VOL 22 No. 35 Farm Calendar 10 Letters 10 Homestead Notes 42 Home on the Range 45 My Thoughts 47 Plant lovers’corner 50 Rug hooking 52 Classifieds 54 Dauphin DHIA 82 Joyce Bupp 84 The first of its kind in the hog operation Joel Habegger, is novr being corripieted.When In Ufll production, the facility Wilr house 480 sows, their litters, 24 boars, and 2400 leeder/pi^ Hog factcw^t©^^ ByDDETER KRIEG FRYSTOWN, Pa. - A hog-raising system which is the first of its kind in the East goes into production later this month near this western Berios County community. Owned by Joel C. Habegger, the unique facility-features total confinement from farrowing to finishing' and Orchardists look to good harvest ByKENDACEBORRY LANCASTER, Pa. - The k apple, peach, pear, and plum harvest should be better than -average this year, according to Lancaster County orchard fanners. Estimates ranging Organic farming is a way of life By DIETER KRIEG EDITOR’S NOTE: This begins a series of stories on the organic farming concept ' PENNS CREEK, Pa.—The organic fanner looks at the soil and his livelihood in a different way from the more conventional tiller of the soil. f In short, he believes that productivity is optimized if all of the complex concepts of Nature are kept in balance. A Pasture-stretching grasses assessed By JOYCE BUPP York Co. Reporter WELLSVILLE, Pa. - “The cows seem to eat the Big “Blue Grass like it’s candy,’’ assesses Penn State Livestock Specialist Dr. Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas - Also Maryland, NewMSlnffirand Delaware In this issue YorkDHIA 86 POFCO convention 89 Holstein sire summaries 94 Lifeonthefarm .100 Ladies have you heard 103 How farm was saved 106 South Afraaui viators 107 Tourists kpefarms 111 Sale Reports 113 Public Saipsßegister 114' from slightly above average to very good were given out this week as the harvest forcast of the orchard crops. Earlier this summer, the cherry crop in Lancaster with agronomists in finding pasture-stretching grasses for beef cattle. While in York County on a livestock judging-teacfaing visit, Burdette checked a research plot of midwest Ul ikat Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 16,1977 demands a hospital-like attitude on cleanliness. Built at a reported cost of over |BOO,OOO, the 32,790 square foot barns are now being completed and will eventually raise 8490 market hogs per year. Habegger, in conjunction with Pennfleld Corporation, sponsored Open House activities yesterday to introduce County was only about 50 per cent of its potential. The main reason for this was due to a sudden cold snap in the weather after an early blossoming of the cherry trees in April. The freezing most exemplary illustration of this is the organic fanner’s attitude towards insects, or pests. Most fanners haven’t an ounce of sympathy towards the little critters which chew up their crops and profits. But organic farmers don’t believe in declaring war against the insect world. To them, the insect has a place in Nature’s scheme, and they’re willing to accept that as is. Paul Keene, one of the country’s larger organic farmers Warrington Green livestock farm. . Included in the blend of warm-season grasses is the' Big Blue species and a variety of Switchgrass. Hie University specialist (Miration isld&ed and envirohmehtally contflHrigfcginn of hogs* rather than a breed* will Mused toproduce pork, with replacemmt animals coming from mifhtri -ika . ..nmlaif * - - ~ w^ cold greatly. attected the cherry season and . harvest. ~ *’ f“ > -t*- * i However, that' cold weather seems to have had little effect on the later-fruit harvests. Apples, peaches. test plots of the grasses have beeq established since 1973. . “It’s aa tall as the cows.” noted Burdette. “But they’ll graze it down prettywell.” Tests have shown a yield from the midwest varieties the new system to other interested farmers in the area. Pennfield wpl use a portion of the facilities for research. Other companies took part in the Open House ax well. _ Totally environmentally controlled, the system was built by Swine Service Specialists, Inc. of Lyons, Neb. pears, and p\umx all look to have good crops. - £ ' According' to Richard i Haas, Mew’ Danville, who 1 farms 175 acres* A full crop will be expected f from his , apples and other fruit “The who operates 500 acres near this northern Snyder County community and markets his produce all over the world, explains 91c theory. He first came across it in India, where Sir, Albert Howard, a British agriculturalist, was working gt thetime to improve farm productivity. “If youhave a plant which is infested with bugs, you have two ways of looking at it,” Keene explained, IConinMd on Put 22] to production of local cool wepther grasses. Nutritive value Jaeaual to that of cool weather typer during the same Summerperiod. Coarser; in stem and leaf than trad|tional pasture blue ydkDO Per Year {Confimed on Page 38) only problem with the weather now Is that it’s a little dry and even that seems to have eased in the last week or so,” be stated. The dryness seemed to be [Continued on Pam 291 the East, help fill the Summer grazing void left when hot weather slows the growth of established varieties. Burdette emphasizes that the warm-season perennials
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