—Lancaster Farmirig, Saturday January 27. 19
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Pigs for Profit at Garden Spot
A group of FFA students at
Garden Spot High School are
getting first hand experience this
vear at running a profitable hog
operation
Vo-ag teacher Robert Woods’
agribusiness and farm
management class are the proud,
hard-working owners of 50 feeder
pigs Each of the eight youths in
the class invested $2O in the
protect and they’ll split any
profits after the hogs are sold
On November 13, the hogs were
trucked in from Franklin County
to the New Holland Rl farm of
John Weaver Weaver is the
father of one of the project
Ted Good, left, and Lamar Long check the weight of one of
the hogs in their senior FFA hog project at Garden Spot High
School The two are members of vo-ag teacher Robert
Woods’ agribusiness and farm management class.
HALES 0 HUNTER CO.
Franklin & High St.
Last week we discovered how much protein
was m our hay and silage, so now we are ready
to feed our cows.
First we must know how much silage each
cow gets Well we run the silo unloader for one
minute, into a bushel basket, weigh it, and find
that each minute it runs, about 60,pounds of
silage goes into the bunk feeder. We run the
unloader about 15 minutes, so there is about 750
pounds of silage being fed to 40 cows. Now we
know that each cow is getting exactly 20 pounds
of silage We count 10 bales of hay being fed
each day Each bale weighs about 40 pounds,
that totals about 400 pounds of hay going to 40
cows So now we know that each cow is eating
10 pounds of hay each day.
We take the 40 pounds of silage and 10 pounds
of hay, apply the figures we got from the lab
and now we know exactly how much protein
each cow is getting from the roughage.
Ok class, any questions'?
KINDA MAKES A BODY WONDER,
DON'T IT?
ELMER M. SHREINER
Trading at Good’s Feed Mill
Specializing in DAIRY & HOC FEEDS
New Providence, Pa
Phone 786-2500
SINCE 1870
members, and is renting feeding
facilities to the group The youths
estimate they saved about $lOO by
purchasing their feeder pigs in
Franklin County rather than
locally
The pigs were bought at an
average weight of 40 pounds, and
the target market weight is 225
pounds apiece The youths expect
to sell their hogs around the end
of Feburary
“This kind of program, I think,
is one of the best ways for a
student to learn,” Robert Woods
said “They have to cope with
buying, selling, rent costs,
feeding formulas and practices.
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They learned about borrowing
money, too, from the Blue Ball
National Bank. Naturally, before
we started the project, we got the
approval of the school district
and the school board.”
Woods commented that the
students were taking very good
care of the hogs. They are clean
and thrifty, and he expects they’ll
make a good profit. Figuring all
costs, the project will tet $l4O
profit if the hogs sell for 28 cents a
pound
Students participating in the
project, all seniors, are Ken
Burkhart, Ted Good, Lynn Groff,
Lamar Long, Greg Martin, Mike
Martin, Delmar Weaver and Jim
Zimmerman
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Greg Martin, left, and Jim Zimmerman take a close look at
the feed used in their vo-ag work experience hog project at
Garden Spot High School.
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