B24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 2,1983 COLLEGE PARK, Md. - When Bjame V. Svederus visits the state 4-H conference next week (June 27- 30) at the University of Maryland, he might be coaxed into sharing a Swedish game or folk dance connected with Midsummer Night, a traditional festival celebrated June 25 and 26 in his native land. Or, he might be persuaded to share some insights about Flag Day in Sweden, marked each year on June 6 just eight days ahead of Flag Day in the United States, but with a history which predates the U.S. observance by 254 years. At state 4-H conference time, Bjame will have finished nearly 2/3 of a three-month Maryland visit under auspices of the In ternational 4-H Youth Exchange program. In August, he’ll go to Nebraska for a similar three month experience. Raised on a 91-acre grain and pig farm in a land where consumer and farmer-owned cooperative organizations traditionally have been strong, the 24-year-old Swede is staying in Maryland on the upper Eastern Shore and in the Baltimore area. His family farm is located at Balsunda near Orsundsbro in Uppsala land, about 45 miles northwest of Stockholm. This is a fy* Bjarne V. Svederus, right, international 4-H Youth Exchange delegate from Sweden, gets a lesson in swine conformation from William A. Curry, Extension livestock specialist at the University of Maryland in College Park. Curry is holding a scale model of “Jasper,” a pig which won the National Barrow Show several years ago at Austin, Minn, in U.S. hog circles, Jasper is still considered "the perfect market barrow.” v Swedish IFYE delegate visiting in Maryland coastal lowland area near the Baltic Sea. It is situated on the upper reaches of Malaren, a large freshwater lake which reaches all the way to Stockholm. The most important city in Bjame’s home area is Uppsala, a very historic place which was once the capital of Sweden. It’s also the site of the country’s biggest university, which includes Ulltuna Sweden’s most important agricultural school. Bjame was involved in college preparatory study and office work prior to his U.S. visit. But upon returning to Sweden in the fall, he hopes to start in a new direction as an architecture student at Gothenberg. He has had 50 months of military training and taken vocational courses in carpentry. At home on the farm, Bjame’s father raises small grains and farrows two litters of pigs annually from each of his 15 sows. The big white hogs are Swedish Landrace and English Yorkshire crossbreds. In recent years, Bjame said, many Swedish farmers have tried upgrading their swine herds in a three-way crossbreeding program with the introduction of large black pigs from England probably Essex or Berkshire. Animal welfare legislation has been passed in Sweden in recent years, Bjame reported, but these laws apply primarily to gross mistreatment of farm animals. More strict are the water pollution regulations which require each Swedish family in rural aieas to purify all of its waste water. This purification process is ac complished with a series of settling tanks. During the 20 years or so that the water pollution laws have been in effect, large lakes like Malaren have been made fishable and swimmable despite a high population of livestock farms on its shores. However, there is still enough manure in storm-water runoff to cause some problems with algae growth on the lake. Bjame spent the first three $ lOO DOWN BALANCE DUE IN SIX MONTHS FROM DATE OF PURCHASE F-400 3.5 H.P, F-500 5 H.P. OFFER EXPIRES SEPT. 1,1983 • Monday, Thursday, Friday ’til 9:30 • Tuesday. Wednesday, Saturday ’til 6:00 weeks of his Maryland visit (May 12-June 2) with the William B. Kilby family, a dairy farm operation at Colora. He is currently spending 3% weeks (June 2-26) with the E. Theodore Kimbles, a rural nonfarm family at Barclay. FREE FINANCING HONDA TILLERS FRONT TINES List REAR TINES FR-500 5 H.P. LIST PRICE $928 SALE PRICE •799 FR-700 7 H P LIST PRICE $1,048 SALE PRICE *899 717-665-2407 ON Then it’s three days (June 27-30) at the state 4-H conference and 2% weeks (June 30-July 16) with the Wayne C. McGinnis family, a beef cattle operation at While Hall. Bjame will wind up his Maryland visit by spending two weeks (July 7-31) with an inner-city family in Baltimore. SALE
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