Pork Congress
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producers to take a look at what
happens when they hold hogs an
extra week or two while holding
out for higher prices
“With the 2 million hogs
slaughtered every week, feeding a
225 pound hog an extra week can
add 25 million pounds of pork to the
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SALE
OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
GOODS, ANTIQUES &
FARM EQUIPMENT
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
At 9 00 A.M.
Located midway between Coatesville
and Lancaster, first farm East of Route
41, along Route 30, Lancaster County,
PA.
Household Goods at 9:00 A.M.
Old Kitchen Cabinet, Old Slant Top Millers
Desk, 9 piece Dining Room Suite, Old
Dovetailed Blanket Chest, 6 Oak Dining Room
Chairs; Small Dovetailed Blanket Chest,
Washstand, Claw Foot Oak Center Table,
Empire Bureau, Small Jelly Cupboard, 6
Drawer Spool Cabinet, Lime Oak Kneehole
Desk, 4 piece Bedroom Suite, Kneehole Desk,
Wood Box, Old Benches, Old Wooden Hobby
Horse, Old Plank Bottom Rocker, Camel Back
Trunk, Clothes Tree, Hanging Hall Rack, Old
Rope Bed, Sofa, Cane Seated and Back
Rocker, Rocking Chair, Occasional Chair,
Spice Rack, Folding Table and Chair,
Franklin Treadle Sewing Machine, Spanish
American War Uniform, like new, Souvenir of
the SPANISH AMERICAN WAR, Old
Clothing, Old Hats, Old Childrens Clothing,
Bedding; Old Quilts, Basket Quilt, 9 Patch
Quilt; Coverlet, Comforts, Old Homespun
Linen; Braided Throw Rugs, Clock, Pictures,
Mirrors, Lamps, Books, Old Children’s
Books, Old Post Cards, Name Cards and
Leather Cards, Small Cluna Dolls, Old Key
Wind, Pocket Watches, Old Slate, Brass Sleigh
Beils, Iron Kettle Hangers, Crocks and Jugs,
Ice Tongs; Old Magazine Rack, Rugs 9 by 12
Oldson Rug
Glassware
Bavarian China Set, Press Glass, Old Willow
Ware, Small Glass Basket, Old Press Glass
Punch Bowl Set with 12 Cups and Cake
Stand, Fruit Dishes; Depression Glass;
Carnival Ware, Earthen Pie Plates and Bowls,
Old Spittoon: English Adams China, Salts, Old
Bottles, Dates Jars, Sherbets, Silverware; Old
Pin Cushion; Old Coffee Grinder; Japan Cups
and Saucers; Tinware, Iron Bear Banks, Old
Childs Tool Chest with Tools; AMERICAN
FLYER TOY TRAIN AFIO, EXCELLENT
CONDITION, Tappan Gas Range, Fngidaire
Refrigerator, Coleman Space Heater, Oil
Space Heater
Farm Equipment
Allis Chalmers Dl7 Wide Front End, good
rubber, A-C Dl5 3 point Hook Up Wide Front
End, good rubber, A-C Dl4 has Loader, A-C
C A Cultivator and Corn Planter, Farmall
Super A with Cultivator and Tobacco Hoers,
Oliver 2-14” 3 P Raydex Plow, J D KBA 28
Disc, J D 3 Section Harrow, Cultipacker,
Brady Manure Spreader, Two Row Stauffer
Tobacco Planter, N H 68 Hay Line Baler PTO,
N H 7 foot Mower, MC-Rotory 7 ft wide,
Elevator, Drag Elevator, 3 Rubber Tire
Wagons with beds; Grain Drill, 2 N I Side
Rakes, one on rubber, 2 Tobacco Wagons, One
Hole Corn Sheller, Electric and Battery
Operated Fencers, Electric Fence Post and
Wire
MILK EQUIPMENT - 325 gallon Jamesway
Bulk Tank, Two Unit Milkers, 30”
Barn Fan with automatic Controls, Stainless
Buckets and Strainers; Tubs, 40 ft Extension
Ladder; Tobacco Lath, Platform Scale, Bale
Box, Sizing Boxes, Large Pot Belly Stove, 275
gallon Oil Tank, 19 in Dinner Bell; Iron
Trough; Rubber Tire Wheelbarrow, Hay, Corn
and many other articles too numerous to
mention.
AUCTIONEERS NOTE: Household items
will be sold first.
Terms by
JOHN N.& ALICE E. CROUSE
AUCTIONEERS
Robert E. Martin & Son, 656-7770
Frank L. Steller. 656-8195
D. Steller and K. Martin, Clerks
Refreshments served by
Linville Hill Mennonite School
No Out of State Checks Accepted
market, and you know what that
will do to pricing,” he said.
He also suggested producers
study the futures market and
use it as a tool, not just as a
barometer for prices He told them
to lock in at a price that will insure
a profit, not necessarily the top
dollar.
Located 3 miles from Newmilford, PA,
Take exit 67 off 1-81 and go east on 492,
Susquehanna Co. Follow auction arrows.
About 100 cows in all stages of lactation Lots
of size and condition The heifers are all ages
from breeding age down A young very
productive stanchion dairy The heifers well
grown Interstate charts, shipping shots,
pregnancy exammed
MF 2745 tractor with full cab and all extras,
V 8 diesel, 145 hp looks like new; MF 6 bottom
18” plows, auto reset; MF 1100 diesel; JD 3020
gas, all WF; MF 880 5 bottom plows; JD 10’
transport disc; 3IH forage boxes with wagons;
3 Bale King wagons; NH 289 haybme; NH 256
rake, NH tandem axle 679 spreader; NH 770
chopper; 2 row and pickup; NH 28 blower;
Grimm tedder; transport harrows; Wmpower
generator
Approx 5000 bales very good hay and
approx 400 tons early cut grass silage
This farm also to be offered at auction at 12
noon. Situated 3 miles from 1-81, good farm
h 200 head under 1 room, 116 stanchions
with oarn cleaner with pipeline to all, 50x100
new freestall heifer bam, 30x60 silo with
unloader, 1000 gal tank, lots of land available.
Call auctioneer for terms and inspection
Watch next week’s paper for complete ad
Terms Cash or approved check
Owner
Jim Adnance & Sons Auctioneers
Montrose 717-278-1574
Located VA miles north of Route 340
from the Bird-in-Hand Motor Inn &
Restaurant. 1 mile south of Monterey
along the Monterey Rd., Lancaster Co.,
Pa.
50 head of Holstein dairy cattle 39 head of
Holstein dairy cows in all stages of production
5 due to freshen in next month 10 heifers from 3
mos to 1 year old 1 small bull
2pi sorrel mules, well broke
FARM EQUIPMENT
NH #268 baler with diesel engine, New Idea
#323 1-row corn picker, New Idea #206 manure
spreader, McD corn binder with loader, Husky
fast-feed corn sheller,
Oliver two bottom 12 ' plow, Oliver single
bottom 14” plow, McD #9 7’ trailer-gear grass
mower, NH elevator, wheel type side rake, 2
flat-bed wagons, 1 with springs,
Mechanical transplanter, McD two row corn
planter, John Deere 20 KBA disc harrow; John
Deere 3-section spring harrow; 2 John Deere
riding cultivators, double cultipacker, gravity
bin on running gears,
Two fore-trucks, platform scales, Mmnich
tobacco press, bag wagon, log chains, front
gears, collars, 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 horse hitches,
Dairying Equipment, Mojonmer 600 gallon
bulk tank, Lombardim 20 hp diesel with 1050
hours, 3-Delaval milking units, 300 pound
portable Sputnik, Boumatic 4 or six unit pump,
Lehigh 3 hp compressor, stainless steel tubs
and strainer, pail rack, electric fencer,
Sale at 10:30 A.M.
Owners
BENJ. S.& LIZZIE E. CLICK
Diffenbach’s Auctioneers
He emphasized hog producers
need to learn how to hedge and use
the futures since packers are
hedging and marketing their
product with the futures putting
more competition in the live hog
market.
However, Yergler pointed out,
the number of farms competing in
pork production will be continuing
to decrease. He predicted the
number of farms raising hogs will
drop to 100,000 nationwide by 1999.
These farms possibly will be
producing more pork than the
2,400,000 farms that were in the
pork business in 1954, he said
COMPLETE DISPERSAL
SATURDAY, MARCH 7
9:30 A.M
170 HOLSTEINS
MACHINERY
PRODUCE
FARM
WILLIAM CANTONE
PUBLIC SALE
FRIDAY, MARCH 6,1981
10:30 A.M.
LIVESTOCK
Lunch available.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 21,1981—A39
—pi ;y. jg iwards
during the Third Annual Keystone Pork Congress. He
presented Michele Bankert, above, with the 1981 Champion
Junior Showman award, and Robert Bishop, below, received
the 1980 4-H Swine Producers award.
also has changed, he said, with the
shift being toward more con-
finement.
“Six years ago, there were only
10 percent of the operations raising
hogs in total confinement, with 70
percent raising hogs in open lots
and pasture, and 20 percent using
partial confinement. Now, about 30
percent of the hogs are raised in
total confinement, and those raised
in open lots and pastures has
dropped to 20 percent, with the
difference in partial ”
Concerning the recent rise in
feeder pig prices, Yergler stated
this national trend is the result of a
shortage a blacklash from last
spring’s low prices. However, he
noted, it is normal for feeder pig
prices to go up around this time
The Lancaster markets reported
a rise in prices over the past three
weeks from $5O to $lOO, with this
week’s market dropping back
down in the $9O range Locally, the
pig shortage is believed to be the
result of the stress on sows during
the hot weather last summer and
poor conception rates, plus pig
losses due to diseases like TGE and
pseudorabies
The remainder of the session
was devoted to electronic
marketing and telephone auctions
Ohio State’s Dennis Henderson
described the Hog Accelerated
Marketing Service, called HAMS,
PUBLIC
AUCTION
MONDAY,
MARCH 30
Selling Farm
Equipment
Location - take
Rt. 422 E from
Lebanon to
Myerstown, in
Myerstown take 645
North, go straight
on Strack Dam Rd.
toward Mt. Zion to
E. Strack Dr., turn
right to 2nd
property on right.
SAMUEL G. & MARION
B.MUSSER
Owners
John E &
Paul E Martin
Auctioneers
ig developed and
studied under a federal grant m
Ohio
Through a network of computer
terminals, hogs are marketed at
the rate of 1300 to 1400 head per
day These numbers, however,
only account for 13 percent of the
operating costs of the system
about $2.50 -$3 per head. Other
traditional methods of marketing
run around $1.50 per head for costs
George Lane, hog division
marketing manager of Producer’s
Livestock Association commented,
“We’ve shown this system can
market hogs. There is a need for
electromc marketing. Producers
using the system are optomistic
and packers are interested.”
Presentl., three Pennsylvania
packers are hooked up on the
computer terminal system.
Mike Carpenter of the Virginia
Department of Agriculture ex
plained the state’s Tel-O-Auctions,
started in 1960 He noted 60-70
percent of the state’s feeder pigs
are sold through the telephone
auction between 150,000-160,000
each year.
John Saunders, vice president of
the National Pork Producers
Council, summed up the Third
Keystone Pork Congress by
complimenting the volunteer
organization on a superb effort
one that could compare to other
state’s with paid PPC staff
Vo-ag is safe
LANCASTER The proposed
change in Lancaster County
Vocational-Technical schools, to
be voted on February 26 by the
board of directors of the 16 school
districts, will have no effect on
vocational agriculture, says Ralph
Layman of the Willow Street Vo
tech.
"We are not going to be
discussing or changing vo-ag at
all,” Layman said. “In the process
of long-range goals, however, we
may include horticulture and
floriculture mto one basic course
with students specializing their
senior year.”
The plan, first presented last
fall, has been met with much
criticism which resulted in cutting
the proposed expense almost in
half, from a $4.1 million project to
a $2.5 million one in October of last
vear.
The Thursday meeting will be
held at the Brownstown Vo-tech
school at 8 p.m. 144 members of
schools' boards will be voting.
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