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always held the first week m
November, right before
KILE,” he said, “and there
were problems moving
livestock in for KILE
because of the overlap in
moving horses out.”
But the change in dates
does have some draw
backs.Halloway pointed out,
it’s a bad time to hold KILE
because >t will fall at a time
when farmers are filling
silos.
Sharing her sentiments,
but from a slightly different
perspective, was Rodger
Bankert, president of the Pa.
Duroc and Chester White
Associations. He said he
personally would rather
have the show in November
because farmers will be
picking com in October.
Banker! also noted that
having the show a month
earlier will create problems
for hogmen in getting the
weight on their animals. He
recalled that the May gilts
he showed at previous
Expo’s were 40 pounds
smaller than the April gilts—
and now, he said, die show is
a whole month earlier.
“You can’t go into your
May pigs for a show
prospect,” Banker! stated,
“and expect to reach the 190
pound weight limit. They
just won’t have the size.
You’re going to need April
pigs.
“If the KILE committee
would have told us back in
November about the change
of date, we could have bred
our sows right after last
year’s Expo, and would have
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been finished breeding in
December. As it stands now,
some breeders were still
breeding their sows in
February.”
Mrs. Clyde Brubaker, a
Lancaster County Hamp
shire sheep breeder, com
mented that people will need
to gear their hogs, sheep,
steers, and lambs with the
earlier date in mind.
“A lamb can gam a lot of
weight in one month’s time.
No matter what the age of
the lamb, the ration will
have to be increased at just
the right time to be ready.”
As far as the affects the
new date will have on the
show schedule of sheep
producers, Brubaker said
she felt the only conflicts
would be m schedules of
local fairs, like Manheim.
But, concerning the bred
ewe sale scheduled for
October 4, she said the
buyers will have to know
that the ewes they’re buying
were with the ram one
month less. This will mean a
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change in the wording of the
terms of the sale regarding
breeding, she added.
The breeding swine sale
that has been tentatively
planned for KILE will be an
added incentive for many
exhibitors to bring hogs to
the show.
Leon Arnold, a swine
producer in Lebanon County,
stated he doesn’t show
breeding stock where he has
to bring them along home—it
has to be a show, sale
combination.
Arnold said he thought
there may be more of a
market for boar hogs at the
newly scheduled October
KILE than there would have
been if the show date was not
changed and the sale held.
“You don’t want much
traffic of new pigs m Win
ter,” he said.
Bankert also felt the sale
of breeding swine would be a
good idea. “You can get pigs
home in October and have
them bred in November
without disease problems in
your breeding gilts. If you
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buy an open gilt at KILE and
bring her to the Keystone
Classic,(held in late
February at the Farm
Show), as a bred gilt, it will
be a good business venture,”
he said.
Lowell Wilson, secretary
of the Pa. Cattlemen’s
Association, said the
association feels it is a good
idea for the change of
Keystone’s date. But, he
added, it will mean some
cattle breeders will have a
more difficult time getting
their cattle ready on time.
“It was essential for KILE
to have an earlier date so
that the show will continue to
grow,” he concluded.
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have four horse shows:
Appaloosa, Friday, October
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October 5; and Arabian,
Monday, October 6.
The National 4-H Horse
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Friday, October 3. And on
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The placements were eight
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corresponding week a year
earlier and four percent
above the previous week.
Average placements during
the past nine weeks were
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