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As this young Lancaster Countian knows, it is never too early to get involved in
the hog industry. Pennsylvanians will have the opportunity to further their
"pork” knowledge next Friday at the first Keystone Pork Congress.
I Hog producers eagerly awaiting Pork Congress
By KENDACE BORRY
LITITZ “Excited” is the
word that describes pork
producers in Pennsylvania
as the first ever Keystone
Pork Congress draws close.
They are eagerly awaiting
the event into which many of
them have poured so much
time and planning.
J ‘Dr. Dwight Younkin,
By DIETER KRIEG
KENNETT SQUARE
Just a day after the first
ever Keystone Pork
Congress, which is to held
this coming Friday at the
Hershey Motor Lodge, swine
producers will have the
opportunity to participate in
a second noteworthy event
that forecasts upcoming
changes for the East’s swine
industry.
Next Saturday, Feb. 17, is
Open House for a unique
Serving and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas '- Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware
Penn State, was the in
stigator of the event,” Clyde
Strock, Mechanicsburg,
president of the Penn
sylvania Pork Producers
Council noted. “Other states
have their pork congresses,
so we decided to try one.
We’ve been working over a
year, for we started to plan it
last year.”
Open House to feature feeder pis unit
swine facility which will
produce feeder pigs for a
group of private owners,
while simultaneously
providing all pig farmers
with a program for better
animal health.
The ambitious project,
undertaken at a cost of some
$750,000, has received the
blessings of the Veterinary
School at the University of
Pennsylvania, and it is being
built on the University’s New
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 10,1979
He told of the efforts in
volved in the project, and
said it was worth all the
work.
“We need a cohesive
organization,” he skid.
“This should bring the pork
producers together, and
hopefully we can introduce
them into developing our
check-off program, and
Bolton Center research
grounds.
In this issue
Editorials 10
Classifieds 44
Homestead Notes 82
Joyce Bupp 85
Home on the Range 86
Junior Cooking Edition 88
Chillcuring 92
Kendy’sKollumn 94
Valentine features 98,102.
Keystone Pork Congress
By DIETER KRIEG
HERSHEY To Penn
sylvania hog farmers, the
first ever Keystone Pork
Congress is not unlike the
lift-off of a Saturn rocket
that is bound for the mpon.
Everybody is hoping it will
be a huge success. In
dications are that it will be.
Pennsylvania’s hog in
dustry, particularly as it is
concentrated in Lancaster
County and surrounding
areas, is booming and
soaring like a rocket.
Because of that, the up
coming Keystone Pork
Glenn Shirk named
to Lancaster Co, Extension
By SALLY BAIR
LANCASTER County
Agricultural Agent Glenn L.
Shirk has been named to the
staff of the Penn State Ex
tension Service in Lancaster
County, Marion R. Deppen,
Extension administrator,
announced Thursday even
ing at the annual meeting of
the Lancaster County
Agricultural and Home
Economics Extension
Assocation.
Shirk, presently county
- agent in Chester County, will
assume his duties here on
February 15. He will be
responsible for the dairy pro
grams in the post made va
educate them to disease
problems and new housing
methods.
He added that he was
pleased with the effort of all
who worked on the program.
Mark Nestleroth,
Manheim explained that the
Keystone Pork Congress “is
like the American Pork
Congress coming east, only
The feeder pig production
center consists of three
Expo exhibitors 109
York 4-H banquet 111
Crop basics 118
Chester DHIA 122
Anti-trust proposal 126
Ephrata Y. F. 129
Tree seedlings 136
Seeing Eye 138
Sales register 145
is February 16
Congress was bound to
happen sooner or later. It’s
scheduled to take place Feb.
16 at the Hersfaey Motor
Lodge, here.
The organizers of the
event have made every
effort to go first-class with
this first-time venture.
Former U.S. Secretary of
Agriculture Earl Butz, for
example, will be the banquet
speaker. The National Pork
Queen, Tammy Moerer, will
make her first Pennsylvania
appearance at this event.
One of the country’s most
distinguished swine
cant by the resignation of N.
Alan Bair in October. A
native of southern Lancaster
County, Shirk is presently
working with programs in
dairy, agronomy, farm
management and youth.
In making the announce
ment, Deppen said it is the
only position he has been
able to fill. In the last year,
15 positions have been frozen
temporarily because of
budget cuts, including the
assistant home economics
position in Lancaster Coun
ty, left vacant when Aggie
Arnold Norman resigned
last May.
He remarked that in the
on a smaller scale. We’re
hoping to make it an annual
event. It’s designed to be of
benefit to all and we expect
to attract hog producers
from all over. It’s a chance
to learn new ideas, meet
friends, see new products.
We have a market for hogs
and the interest in hog
major buildings: a breeding
and gestation house with
room for more than 400 sows,
gilts, and boars; a farrowing
house composed of four 20-
crate rooms, and a nursery
which has a capacity of 1200
head.
When visitors come to the
Open House next Saturday,
only the breeding and
gestation building will have
been completed. The
farrowing house will be very
nearly done, and the nursery
will still be in its initial
$6.00 Per Year
specialists, Professor
Robert Fritschen from the
University of Nebraska, will
be on hand for special
presentations and
discussions.
Several other notables
from the animal science
departments of area
universities will also take
part. In addition, 60 com
mercial exhibitors will bring
their products and programs
for all to see. “There’ll be
something there for
everyone who is involved in
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last several years 47 profes
sional positions have been
collapsed in Extension in
Pennsylvania, and in the
next five years there will be
a retrenchment, amounting
to $802,000.
Deppen called Shirk one of
the “very” best county
agents in the state. Shirk
said he is looking forward to
beginning his work here and
to becoming a member of the
extension team. “It is
home,” he said. He and his
wife Carol Lee, will move to
a home near Landisville in
March.
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production in the East is the
backbone of this show.”
“Education” is the aspect
that stands out in Elwood
Houser’s mind. The Lebanon
farmer enthusiastically
related that the latest in
formation will be available
for those who attend, with
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phases of construction. Abe
Fisher, manager for Jet-Age
Swine Breeders of Kinzer
HI, and an overseer of the
project, explains that by
staggering the phases of
construction, the facility can
go into operation six months
sooner. While the first
breeding animals are
scheduled to arrive soon
after the Open House,
construction will continue on
the second and third stages
of the operation.
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