back them up. Henkel, who holds a Master of Science degree in Animal Husbandry from Rutger’s University has had a wealth of experience in both purebred Yorkshire and commercial swine raising. “My family has been in the swine business for 200 years.” he says, “But they were in the commercial fe eder pig business ” After graduation from Rut gers, Henkel became herds man of the purebred York shire herd on the Umbrian Farms where he had had an opportunity to develop his skill as a swine judge and showman. Breeding stock from the farm in New Jersey have won ribbons in some of the 'argest livestock shows in +he nation. Twenty nine bred gilts from the herd were nurchased as the foundation stock for Willow Glen Farm at Strasburg Rl. Joseph Little, the other half’ of the team graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a degree in \nimal Husbandry and later became the herdsman of the ourebred Holstein dairy herd at Umbrian Farms. Little will readily admit 4 hat he does not have the background in swine care *hat his partner has, but he has learned the value of complete accurate records, one of the strong points of the program at Willow Glen. Both the young men take their turn at keeping the records up to date, and this is no small job in itself. In addition to the normal breeding records kept by most swine herdsmen, rec ords are made of the weight of each litter at birth, at three weeks and at seven, weeks. Rate of gain, number of pigs farrowed and saved from each litter, feed con version, and carcass grade of the pigs when slaughtered are all enterd into the rec ord of the sow. Boars and gilts sold lor breeding stock will have to meet certain minimum quail fications in each ot those records, otheiwiso they will (.Turn to page 5) WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures will aver, age normal to four degrees above normal for the next five days. Normal tempera tures for this lime of year range from a low of 57 at night to a high of 79 in the afternoon. There will be little day to day change in temperature and scat tered showers are likely throughout the period. A. total of 3.26 inches of rain fell at Lancaster Friday bringing the total for the months to 6.72 in ches. This has been the wettest May since 1948, the all-time high when 9.- 42 inches fell during the month.
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