Many of you may have seen “The Good Egg” as created
by the Pennsylvania Egg Marketing Association, which
made its debut at the recent Pennsylvania Farm Show
in Harrisburg.
Every Month Is Egg Month
Did you do oil you could to help promote your industry in
the post year?
Do you talk EGGS to consumers?
Do you explain their many nutritional advantages?
Do you set the example when you take your family out for a
meal and order eggs,in some form?
Do you have the feeding program which gives the best return
per dollar spent?
If you are in doubt about this last item, talk to our Nutrition
Department or one of our Poultry Specialists.
For the Finest Poultry
Service Anywhere
Contact your Miller & Bus Kong
Service Representative or call us
direct at Lancaster 392-2145
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Miller
&
Bushong, Inc.
ROH RERSTOWN, PA.
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 28, 1967—5
• Swine Meeting
(Continued from Pace 1)
Philadelphia markets are now
our main source of cholera in
Testations The use of scium
alone as p means of control
ling the spread of hog cholera
in sales barns may come 'nto
use as the need for an at
tenuated vaccine lessens, Dunn
said.
CONDENSATION AND
VENTILATION
Livestock specialist Dwight
Younkin discussed the pioblem
of condensation and how to
solve it with insulation and
ventilation
He explained the relation
ship between air temperature
and humidity, and the effects
ol each on the rate of conden
sation For example, he said,
when relative humidity is at
70 percent, and the inside air
temperatuie is at 60 degiees,
condensation will occur when
the moist air hits cold walls
and is cooled to 50 degrees
Younkin pointed out that
while condensation isn’t too
much of a pioblem in a slat
ted floor building, without slats
pens and floois will get mes
sy in short order
He leviewed different types
and values of insulating ma
terials that could be used to
keep walls waim and prevent
condensation Younkin recom
mended a minimum insulation
value of 6 0 for walls, which
he said could be obtained by
using two-inch thick insulating
bats or blankets
“To reduce heat loss how
ever,” Younkin said, “you’ll
have to have at least four
inches of insulation in the
ceiling ”
Ventilation, the specialist
said, is a must to property re
move moisture from hog build
ings He described several sys
tems that could be used in
volving slot and fat combina
tions in either new houses or
remodeled bams
A critical time for ventila
tion is when sows are fallow
ing in the hot weathei He ex
plained a system of “zone air
conditioning” being used by
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CATTLEMEN
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MANURE PROBLEMS
MANURE DISPOSAL
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many large operators. It is
handled by piping cool air di
rectly to the sow. and making
it available continuously dat
ing farrowing. “Fans will cir
culate air in summer, but they
don’t help much in cooling the
animals." Younkm said.
MEAT EVALUATION
CENTER
Younkin told the swine pro
duces that the new meat eval
uation center at Penn State
will soon be available to them
for swine testing programs.
Such factors will be measured
as feed efficiency, rate of gam,
feet and leg characteristics,
and. after diessing animals
out, ham-loin percentage, back
fat, and loin-eye will be de
termined. he said
Febnuiy 1 is the nominat
ing date foi hog entries, and
April 15 will be the date pigs
come into the center The test
ing facilities contain 10 cat
tle, 20 hog, and 5 sheep pens,
Younkm said, with each pen
hold'ing six animals The pur
pose of the program is to eval
uate sue groups, he said, ex
plaining that all six pigs a
breeder enteis as one pen
must have a common sire, but
they may come fiom as many
as six different dams
He urged the swine produc
er with breeding piograms to
take advantage of this new
service, and invited anyone
who wished to visit the facil
ities to do so
A meeting of officer and di
rector ol the county swune
association met briefly follow
ing adjournment of the edu
cational progiam
PROTECT BABY PIGS
Cold, drafty, wet farrowing
pens cause troubles with baby
pigs This is why about one
third of all pigs bom never
reach market The high death
rate among baby pigs can of
ten be prevented by good man
agement, reminds Lester A,
Burdette, extension livestock
specialist at Penn State Uni
versity