—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 ”
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Roitlorott (sArl are used, Ritter explains,
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plying mulch instead of grow- he renewed annually about
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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. The experiments were
cultural Experiment Station at carried out in the University
Penn State The mulch con- orchards.
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Feeds
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control, Bittner advises.
Ritter finds that the mulch
ed trees produce apples with
brighter color than trees
grown with a sod culture. Al
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