—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April 4.1970 16 County Agent Views State Livestock Situation Hog Kill Drop Temporary Liu-stock numbcis declined dross the n.ition in 1969 and the declines in Pennsylvania weie shaipei than the national aver age, accoidmg to the Penn State extension scivice. Slaughter of hogs, lambs, fed cattle and calves declined in Pennsylvania in 1969. Nationally, only beef showed an inciease. While Pennsylvania hog slau ghter mcieased shaiply during most of years in the 19605, hog slaughter was down 10 per cent in the slate m 1969. National hog slaughter dlopped only one per cent Max Smith, county agent told Lancaster Farming, however, that he thinks the hog slaughter diop in the state was only temp orary He expects a significant in crease this year Smitn tninKs tne iy69 drop in hog numbeis stemmed from un favorable maiket conditions in 1968 Pork puces for the farmer in 1968 weie down to around 18 cents a pound, Smith lecalled As a result, many farmeis eith er quit glowing hogs or cut back The cutback in 1968 tempoian ly increased hog sales foi 1968, but farmeis had a ieduced bleed ing stock for 1969 Then, with supplies of hogs down in 1969, demand for poik jumped, along with demand for Local Officials Attend CD Meet Seveial local officials this week attended the fiist of six legional training meetings on county civ il defense They wei e Max Smith, count} agent, Oival Bass, distuct consei vatron manager. Miss Doiothy Neel, ASCS Manager, Roy Gies mann, district FHA managei and Charles Chiebold, County Civil Defense lepiesentative Officials fiom the Agiicultuial Reseaich Service and both Fedeial and State foiestiy agencies also at tended The meeting in Stouchsburg Wednesday was conducted bv the State U S Depaitment of Agric ulture Defense Board Kenneth H. Boyer is chairman A panel discussion included Civil Defense Duectois, Radio Amateui Civilian Emergency Service membeis and County De fense Board chan men They dis cussed effective emeigency oper ations of countv defense boards Finest Beigeion, Fedeial Con sumer and Maiketmg Service, outlined lesponsibilities of coun ty boaids concerning the food management piogiam Bruce Eaton, Disaster & Defense Ser vices Staff dncctoi, discussed the Department’s piogiam for claim ancy of non-food items USD A Will Inspect North Dakota Meat The U S Dcpai tment of i caltuie has announced that meat plant? opeiatmg wholly within Aoith Dakota will be subject to Fedeial meat inspection effec ts e -kpnl 16 The official notice has been published in the Fedei al Rcgiste The Depai tment explained that <iCtion lesults fiom lequuements of the Wholesome Meat Act The Act lequnes, in pait, that mtia state meat plants be Federally in spected in those States that do riot establish an inspection pio ; giam at least equal to Fedeial other led meat Hog puces also mg to Penn State, cut back climbed into the high 20s, allow- sharply when hog prices rose mg veiy favoiablc piofit mar- and supplies became tight dur gins to swine produceis mg 1969. Smith noted some pack- As a icsult, many faimers in 1969 were accumulating bleeder stock, instead of selling at the normal rate. So the combination ol a ieduced hog population in 1968 and accumulation of bigger breeder opeiations in 1969 to gether account for the substan tial i eduction in marketings in the state in 1969, Smith said But he predicted that the build up in 1969 will be reflected in 1970 slaughter figuies “I think we’re on the increase in Penn sylvania,” he said He added, “I think we have dined 10 per cent last veai, and more hogs on Lancaster County the 10 7 million head was the farms than a year ago I think smallest slaughter on recoid you’ie going to find the slaugh- Pennsylvania lamb slaughter, ter is up here in 1970 and in down 18 per cent during the yeai Pennsylvania too ” consisted of only 128,000 lambs Some eastein packets, accoid- Lamb slaughter in the Com- BEEF FEEDING PROGRAM Write for free booklet "Beacon Tend-R-Leen Beef Feeding Pro gram." also for special feeding program for beef steers. , Beacon now offers a feeding program for dairy steers that lakes the roughage out of feeding* It is a research proven program that has been fed successfully in commercial feedlois in the Midwest for over six years, Get fast, low cost gains without roughage: • Birth to market in less than a year. • Daily gains (birth to butcher] of 2.8 ibs. • Dressing percentage up to 62%. • Feed conversion approximately 5 Ibs. of feed per pound of gain, also from birth to butcher, • No hay, no grass, no silage. • Low investment, low labor. • High grade carcasses; young, tender meat. eis also have gone out of busi ness because of tighter meat in spection standards. Nationally, the 3.9 million hogs slaughtered in 1969 was the sec ond hugest on lecord, exceeded only by the 4 million slaughtei ed in 1968. All states in the Northeast de clined at about the same late as Pennsylvania, so the Common wealth continues to slaughter about 70 per cent of all the hogs slaughteied in the Northeast Lamb slaughter in the U S de- Money Grows on Holsteins with the Beacon TEND-R-LEEN * For full details call your nearest Beacon dealer or Beacon Advisor For Dairy Steers monwealth has declined 67 per cent since 1960. Smith said wool prices have been weak and this apparantly is a major factor in the decline in sheep. Sheep producers ap parently have not found lamb production adequately profitable without the high letuin from wool. As a result, sheep production has been shifting to Australia and areas with “plenty of grass," Smith said. While sows geneially have two litters of around nine pigs each or a total of about 18 pigs per year, a ewe will have only one crop averaging somewhat moie than one lamb a year As a result, the return per animal has been i datively low on sheep Nationally, calf slaughter has declined sharply since the mid 1950 s as calves have been divert ed to feedlots foi further feed- Tencf-R-Leen is a registered trade mark of Doughboy Industries, Inc.* New Richmond, Wisconsin, BEACONFEEDS ~ „ Mm , The Beacon Milling Company, Inc* Headquarters: Cayuga, N. Y, ing Calf slaughter was down 11 per cent nationally in 1969 while Pennsylvania slaughter declined 13 per cent. Strong demand for feeder cat tle of any type and the decline in dairy cattle will keep calf slaughter low in the years ahead. The number of fed cattle mar keted in the U.S. rose seven per cent last year, but this was off set by a 25 per cent decline in non-fed animals so that the total increase in beef production was only one pei cent. In Pennsylvania the number of cattle slaughtered declined from 817,000 head in 1968 to 762,000 in 1969 nearly seven per cent. This is the lowest number of cattle slaughtered in Pennsylvan ia for any year in the last de cade. Cattle slaughter in the Commonwealth has declined each year since 1964, when 940,- 000 head were slaughtered. The five-year decline was 19 per cent.
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