—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 16,1971 4 Animals React to Gold Winter dramatically changes many practices in various farm operations. Among other things, cold changes the way some farm animals should be handled. Garden Spot Young Farmers recently were given the following advice by Dwight E “Younkin, Penn State animal specialist Most livestock can survive and lue if cold temperatures are the only stress upon them, says Younkin. The age when animals are old enough to adapt to cold weather varies with differ ent species. A beef calf adapts to cold weather al most from day of birth; a lamb at about 10 days, but a pig doesn’t adapt to cold weather until he is tw o or three months old In cold weather, more feed is required to produce a pound of gain. Young pigs need more protection than either cattle or sheep. Their rate of gain A Note of Appreciation We think the Pennsylvania Farm Show well as help with numerous items in next is too big, too diversified for any publication week’s issue which we were unable to pub to report it adequately. lish this week because of time and space But we did the best we could with the limitations, time and the space we had at our disposal. . , We wish to thank the many, many per- mile we have attempted a comprehen sons and firms which helped us. We can’t su : e * rap ' Up ,° f all P ha , ses of Farm Show name all those who helped in many kinds of actmtles . evolving local persons, we know ways, but we appreciate it. have missed something important Our thanks includes the help with the *° our readers pre-Farm Show Issue last week and this If so, call it to our attention. We parti week’s report on the Farm Show itself, as cularly appreciate that kind of help. pood News on Hog Cholera The word from Dr. Homer S. Forney, We'think a more ready interstate flow Harrisburg, recently that hog cholera may Q f swine ultimately will be beneficial for the be eliminated in this country by is cer- swine industry in Southeastern Pennsylvan taxnly good news for local farmers. Word that hog cholera finally is being eradicated from some neighboring states is particularly good news. While the hog cholera eradication isn’t outbreaks is more important than ever. A complete yet, the efforts over the past year serious new cholera outbreak could set the make * buying of out-of-state feeder pigs eradication date back many months, or much safer than before. - even years. Emphasis on Common Ground The new U S. farm bill adopted recent ly is primarily understood by farmers as the bill which finally put a ceiling on federal farm subsidies. According to some, the bill is also a first step toward removing the dependence of fanners on the federal government This estimate, howeier, has by no means been accepted by e\ eryone. In fact, the farm bill was extremely con troversial before it was adopted and it has remained neaily as controversial since. Various farm organizations ha\e attacked it often for entirely different reasons. Recently, President Richard Nixon de fended his Secretary of Agriculture, Clif ford Hardin, in a statement at Beltsviile, Md. The president also defended the new farm program. But at the same time he acknowledged the disagreement about it as follows: “I don’t mean to suggest by that that all of the decisions that we have made in LANCASTER FARMING Lancaster County’s Own Farm Weekly P. O. Box 266 - Lititz, Pa. 17543 Office; 22 E. Mam St., Lititz, Pa. 17543 Phone: Lancaster 394-3047 or Lititz 626-2191 Robert G. Campbell, Advertising Director Zane Wilson Managing Editor Subscription price: $2 per year in Lancaster County; S 3 elsewhere Established November 4,1955 - Published era y Saturday by Lancaster ' Farming, Lititz, Pa. ‘ ‘ • 1 Second Class Postage paid at LifitZ'Pa' 17543 Member oi N’ewsn Q per Farm Editors Assn Pa, Newspaper Publishers Association ano National "newspaper ‘ can be reduced by 100 per cent and their feed requirements can be increased by 200 per cent if they are exposed to prolonged periods of cold weather. Producers feeding pigs up to market weight should provide a warm, dry, bedded area. A hover of plywood over the bedded area helps improve feed efficiency in an open type finishing house. For pigs under 60 pounds a heat lamp inside the hover pro vides additional heat needed by smaller pigs. Younkm cautions farmers not to dose mg season Faim planning is a buildings up so tight that it becomes damp 12-month job but the few months Dampness is worse than coldness Any clos- preceding the ci opping season ed building must have forced ventilation to verv important m ordei to de , j ° , eide what lq produce and all of keep down dampness. the impuis required for a maxi- Knowing how animals respond to num> economical jield Don’t weather conditions can help farmers care p Ut o ff f aim piannmg until for them in such a way as to achieve best planting time results. But a word of caution: Taking the ne cessary steps to prevent new hog cholera this Administration meet with unanimous i approval by the leaders of American agri culture. I found that when we were trying to develop a Farm Bill this year that it was very difficult to find any common ground of agreement. “Tlier£ were certainly no partisan lines that divided Democrats from Republicans on agricultural issues As jou know, gener ally speaking, it is a question of the corn people and the wheat people and the cotton people and the peanut people and the people that don’t have subsidies and the people that do and so on down the line. “And so the problem is to find a piece of farm legislation that is in the best inter ests of American agriculture" and, at the same time, will serve the interests of the country generally. “This Farm Bill, I would have to can didly admit, did not meet with a much ap proval from all of the various agriculture organizations as I would like. And I read the publications. I know what some have been saying about the farm legislation. Vue. Sec retary has told me a little about it, too. . “I do want you to know, however, we do think it is an improvement. We do think-it is a good start-in the right direction.’’ ' The controversy within the farm com munity to which President'Nixon is refer ring appears in large part to; stem from a difference of opinion. da how to keep, the ' farm community or -segments 6f -it econo -1 mically healthy. , 1, , 1 , ; Such ’ differences of opinion can he con ’ st'ructive. But farmers'should recognize the ’ many things 1 in common and also emphasize, -them; Farmers themselves will suffer most if they allow themselves to split into warring factions. 3 ' Hmw is THE TIME... Lancaster County Agent To Do Farm Planning Since the rush of the Holiday Season is over, now would be a good time to be making definite plans foi the 1971 farm- To Reduce Feed Waste Hapv pounds of gram and feed never get into the livestock because of fauky feeders. or poor management Feed effici ency is veiv important in a pro fitable livestock or poultry pro gram. Some feeders permit For Full Market Repons Read Lancaster Farming CHEATING OURSELVES Lesson for January 17, 1971 I«tksr*wnrf Seriplurt; Matthew 13.44*50: LuU 14 15 24 A father was bitterly lament ing his son's refusal to go to col lege. “I’ve tried to make him see what he’s passing up, but he wouldn’t listen,” the man ex claimed. “Several years from now when he realizes that he can’t get a decent job without a diplo ma, he’ll regret this choice but then it’ll be too late'" We can appre ciate the father’s feelings. Yet, we also know that this „ .tendency to pass- Rev. AUhouse U p golden oppor tunities is typical of human na ture. Many of us can look back upon many bad choices which today we can hardly understand having made. Deliberate wrong choices The fact of human nature is that we often make deliberate Missing out - wrong choices. We know some- m. ...... . , thing is good for us, but fail to ni 2 ht ° f th ® special service make use of it, choosing some- and the church was foil, thing else which, at the moment, despite the “full house." I may be more attractive. The child a sense of regret in noting passes up spinach for candy, re- people who had not gardless of his understanding that come who could have profited spinach is good for him and can- The al dy may not be. ternatives many had chosen m- If only this perverse tendency det | * bridge club, bowling, ended with the termination of shopping, and a night in.front of childhood, but it doesn’t. Adults set. •' continue to make these wrong ?? 1S 15 typical of the kinds of choices, if on a more sophisti- pWen opportunities which we al cated level. Some people are in- by every dajfi-w is dined to continually complain , en not » ~°. 1 , ce . J^Hfeen that they “were behind the door good , and evil -’ when the goodies were passed ®“" e i ower < and' hightt'good. out." There are times when we Whe ?> for some are tempted to ask whether they we c! ‘ oose the , lower goodfM is were behind the door by accident ours elves whom we arecheating. Chose to he there! (*as»d on outline eopyrijjJMtfjtfy Iho Division of Christian n°c n . c ' **’• Churchts of Christ In