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VOL 31 No. 39
Swine Producers, State
Disagree On PRV
Eradication Plan
BYJACKHUBLEY
While the state’s pork producers
and the Department of Agriculture
grope for a workable compromise
in the battle to stamp out
pseudorabies, the disease has
begun its second lap on a course
confined largely to Lancaster
County.
According to PDA’s Bureau of
Animal Industry, 19 breeding
herds and 13 feedlots are currently
under quarantine, with most of
them located in the Ephrata area.
Five of the producers cleaned up
their breeding herds after a bout
with the disease, only to ex
perience a second outbreak.
Although swine are the principle
carriers of the pseudorabies virus,
other livestock, pets and wildlife
are also susceptible. The heaviest
losses are usually experienced at
the beginning of an outbreak, with
mortality sometimes reaching 100
percent in newborn pigs. Pregnant
sows contracting PRV commonly
Programs To Help
Drought Farmers
BY EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Managing Editor
From a phone call to this editor
Monday morning the above
headline has emerged. “Do you
want to help send some hay to our
southern farm neighbors who are
hurting from the drought?”
According to Dr. Henry Kreider
4-H club members and leaders load 14 tons of hay in Lycoming county for donation to
Statesville, North Caroline, in the heart of the drought area. This act of benevolence is
representative of the programs that have commenced across Pennsylvania to help
neiohhnrincr farmers in need. See accompanying story. (Photo Bv Barbara Miller]
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abort or reabsorb their litters.
Although older animals being
finished for market may ex
perience setbacks in weight gain
when infected, the disease has no
effect on meat and poses no threat
to human health. Consequently,
producers maintaining breeding
herds stand to suffer the heaviest
losses
In an effort to mop up the PEV
problem in the southeastern
portion of the state, the Depart
ment instituted an incentive
program in May, reimbursing
producers at the rate of $lOO per
head for all infected breeding stock
depopulated. To date, only eight
producers have agreed to sign 243
breeding swine to the program.
Producers are less than en
thusiasts about the program
simply oecause they consider the
cure to be more lethal than the
disease, says Strasburg pork
producer John Henkel. To qualify
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of Elizabethtown a farm member
of his church wants to donate some
hay to his hurting fellow farmers.
This farmer asked Dr. Kreider to
call Lancaster Farming to find out
if other farmers in Lancaster
Farming Territory might feel the
same desire to help. We didn’t
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 26,1986
Metcalfs Valiant Beauty-ET had a big week for owner Thomas McCauley. The Beauty
cow was named the senior and grand champion of the Lancaster County Holstein Open
Show on Thursday after standing in the reserve grand champion spot to a stablemate in
the 4-H holstein show a day earlier. •
Judge Reverses Lane. Winners
QUARRYVILLE - The
championship stayed in the family
at the Lancaster County Holstein
Open Show on Thursday. But
Judge Denny Patrick reversed the
grand champion and the reserve
grand champion from the 4-H
dairy show a day earlier.
Metcalfs Valiant Beauty-ET, the
Valiant daughter, topped the 3-
year-old class and went on to be the
senior and grand champion. Queen
Star Sexy topped the 5-year-old
class and was named the reserve
'senior and the reserve grand
'champion. Both are owned by 4-H
member Thomas McCauley, 15-
year-old son of Dr. & Mrs. Allan
McCauley, Elizabethtown. The
Beauty cow is Very Good 88 with
20,556 pounds of milk as a 2 year
old. And the Sexy cow is working
on a 4-year-old record of 23,032
Judge Genie Francisco congratulates Paul King, center, on
his grand champion placing and Shirley Trimmer on her
reserve grand champion placin£''ftfc.,YorK County's Holstein
Show.
York County Selects
Holstein Champions
BY MARTHA J. GEHRINGER
YORK The top four champion
rosettes went to four different
breeders at Thursday’* York
County Holstein Show, indicative
of the depth of quality paraded
around the ring.
Kingstead Angel Lucy, a 5-year
old, earned the grand champion
honors and topped what may have
been the strongest class of the day.
Owned by Kingway Holsteins,
Delta, she is a second generation
Excellent and a fourth generation
Excellent mammary.
Lucy has produced two records
over 20,000 pounds of milk and has
$8.50 per Year
pounds of milk and 1,010 pounds of
fat in the first 260 days.
Asked to make a comment about
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a-jumor 2-year-old from the Very
bull that is working on a record
over 18,000 pounds of milk.
Coredale Holsteins’ senior 2-
year-old, Coredale Creek Nan,
stepped into the reserve grand
champion position in a close
placing for the grand champion.
Lucy was granted an advantage in
mammary system for more height
and width and veination
througljeut
This was the first reserve grand
champion title tor the Thompson
family of East Berlin. Nan is a
homebred animal from Creek
Bluff Elevation Lester. She