Keep carcass info on swine
NORRISTOWN - Swine
producers routinely market hogs
Sleighing around 230 pounds. These
animals normally yield a carcass
equivalent to 70 percent of. their
live body weight. The 30 percent
weight loss, an average of 60
pounds, can be partially offset in
large meat packing plants by the
sale of by-products.
The average 161-pound resultant
carcass can vary in retail value,
depending on the amount oi
desirable muscling and the content
of undesirable fat. The ham section
Presents...
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Your Feedin
Program.
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you increase milk production... and profits...
without adding a single cow to the herd. Agway
has the TMR feeding machines that let you
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grain and supplements to deliver a balanced bite
every time. There's a machine to fit almost any '
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N. sth St. Hwy.
Temple, PA 19560
215/929-5264
Belleville Agway
516 E. Mam St.
Belleville, PA 17004
717/935-2148
Blairsville Agway
Route 22 East
Blairsville, PA 15717
412/459-7830
Butler Agway
500 Evans City Road
Butler, PA 16001
412/482-2195
Carlisle Agway
E. North St.
Carlisle, PA 17013
717/243-4312
Chambersburg Agway
409 E. Grant St.
Chambersburg, PA 17201
717/263-4197
AGWA
may include as liule as 0.5 pounds
ot fat trim or as much as 6.U pounds
or more of waste fat trim. Loin
sections may vary from a 0.5-mch
fat* covering to as much as 1.8
inches of body tat.
An average hog yields ap- animals they produce. Local
proximately 22 percent of its 'packing plants or locker
carcass weight in the form of ham. • operations may allow you to record
Results of swine carcass shows information on animals which are
reveal that this figure can eanly packaged for your own use.
vary over 25 percent. According to Recording of carcass
the National Livestock and Meat measurements can be useful to hog
Board, the shoulder content of the producers in their selection-culling
average hog is about 18 percent of program.
For more information, contact the nearest Agway location or Salesperson listed below.
Chapman Agway
Mam St. Delaware St.
Wescosville, PA 18106 New Milford, PA 18834
215/395-3381 717/465-3139
Curryville Agway Oxford Agway
RouteB66 400 Baltimore Pike
Oxford, PA 19363
814/793-2167 215/932-9361
Dublin Agway
Rt. 313
Dublin, PA 18917
215/249-3556
Eighty Four Agway
Route 519
Eighty Four, PA 15331
412/222-0600
Lancaster Agway
1140 Dilterville Rd.
Lancaster. PA 17601
717/394-0541
Lebanon Agway
16th & Cumberland Si
Lebanon. PA 17042
717/273-2621
the total carcass weight, while the
loin section totals approximately
16 percent of the carcass weight.
Swine producers, particularly
purebred producers, should collect
carcass information on the
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New Milford Agway Winfield Farm Center
Pleasant Gap
Supply Center
E. College Ave.
Rt. 64 East
Pleasant Gap, PA 16823
814/359-2722
Rt. 15
Winfield, PA 17889
717/523-1204
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Sullivan Street
E. Towanda, PA 18854
717/265-9131
York-West Agway
2600 W. Market St.
York. PA 17404
717/792-2674
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