—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, April 4.1970
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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
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Nationally, the 3.9 million hogs
slaughtered in 1969 was the sec
ond hugest on lecord, exceeded
only by the 4 million slaughtei
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All states in the Northeast de
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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
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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.