* AGRICULTURAL ' .bRARY
VOL. 11 NO. 33
- TAKIN’ A PIG WALK —lt may look slow, but it’s an effective way to move
sows and their litters from the farrowing house to the nearby growing pens. For
this job, the more hands at work the bet er. Here Mrs. Zeiset, hired man Clair
Sovran a member of Grassland FFA Chapter and Zeiset team up to get
the moved. L. F. Photo
SWCD Field Day, Plowing Contest
Plans Promise “Really Big Show”
Pla"" shaped up this week
for w'd may well be the “big
gest rid bestest” Field Day
and Flowing Contest ever
staged by the Lancaster Coun
ty Sod & Water Conservation
DistrrF As one director com
mented at Monday night’s
meeting at the courthouse as
field 'cay ideas were being sug
gested and enthusiastically
adopted—“ This year’s event is
going ,’c be a mighty hard one
to top next year)”
Higr'tghting the long list of
activities and demonstrations
scheduled will be a “surprise
exhibit ’ which directors did
not v, b disclosed in advance
since arrangements,posed some
techmc-rl difficulties.
Farm Calendar
July 1? 18-20, Pa Green
house and Retail Florists
Conference at Penn State
Um\ ersity
7 30 pm, County FFA
Chap J er meets at Manheim
Central High School.
July 19 10 am, Southeast
Disti :t 4-H Demonstration
and Public Speaking Contest
at Ov.en J. Roberts High
' Schoo', Bucktown, Chester
Count,’.
—7 p m . Twilight Meeting
at Atlantic Breedeis Cooper
ative Route 230 By-Pass,
Lanc.-srer
July 20 20 and 21, Pennsyl
vania Dairy Princess Contest
at Hotel Yorktowne, York.
July 24 24-30, 4-H Citizen
ship Short Course, Washing
ton. D C.
24-30, Farm Safety Week.
But the morning session, be
ginning at about 930 a m on
July 26 (July 28, in case of
rain), will feature an archery
demonstration, and a fishing
demonstration by the Fish
Commission If the water level
in the farm pond of Homer
Graybill, Manheim R 3, permits,
a. demonstration of irrigation
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Frey Cow Hits
Vz-Ton Fat Mark
A registered Holstein cow,
Fuitonway Rachel Ann (VG),,
owned by J. Mowery Frey &.
Son, Fultonway Farms, Lancas
ter, joined the ranks of the
nation’s half-ton butterfat pro
ducers with the completion of
her latest lactation
The Frey Holstein’s official
record of production 'totaled
26,293 lbs of milk, 1,016 lbs
of butterfat and 2,171 lbs
solids-not-fat in 365 days She
started her lactation at the age
of 7 years and 11 months and
was milked twice daily
Solids-not-fat (SNF), the nu
trients in milk , below the
creamline, are now being re
corded in addition to milk and
butterfat, as a part of the Hol
stein Association’s Total Nu
trient Testing (TNT) piogram
Registered Holstein breeders
use this information as a man
agement tool in herd improve
ment.
Fultonway Rachel Ann was
bred in the Frey herd She
was sired by Maplebend Dean
King Posch (VG), a bull that
has earned Gold Medal Sire
recognition.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 16, 1966
July 20 Deadline Set-
On Dairy Roundup List-
Any 4-H Dairy Club mem
ber planning to compete at the
county roundup August 2-3,
must have filed his entry with
the extension office by July
20 if his name is to be listed
in the official catalog, says as
sociate county agent Victor
Plastow.
He urged all interested
members to submit their
names even though their calf
registration papers, or other
information, are not yet com
pleted
The first day of the show
will be for Holsteins only,
Plastow said, with these ani
mals to be brought to the
Guernsey Sales Pavilion be-
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Carol Hess And
Bill Houser Top
County Speakers
Two local 4-H’ers earned the
right to represent Lancaster
County in the district public
speaking contest next Tuesday
at the Owen J Roberts High
School in Chester County by
“out-talking ’ all area competi
tion
Caiol Hess and William
Houser were the top blue rib
bon winners in the county
public speaking contest held as
part of the 4-H Demonstra
tion Day program at Penn Man
or High School last Friday.
Miss Hess, daughter of Mr
and Mrs Miller Hess of Mount
Joy R 2; spoke on “How Much
Education Do I Need’” Hous
er’s topic was “How 4-H Work
Contributes To Good Citizen
ship”. He is the son of Mr.
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County Swinemen Gather
At A. Zeiset Farm For
Field Day Activities
by Don Timmons
Swine producers in Lancas
ter County are scheduled to
get together today at the
Abram Zeiset farm, East Earl
Rl, as their association holds
its annual field day
The visitors will see a well
managed, 85-sow, feeder pig
operation at Zeiset’s which is
guided by experience, common
sense and good records
For approximately the past
three years, Zeiset has pailici-
pated in the Pennsylvania
Farmers Association’s electron-
ic record keeping system In
addition, last year he cooperat
ed with Penn State University
in the latter’s experiments to
develop a hog record system
for electronic data processing
Although he does not keep in
dividual sow records, -Zeiset
has his sows divided into
three groups and keeps com
plete records on each group
„ , . , .
Zeiset has used the rotating
group breeding and farrowing
system for several years al
hough he has gone from two
to three sow-groups in the
past two years Grouping sows
in this way is a little like
juggling you have to keep
part of the operation up in
the air at all times if you are
te be successful But grouping
permits a more constant sup
ply of pigs for sale, and keeps
expensive equipment in use
more regularly than the old-
VISITORS WILL ENJOY the tree-shaded lawn
and porch during the swine field day at the Zeiset
farm when that old sun gets around noontime. Here
the Zeiset family son Eric, Mrs. Zeiset, and' Abram
are shown with one of the three Boxers from
which they raise and sell pups. L. F. Photo
$2 Per Year
er Spring-Fall farrowing sys-
tern It lequires close super
vision, but since hogs are Zei
set’s mam enterprise he can
concentrate on the details and
planning needed to make it go.
As he said, “I’m operating
over-capacity since I increased
my sow herd by about 25 head
in the past year ” He starts
off each group with 32 sows,
which would give him a total
population of 96 animals, but
he said there was one period
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New 4-H Queens
Chosen For ’66
, , , .
’? he hlgh of ti 6 am _J ual
4-H county field day arrived as
d f k crept over Long Park
?™ rsday and , the s P° tllght
f ell 6 newly ch ° sen COUll '
4-H junior and senior
queens
From a fieW of 59 r]
each re p r esenting her respec
bve 4 . H club Judges selected
Jud Buckwalter and Manlyn
Krantz to rule the Lancast er
Count 4 . H Kingdom for a
y ' _ , ~
Buckwalter, 16-year-old
daughter of Mr and, Mrs Da
vld ® Buckwalter of Lititz R 3,
won , e Senior Crown She
kas een active in 4-H work
for s °y en years and 1S current
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