Vicki Rice (Continued from Page D2O) With the boars loose in the crate behind them, the sows usually back up to them.” As far as any difficulties in handling the 400 pound boars is concerned, the 130 pound farmer says “No problems.” She adds they could care less that she’s in the pen with them during the breeding. After the breeding and gestation comes the long awaited day of farrowing. Within twelve hours from the tor your money with Madison® Grain-O-Matic. That’s good thinking! 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By the time the pigs are between two and three weeks old, the baby boars are m for another of life’s lessons. Vicki handles the castration of the pigs on her own, too. “When I was first taught how to castrate by the Purina representative Jim Owens, he had me hold the pigs between my legs. But it was too hard my hands weren’t big enough to hold the pig and do the castrating too. So, I got help a mechanical holder that holds the pig upside down.” At about this same time, the pigs are weaned, wormed and embark on a short ride back to a nursery of double deck cages. Vicki points out she tries to put each litter together in a cage because “it’s enough of a change leaving their mother without getting stuck in a pen with strangers.” She adds, however, she never puts more than ten pigs m a crate. If the litter is larger than ten, there is some inevitable shuffling of pig litters. Likewise, all of the runts are picked out and grouped together. 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It’s Just so much easier on us and the pigs to push them out m the cart.” The Rices market all their pigs and buy any replacement gilts they need. Their fust purchase of gilts last May started their farrowing operation off last November, and since then they have gotten 10 replacement gilts this past May with an additional 10 coming in September. The gilts weigh between 190 to 200 pounds when they arrive. After 60 days, during which time they get to the right size for breeding, are tested for pseudorabies, and are acclamated to the bam, the gilts are ready for ser vicing. With one complete farrowing under their belt, the Rices have finished with an enviable record. Their average litter size is 9.95 with a weaning average of 9.38. Says Vicki, “The only pigs we lose are lose that ac cidently get laid on, and this happens all too often when the weather gets hot. The baby pigs try to crawl up alongside their mothers where the floor is generally moist and cool, and they get crushed.” Like other hog producers, the Rices have had some troubles. Their first year in the business found 13 cases of Smedi in the the barn, and they have a hard time keeping up with the record books too. But says Vicki, “It’s a challenge and an opportunity.” She smiles as the in terview comes to a close and says, “I always said I refused co be a farmer’s wife I’m not I’m a farmer.” ERNON MYERS, INC STEEL BUILDINGS & GRAIN STORAGE AVCSCO AUTHORIZED BUILDER Lancaster Firming, Saturday, September 6,1950—021 Heavy rainfall threatens crops several countries LANCASTER - Rainfall in Canada, the USSR, China and South America posed threats to crop conditions last week, according to a weekly report issued Monday by the Joint Agricultural Weather Facility of the U.S. Departments of Commerce and Agriculture. In Australia and parts of the United States, however, ram was beneficial to crop development. Highlights of the report follow. UNITED STATES. A series of beneficial, in termittent showers spread east last week along the frontal system from the central and northern Great Plains to the central East Coast regions. Rainfall exceeding five inches caused damaging flooding in West Virginia. Crop development in the Mississippi Delta and Gulf Coastal States continued to be hurt by lack of rain and temperatures ranging four to seven degrees above normal. In the Pacific Northwest, generally cool dry weather with temperatures two to five degrees below seasonal averages aided late summer harvest activity. CANADA. Cool, wet weather delayed ripening of spring grains and hampered harvesting activities in the southeastern Pacific. The heavy ram, however, helped replenish soil moisture reserves in that regiqn. 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Continued wet weather in the Yangtze Valley may have caused substantial losses to the nearly mature cotton and rice crops. Most locations received three to four times the normal rainfall, resulting in widespread flooding. EUROPE. Much of the west had favorable harvest weather and the above normal rains in the east fell on areas which had been relatively dry in the previous week, lessening the detrimental effect on the harvest. AUSTRALIA. Substantial rain was especially beneficial to the crop in New South Wales where dry conditions have prevailed recently. Rainfall also benefitted the crop in Vic toria. SOUTH AMERICA. Heavy rain in Santa Catarina State, Brazil, possibly caused some fields to become waterlogged, posing potential damage to the winter grain crop. STATE ZIP. in
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