Largest Spring Pig Crop
In Penna. Since 1957
The Pennsylvania spring pig cent from the recoul low of 315,-
crop at 456,000 bond was up 12 000 ropoitcd in the spung of
pcicent from a veai -ago and the 1965 All hogs and pigs on Penn
highest since 1957. Farmeis re- sylvania farms on June 1 weie
ported a recoid average litter 13 per cent more than a >eai ago
size of 8 pigs In just 4 years, This was the largest percentage
Pennsylvania’s spring pig crop increase reported L.. any state
production has increased 45 per Nationally, numbers of hogs on
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Ph: 394-7912
1912 Creek Hill Rd., Lane,
West WiMow
Farmers Assn., Inc.
Ph: 464-3431
■West Willow
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John B. Kurtz
Ph: 354-9251
R. D. 3, Ephrata
John J. Hess, 11, Inc.
Ph: 442-4632
Paradise
(arms were down 2 per cent
Several factors have dunged
Pennsylvania fanners' outlook
towaid the hog business (1) hog
puces have been at piofltable
levels since May 19(13, one of the
longest peuods on lecord, (2)
hog pioduction has become moic
specialised. and specialized faim
eis tend to be moie efficient. (3)
hog pioduction is now more pio
filable in ielation to selling feed
grams; and (4) a great amount
of publicity has been given the
hog slaughtei mdustiy in Penn
sylvania now sth among all
states
In 1968 Pennsylvania plants
slaughtered 4 3 million hogs.
Lancaster Farming. Saturday, August 23.1969 —
nearly 5 5 per cent of the nation's
total Since 1965. hog slaughter
in the Commonwealth has in
i'cased 49 pei cent Common
wealth hog pioducers raise loss
than 1 pei cent of the nation's
hogs, but feel there is great pio
duction potential since local
plants use many moie hogs than
arc available within Pennsyl
vania In 1968, the Commonweal
tn’s plants slaughtered about 3 5
million hogs from out-of-state
farms.
Hog prices will decline sea
sonally in the next few months
There will also be some attempts
James High & Sons
Ph- 354-0301
Gordoflville
Wenger's Feed Mill
Inc.
Ph* 367-1195
Rheems
to curb inflation, which may re
strict consumer buying power.
Consumers may also show resis
tance to continually using meat
prices at retail which could curb
demand
Piospects aic excellent that
hog prices will continue at profit
able levels for another year Con
tinued favorable prices will pro
bably encourage fanners to ex
pand hog production this fall and
in 1970. Pennsylvania hog pro
ducers have already announced
their intention to increase the
fall pig crop by 10 per cent, com
paied to 3 per cent increase ex
pected nationally
MARKETING COSTS OF
AUSTRALIAN CATTLE
Australia’s west and north are
developing areas, largely because
of mining associated with what
appears to be the largest reserves
ot iron oi e in the world The
Kimbeiley aiea, about three tim
es as large as England, is also be
ing developed as a pastoral aiea
for cattle. Except for mining,
pasturing of cattle and sheep is
the main basis of the economy
Until recently, the cattle fiom
the western area reached market
only by droving over rough coun
try Only the fittest survived, and
at journey’s end were in such
poor condition that they were
haidly woith slaughtering
Since 1960, dirt roads have
been cut into the area and 3-umt
cattle trucks cairymg about 80
head of steers now travel closer
to the stations Cattle are now
worth more than twice'as much
as they were in the days of drov
ing, emphasizing the importance
of the beef roads
Isolation is one of the big prob
lems in this area of Australia
Homesteads aie 20 to 80 miles
apart There are an estimated
650,000 head of cattle, mostly
Shoithorns, in the Kimberley re
gion. The only fenced cattle sta
tion in the region is the 303,000
acre Kalyeeda on the Fitzroy
River.
Cattle are shipped from Derby
to Robb Jetty and fiom ’time to
time are exported to the Philip
pines, Hong Kong, or Queensland
on the hoof Handling charges
of cattle slaughtered at Robb
Jetty are about $33 a head, a
little over one-third the value of
the animal Cattle sell for $6O 50
a head at Derby and Broome,
and $57 50 a head at Wynham.
(Apparently there are no prem
iums for quality, no public live
stock markets, little local de
mand, and astronomically high
marketing charges )
Ag Progress Days
Set- For Aug., 26-28
Agricultural Progress t)ays
will be held August 26-28 at Fox
Chase Farms, Towanda, Pa. on
Route 220, near the airport
The event is open to every
one All persons-from producer
to consumer-have a stake in ag
riculture This is their oppor*
1 tunity to see interesting ex
hibits and demonstrations show
ing advancements made in agri
culture and showing how farm
ing provides food and fiber for
nations around the world
This educational program
will featuie 3 large dairy
shows, the State Plowing Con
test, grassland demonstration
plots, numerous commercial and
educational exhibits, displays of
machinery and equipment and
demonstrations of their use,
demonstrations of harvesting
and spraying techniques, tours,
women’s program, etc The
variety of activities should ap
peal to the whole family
Agricultural Progress Days is
sponsored by the Penn State
Cooperative Extension Service
in cooperation with Cornell Uni
versity Cooperative Extension
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