JANUARY 8. 1953

All-Time Record

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Manitoba . 16 11 Saskatchewan ii Alberta .. .. .. 14 Total 146, lill

Durlng the above period, there

were eleven Canadian sows which qualified with a slaughter test score "of 00 or over. F. E. Island had 'nineiof these. A factor worth noting is that many of ihe sows which qualify in other areas carry conciderable Island ' breeding.

Our standing in Advanced Reg- istry has been responsible for ad- vertising this province,across North

America. as the fountain for the

best bacon hogs in the world. This places our breeders under the re- sponsibility to maintain this repu- tation. Now. with prices low. there might be an inclination to become careless and as :1 result permit Our key breeding stock to dc-terloi-ate in quality. Then when prices im- prove we would be forced to begin our improvement efforts all over agaln with serious loss of revenue to our producers.

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Our breeders should be urged to hold the line and" in this way be prepared for the upswing which may take place sooner than we may anticipate. There has been a heavy slaughteriiig of brood sows during the past. nine months. When prices advance. we will find many farmers looking for replace- ments. No doubt it will be the

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l'same old stoi-y':-Jump out when Dl'lCES are low and scurry to get back in again when prices are high. This will be an opportunity for our key breeders of tested stock to supply these sow replace- mcnts. ,

The life of a brood sow on the average is not more than four years. A little laxity in testing sows might leave us. in ayear or more. with very few living quali- fied sows. To avoid this possibility. every key breeder of registered stool! should continue to place his sows on test. He should use this period of lower prices to strengthen his herd by purchasing foundation stock from dams with high A.R. scoi'es. Even the com- mcrcial hog producer should now make an effort to secure his pro- spective brood sows froml tested ancestry. If every breeding bow in this province were from a quali- fied sire and dam, there is little question but that our percentage of grade A hogs would jump to 73c or more within a year.

Our key breeders should keep their registrations up to date and not be caught. with unregistered breeding stock when the demand again improves.

Sales of .Bi-coding Stock

In line with similar conditions throughout Canada, the demand for breeding stock has continued to decline in 1952. The local en- quiries for boars have dropped icry noticeably but orders irorn N. S and N. B. have increased, These two provinces now are look- ing to this province for key breed- mg stock.

Sales have been made to breed- ers in Quebec, Ontario, and Al- berta with some enquiries from the U. S. for shipment alter the embargo is lifted.

show:

i l At the 1952 Chlal'l0l.l.etl')Vi'll Fair. ilslaiid exliiliiiors brought. o.ut a large entry of Yorkshlres which jcoiitinued to show improvement. ,At the 1952 Amherst Winter Fair. .Islanti breeders made almost a clean sweep of the top placlngs. t'Ilhe climax of all our efforts has been our exhibit at the &loronto Royal Show. This year, as usual, we failed to win top placing in the live bacon classes. but in the dressed carcass classes, we made practically a clean sweep. In the Bi-ethour Trophy class for the best .Wiltshiie side, we had the first leleven placlngs. In the Todd Tro- lphy class for the best. bacon car- cass we missed first place by a hair but we won the next seven placings. We have exhibited there ,for four years. During this time, Island cxhi'oltoi's won the Brethour LTropliy three times and the Todd Trophy twice. This year. Mr. An- drew Bain, French River. is the proud winner of the Brethour Trophy which is considered the most. coveted award in swine at the Royal Show.

our exhibits at Toronto have gone a long way to make the Can- adian Swine producers realize that the accepted show standard for live hogs is not in accord with utility requirements. Fads and fancies set up and perpetuated by professional exhibitors who make little effort to test. their sows have been largely responible for the lack of improvement. in the per- ccntage of grade A hogs in Cen- tral and Western Canada. For- tunately in this pmvince our breeders have not been influenced to any appreciable degree by such false standards, although there is always present the tendency to consider a show pig as different in type from a top carcass pro- spect. This is a point we must watch very closely.

Charlottetown Test Station

At. the local test station we have 32 pens where our key breeders seifd iour weanling pigs from a litter for testing. During any year we may feed and test upwards of 400 hogs. An exact record is kept of the feed consumed by each lot. This information is very valuable as it supplies information on the feed required to bring a pig from 50 lbs. to 200 lbs. live weight.

rue GUARDIAN.

The creased production

worm iiifestztions-all too com- mon, disease, and other factors may cause a. variation in the feed used by different lots. It will iii- tercst our swine producers to know the feed used by a few of our better doing lots:---

Age at Feed Breeder slaughter per pig Arthur Paynter 185 467 lbs. Wm. Johnstone 186 518 lbs. Andrew Bain 160 500 lbs. Adrien Arsciinult 182 524 lbs Mccormaclt Bros. 1'10 522 lbs.

At the other end of the require- ments we have a few lots using up to 600 lbs. Tiiese latter lots are usually worm infested or im- properly fed before and after weaning. The above figures will show what can be done under or- diiiarily good conditions and with prcrperiy balanced feed.

The Outlook

It is always dangerous to draw a picture of the future butastatc- merit of known facts will indicate what we may expect. Hog prices are now at the low point in the cycle. They will advance in 195:! This price improvement will be brought about by 3, decrease iii production all over North Amer- ica. In the U.S, spring farrowing is expected to show a decrease of 1592. Such a drop in production would be equal to almost twice our total Canadian hog production. In Canada, the decrease is expected to be around 10 per cent in West- ern Canada. and 30 per cent in Eastern Canada, or an overall de- crease is under-estimated. While hog prices will tend to rise in 1953. feed prices show some evidence of falling to lower levels. Since Oc- tober, mill fceds have dropped ap- proximately sl0.00 per ton. The price of barley and oats are now well below the s3.00 per bag mark in bulk carload lots.

The market price of hogs is not the limiting factor in prnmable hog

production. It is the spread be- tween the price of hogs and the price of feeds. With hog prices

giving promise of an advance and with feed prices showing some de- cline, it is quite pf)SSll)lf', even very piobublc, that pigs fed for ship- ment iii the last half of 1935 may be profitably produced.

Demand For Weanlings

In some parts of this Province even now it is becoming difficult to find weanling pigs for sale. Witii the great decrease in bred sows, we can expect this (lt'?lIl"lldl to be much greater when the spring orders lroni Neuioundluiiu; and N. 5, develop. 1 In 1952 we experienced in IIE'ldl crops and in live stock a situatioiil which may rievrr happen again in a. lifetime. We had a bumper cropl in potatoes in the East. and llli wheat in the West, with abovel aveiarze prices. We had an over supply of meat, emphasized by the U. S. einbargn with a result- ing" break in price. It is quite possible that before the end of 1953 this situation could become reversed with meals and pront- able product and field crcps in over-supply. It has happened be- fore, it can happen agriiii. Tlllsx thought should prompt our Island. farmers to maintain a biilaiicc in plaiiiinig their yearly pronuctioii. K

Lard Situation

One of the factors which has a weakening effect on hog prices is the poor demand and low pi-i for lard. During recent nioiit , the packer has paid twenty-six. cents per pound for dressed hogs Across Canada. less than 30 per cent of the lions make grade A . The balance are degraded largt-lyl for over-fiiiish. Tlicsc ovt-r-fail hogs may yield up to 25 lbs. of) lard winch is worth less than half. the price per pound paid for the whole carcass. This loss is re-l flectedt in lower prices to the pro-. ducer. Even in this Pioviuce where 1 over 50 per cent of our lions makc ' grade A. there is great rotini for improvement. by lirecdiiig, leading... and marketiiig more hogs whichi will make leaner carcasses.

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