Al6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 19,1982 Farm Calendar Saturday, June 19 Third annual York Fanners Assn. Tour, 10 a.m.-4p.m- American Scotch Highland Breeders Assn, annual meeting, Sheraton Motor Inn, Stur bndge, Mass., continues through Monday Pa. Dairy Goat Assn, annual meeting. Youth and Open Show, 8:30 a.m., Huntingdon County Fairgrounds, continues tomorrow. Hunterdon County, N.J. Dairy Farm Open House, Terry Hoffman’s Farm, Rt. 512, Califon, Fan-mount Rd., 1-5 p.m. Lancaster Dairy Princess Pageant, Host Farm, 7 p.m. Adams Dairy Princess Pageant, 8 p.m., Biglerville High School. Pa. Vo-Ag Teachers Assn, annual meeting, Penn State, continues through Wednesday. Tuesday, June 22 State Horticultural Assn. Summer Tour, York & Lancaster Counties, continues tomorrow. Fayette Holstein directors meeting, 8 p.m., Fayette Fairgrounds. Berks-Schuylkill Christmas tree growers meeting, 6:30 p.m. Pioneer Evergreen Farms, Rt. 61. Wednesday, June 23 Cumberland Wool Pool, 7 p.m., Carlisle Fairgrounds. ALFALFA For Premium Yields Top Dressed And Spray For Insects Call us for your soybean weed control Bulk blends to your specifications Spreaders & spreading service Limestone SALT - Water softener & feeding salt F.H. KREIDER Outstanding Young Cooperator Contest, Hershey Lodge & Convention Center, continues tomorrow. Md. Wool Pool, Timomum Fairgrounds, 2:30 p.m., con tinues tomorrow from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m Berks Agn Dairy Day, Walt Pearson Field, Leesport, 7 p.m. Thursday, June 24 12th annual Penn Marva Young Cooperator Luncheon, Hershey Convention Center, 12:30 p.m. Friday, June 25 York Farmers Forum, 7 p.m., Rutters Restaurant, Red Lion. 1982 Agronomy Field Day, 9:30 a.m., Penn State’s Rock Springs Ag Research Center, Rt. 45, west of State College. Pa Forestry Assn, annual meeting. Best Western Motor Inn, Williamsport. Hunterdon County, N. J. Wool Pool, 1-6 p.m., continues tomorrow and Sunday, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m., College Farm, New Brunswick, N.J. Fayette Dairy Princess Contest, 7:30j).m., Umontown Mall. Saturday, June 26 Berwick Vegetable Cooperative’s 29th annual meeting, 6 p.rn., the Maria Assunta Hall, Berwick. Pa. Red Cherry Growers annual meeting, Stonehenge Restaurant, Gettysburg, 6:30 p.m. 2400 Dairy Rd. Lancaster, PA 17601 717-898-0129 addresses leg weakness problem LANCASTER Addressing the continuing problem of broiler leg weakness, Roland Leach, professor of poultry science from Penn State, told the audiences at the PA Poultry Conference, Thursday, that there are actually “several different types of problems and they’re working differently.” The most common misbelief according to LeaCh, is that twisted leg and tibial dyschondroplasia are one and the same problem. According to Leach, Penn State researchers have found more problems with tibial dyschon droplasia when birds are on the floor than in cages. Just the op posite is true for twisted leg, thus discrediting the belief that con finement causes leg weakness. Poultry science professor Another belief that Leach felt compelled to correct is that leg weakness is due to nutrient dificiency. Not so, says the Penn State professor. According to Leach, weakness may be due in part to nutrient balance, but not dificiency. Other factors he attributed to the growth in leg weakness are: 1. genetics 2. nutrition 3. en- EGGS f6S ENTERTAINMENT vironment, and 4. unknown fac tors). He told the poultry producers that the Dutch found more in cidence of twisted leg on wire than Utter (wood shavings); and that Penn State, who has done most of their research with T.D. has found that the more space given to birds, the higher incidence of tibial dyschondroplasia. —DK
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