Sonar Used to Judge Hog Carcasses in Delaware
Dr. Richard Fowler, Extension livestock animal tester to check the amount of back
specialist at the University of Delaware, fat on a live hog.
right, uses the Scanogram electronic
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WASHINGTON REPORT Mi
Congressman Edwin D. Eshleman.MHl
16th District—Pennsylvania
The United Nations vote which
admitted Red China and ousted
Nationalist China was the first
major change in that in
ternational body in its 22 year
history.
It was an action which
disappointed me personally, but
one which I think demands a
rational rather than a punitive
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 6,1971 —
Sonar was once used to find
enemy submarines.
Now, it can tell Delaware pork
producers which hogs are meaty
and fast growing.
The Scanogram is an electronic
animal tester owned, in part, by
the Cooperative Extension
Service at the University of
Delaware.
It’s being used in one of the first
such swine programs in the
United States to improve
breeding stock, according to Dr
Richard Fowler, Extension
livestock specialist
As consumers demand less
fatty pork, more hog markets are
willing to pay a premiun for high
grade yield pork Two such
Pennsylvania markets alone can
absorb more than the 80,000 hogs
sold each year from Delaware,
Fowler says
But, the only way to get con
sistently meatier, fast growing
hogs is to breed for th'ese
qualities. And that’s where the
Scanogram can help.'
A quick pass down the boar or
gilt’s back and Dr Fowler can
measure the back fat and loin
eye The more muscle compared
to fat, the meatier the hog.
Fowler says the measurements
the part of our
response on
country.
However, I do think that we
must respond to the realignment
of power in the U N.
We should not do what some
Congressmen have advocated
and withdraw our backing of the
world organization. But neither
should we accept what has taken
agree very closely with carcass
measurements—within less than
one-tenth inch for back fat and
four-tenths square inch for loin
eye.
Of course, the Scanogram is
only one tool in choosing meatier
hogs; conformation and other
factors also count, as in the past
For greatest accuracy, boars
should be tested when they weigh
between 180-240 pounds, Fowler
says
A premiun price at the market
it not the only reason to breed for
meatier type hogs, he adds Even
hogmen who sell at markets
which offer no price incentives
can profit
These hogs are typically fast
growing, they convert feed to
meat more efficiently They save
dollars where it counts
The University of Delaware
charges a minimal fee for the
Scanogram test program “The
charge of SI per head just covers
the cost of film and oil for the
machine,” Fowler says
The $6,000 Scanogram is jointly
owned by the Universities of
Delaware and Maryland, the
Maryland Beef Cattle
Association and the Maryland
Pork Producers.
place without reassessing our
political and financial role.
The Red China vote presented
us with several new realities in
the UN. Above all, with the
admission of Red China, we have
the reality that a new major
power has been added to U N
deliberations And, with the way
that admission came about, we
must accept the reality that the
era of United States
predominance within the U N is
probably at an end
Those realities should be the
basis of our national
reassessment. Because the
nations of the world have now
shown that they are capable of
demonstrating their political
independence within the General
Assembly, it may be time for us
to ask that they also demonstrate
their financial independence. The
best way of doing that would be to
ask that all states now be
required to pay up back debts
owed for U.N. activities. This
would assure that a revitalized
U.N. based upon political in
dividualism also will be a
responsible UN. based upon
fulfillment of obligations.
We also must consider that the
addition of Red China to the
world body should result in a
drastic change in the entire
budgetary picture of the United
Nations. Nationalist China, as a
member state, was picking up
about four percent of the U N.
operating costs. That assessment
was based upon her represen
tation of the whole of China and
her national income of ap
proximately $5.5 billion dollars.
On the other hand. Red China
has a national income of $l2l
billion dollars. Therefore, as the /
representative for the whole of
China, she should be capable of
picking up a larger portion of the
U.N. operating costs.
There is a good deal of evidence
that the United States has been
picking up a disproportionate
share of the U.N. expenses for too
long. Perhaps one reason we
have been willing to do so was
that we recognized the inability
of our ally Nationalist China to
pay in accordance with thrower
she held.
However, with the drastic
change in the U.N. picture,
Congress may consider revising
our spending for U.N. activities
downward in proportion to Red
China’s ability to pick up a
greater share of the operating
budget.
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