— iwiwUrFirniint, Saturday^ 18 Garden Spot seniorsrimniirg hog experiment € The Garden Spot seniors and Robert Woods check the weights of their hogs after 40 days. 15H120 Harrisburg GAY Ideal Excellent (92) & Gold Medal; Prod. Qual. (Jan./78) The bull that breeders Keep talking about! 7,385 Daus. +1.073M +26F +sB9 99% rpt. Siring dairyness with strength and general type improvement 1,529 Classified Daus. Ave. 79.2 (act.) 81.0 (age-adj.) He’s available daily from all our Professional Technicians. Atlantic BREEDERS COOPERATIVE LIVESTOCK SERVICES Member - NAL Affiliated Breeders 24-Hour Toll-Free Phones for Service: Lancaster area 569-0411 Pennsylvania 800-732-0391 Del. & Md. 800-233-0216 i 1.8,1978- v-'., V.*?* By JOANNE SPAHR EAST EARL - When it comes to bog management, financial records, and borrowing and lending, six senior members of the Grassland Future Farmers of America chapter are getting down to brass tacks. Along with Garden Spot High School vocational agriculture instructor Robert Woods, Dan Witwer, East Earl, Terry Schaffer, Morgantown Rl, Dave Stahl, Denver Rl, Joe Hoover, New Holland, Michael Martin, Bowmansville, and Michael Witwer, East Earl Rl, began an experiment on February 27. In this experiment the seniors purchased 16 head of swine and divided them into two groups. One pen is currently being fed a com mercial mix and the other a ration formulated by the senior vocational agri culture class. The objectives of this - experiment are many, with the main purpose of the feeding experiment a practical one. According to Woods, the class would like to determine if farmers in the area can formulate feed rations using their own grains and still compete economically with com mercial mixed produced by local feed mills. Also, they would like to find out if there is an/ advantage to feeding commercial feeds over home formulated feed rations in the areas of average daily gain and feed efficiency. While these goals, alone, provide a learning ex perience for the students involved, the practical ex perience of taking part in the project will offer side ad vantages, as well. One of the major lessons to be learned is financial management. The seven members involved in the divide up the proftis from the project sat down and made project, and that the mill will up a budget for swine which be responsible for covering included feed to be used, any losses, should they building rental, the cost of occur. the feeder pigs, medication, The pigs the members marketing, hauling, and 10 purchased are York per cent interest on the in- , shire/Hampshire cros vestment. Then they ap- shreds from Stauffer proached the Blue Ball Homestead, East Earl, sold National Bank who loaned at a good price in support of them $l4OO interest free to the project, cover the cost of expenses All fed on the same incurred during the feeding medicated ration for the first period. The group also took few days to “get them out a checking account in going,” the hogs were then their names and were given divided into two pens with checks, also donated hy the each animal having an Blue Ball National Bank, average of approximately 20 Each member has a record square feet, book provided by Production Pen one is being fed ac credit of Lancaster. cording to Gehman’s Supplying the feed for the commercial feeding program is Gehman’s Feed program which involves pig£| Mill, Inc., of Denver, who starter ASP pellets until the has assured the members that the class will be able to . sperw=£=n=w hollaind BALER M SERVICE m CLINIC JiL APRIL 10,1978 7:30 P.M. Location: ROY A. BRUBAKER Sales & Service Store 1700Woodcrest Ave. ” Lititz, PA (1 mile Southwest of Lititz) ‘V* - , (Turn to Page 19)
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