VOL. 10 NO. 16 EDWARD HESS, Leola Rl, inspects a pen of his GREEN MEADOW FARMS Hampshire lambs. Hess is a National Director of the American Hampshire Sheep Association. L. F. Photo ASCS Warns Farmers Of Deadline For Feed Grain Signup, Mar. 26 As of last week, 236 farms in Lanfcaster County had been signed up for .participation in the 1965 feed .gram program, Fied 'Seldtomndlge, (Chau man, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Commit tee has announced. County farms eligible to take part in the program total 6864 Eligi ble farms are those which giew one or moie of the three feed grams corn, gram sor ghum, oi barley during the piogram's base years, 1959 and 1960. County feed gram acreage signed up for diversion thiough the program now to tals 3421 acres, Including 3209 acies Of corn, 0 ‘acres of gram (Continued on Page 6) Farm Calendar Mai 22 130 pm Solanco Young Faimer field tup to Vintage Auction. 730 pm Bphrata Young- Aduit welding class “Weld mg farm equipment Part I ” 720 pm Reoig meeting ElmFenryn 4-H Community Club at Penryn High School 730 pm. 4-H Ti actor Club tour at New Holland Machine Co ®. monthly meeting of County FFA Chapter offi cers and delegates at So lanco High School, Quarry wile -Mar 2& 1.30 pim. Manhessn (Continued on Page 13) Area Dairymen Score On SNF, Milk Production Dairy cows from Registered Holstein herds in this area have been listed in an official production testing report from Holstein-Fnesian Association of America Their perform ance records include sohds non-fat (SNF) information. Under the Holstein Associa tion’s testing plan, the solids notfat portion of milk is be ing determined and credited to the lactation records of in dividual cows SNF are those nutrients such a’s protein, lac tose and minerals found be low the creamlme of milk. Total nutrient testing was started in 1962 by the Hol stein Association to provide breeders with another selec tion tool foi irrpioving the ovei-all peifoimance of cat tle in then heids It is also a useful measuie of milk’s (Continued on Pase 121 Weather Forecast Temperatures for the five day period, Saturday through Wednesday, are expected to average below normal. Nor mal high for the period is 52 degrees and low is 32. It will be seasonably cold Sat urday and Sunday, milder Monday and Tuesday, and cold again Wednesday. Precipitation is expected to total between inch, melted. This will occur as rain or snow Sunday, and again about Tuesday. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 20, 1965 Lane. Co. Agent Plans Study Trip To Brazil It was learned this week that county agricultural agent Max M Smith would be part of an eight-member Alliance For Progress team that will make a two-week advance study trip to Bahia, Brazil. They will leave on March 31. The tup, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia, is for the puipose of laying the groundwork for • the develop ment of social and coromer- (Continued on Page 11) THE GRAND CHAMPION OF THE COUNTY SWINE ASSOCIATION’S SPRING CARCASS SHOW, owned by Willow Glen Farm of Strasburg Rl, seen on the left at the stockyards as she chatted with George Cogley’s entry which finished third and on the right, putting her best ham and loin forward to win the championship. We weren’t close enough to be sure of the conversation, but it sounded like “Stand up straight and smile, honey, you’re on candid cam era.” Shows what a smile at the right time can do! L. F. Photo Breeding & Management Has Made Green Meadow A Successful by Everett Newswanger Staff Reporter National director of the American 'Hampshire ’Sheep Association, Edward Hess, Le ola Rl, feels that controlling parasites is the most important single management (practice needed to toe a successful sheep farmer A consistent time pattern for worming and dipping needs to toe followed all year “Too often sheep are turned out to pasture and for gotten,” he said At Green Meadow Farms the navel of each newborn lamb is treated with iodine The lambs are placed in in dividual 4’x6’ pens with their motheis for thtree 01 four days Then they are marked oi eai-tagged to identify moth- Willow Glen Yorkshire Entry Tops County Swine Carcass Show The Yorkshire entry owned by John Henkel and Joe Lit tle of Wallow Glen Farm, Strasiburg Bil ( captured the grand championship at the first .Spring Carcass Show sponsored by the Lancaster County Swine Producers As sociation this week. The carcass show was con ducted as a two-part affair. The 25 animals entered in the show by 16 swine producers weie scored on-foot at the Stockyards on Monday. They were slaughtered at Kunzler & Co, Inc on Tuesday, and cut up on Wednesday under the supei vision of Carl Dal ton, general manager at Kunz ler’s. Lester Burdette, livestock $2 Per Year Sheep Farm er and lamb and placed in larger pens holding 20 ewes. These pens have a creep (ground feeder) to start the little lambs eating grain “The feiweir the number of ewes and lambs in one pen the better the lambs will grow,” Hess stated Creep fed lambs get the best alfalfa hay, a well-bal anced lamb feed containing 14 pei cent protein, and access to water and salt at all times. At two weeks of age the tails of the lam/bs are docked and treated wath an antisep tic The male lambs to be fat tened for slaughter are cas trated A 1 lambs aie injected with 1 cubic centimeter of (Continued on Page 13) specialist from Penn State, judged the animals on-footfor such factors as carcass length, backfat, lomeye size, and per centage ham-loin He and Dwight Younfcin, PiSU live stock specialist, later evalu ated the cut-up carcasses for the same assortment of factors. Of the five animals judged best by Burdette and the As sociation members, four placed among the best ten carcasses indicating the correlation that is possible between on-foot judging and carcass evalua tion. Generally, this correla tion is higher, Burdette ob served, when judging hogs of one breed or strain He stressed the value of carcass evaluation from a breeder’s (Continued on Page 6) n'4 & t/l ,V S>«*V x
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