-arm technology is displayed Pasto museum collection reminds visitors to Ag Progress of the tremendous progress that has been made in agricultural technology Above, Sandy Frey, 10, of Chambersburg looks like a milk maid of yesteryear seated on this peddle-powered 1895 model of a Mehring milking machine. Right, Associate Dean Emeritus. Jerome K. Paste, worked with enthusiasm in the museum bearing his name. Here, Dean Pasto brings the memories back to life as he demonstrates how this horsepowered treadmill, still in perfect running condition, was used to generated belt Tested boars sell to educated buyers at Penn State BY TRKH WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY PARK - Dr. Paul Wangsness, head of Penn State’s Dairy and Animal Science Department, greeted buyers and spectators to Pennsylvania’s 6th Performance Tested Boar Sale, Wednesday evening. The outdoor sale held at the Pa. Department of Agriculture’s Meat Animal Evaluation Center, was graced with beautiful weather. The sale was sponsored by the Pa. Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with Penn State University and the Pennsylvania Pork Producers Council. In his salutations, Wangness said, that every businessman in pork production is looking for some advantage to help their program. He said, “We hope that buying a performance tested boar will give you that advantage.’’ Before the sale began Elwood Houser, president of the Pa. Pork Producers Council, with assistance from the audience, drew the names of four winners to receive |UR) each against the purchase of any of the boars sold that evening. The four winning names drawn from the barrel were, Glen Tothrow, Dennis Cooper, Dwayne Aurand, and Leon St. Clair. P With blue skies Jutting through the skeletal-like structure of the Ag Arena under construction in the background, auctioneer Harry Bachman, joked with the spec tators to run for it’s cover in case of rain. But it couldn’t have been a more pleasant evening for the event, as 47 boars from 1C breeders sold while the sun, setting behind Beaver Stadium, slowly dimmed to darkness as the sale ended. All the boars sold were per formance tested on the same criteria. All the boars were fed for rapid growth under test conditions. The boars were five to seven months of age. Requirements of the sale stipulated that all boars sold must have an index of 90 or more points, a soundness score of 2 or more, and an underline score of 2 or more. The average boar of this group was indexed at 100 points. If a boar >s indexed at 120 points, it is con sidered to be 20 percent better than me average boar tested. Scoring was done by a com mittee of three, as boars came off test, according to the National Swine Improvement federation recommendations, using a range of 1 to 3, with 3 being ideal. Boars were rescored by the sale com mittee prior to the sale. - Since coming off test, boars were fed 4.5 pounds of feed on the floor daily and allowed to run on a runway beside other boars, to increase their aggressiveness, sexual maturity, hardiness, soundness, and desire to breed, to breed. listed in the accompanying table are the more critical values of the 10 selling boars in the sale. Buyers were given additional data for each of the boars, including, starting weight, number of litter mates, gain ratio, fat ratio, loin eye and lean cut percentage. Top selling boar in the sale was a Yorkshire consigned by Miller’s Yorkshire Farm of Spring Grove. The boar indexed at 129, with a daily of 2.96 pounds sold for $lO5O to Hillside Acres, Lenhartsville. After all the figures were tallied, Bob Kimble, manager of the Meat Evaluation Center, had a good sale report to give, with a sale average of $506.81 for the 44 head sold, and a sale total of $22,300. Two Berkshire boars sold for an average of $450. Eight Hampahires Breeder 1. Miller’s Yorkshire Farm 2. Penn State Univ. 3. Hilltop View Farms 4. Lake's Land & Hamp Farm 5. Lake's Land & Hamp Farm 6. Par-Kay Farm 7. Harper's Valley Farm 8. Hilltop View Farm 9. Brooks End Farm sold for an average of $637.50. Five average of $4BO. Sixteen Yorkshire $535.93. Thirteen Durocs sold for Landgrace boars- sold for an boars sold for an average of an average of $417.30. The number one selling boar in the performance Tested Boar Sale, was this Berkshire, consgined by Clayton Winebark, on the right. The boar was purchased by J. Richard Townsend of Fayette County to upgrade his commercial pork breeding program. Debbie and Shelly Townsend also pictured, will use the boar to breed gilts this fail to tarrow in February and March for showing pigs in next year’s Fayette County Fair. Sale Price W Breed 1050 Yorkshire 900 Du roc 875 Hampshire 825 Hampshire 775 Hampshire 700 Yorkshire 700 Landrace Hampshire 675 Yorkshire 650 Top Ten Selling Boars * Designates % above or below average and 100 is average Final Daily Days to EM. *Fat Wt Gain 230 Ratio Ratio Soundness Underline Index Sire 244 TPFI BIG 25-13 10 KING 18-8 266 252 2 34 145 99 134 2 Grover 12-8 Mighty Muffin 250 230 Mighty Muffin RTB9 Westpit King David 170-4 Lam 9 Erose 1-12 250 255 2.32 135 106 115 2 252 2.34 145 99 134 2 Grover 12-8 273 RTBI Accent 18-14 Lancaster Farming. Saturday, August 27,1983—A27 Feed 2.36 141 2.48 129 2.22 148 102 208 158 102 2.60 142 101 2.41 153 103 105 106 124 104 113 124 111 Boar 129 2 140 3 125 2 116 2 112 2 130 2 130 3 125 3 125
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