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Pseudorabies
(Continued from Page Al)
to prevent any farther spread of
the disease.
“We tried to make the guidelines
as realistic as possible and as
effective as possible,” Shirk ex
plained.
The guidelines for voluntary
action will be distributed to pork
producers by various cooperating
sales and service personnel, such
as feedmen and veterinarians.
A separate set of guidelines has
also been prepared for sales and
service personnel who visit hog
operations.
Members of the Task Force will
be present at the Sept. 14 and 15
meetings to discuss the guidelines
with producers.
Producer members of the Task
Force include William Fisher,
East Earl; John Henkel,
Strasburg; James Martin,
Ephrata; John Miller, New
Holland; Mark Nestleroth,
Manheim; Earl Weaver, East
Earl; Larry Weaver, New
Holland; and John Zeiset, East
Earl.
Veterinarian members are Drs.
Robert Graybill, Lancaster; Larry
Hutchinson, Penn State Extension
veterinarian; Henry Kulp, USDA
vet from Morgantown; George
Landis, Bureau of Animal In
dustries at the Lancaster Stoc
vkyards; Timothy Trayer,
Reinholds; and George Zim
merman, Ephrata.
Feed company representatives
include Gerald Applegate, Pemr
field Corp ; Abram Fisher, John J.
Hess, Inc.; Paul Hann, Ralston
Purina; Harold Kurtz, Keystone
Mills; Harry Morgan, AgWay Inc.;
David Myer, Stevens Feed Inc.;
and Richard Myer, AgWay.
Marketing representatives in
clude Allen Diffenbach, New
Holland Sales Stables;; Ezra
Good, Denver; and Edward
Prosser, Lancaster Stockyards.
Educator representatives are
Charles Ackley, vo-ag staff at
Ephrata High School; Donald
Robinson, Garden Spot School
District, and Extension Agent
Shirk
PRODUCER GUIDELINES
ALLHERDS
1. Separate hogs from all other
livestock.
2. No unauthorized people
allowed in any hog house or on any
livestock truck; authorized people
should use disinfectant and foot
bath, shower facilities or
disposable clothing, etc. Post a
sign, use locks, and heed
quarantines.
3. Stray animals should be
controlled - cats, dogs, rodents,
wildlife, etc.
4 Pre-sort hogs for shipment;
prevent hogs from entering truck,
and then returning to pen.
5. Haul feeder pigs and breeding
stock in cleaned and disinfected
vehicles only.
6. Equipment shared with other
farmers should be cleaned and
disinfected especially if it con
tacted hogs and hog manure.
7. Clean and disinfect trucks and
boots after visiting or hauling
stock to any auction or buying
station.
8. Dispose of dead animals
promptly. Bury under one toot ot
cover, incinerate, or seal m plastic
bag and give to a scavenger, etc.;
beware of leaky scavenger trucks.
9. At fairs, separate hogs from
other livestock. Fair rules should
recommend hogs be negative to a
test conducted within 30 days of
show, or come from qualified
pseudorabies free herds. Isolate
and re-test breeding stock
returned to faun.
10. Call veterinarian it
questionable health problems
exist.
11. Eradicate pseudorabies
infections promptly. Ask your
veterinarian, regulatory personnel
or Extension personnel for
assistance.
12. Encom age evei yone to follow
these guidelines - farmers plus
sales and service personnel.
BREEDER HERDS
1. Test all newly-acquired
breeding stock. Be sure they are
negative before they come onto
your farm.
2. Isolate all" newly-acquired
breeding stock for 30-45 days.
3. Re-test all newly-acquired
breeding stock 30-45 days after
arrival - before adding them to the
breeding herd.
4. Health certificates should
accompany all out-of-state hogs.
Hogs should be individually
identified.
5. Feeding stock should never be
purchased and brought onto a farm
that has breeding stock.
6. Seed stock producers should
strive for a qualified pseudorabies
free herd.
FEEDER HERDS
1. Health certificates should
accompany all out-ot-state hogs.
Hogs should be individually
identified.
2. Test 5-15% of all out-of-state
auction pigs.
Guidelines for
Sales and Service Personnel
ALL VISITORS, SALES
AND SERVICE PERSONNEL:
1. Keep out of hog houses, unless
entry is necessary and authorized.
Then,
2. Disinfect boots, or shower
before entering and after leaving,
or wear disposable clothing.
3. Tram all personnel working
tor you, or with you. Be sure they
understand and follow these
guidelines.
4. Schedule infected herds as
your last stop tor the day.
5. Encourage everyone to follow
these guidelines - farmers, plus
sales and service personnel.
TRUCKERS
1. Visitor’s guidelines, above
should be followed.
2. Clean and disinfect truck and
footwear before hauling feeder
pigs and breeding stock.
3. Don’t mix breeding stock from
different farms.
4. Don’t mix breeding stock or
feeder pigs with slaughter hogs.
5. Prevent hogs from entering
your truck and then returning to
their pens. To help accomplish
this, encourage farmers to pre-sort
hogs tor shipment.
AUCTION AND MARKETING
PERSONNEL
1. Provide facilities for truckers
to clean and disinfect their trucks.
Provide clean bedding, and a
separate place for discarded
bedding.
2. Discourage movement of any
slaughter animals back to farms.
3. Keep oft trucks.
4. Keep truckers and farmers out
of auction pens, loading ramps,
etc.
5. Tram all personnel. Be sure
they understand and follow these
guidelines.
State leads in
mushroom
production
HARRISBURG Pennsylvania,
the leading state in mushroom
production, harvester 237.5 million
pounds of mushrooms during the
1980-61 Reason, up 11 percent for a
year ago, according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting Service.
Fresh sales totaled 78.9 million
pounds, up 13 percent while sales
for processing, at 158.5 million
pounds, were up ten percent. The
value Of fresh market mushrooms
sales for the 1980-81 season was
$69.2 million compared with $59.4
million during the 1979-80 season.
The sales value of processed
mushrooms was $78.3 million
compared with $82.2 million a year
ago. Pennsylvania produced 50
percent of the nation’s total this
Ag Progress
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Buses transported people to and
from research and conservation
tours.
Research highlights included
discussions by several agricultural
engineers, horticulturalists and
management specialists.
The conservation tour included
several methods of soil and water
conservation, and visitors got a
chance to tour the experimental
woodland plot which depicts the
various stages of forest develop
ment.
Each day there were field
demonstrations on hay-making,
corn-chopping, silo-bagging, and
mowing.
Several Pennsylvania legislators
visited, Wednesday, for a tour of
the facilities and a luncheon with
Agricultural Secretary Penrose
Hallowell, on hand to distribute
various awards and certificates ot
recognition.
The highlight of Thursday, the
final day, was the Safety Tractor
Driving Contest for 4-H and FFA
members. Look for results in next
week’s issue of Lancaster Far
ming.
Events for women included
microwave cooking, the 2nd An
nual Pennsylvania Recipe Contest
and safety demonstrations. The
winning recipes from the Recipe
Contest will also be Available in
next week’s issue.
Although not publicized as a
livestock event, there were several
species of livestock on hand. In the
Penn State dairy and livestock
tent, visitors got a chance to see
some Chianana, beef cattle, a
horse and foal, young" goats,
chickens and an incubator which
provided entertainment for the
children.
The 4-H kept busy with such
events as rocketry, a leader dog
pupp.y graduation, a therapeutic
riding demonstration with
Lapizzaner horses and several
individual demonstrations in
cluded clowning, snakes and
plants
By late afternoon Thursday, the
many visitors headed back to
farms and homes a little tired but a
lot enlightened.
Berks completes
resource inventory
LEESPORT - The Berks
County natural resource inventory
has been completed, reports Joe
Filanowski of the Soil Con
servation Service.
To gather the necessary data.
Soil Conservation Service per
sonnel traveled to more than 300
sites within the county. Each site
was 107 acres in size and had three
points which had to be evaluated.
At these points technicians
recorded such things as the land
cover, the degree of erosion and
the conservation treatment needs.
Now that the field work has been
completed, the data will be
processed in order to provide
guidelines for the long range
planning of a soil and water
resources. These guidelines will
then be made available to the
people who are making decisions
which involve our natural
resources.
Questions concerning the natural
resource inventory should be
directed to the Berks County Soil
Conservation Service office
located at the county agricultural
center.
year compared with 45 percent last
year.
Pennsylvania producers had 72.0
million square feet in production
during the 1980-81 crop year, a
decrease of a little more than one
percent from 73.0 million square
feet a year ago Intentions are to
utilize 70.8 million square of bed or
tray area in the 1981-82 crop year, a
decrease of two percent.
See your nearest
HOLLAIND
Dealer for Expendable
Equipment and Dependable
Service:
Alexandria. PA
Clapper Farm
Equipment
Star Route
814-669-4465
Annville. PA
B H M Farm
Equipment, Inc
RD 1
717-867-2211
Beavertown. Pi
B&R Farm
Equipment, Inc
RDI,Box2I7A
717 658-7024
Bernville, PA
Stanley A Klopp, Inc
Bernville, PA
215-488-1510
Carlisle. PA
PaulShovers, Inc
35 East Willow Street
717 243-2686
Catawissa. PA
Abraczinskas Farm
Equipment, Inc
RD 1
717-356-2323
Chambersburg, PA
Clugston
Implement, Inc
RD 1
717 263-4103
Davidsburg. Pi
George N Gross, Inc
R D 2, Dover, PA
717 292 1673
Elizabethtown. PA
Messick Farm
Equipment, Inc
Rt 283 -Rheem’s Exit
717 367-1319
Gettysburg, PA
' -Yinglmg Implements
RD 9
717-359-4848
Greencastle. PA
Meyers
Implement's Inc
400 N Antrim Way
P 0 Box 97
717-597 2176
Halifax. PA
Sweigard Bros
R D 3, Box 13
717 895-3414
Honey Brook, PA
Dependable Motor Co
East Mam Street
215 273-3131
215 273-3737
Honev Grove. PA
Norman D .Clark
& Son, Inc
Honey Grove, PA
717-734 3682
Hughesville, PA
Farnsworth Farm
Supplies, Inc
103 Cemetery Street
717 584-2106
Lancaster. PA
L H Brubaker, Inc
350 Strasburg Pike
717-397-5179
Lebanon. PA
Evergreen
Tractor Co, Inc
30 Evergreen Road
717 272-4641
Lltitz. PA
Roy A Brubaker
700 Woodcrest Av
717 626-7766
Loysville, PA
Paul Shovers, Inc
Loysville,'PA
717 789-3117
Lynnport, PA
Kermit K Kistler, Inc
Lynnport, PA
215 298-2011
Martinsburg. Pi
Forshey's, Inc
HOForshey St
814 793-3791
Mill Hall. PA'
Paul A Dotterer
RD 1
717-726--3471
Nazareth. PA
Edwards Farm
Equipment
291 West
Moorestowri Rd
215-759-0240
New Holland. PA
ABC.Groff, Inc
110 South Railroad
717 354-4191
irk. PA
M&R Equipment Inc
P O Box 16
717 993 2511
Olev. PA
CJ Wonsidler Bros
RD 2
215-987-6257
Palm. PA
Wentz Farm
Supplies, Inc
Rt 29
215 679-7164
Pitman. PA'
Marlin W Schreftler
Pitman, PA
717 648 1120
Pleasant Gap. PA
Brooks Ford Tractor
W College Ave
814 359-2751
OuarrvviHe. PA
C E WileyS Son, Inc
101 South Lime Street
717 786-2895
Reedsville. PA
Big Valley Sales
& Service,
Inc
PO Box 548
- 717 667-3944
Ringtown. PA
Ringtown Farm
Equipment
Ringtown, PA
717-889 3184
Shippensburg, PA
R B Miller, Inc
N Seneca St
717 532-4178
Silverdali
IG Sales
Box 149
215 257-5135
Tamaoua. PA
Charles S Snyder, Inc
RD 3
717 386-5945
Westchester. PA
MS Yearsley&Son
114 116 East
Market Street
215-696-2990
West Grove. PA
SG Lewis & Son, Inc
RD 2, Box 66
215 869-2214
Churchville. MD
Walter G Coale, Inc
2849 53
Churchville Rd
301-734-7722
Rising Sun. MD
Ag Ind
Equipment Co, Inc
1207 Telegraph Rd
301 398 6132
301 658-5568
215 869-3542
1
ndeeton. NJ
Leslie G Fogg, Inc
Canton &
Stow Creek
Landing Rds.
RD 3
609-45 L-2727
Frank Rymon & Sons
814-793-3791
Woodstown. NJ
Owen Supply Co.
Broad Street &
East Avenue
609-769-0308