10—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. February 22.1969
THE EOURTH ANNUAL SOUTH
EASTERN Dairy Conference was held
Tuesday, with a large crowd of farmers
in attendance. Sponsors and program per
sonnel in the Lancaster Farming photo
above are (left to right) back row, J. R.
Peterson, Allis Chalmers; Robert Coon,
Kendall; Jerry B. Shaffer, PP&L; Dr.
Richard Schiltz, Tuco and Richard B.
Stein, Red Rose. Front row. Jack C. Mill
er; William M. Babb Jr., Allis Chalmers;
• Crops
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include; corn production prac
tices and costs; weed control
recommendations for ’69; use of
lime and fertilizers; things we
are learning from the new soil
testing methods, nuisance birds
and their conti ol; forage and
giain ci op insect control.
Agnbusmess firms (lime,
fertihzei, seed and pesticide
distubutois) will set up many
exhibits ana displays of then
pioclucts Infoimal penods of
the piogiam will peimit faim
eis to talk with these men
The piogiam outline is a fol
lows
8 30 am —Visit exhibits and
displays of county seed fei
tihzei, lime, pest conti 01,
and faim supply dealeis
930 am —An Extension agent
looks aiound
Arnold G Lueck, Associate
Agncultuial Agent, Lancas
ter
9 45 a m —Weed control, 1969
style George Berggren, Ex-
If you’re a dairy, hog or beef
farmer . . . the Sahlstrom
Homogenator and Spreader
is a better, less expensive
way to handle manure. See
Sahlstrom . . . how it works
. . . the advantages it can
offer you.
Lester A. Singer
Ronks, Pa.
tension Agronomist, The
Pennsylvania State Univer
sity.
10 30 a.m —Let’s look at corn
field production costs
Speaker to be announced.
11 00 am —Nuisance buds, con
trolling them now and in
the future C R Studholme,
State Supervisor, Division
of Wildlife Services
12 00 noon—Lunch period
Visit agnbusmess exhibits
and displays
Star-Topper Nutri-Store
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RD *1 MYERSTOWN, PA 17067
DIAL (717)-BG6-5708
Call. James Garber - Mt. Joy (717) - 653 5750
Norman Leaman - Willow St. (717) - 464 3688
John Swope - Bernville (215) -488-1271
Eli Zimmerman Fleetwood (215) —944 7196
MEMBER STAR SILO ASSOCIATION, Inc.
687-6712
Richard Hawk, Red Rose; Stanley Mus
selman, Farmers National and Miles R.
McCarry, Curtiss. The event is sponsored
each year by Allis-Chalmers, Milwaukee,
Wis.; John W. Eshelman & Sons, Lancas
ter; Curtiss Breeding Service, Inc., Cary,
111.; and New Holland Supply Co., Inc.
New Holland, Pa. The registered Holstein
heifer calf was awarded as the top door
prize.
130 p m.—Recognition of 5
acre corn and hay show
winners.
1:35 p m.—Where we are head
ed in growing corn. Joe
McGahen, Extension Agro
nomist, The Pennsylvania
State University
215 p m —Farm crop insect
conti ol for ’69. Robert
Tetrault, Extension Ento
mologist, The Pennsylvania
State University.
3 00 pm —Adjournment
• Crossbreeding
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increases the number of piglets
born and raised.
Sherritt did not definitely
iccommend certain breeds as
good “nickers” but said the
more different the breed the
greater the resulting Iletenosis
effect Thus a breed originating
in England would give best
crossbiceding results with an
American breed.
He pointed out that inbreed
ing has just the opposite effect
of crossbreeding saying that the
effect of each 10 per cent of in
breeding would result in two
per cent loss in sow pioduc
tivity.
Dwight Younkin, gave a slide
presentation on operations that
confine brood sows which in
cluded open pens, free stalls,
confinement stalls and an opera
tion where the sows are treated
like dairy cows. “The one factor
that all confinement operations
find,” Younkin said, “is that
the stalls may not have solid
partitions between sows. Pigs
are social beings,” he said.
“Individual pens or tie stalls
seem to give the most manage
ment problem,” the specialist
said. “Group penning with no
more than 15 sows (preferably
8 to 10) to the pen seems to be
the best at this time.”
“The consideration of cost per
herd to build the confinement
sow pen must be considered,”
he said, “this cost can run from
a minimum of $5O per sow to
$lOO to $l5O per head ” “Man
agement men figure you must
jhiaiaimpttfod
For Real Profit-Makers Plant
Full Season Medium Season
C/F 105 Single C/F 40 Single
C/F 66 Single C/F 45 Special
C/F 123 Regular C/F 49 Regular
See your local Crib Filler dealer below:
FARMERS SUPPLY CO. F. M, BROWN’S
Lancaster SONS, INC.
MUSSER’S MILL S \VEAVER’S S
The Buck FIX-IT SHOP
KIRKWOOD R- D. New Holland
FEED & GRAIN E. H. KEEN & SON
Kirkwood Parkesbmg
MARTIN’S GOOD MILL
FFm Min TNTr Fivepointville
FE RD M Enhrata NC ' DUTCHMAN
R. D. Ephiata FEED MILLS, INC.
GEHMAN Mt. Airy
FEED MILL, INC. BOMBERGER’S STORE
Denver ' Elm
LANCASTER BONE FERTILIZER CO., INC.
Quarryville
ZIMMERMAN’S ANIMAL HEALTH SUPPLY
R. D. 4, Lititz
count 14 percent of your Initial
investment against the little
pigs each year. That means on
a $lOO per sow set-up you must
charge about 88 cents pet taised
piglet against the inveitmcnt.
If you build a $5O per he»d sow
operation, the cost pci taised
shoat would be 44 cents The
question is, can we affo d the
$lOO per sow operation
“With what we know now
group housing with no more
than 15 sows per pen in an
open-front building is 0.. r best
recommendation.”
M M Smith, countv agent,
chaired the meeting and John
Henkel, president of tl 3 Lan
caster County Swine Associa
tion, announced the annual
swine banquet for Maicii 21 at
the Plain and Fancy Restaurant
and invited membeish j into
the organization.
Vegetative Growth
The practice of top-chessing"
winter wheat when vegetative
growth begins in Maicu is a
good one and should help rill up
the gram bins The use of extra'
nitrogen at this time of tie year
has given inci eased yielis and
where the faimer is not under
seeding with alfalfa 01 do\er,
it is recommende. Sandy, shale,
or gravel soils will usmtly re
spond better because of more
leaching away of the i.tttogen
from the crop. The exti i nitro
gen is suggested only or winter
wheat and not on barley or oats
because of more danger of
severe lodging on the tv-a latter
grains.