—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 25, 1966 16 Pelleting Means More Hog Per Ton Of Feed Pelleted feed for hogs is some 10 r r more efficient than meal rations when pigs ai.i fed corn-soybean feed, reports a research nutritionist current ly working on problems of swine nutrition. Pelleting thus saves the hog producer at least $7 per ton of feed, it was calculated by Dr D. E. Becker of the Uni versity of Illinois. Writing in the spring issue of The Merck Agricultural Memo, Becker es timated that pelleted rations mean at least 60 pounds more gain per ton of feed. •‘At piesent, 60 pounds of live hog is worth at least Sl2, whereas the cost for pelleting will not exceed $5 per ton of feed.” he said “Hence, theie can be no doubt that pellet ing is an economic pi actice ’ Conti aiy to -eailiei assump tions, Beckei found that the beneficial effect of the pellet ed feed is not a consecmenoe of greatei feed intake Pellet fed pigs “actually consumed less feed daily than meal fed pigs ’ he said, though weight gains weie moie lapid Whv this should be so is still somewhat of a mvsten Beckei declaied Fonn of thci Farmers 7 Assn. Ladies Schedule Summer Plans The Ladies Committee oi the Lancaster Coenty Faim eis’ Association met on Tues day evening at the home of Mi's Ellis Mentzei to plan then summer activities and budget • Ladies Da> Out ’ will be held at the Abbeyville Inn at Collegeville on Friday, July 29 A smoigasboid dinnei and in loimative piogiam is planned The annual picnic foi all Lancastei County Faimeis’i Association membeis will be held at Sico Paik Mount Joy with a picnic suppei, games and fellowship Theie will not be a speakei Plans weie also made for i luncheon meeting with the Ameucan Association of Um veisity Women This will be held at the Gioflf home at Mount Joy Date to be an nounced latei • Have You Heard? (■Continued fioin Page 11) Chunk-style tuna comes in bite-sized pieces suitable toi use in casseioles, ci earned dishes, oi salads Flaked 01 grated tuna con sists of small bits icady foi blending to make sandwich fillings dips, 01 salads Albacoie, a vanety of tuna is the only kmc! that can he labeled a» while meat Othei tuna caneties aie designated as light meat Stoilug Place Mats ami Napkins laige poi tioho-lvpe caid boaici contameis you can make 01 bn l ' is handy toi stoi m? place mats and napkins When expanded, the poitlolio is 1 1 1 inches deep and can hold mote than a do/en items When shut, it can be stoi ■>rl in a diawei oi on a shell to piolect linens tioin wi inkling oi soiling Lc.bel the outside with the contents Is That Woul Necessary? The Ten Commandments con tain 297 woids the Bill ot Rights 463 Lincoln’s Gettys bmg Acldiess 266 A iceent ledeial ducctive to legulate the puce of cabbage contains pellet appears to have little significance, since “pigs fed nuiit,l''d feeds reground into a meal exhibit the beneficial effect.” He noted findings by other researchers that pellet ing increases the digestibility coefficient of dry matter and gross energy, but not of crude protein. “It seems likely that pellet machines cause some chemi cal or physical change that enables the pig to digest the diet more completely,” the nu tritionist speculated. “Based on our knowledge of the effect of heat on the nutritive value of corn, it does not seem likely that the heat of pellet ing along is responsible for the improvement of utiliza tion ” 14 TEST COW FEED This feed has a course granular texture. 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Heisey A ratio ViolrU I Trfc m « tter In the soil, the depart * ICIUS Up ment of horticulture research -25% When Mulch ' r w ‘£ ,s Roitlorott (sArl are used, Ritter explains, JACpmv-CS OUU a build-up of nitrogen, phos- Yields from semi-dwarf ap- P ho ™ B ’ P° tassium - and boron pie trees can be increased 25 sta *?. a - y ear or , a£t * r to 30 percent per tree by ap- P lu c t un S- mulch should plying mulch instead of grow- he renewed annually about ing sod near the base of the the first of July, he suggests, trees, according to eight years , Yiel f s fro . m Nathan apple of experiments at Penn State increased as much University as 50 P° unds P er tree when mulch is used instead of sod In 1964,65, average yields of for ground cover, he said, eight-year old Golden Delicious Mulched eight-year old Mcln trees were increased by 115 tosh trees have yielded 45 pounds per tree by using more pounds per tree than mulch instead of sod, says the trees grown under sod Marshall Ritter, of the Agri- culture. 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Test-Cow Feed is very palatable, can be fed at all seasons, and is an excellent feed to keep appetites from lagging during warm days of summer Your Feeds Chas. E. Terre Hill Ammon E. Shelly Litilz L. M. Snavely Litit? E. P. Spotts, Inc. Honey Biook H. M. Stauffer & Sons, says that growers gen* erally have. frame acreage of waste land or -wet areas un suited ‘for fruit growing but Ideal for growing mulch. In wet areas, Reed canarygrass grows well, he reports. In the better drained areas, orchard grass, brotnegrass, or sudan grass may be grown. Provi sions must be made for mouse control, Bittner advises. Ritter finds that the mulch ed trees produce apples with brighter color than trees grown with a sod culture. Al so, the apples are firmer and sweeter, he adds. Livestock products furnish about 60 percent of the pro tein in the U. S. food supply, states the Nutrition Research Department of the National Live Stock and Meat Board. Sauder & Sons Inc. Witmer
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