Area Hog Farm
Gets Top Award
ißcno H. Thomas of Beaver*
(town. Snyder County, wes Judg
ed the nationVtop hog farmer
in the 14th annual Ford Farm
Efficiency Awards program
for his herd of purebred York
shire sows with a five-year av
erage of 10.2 pigs weaned per
litter. He has had a single
year average as high as 10.7
pigs per litter. Thomas’ hogs
at test stations have gained
100 pounds on only 260 pounds
of feed.
He farrows 100 to 125 sows,
full-feeding them until pigs
arc weaned. After weaning, he
limit feeds the sows by let
ting them eat from a self
foeder 'for two days, then runs
them on an alfalfa-orchard
grass .pasture for the next
three days.
Thomas full-feeds pigs so
they hit 210 pounds at four to
five months of age. About 05
percent grade No. 1 “We use
six different complete mixed
rations from 18 percent in the
creep feed, to 12 percent in
the finisher,” says Thomas.
“We change feeds at various
weight- levels.”
“Our sows farrow in a re
modeled barn, and we feed
pigs .out in a concrete-floored
building with an open front,”
he explained. “It is a low-in
vestmenit combination that has
given us good results”
Thomas is a member of the
Governor’s Farm Show Com-
Areo Feed Firm Honors
Long-Time Employees
Pour employees of Miller &
Bushong, Inc., animal feed
manufacturers in Rohrerslown,
were honored for their long
service to the firm Tuesday
mission which operates the
largest indoor farm show in
the world. He is on the board
of directors of the Yorkshire
Association, a member of the
Pennsylvania Livestock and Al
lied Industries Board, and is
on the executive board of the
new Live Animal Testing Sta
tion, which will be the first
testing station in the ‘ nation
handling hogs, beef, and sheep
The Thomases have two chil
dren.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 19, 1966
evening at a dinner meeting
at Morton’s Restaurant in
Rohrerotown.
Two of the men were re
tiring with a combined length
of service of 63 years They
were mill employee Christian
H. Finkbiner, 38 years service,
and Harold Benedict, truck
driver, with 25 yeans service.
Both vveie presented with
plaques and a cash gift by
Miller & Bushong president
and general manager, Robert
Graybill.
Twenty-five year awards were
also presented by Graybill to
Benedict, Benjamin Click, and
Joseph Breneman. These men
received Hamilton watches
Click is employed by the firm
as a truck driver and Brene
man works in the feed mill
USDA Economist Sees
Changes In Marketing
The rapid and effective
changes in food marketing
since World War II point to
further and faster innovations,
according to a recent address
by Kenneth E Ogren of the If
S Department of Agriculture.
Ogren, director of market
ing economics for USDA’s Eco
nomic Research Service, spoke
about the changes and their
impacts on production and
marketing at the 44th Annual
Agiicultuial Outlook Confer
ence in Washington, D C
Ogren asseited that “change”
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in food marketing is here te
stay and that everyone must
learn to live with it. He fore
saw continued trends toward
fewer but larger buyers for
the fanner's produce, more in
dustrialization m such com
modities as poultry, more end
product processing, more in
novations in seivice from the
marketer to the consumer,
and more away-from-home
eating.
Although many traditional
methods of food marketing will
linger for a long time, the
traditional will increasinglar
blend with highly modernized
marketing systems as innova
tions accelerate, accoiding to
the speaker )
Much of the world market
remains tradition bound, but
there are definite trends to
ward the chopping of old barn*
ners to facilitate commerce,
transportation, refrigeration,
and consumer conveniences,
Ogren said.
Temperatures are expect
ed to average "below the nor
mal range of 50 to 32 de
grees. It should be cool
throughout the period, but
moderating about Wednes
day.
No significant precipitation
is in sight for the next five
da>s, according to the wea
therman's crystal ball.
Messick Farm Equip.,
ELIZABETHTOWN,
367-1319
Kauffman Bros.
MOUNTVUXE
285-5951
NEW PROVIDENCE 7
786-7351“ ’ *
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