AlB-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 30, 1991 Farmers Receive Drought Help AKRON (Lancaster Co.) — Farmers in drought-ravaged areas of Pennsylvania are receiving help from other farmers through the Mennonite Disaster Service (MDS) network, reports MDS coordinator Lowell Detweiler. MDS volunteers are providing com silage to hard-hit farmers PDA Boar Test Going Well STATE COLLEGE (Centre Co.) Pennsylvania's official boar testing program, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture's Meat Animal Eva luation Center (MAEC), is well underway with an exceptionally good set of boars far into the test ing period. These boars are consigned by some of the most progressive Co(*6 ON You <SOYS,,, Move over/ NEED MORE ROOM? Read The Real Estate Ads In Lancaster Farming's Classified Section COCALICO CONCRETE READY MIXED CONCRETE FOR EVERY PURPOSE SERVICE IS OUR BUSINESS ■ OUAUTY CONTROLLED CONCRETE r or Promnt • RADIO EQUIPPED FLEET o ~ P , • MIXED UNIFORMITY THRU AUTOMATION #// Service Call • FRONT DISCHARGE MIXERS M 21 S-2R7-7RQI •PA DOT APPROVED PLANT m I cocuco ammn aSIO-ZD/-/1 • READY MIX concrete - Toll Free • CRUSHED STONE AAA MA A a m /Yn • ASPHALT PAVING 000~422~8 X 07 • BLACK TOP t ASPHALT MATERIALS 74 KURTZ RD., DENVER, PA from Chambersburg north as far as Union and Perry Counties, Detweiler said. Some com in these areas is only two feet high and not worth harvesting, he said. Farmers will share shelled and ear com and hay for their silos in the next weeks. To date, Amish and Mennonite purebred breeders from through out Pennsylvania and surrounding states. Small boars weighing between 40 and 65 pounds are delivered to the MAEC and are placed on a one- or two-week adjustment per iod determined by weight. They are then put on test in pens of four boars each (by one sire) until the entire pen reaches an farmers in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley have sent 84 semitrailer loads of silage to central Pennsyl vania. Farmers in eastern Lancas ter County have shared about 100 tractor trailer loads. Farmers donate the com for silage receiving the silage sometimes help pay trucking costs. average boar weight of 230 pound s. During testing the boars are on full feed and are weighed every 14 days. After each 14-day test period, each pen's average daily gain and feed efficiency are calculated and the boars are ultrasonically scanned for back-fat thickness and loin-eye area. After passing the sale committee's screening for soundness, the top one-half to two thirds of the boars are catalogued for sale. Pennsylvania's first annual winter performance-tested boar sale is scheduled for Wednesday evening, February 12,1992, begin ning at 6 p.m. at Penn State Uni versity's Ag Arena. For more information on Pen nsylvania's performance testing programs or to request a boar sale catalog, please contact; Glenn Eberly, Director, Meat Animal Evaluation Center, 651 Fox Hol low Road, State College, PA 16803; phone (814) 238-2527 or (814) 865-5857. -ks* 9 SAVE 10% On Parts when work is done in our Service Center *SAVE 10% on labor , _ jSW> Get your actor and equipment in top shape for the busy season and save at off-season prices. Don’t wait until the busy season hits. Get your tractor ready to roll now at special Pre-Season Service Savings. fhn't Diby...Call Ooug Today WE SHIP UPS MESSICK FARM EQUIPMENT, INC. Farm Equipment Is Our Business RHEEMS EXIT, RT. 283, ELIZABETHTOWN, PA Phone (717) 367 1319, 653-8867 OR CALL TOLL FREE 1 800 222 3373 We Ship UPS Mike Martin of Martin’s Mulch, Ephrata, helps fill trucks for transporting silage. The corn silage pictured came from the farms of Levi R. and John and Daniel Stoltzfus near Morgantown. [£llolll f
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