Illii‘éﬁalitiééi

cases oi ra- bies are coniirmeo

There were 1,147 confirmnd cases of rabtos in (‘nuptln ' :Ic

12-month pP-r'md et‘tf‘lNl \lt L'll :‘It_ reports thr- Health I imals Branch. Canada Uni»: of of Aartculune

Allhouz‘t II was all .. .. .si- of In over tltta Di“?\‘l0l:< if? .muzhz. the total “as loss lion II:I.I' of the record 2330 cost.» In MRS-‘15!

As in pl'l‘HUlh 5mm \\.ltl‘.li'.‘ ﬂt'UlllllIr'il lo! tin. 'Ilﬁtl‘ill' of Palm“ 733, The i.‘wil.li\'l' untitl- ed 293 form {liltlllll—lj‘. Ttl lions

and 30 rats.

’I‘h discasc Fotlmtrtl mp pat tern of nthPt' years rpmhm: n peak to the “tutor amt yawn”: off Lo the scrins to 3 Int\' :um. mer Lucid-:— room-r5 the m“,

tagwu» (11552593 d!‘l?«1"il Ontario "nth R70. had the hrgest number of caSPs. )L‘lr‘l toba had 1‘18. Queber- 38. the North-west Territories 9. For the. first time In recant j.oars. rab— ies was uncovered in southeas-

ter Saskatcheuan near the Manitoba border whey-o l-i cases were confirmed.

Ontario counties with l‘llf‘ Tori est numbpr nf casos ‘Icrc I‘arlc— too. 83. Huron. 60. Perrb and Wollincton. 3R oat-h; Simww. 48; Waterloo. 4t; Dtrt'hftm. 39; and Grey, 33

Rural ll‘lllllll'lpaltltntt in \lnni. ltoha harm: the mom t-asos uni-e Woodward, 21; Hamioia. 2ft; Blanshat'd and Shoal Italic, ll

car In QttPiwr, emintuz. utth lthc 'nosi vases .\r:ontouil, and Chateau-

15. Prnttac. fl;

@1133" 3.

Forntnaltely. rabies: has not become established in the dog population and there has been no instance of a dog tran~mitf— in; tho disoase to amt-Ithcr dot;V

Every one of line 70 cases In-l volvinz does resulted from the animals encminttarimz diseased foxes and other “did-lilo,

ln I'Imv of this. federal voter- friartarts Iirzc ounors to kcep S’hPlr dogs on a leash or licrl up, have them vaccinated. mod N» port all suspoctcd cases of ra-i

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THE FITZPA'I‘RICK BROTHERS AVERAGE 85

PER CENT GRADE A

Island’s largest sow battery is owned byFitzpatrick bros.

A comic of enterprising young farmcrs. Edward and Leonard Fitzpatrick. hate the province‘s largest sow battery operation at lO-\lile House. and they also are feeding some weaner pigs to market weight in an ad- joining building,

The brolhct's York and Landrace have culled otIt about 1’5 per cent of the original dams and are still “coding out some of

9 sons as tlicy strive for the best slot-k obtainable.

Just now thf‘y have a month old Locomhc boar which they are crossing with the other animals, The main idea. appar- ently is to cross the new breed with a York-Landrace cross to see what improvement. if any, it will cilcrl In their operation. 86 PER CENT

The operation of feeding the, \veaners to maturity is just get- ting rightly underway. but the brothers fottnd they averaged slightly hottor than 86 per cent Grade A t-arI-asscs from the 180 hogs they marketod last year.

Thcy bclim‘e the longthy La- combc boar may improve this averacc. but they are anaiting the rcsull of tho cxpcrimcnl. and no litlcrs strod by the new ani« mal have grown to maturity as

started with

The no: breeders are averag- ln: approximately 10 weaner pigs to a son» in one count ' got 276 \I'caner pigs from sous -—- and thcy have raised as many as l5 \Ieancrs from several Laurlrace son's.

But sontclimes, they cxplain single liitcr counts are mis- leading. One of their Landrace son's produced only two pigs In her first llllcl'. and the natural tendency would be to cull her

Inllnrtltuli'l)’ lqu “to brothers lie-Iii Ilr‘l' .IIIII ‘Nli' prmiurcil Iii pl-s “mt tutu .\'Itr’ |ll'i|\ll|('t‘\.l 1.3 pm lll t'lt'll of not last t\\o litltts tho ltoutncn said with

satisfaction.

The coal is in go as high as 125 sons in tlicir hatterj. and to raisp between 1.800 and 2.- 000 market was per year. they

sat SLIM \‘IARGIN

The pure for marital animals.

s as hizh as $2850 per hun- dredweizht last year. but it was doivri'to a scanty $24 when the writer dropped around for a chat. and that leaves a mighty slim margin on which to work,

The brothors tried rcsfricted feeding on one lot of 30 pizs last year they fed about 150 pounds daily at around five months of aze — but thcy are. not sure that rcsIrIrtcd fecding' Is the ansncr to bcttcr quality‘ and more cconomtcal hot: rais. in: They believe that good grad- es can be obtained with the. rizht tync of animals. and their PXDPI‘ZPllf‘e has borne that out.

The pcilefed feed is spilled on tho ('nIIt-rPlP floor and the ani- mals eat It from there Then: Is no hopper or trough feeding. And thore is no waste. either. Edward and Leonard insisted. I‘SF‘. NO STRAW

It must bc a lot of work feed- III: the animals that way. it “as sttzzcstcd. But the reply was 41

animals. ‘

in the barn. “We worked in our i

.firm negative. "We spend only

one hour and 20 minutes per day

.feeding the 800 pigs and doing

the daily cleaning chore.“ they explained. Water is available in bowls.

Here's one idea that will surprise many farmers: the Fitzpatricks do not use am"

straw for bedding. They don‘t use any straw at all. But their pigs are clean. they insisted: and they were clean. just as they 3

here is no trouble with dampness on the concrete floor. and the Fitzpatrick men suggest it may be because they dumped 50 big truckloads of sand on the ground and that is under the concrete floor.

The pigs keep the feeding spot 0 the floor Lean. “ ' 2 n train pigs to do nearly anything. ‘ i you start em enough." Edward explained.

The sow battery building is; 32 feet by 132 feet. The penS‘ are. seven feet by 94h! feet and ‘ that includes the. creeps for the Q little pigs that measure 20 inches by five feet.

pens in the feeder house are nine by 20 feel. Each pen provides space for 30 feeders. and the Fitzpatricks plan on in- creasing that to 35 pigs. they said.

They plan on each sow aver-. aging a little better than two litters per year. The oldest son" in the battery is five years old. i and has narrowed eight litters: to date.

Looking at the big pile of bags of feed. I asked thcm if they have much trouble wtih rats. They have had no rats.‘ but. did have some trouble with mice until they brought cats into the barns. and t 9 mice‘ problem has since \'ii'lu:t|l_\' III» appeared.

NO FROST PROBLEM

They use heat lamps in the creeps for the pigs from birth to two weeks in cold weathcr, t But there's no problem of frost

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shirt sleeves in the feeder barn during the coldest days of last winter." they said.

The Fitzpatricks are running feed tests on some of their hogs and measuring such things as the days the animals take to grow to maturity. But none of the reports are available yet. they explained.

The brothers farmers at first and kept some 12 to 15 sows: then they decid-

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am all stray and uninvited uIIItotural and “lion a slit! oils. lrnbies, nho veterinarians point

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