16—Lancaster Farming,
November 26, 1966
Deer Nutrition
Study Evaluates
Food Supply
Physical condition of white
toiled deer reflect the food
supply of the area, experi
ments at Penn Slate University
indicate. The most recent find
ings, by graduate students
James ,B. Whelan and Jan E.
Riffe, show that captive females
(does) on well-balanced ra
tions produce more fawns than
wild does of the same age.
In nutrition experiments at
Penn Stole, all does produced
fawns. Of 951 wild does exam
ined by the Pennsylvania Game
Commission, 90 percent were
carrying fawns.
'Moreover, losses of fawns in
the wild may amount to 40
percent or more, the research
team reports, due to nutrition
al deficiencies in does and
fawns in oversized herds on
overbiowsed ranges.
Average weights of deer on
good versus poor quality range
show the effect of nutrition,
Whelan and Riffe pointed out
in a recent article in “Science
for the Farmer,” the quarter
ly publication of the Agricul
tural Experiment Station at
Penn State Females two to
four years old, fed well-bal
anced rations, weighed an av
erage of 134 pounds in the
Pall Wild does of the same
age average about 98 pounds
From their experiments,
Whelan and Riffe find that 100
well-fed does produce about
190 fawns. Game Commission
figures from 1960 to 1965, they
Say, show that five counties in
the extreme northwest aver
aged 198 fawns per 100 fe
males In five nonthcentral
counties, the comparative fig
ures were 151 fawns for 100
does. In five northeastern coun
ties the figures were 162 fawns
for 100 does
They point out a fact known
to many hunteiis, that antler
development among bucks also
reflects the quality and quan
tity of browse on a deer range
Low body weight and poor ant
ler development, especially
among yearling bucks, indicate
poorly fed deer
OCT. EGG PRODUCTION
UNCHANGED FROM 1965
Following the fall seasonal
pattern, egg production for
Pennsylvania increased during
October, according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting Serv
ice Pennsylvania egg produc
tion of 255 million eggs in
creased 1 percent from Sep
tember, but was about the
same as a year ago
The number of layers in
Pennsylvania flocks during Oc
tober increased 1 percent
from September In compari
son with October last year
there were 3 percent fewer
layers in flocks
The average price received
for all eggs in mid-October
was 45 cents per dozen, a cent
less than the September price
but 6 cents more than the
October 1965 price
STORAGE STOCKS DOWN
Stocks of all types of eggs
in cold storage on September
30, 1968 in the United States
totaled 1,433,000 ease's This is
9 percent less than a month
earlier, 47 peioent less than
September 30, 1965, and 52
percent less than the 1960-64
average foi the dtote
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in 1957, is the only known
substance hand enough to
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