—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 31, 1976
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Largest hog farm has unique
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prior to the time they’re due,
sows move into the well
insulated and ventilated
farrowing house. Built three
years ago, the six-room
facility is like a giant lineup
of incubators. Each room
contains 18 crates, giving the
farrowing house a total
capacity for 108 sows at a
cime. But one of the rooms is
always empty as their use is
rotated for complete
Four additions put on
Paraquat labeling
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -
Four new additions to OR
THO Paraquat CLR labeling
have been announced by
Chevron Chemical Com
pany. The additions are:
Paraquat on potatoes after
planting as a pre
emergence treatment,
ground application only and
the addition of aerial ap
plication for North Dakota
only; Paraquat as a tank
mix with AATREX SOW and
PRINCEP SOW for com;
Affluence
WASHINGTON -
There’s a direct relationship
between a nation’s
agricultural productivity
and its affluence. In other
words, the less time people
spend producing food, the'
more time they have to
acquire the other things that
ordinarily measure wealth
and affluence. _
The United States is an
excellent example of this
relationship at work. Only
four percent of Americans
are engaged in agriculture,
Remove Mold
If mold appears on Ched
dar cheese you are storing
you can safely scrape off the
mold and enjoy the rest of
the cheese
Dill Pickles
Pickles with dill seed were
being produced in the 17th
century
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cleaning and disinfection. A
new room is emptied each
week.
Variable speed fans, along
with insulation and a sub
floor heating system
maintain an even tem
perature of about 70 degrees
365 days a year.
Strategically located ducts
insure that the air flow is
complete and non-drafting.
Odors from the bam and
underlying manure pits are
Paraquat as a post
emergence directed spray
used either alone or in
combination with Atrazine
as a tank mix on com; and
labeling updated or amended
from previous labeling.
Paraquat as a soybean
harvest aid on soybeans
when plants are mature with
beans fully developed and at
least % of the leaves have
dropped, and leaves left on
plants are turning yellow.
explained
leaving 96 percent free to
produce something else. In
India, 68 percent of the
people are in agriculture; in
Brazil, 53 percent.
This relationship is ex
plained in detail in “The
Secret of Affluence,” a
USDA Office of Com
munication publication
prepared for the USDA
Pavillion at the Kennedy
Space Center, Cape
Canaveral, Fla., May 30
through Sept. 6.
Primitive Pig
The pig is one of the most
primitive forms of domestic
mammals It dates back
nearly 40 million years
Storing Stuff
After jellies, jams and
preserves have been opened
store them covered in the
refrigerator
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drawn out along with stale
air. Special louvres and
doors can be opened to draw
air from either outside or the
interior walkways. The sub
floor heating tubes are only
under the areas used by baby
pigs. For supplementary
heat, Kephart has catalytic
gas heaters available.
Until recently, Kephart
allowed piglets to stay with
their mothers for as Jong as
six weeks. But a period of
experimentation has con
vinced him that just four and
even three weeks-'is suf
ficient. The goal is to have
sows produce an average of
Vk litters per year. He
reports no significant
problems so far.
Once removed from the
farrowing crates, the young
pigs are raised outside until
they reach a weight of ap
proximately 60 pounds.
Kephart explained that
-they’re off to a better start
that way, compared to
bringing them straight to one
of the feeder houses.
The feeder houses, which
are cooled down 10 degrees
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ALSO AVAILABLE AT DAVID GOOD’S
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Home Store Phone:
717-733-4466
RD4, Lititz, PA 17543
“Customers if interested” in black plastic silage
covers, we can bring along to Good's Sale if you
order.
• Made of 14 Gauge Steel
• Longer Taper for Easier Flow
• All welded seams which make it water proof and
rodent proof
• Can be installed inside or outside building
• Most installations can be made without auger.
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Also see us for all your grain handling needs.
with evaporative coolers,
are separated into two
divisions - one area for those
animals weighing between 60
and 150 pounds, the other for
putting on the last 60 to 70
pounds until a market weight
of 210 to 230 pounds has been'
reached. Aside from the
variation in size of the
animals, the main reason for
the separation of the pigs is
the difference in feed. The
pre-finish feed is a meal
containing 13 to 14 per cent
protein, while the final
finishing feed tests 11 to 12
per cent protein.'ln either
case, feed is moved
automatically and the pigs
are allowed to eat as much
as they want. They reach
their marketng weight at
approximately five to six
months of age.
In assessing the operation,
Kephart cites no major
problems and he notes that
once the pigs are weaned,
the period of maximum
stress is over. It’s a down-hill
battle when pigs come out of
the crate, he said.
As in most hog operations,
'ATTENTION
manure is handled through
pits and liquid manure
spreaders. BDM has slatted
floors and pits in each of its
barns. The material is
removed and hauled in a
3200-gallon spreader
powered by a 4020 John
Deere. Loading time is just
four minutes, but Kephart is
quick to add that it takes a
six-inch pipe and a 1000-rpm
shaft to do it.
Market hogs leaving BDM'
Farms are sold through the
Pennsylvania Farmers
Association’s grade and
M.H. 30
M.H. 30 Royal -for tobacco suckers
Cygon for aphids on tobacco
Applicators Available for Both Materials
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ideas
yield program.
Being just a year out of
college, Kephart was asked
to sum up' his experiences
and observations since
becoming herdsman. “I feel
that everything I know now I
learned after I came here,”
he responded.
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