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The Garden Spot seniors and Robert Woods check the weights of their hogs
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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
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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)
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