Frederick Livestock
Monday, June 30,1986
Butcher Cows Good Run, Steady
to $.50 Lower. Good 37.50-39.75;
Standard & Utility 33.00-37.00;
Canners 30.00-33.00; Shelly 31.00-
Down. Bulls: Good 44.00-46.25;
Medioum 39.0043.00.
BUTCHER HOGS: 1.50 higher.
Tops 59.00. 220-250 lbs. 57.00-59.00;
260-280 lbs. 54.00-56.00.
SOWS: 500-790 lbs. 42.0043.75;
300450 lbs. 36.00-42.00.
VEAL CALVES: Heavy calves
$2 lower, light calves steady.
Good 55.00-60.00; Standard 53.00-
55.00; Stocky & Thin 48.00-52.00;
Light Calves 44.00-53.00; Weak &
Rough 43.00-Down.
CALVES RETURNING TO
FARM; Bulls $3 Lower, Heifers $8
Higher.
HOLSTEIN HEIFERS: 7085 lbs.
50.00- 90-120 lbs. 55.00-71.00.
HOLSTEIN BULLS: 85-95 lbs.
60.0(W9.00:100-115 lbs. 70.00-85.00.
LAMBS: Good & Choice 62.00-
67.00; Medioum 55.00-61.00.
STOCK CATTLE; $2 Lower.
Steers Good 51.00-53.50; Medium
47.00- Heifers Choice 47.00-
52.50; Good 42.0046.00; Medium
36.0041.00; Bulls Good 42.0044.00;
Medium 38.0041.00.
SPRINGIPNG HEIFERS: Two
735.00.
PIGS & SHOATS: Strong
Demand, Steady Prices.
BY THE HEAD: 40-60 lbs. 37.00-
43.00; 20-35 lbs. 25.00-36.00.
BY THE LB.: Light Boars To
The Hisex White and Brown Layers:
Above Average Performance Is Average
PHILADELPHIA According
to some university researchers,
the European com borer is about
as unpredictable as the weather.
“We can predict problems from a
number of insect pests, including
rootworms and wireworms, and
we are working on methods to
predict outbreaks of cutworms,
armyworms and a number of
others. Unfortunately, we just
don’t have a system to accurately
determine what kind of com borer
problem we’ll have from year to
year,” says Dr. Armon Keaster,
entomologist from the University
of Missouri, Columbia.
Other entomologists like Dr. Don
Kuhlman, University of Illinois,
and Dr.' Dennis Calvin, Penn
sylvania State University, agree.
“Just about the best thing you can
do is evaluate the winter and the
effect it had on the population of
overwintered larvae,” says Dr.
Calvin. “Even then there are so
many other factors that must be
taken into consideration, it’s
difficult to come up with an ac
curate prediction of first
generation pressure.”
Weather Factors
Factors that can reduce the
potential for a problem include
severe winter weather which may
reduce overwintering larvae
populations; heavy spring rains;
and wind which kills moths during
Compare the production and
feed efficiency of the Hisex
White and Hisex Brown layers
and you won’t find any better,
anywhere. And that is a condi
tion that will continue since
Hisex research and develop
ment keeps improving the
breed.
But mere test figures don’t
tell the whole story. The fact is
that good henhouse managers
can beat these figures. Hisex
field testing has proven that.
You may well obtain better feed
conversion, mortality, and
higher production.
Scout Now To Prevent Corn Borer Losses
flights.
On the other hand, mild winters
and dry spring conditions favor
increased populations. Also,
reduced tillage operations have
more potential risk than
operations where com stubble, in
which the larvae overwinter, is
plowed under.
Dr. Kuhlman says that regar
dless of what predictions are made
in the spring, the best insurance
against potential losses is scouting
to determine if an insecticide
treatment is needed. “Farmers
should scout fields for both first
generation and second generation
com borer, and shouldn’t take any
shortcuts.”
Farmers should begin scouting
when com is 12 to 24 inches high.
Notice if there are moths in grassy
areas close to fields. Com that is
planted early should be monitored
closely from mid-June to early
July for signs of whorl-feeding by
first generation com borer larvae.
Check a minimum of four locations
in each field with 25 plants in each
location. If 35 to 50 percent of the
plants show “shot holes” or live
larvae, farmers should plan an
insecticide treatment.
Dr. Keaster notes that farmers
can figure a five percent yield loss
for each com borer they find per
plant. When there are enough
larvae to cause a three to five
As in all things, you must start
with a good, basic product. The
good genes, in other words.
See for yourself. Put these
great birds to work for you soon.
You’ll find their average perfor
mance produces above average
results.
For more information on our
Hisex White or Hisex Brown
layers, call (704) 528-4501 or
write
Marketing Manager, Hisex
Division of Pilch, Inc.,
Troutman, N.C. 28166
Telex 57-2323. Cable PILCHCHIX
percent loss, it is time to treat. °f 25 plants selected at random
The Second Generation throughout the entire field. Count
“Equally as important as the egg masses found on each
scouting for first generation com P^t.
borer is scouting for second Check for eggs on the two or
generation com borer,” says Dr. three leaves immediately above or
Kuhlman. “Just because a farmer below the developing, ear. Also
had either a low infestation of first check for larvae. Second brood
generation borers or he treated for e BB s usually hatch within three to
first generation, this doesn’t mean seven days. Each time you scout,
he won’t have problems with add the number of egg masses
second generation com borer.” which you count to those found in
Dr. Kuhlman feels that not previous scoutings. According to
enough attention has been focused Dr. Kuhlman, treatment
on the damage caused by second thresholds for the second
generation com borer. “Yield generation occur when about 50
losses from first and second percent of plants show egg masses
generation are primarily or live larvae or when egg masses
physiological, resulting in reduced exceed one for every two plants,
ear size. Losses from first “Because peak egg laying
generation borers are estimated at generally occurs over a period of
4’/i to 5% percent per worm per two to four weeks, it will be
plant; losses from second necessary to re-sample fields if
generation borers/are estimated at e Bg masses are not present on half
4t6 percent per worm per plant.” °f the plants during the initial
To scout for second generation survey.”
com borers, farmers should check Products currently on the
fields from mid-July to mid-August market for European com borer
for egg masses or newly hatched control include Furadan 15G,
larvae of the second brood. Check Dyfonate 20G, Lorsban 15G,
for egg masses when a moth flight Penncap-M, diazinon 14G, Dipel
is underway. E* g ~nine a minimum 10G, Pounce and Ambush.
Uncaster Farming, Saturday, July 5,1986-AIS