yChwßk agricultural library I »Nw COLLHQf VOL. 7. NO. 32" INACTIVITY IS ONE OF THE BIG PROBLEMS among pigs confined to a small area. Here two pigs play with the hose Kerry Fritz is using to wash down the feeding floor a daily chore on the farm at Lititz Rl. After the chores are done, Fritz sometimes gives the pigs a hose, a basketball, a rubber tire, innertube or anything of that nature to keep the pigs busy. These replacement gilts and boar pigs will go into the herd to produce crossbred feeder .pigs and replacement stock. Manure from this feeding floor is hosed into a gutter outside-the pen. From there the waste goes into a lagoon located down the hill from the pen. L. F. Photo Wheat Yields Are Mostly Good; Straw Is Short, Good Quality Wheat harvest began in earnest this week with farm ers reporting yields ol excess of 40 bushels per acre m mast areas of the county. "Millers leported quality of the gram is high with teat weights ranging from 59 to 62 pounds per bushel and moisture below 14 per cent m most cases The only ex ception was m the extreme southern end of the county whore neav> rains two week> Oria contiibuted to the moia ture content which ranged fiom aoout 14 per cent up to If 5 per cent B\en here the test we'ght was very high Farmers iiere being paid Farm Calendar July -9-12—9 am. Farm management workshop for teachers ot vocational agri culture in the Lampetei- Strasburg High School. 9-13 Leadership training school for 4-H members m Washington, D. C Two from Lancaster County going. July 9-s p m Soil Conserva tin District meeting in the County Court House. 8 pm. Aynshire-Jersey- Brown Swiss 4-H meeting engage JO) prices at the trulls ranging from about $2 00 up to in ex cess of $2 08 This is about 23 cents above hardest puce last year. Reports of widespread con tracting for the wheat crop in the county appear to have been exaggerates, but there was a certain amount of con ti acting with, dealers and (Continued on Page 16) Farm Show Reorganizes At Manheim Howard Swan, North Char lott© Strsof* 3VI in heim, was elected president of the Man heim Community Farm Show Association, at the reorganiza tion meeting Mondaj night in the agricultural room of the high school Other officers e l ected are first vice president, Roy Her shey, W. High Srreet, Mau heim, second vice president John Bruckhart, Manheim R 3, secretary, Mrs Jane Eshelmau. .Mount Joy Rl, treasurer. Ken neth Miller, Manheim Rl, and corresponding secretary. Mis Abram Weidman, Manheim Rl New directors of the associa tion, elected for a three year (Continued on Page 10) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 7, 1962 Milk Co-op Will Hear Top Officials Two top officials of the Metropolitan Cooperative Milk Producers Bargaining agenev will be the guest speakers at a special meeting of the coop erative in the countv on Mon day Arthur D Little Economist, and Thomas Tedesco, field man will address the meeting which is open to all dairymen of the county It is being sponsored bv the agency the Inter-State Milk Producers Cooperative and the Mount Joy Farmers Cooperative Little and Tedesco will dis cuss manufacturing milk pnc- (Continued on Page 10; Guernsey 4-H Plans Meeting The Julv meeting of the Lancaster County Guernsey 4- H club tv ill feature a fitting and showing demonstr°tion and a picnic Members, meeting at the home of Robert McSparran. Peach Bottom, at 8 p m. July 13, will have a picnic and ob serve a demonstration by two of their fellow members Donald Ankrum. son of Mr - (continued on page 2) Swine Sanitation Program Proven On Lititz Farm Pigs ne\er touch the giound fiom lari owing house to slaughterhouse at the Robeit Henne\ faim Lititz R 1 The sows aie on pasture all the tune except when they aie in the fairowing ciates oi in the nurseij with their litteis, but the fattening hogs spend their short hit tunes on con eiete floors From the tune the pigs aie farrowed in a window less fal lowing house with thermosta tically controlled xentilanon and heating, to the time they are sold to the packer thev are on a ngidlv controlled program of sanitation and nu ti ition. Henney. a teachers of xo cational agriculture at War wick Union High School as well as a farmer says he sometimes gets the feeling that all he does is jab hogs with needles all day Each of his 72 sows gets an injection for cholera and ery sipelas twice a year. The pigs get their needle teeth clipped and a shot of iron to prevent anemia on the second day af ter birth. At a week or 10 days each pig is injected with Percina, a substance for pre vention of scours, and at the age of eight weeks each one gets a shot for cholera This adds up to a lot of needles in a year’s time when you con- Entry Deadlines Announced For SPABC Show July 14 has been set as the deadline for entries in the 1062 edition of the Southeast ern Pennsylvania Artificial Breeding Cooperative show The two day alrair this year will be held on the coopera tive's grounds on the Rte 230 bypass west of Lancaster with Ayrshire. Guernsev Brown Swiss and Jersey entries being judged July 31 and the Hol stein entries going into the show ring August 2 (Continued on Page 10 > Potato Blight Not Present In Lancaster Potato growers were cau tioned this week to be on the look-out for late blight in the field. County Agent M. M Smith said this week, late blight has been found in small amounts in Somerset County, and the recent weather in some areas of York and Lancaster county has been just sufficient to per mit the spread of the disease to spread if it is present in the fields Recent weather has been steady, with much rain in (Continued on Page 10) $2 Per Year sidei that the farm pioduces o\ei 1,000 pigs pei year The entne layout of the new buildings on the farm is planned with an eye to effi ciency on opeiation When Heaney acquued the farm, he decided not to use the existing bain in hib hog operation. In stead, he consti noted two sow shelteis a farrowing house, a pig nuiseiy and a fattening flooi Most of the buildings are of pole type const! notion with conciete block walls and pea partitions All the work on the buildings was done by Henney and one helper. James Boose. Henney says he has learned quite a few things about the pig business in the year since he mowed his animals into the neiv buildings For example he says, one of the biggest problems, aside from disease which is always a threat in any operation, is im actu ity of the feeder pigs on the fattening floors. Unless they are given some thing to do to keep them oc cupied during part of the day, the pigs begin tail biting, fighting, and generally cause problems. Henney has found that any thing he can put into the pen tor the porkers to play with reduces the trouble. Lengths of rubber hose, mnertubes, tires or a basketball will give the pigs enough exercise to take their minds off trouble. (Continued on rage 12) Poultry Ass’n Schedules Tour Plans for the annual tour of the Lancaster County Poal trj Association were an nounced this week by associa tion president Mark Myer. The tour this year will stop at points of interest in Chester, Bucks and Montgomery coun ties. on Wednesday, July 25. (Continued on Page 10) FIVE-DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures during the fno tiny period are expected to average two to fhe de grees below the normal r.inge of 60 at night to 86 in the afternoon. Little day to diij changes in tempera tures are expected. Precipi tation during the period is expected to be less tlmn .2 inch falling as X'ery light showers or drizzle mostly to the east of Lancaster Counts late in tho period, ho measurable rain is ex pected in the count} during the period.
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