—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 12, 1964 12 “Time At The Crossroads”. The old and the new met briefly at the Miller & Bushong plant at Rohrerstown recently when a wagon train heading for Texas territory pulled in for-a little mule feed. The train belonged to the Charles Pricket Family, known in their home state as “the Amarillo, Texas Pioneers ” They had recently come up for the New York World’s Fair, a mere 90-day jaunt, and are now on their way home. Interstate Swine Shipping Rules Will Be Changed Changes in intei state ship ping mles foi feedei pigs and bleeding stock to help the State Fedeial hog choleia erad ication effoit weie published in the Fedeial Registei re cently the US Depaitment of Agneultuie lepoits The moie impoitanc changes do'-not take effect until April 1, 1965 some of the mmoi changes become effective by the end of Septembei, 1964 The changes in shipping mles to take eftect next Apul mil place moie stnngent ie qunements on inteistate ship ments fiom maikets oi othei assembly points that have NOT leceivecl toint State Federal appi oval Feedei pigs and bleeding stock shipped fiom these points will have to be officially \accinated at least 21 days pi ioi to shipment 4ppioved maikets aie those which have met the lequne menls loi handling hogs un dei the Fedeial inteistate icg ulations conceined with hog choleia medication Public stockyaids also meet these ie qunements Beginning next Apnl 1 appioved maikets and public stockyaids will be ablej to iccene unvaccinated pigs; only fiom faims of ongin in adiacent States (Note Faim, of ongin defined as faim whei e swine to be shipped inteistate weie bom and w'hich has not been used ml past six months to assemble, 1 buy oi sell swine biought mi fiom othei souices ) I Othti leqimements for ship ments ot healthy, officially laccinated pigs to 01 fiom ap pioved maikets 01 public stockyaids will not be affect ed by the changes in the ship ping uiles Mso unchanged aie the pio \isions allowing unvaccinated, feedei pigs and breeding 1 stock to be shipped directly liom a farm of ongin to a faim of destination under spe cial pei nut I The changes augment the' piesent icgulations, which took effect Apnl 1, 1963, pio \iding foi health inspection and \accination against hog cholera fbi 1 feeder" pigs * artfe breeding stock involved in in-, «» r:r t »< VAMA s V Nk V \< s ' **& A * A> & tei state commeice Details on cholera eradication piogram” all the shipping mles can be Mmoi changes in shipping obtained from State and Fed- rules scheduled to take effect eral animal disease conti ol of- by Sept 25, 1964, provide that ficials hogs shipped inteistate for ex- Di G H Wise, staff vet- hibition purposes will be sub ennarian for the Department’s 3 ec f to the same requirements hog choleia dedication woik, as those shipped foi feeding or explains the purpose of the breeding pui poses changes this way “What we’ie In anothei section of the tijmg to do,” he says, “is pro- amended legulation, five States vide additional assuiance that Montana, Nevada, Vermont, any pigs shipped across State Washington and Wyoming lines w'hich go to faims aie designated as hog cholera oi come into contact with pigs dedication States This means that go to farms will not that they aie m the fourth spiead hog choleia Un this and final phase of the eradi way we help piotect pioduc- cation piogiam and that there eis in those States actively en- is no clinical evidence that the gaged in the cooperative hog virus of hog choleia exists in Nnf hi Shly palatable aal OICCiS I\TC 110 l appetizing when proper All Pnri:*f*hmi*p cooked ~ and u is not dj r UncniUUbC tracting from the pie s t igs Carl F. Neumann, gen. mgr., y alue fVl of 1)601 ~t o a l c ! mit this, National Livestock and Meat , other , words ’ a “ of the Board, suggests that unfortu- edible portions of the arum,! nately, or perhaps fortunately, mus * he sold. Lets, someho* scientists have not been able or other, put the same pi estigj to genetically develop a steer vau ® 011 a ii the animal s meat that is portei house steaks from Piquets that we now have ears to tail However, they 'y steaks or roasts rji have learned to manipulate har thaa criticizing and b*. the animal genes to the point httlmg the appetite of gi 0w that we are now producing ? n ® America for hot dogs and steei s with astounding per- hamburgers, says Mr. \ ea . centages of lean-to fat and lean- man ” . to-bone Also they are learning Let as ’ ia the beef business that there are tendencies to he grateful and thankful he ward meat tenderness which ° oes on ’ } hat Americans _ aie inherited, which means y° un § °hi hhe hot animals can be bred to pro- an( i hamburgers, because duce roasts and steaks with there s a lot of this kind o( the characteiistics which gen- mea t on ever JL cn tter that’s eially assuie tenderness sen t to t° wn - The maiket for But these same critters lust beef 13 not improved b\ the But these same cutteis just bellttling of these piO(J . insist on having poi turns of whlch are so essential * their meat in such locations to the well . being 01 om ‘ and places .and forms, that it K , tf is best utilized as around beef dustry * but also to the P u ‘- as sausage and o her table’ ChaSmg and hvmg patteins ol as sausa & e and otnei table many mi n lons 0 f Ameucans ready products . A steer just plain isn’t all SLIGHT RISE FARM INCOME steak or rib roasts He is, like wise, chuck He is brisket HARRISBURG Aveiage He is flank He is a lot of P nces received by Pennsjlvan cuts of meat all highly nu- * a armers or their products in mid-August were 2 per cent higher than a year earlier ac hogs in these States The reg- cording to the Fedei al-State ulation also provides for de- Crop Reporting Service daring States “hog cholera Most of the gain was attub fiee” after they have remain- uted to a 9 per cent advance ed uninfected for at least 1 in egg and poultry puces year and have met certain ad- since mid-July Eggs weie up ditional requirements. four cents a dozen and tm- Pi esently 46 States and Puer- keys up two cents a pound to Rico are actively engaged Livestock and livestock piod* in the four-phase program to uc * s registered slight incies* eradicate this $5O-million-a es > was up 15 cents a year disease Each of these hundredweight and field ciop fom phases represents a grad- P lices were generally stable ual buildup in a State’s fight compared to mid-July Fiuits against hog cholera, leading an< t vegetable prices, howevei, eventually to elimination of declined from 7 to 17 pei pent the disease Twenty-seven of 111 the month the States have progressed The index of prices lecened past the first, or preparatory in mid-August was 227 per phase, 20 are in Phase 11, two cent of the 1910-14 base .the in Phase 111, and five in Phase same as a month eaihei It IV. was 221 per cent a year eaiher. MASTER fcjwnx* HEMPFIELD MILLS Ea'-t Petersburg, Pa. ROSS H. BOBBER blend & McGinnis & sons Atglen, Pa. Quarryville, Pa nt 'Mf ntii 1,. 8 * 1541 {- t<l%l ? ’Jj, Master Mix Cattle Vita-Bio 50-350 contain* 350 grams of aureomycin per ton and 50.009 international units of vitamin A per pound. Cattle Vita-Bio 50-350 helps reduce losses duo to shipping fever complexes... helps prevent foot rot and scours. Economical to use! EBY’S MILL Liitit/, Pa. L. J. DENLINGEK co ' Paradise, J >a LEROY M. SENSES# Hinklctovwi, I ,J
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