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THE JUDSON-JONES HOG BARN AT ALEXANDRA

4 | vigorous stand of plants by Sep-|des too much competition fer “: ‘tember of the seeding year. the young trefoil plants and ag \There are four factors involv-|a result the trefoil plants are ed in .good establishment: early stunted and will not develop un- |spring seeding; adequate ferti- | ti! the companion crop, is remov- ' |lity proper inoculation; and the ed. Because of the companion removal of competition from ot-|crop the young trefoil plants do her legume crop, weeds and com- |not have moisture or time to de- panion crops. | velop into a robust, healthy In other, words when seeding | Plant before winter. This results \trefoil, never mix it with any jin winter-killing and poor yield lother legume such —as_ alsike |in the first crop year. lelover. Only grasses should be| Mr. Winch said that the di- jincluded in the seed mixture. (rect method of seeding (this is Timothy has been found to be | seeding without a companion the one grass that, when mixed /|crop) has resulted in heavy: with trefoil, will result in a high | stands of vigorous trefoil plants yield. However, when more |in September of the seeding -than-4.pounds.ofthis.grass_is-ad- anche gies aNapebSpeenicesseatsiammot ded to the mixture, trefoil plants; After the trefoil is -establish- ean be crowded out. ed, the yield will depend on the The use of other grasses such |soil fertility and harvesting as bromegrass, reed canary and |prectice. Trefoil is regarded as especially orchardgrass should|a legume that.doesn’t need much be avoided. Mr. Winch ‘stress- fertility. to produce.. However, increased yields will result from applications of fertilizer.

ed the importance of a compan- jon crop. He said that a com-

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By-A.W. HUMPHREY cS

By NEI A. MATHESON = jmarket.: Grower is fed through- Provincial and Farm Editor out in this automatic feeder. Hog production, on a large; The feed efficiency has been scale has developed in Prince |good, Mr. Jones. said for him- | Edward Island in the past few jself and his partners, Donald | years. There are a number of and Chris Judson. The animals people operating plants with ajare growing from 30 pounds to capacity of 1,000 hogs at a time. | 200 on five and one-half bags— Others have slightly lesser op- 550 pounds—of feed. erations. The carcass grades were de- T visited the Alexandra plant | scribed . as ‘‘excellent.” They where two brothers, Donald_and jrun about 72 percent. A's- which Chris Judson, and a neighbour | the partners find satisfactory. Charlie Jones, have an interest: | There is one exception to the

tne THESE FEEDER PIGS LOOK HAPP, CONTENTED _ PIGGERY IS MECHANIZED Soil testing provides a ™ the nitrogen, phosphate, potash and pH levels of a field have been determined by a soll test, : , mercial fertilizer and limestone e e 9 ‘e jean be recommended with more increasingly big business “x... ae 2 no better than the soil sample mt ths, which and the soil sample no_ better ie Salty: ee toad cer. than the manner in which it was ‘tant that the soil sample be col- Ss! Saddlebacks haye 4 a nae on them. T e jlected properly and that it be pure bred animal of that breed | representative of the area: to be " dations will not be as accur- around the middle. They're an ,™men English breed though the ones | ate as they could be. on the Island came here from WHEN TO SAMPLE The partners with the arrangement of the | will allow several months for boilding. The only question is| analyses of the soil samples

: basis for a fertility program. If roduction b Imi Hog production becoming Frsmee wen it | fA laboratory text, however, Js sion of the cross breds is best. | collected. Therefore, it is impor- is black. with a white band |tested, otherwise, the recom- Alberta, Mr. Jones said. Fall sampling is recommend- with the. manure storage tanks. and will ensure the grower of

‘Employ great care

the sample box is filled. 12. Keep a record for yourself oe address and sample num- ples were taken. One way is to 11, Fill out the spaces on the [make a rough sketch or map of

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“ when soil sampling

“Soil Sampling Questionnaire” and enclose a completed ques-

Use digits only im numbering |tionnaire with each soil sample

ibox. The answer to these ques- your-samples,—tor-example, 1, 3, \tions are for guidance in intet-

oe A: |preting the soil test results and , C... ete,

jthe sampled areas.

13. Return.-the’ soll samples and- completed questionnaires to the SOIL ADVISORY LABORA-

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are. satisfied ed-for spring sown crops. This

Ing operation underway.

The building—it’s a quonset type— is 204 feet long, 36 feet wide with a height of 14 feet in the centre, It's covered with steel, has plywood sheathing on the inside, and is insulated with two inches of fibreglass.

There are no windows in the building but the ventilation is controlled by four-inch shutters running the entire length of th building on west side. On the

> east side—there-are-10-fans c-

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|automatic feeding. Some 15 to 20 ipens— I didn’t get an exact) ;count— are held for the weaner pigs when they first come in. /These pens are hand fed and this makes sense. The newcom- I 1 fers are watched fairly closely month, and this can be bother- | spring run the risk of being de- 'for the first week or so. Their some in winter, when bad wea-|layed in the spring rush of test- jintake of feed is watched. The |ther may be experienced. jing arid. therefore there is the janimals are watched very Gite | The manure is liquefied. A big risk of results not being out by symptoms of disease,/augur agitates it and pumps it | the time fertilizer should be pr- few | out -at-the-rate of 700 gallons per; chased: minute. There are no difficulties | ConrAINERS

“Fhere are two of them and they receiving. the test results. and | are 16 feet by 20 feet, and are| recommendations before lime mine feet deep. |and fertilizer treatment is re-

Thev are scarcely large ‘quired in the spring.Samples

enough. They ‘fill-in about one|sent to the laboratory in the|

|particularly in the first

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2..Sample each field which you.| intend to treat with lime or fer- | tilizer. rg | 8. Single samples of the field | are of little or no value. sample submitted for testing

of 20 to 30: samplings (borings). | well distributed over the field or | area. | 4. Two—or more composite samples of the same field are | necessary only if: (a) the soil differs im appear- ance « as (b)° areas have been fertilized, | limed or manured differently | (c) sections have been. under different crops | 5. Avoid taking the sample |from the fertilizer band when sampling in row crops. Avoid any unusual spots such as old fence rows or road-beds, or where lime, fertilizer or: manure has been piled or spilled. “Also, avoid. sntall areas that are much different from the rest of the field, if. desirable these areas can be sampled separate-

6. Soils may be sampled with aclean sampling <probe or a | spade. The sampling probe is | the easier method on moist soils

Tt takes about four—to—fivewith-manure—solids,the_partners | SOIL SAMPLES

|... The. P.E.1.. Department..of. Ag- riculture supplies soil sample

| weeks to get the weaners ready |explained. s ‘to put inte” the regular pens: >The price of carcass pork—has

‘which-are—relatively—stone-free— These probes are now available

Each should be a composite or mixture

|was on the production of Birds-|are too rough or are too poorly

TORY, help greatly when making rec-| FARM PRINCE EDWARD Js- ommendations. ‘ LAND. |

Birdsfoot trefoil and its production

‘ j Earlier this year Ontario held ,drainage conditions. As a re-| their annual meeting of the Soil'sult of this thinking, trefoil and | and Crop. Improvement Asso- trefoil mixtures have been used | ciation. One of the talks given |on problem soils; on soils that foot Trefoil, The name - Mana- drained for alfalfa. gement for Higher Yields. These | Trefoil will produce for 3, 4 are some of the comments Mr. and perhaps § times longer than | Winch had on_Birdsfoot,,Trefoil. | wil alfalfa._—_For—this—_reason} It is true that when alfalfa |trefoil is being grown in well and trefoil are ‘grown under |.drained land as well as in poor- | proper conditions, the alfalfa|ly drained land for permanent | will produce more feed per acre pasture and also for hay and than will trefoil. We then ask silage. : ourselves; why then are we| As I mentioned earlier trefoil | growing trefoil. The reason is jis a lower yielder than alfalfa | that of these two legumes, alfal-|for the first two or three years. fa and trefoil, trefoil is the one |However, these yields often ob- | that offers the most versatility. |tained are not the fault of the It is versatile: in its use as pas-|legume but are a direct result ture or as stored feed and un-|of the methods used in establish- like-alfalfa—in-this-respect~it-i-s—|ing-the crop." Ba TT

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1 They ed ime | bee od in the st year. It.| control with the thermostat set | Hey ate tert sree Soe aoe Se M75 | free of charge. These may

us : juntil they ean be shifted to the |went as high as $41.75 per 100 . ae Sake ae aa grower, 'pounds at one time not so many couchait seiviten Mr. Jones told| They have Yorkshires, Land-|months ago. It was $31 in mid- Yhis paper when all of the shut-jT@ce and Lacombe pigs in the|April which still allows: ee eae are heh : {big barn and crosses of these. modest profit margin

Wake ark "400 ‘pens in the | They have some Wessex Saddle-| The price of weaner pigs has building. They are four feet wide"/Dack crosses. A lot of it is Land- | also dropped. It -was $54 a- pair, and'15 feet side, They~ start to race-York crosses. [atone time: At was $35 8” pat HOW TO TARE

slope to the outside—one inch in | The best cross: in the white | when I visited the partners at Al- soll, SAMPLES

hack. The long, narrow pens are best for keeping clean, the pigs. are not so likely to mess them | up. Mr. Jones explained. | —_It" takes slightly _more than | __ an hour for one man to clean the |

pens—they are scraped down |

daily. |

The labor-saving benefits of the huge plant is perhaps the most striking feature.

The entire operation reaulres the equivalent in labor of one man for four to five hours daily if was learned. :

The feeding !s automatic an the big silo-like feed tanks at the front of the building hold 16 tons each. The feed is blown into them from the truck —there’s | an air blast machine—that hauls into the automatic. feeder. | CLOCK CONTROL |

The times of feeding are reg- ulated by a time-clock. The ani- mals are fed five times a day. The feed drops on to the con- crete floor. There is no restric- | tion on the amount of feed. until the pigs are 150 pounds. There is vgome restriction on the amount from that to the time they are ’ 200 to 205 pounds, and ready for

Scoring hog carcasses”

OTTAWA — A new method of scoring carcasses has been in- troduced into the record of. per- formance program for swine

The new approach is expected fe nrovide a more accurate an- praisal of carcass value and en- hance the usefulness of the pro- | gram, say officers of CDA's Livestock Division

Scoring under the new sys- | tem is hased on a calculation of the vield of saleable trimmed cuts in a carcass rather than on | the total of the points awarded for various measurements.

Yield of trimmed cuts will. be calculated from a number of carcass measurements: length, total backfat thickness, loin sarea, per cent of ham of carcass per cent of lean in ham face, and warm carcass weight..

Four pigs from each litter are still required for testing. But be- cause the new system provides correction factors for sex differ- enees in Carcass measurements, it if no Inncer necessary. that there be tuo males arid two fe- males >

The reculation setting a min fmum size of litter haw heen dropped Previously pigs enter ed fer testing had to come from a litter of at least eight by a sow and six by a gilt .

Occurrence of a ridling, hem-— ophrodite or ruptured pig. will [-— no longer. mean disqualification from testing of the others in the litter. However, the four pigs delivered to the test station must

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