The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1959-09-03
THIS
BUSINESS
OF
OF FARMING
ny JIM McALLISTER.
Another farm service from PillsbWy Feeds

Hog prices get bills which
propose marketing premium payments of 81 So hogs
weighing pounds have in effect been seconded by the
Planning Association is private nonproft
with no personal gain in mind.
Legislators and NPA differ point, though House
agriculture committee members have decided that premium
men okayed should begin when hog prices drop below
$14 NPA suggests letting prices dip to $3.50 before starting
payments.
the NPA plan works. market price for
hogs drops below the floor prce-$125O NPAs hog
producer slips local ASC people He
paid difference floor price and market
for cwt of hogs sodregardes Of what price ne
actually got for his hogs
though premium payment plans stand little chance of
passed. according The USDA against
the pansaough it does like the idea of encouraging farmers
market their hogs at lighter weights USDA calculations show
that pound reduction in market weight OF hogs would
trim fall pork supplies by about 3which in turn would boost
prices from go to go But for premium payments the ooD
saying it ud merely the start in parade
producer groups receiving handouts from the federal treasury
Likely action: If the government helps hog producers it'll
probably do by coming in through the back door,
One alternative prevewed in weeks and
openly discussed by USDA time pork
purchases This of help might get off the ground though
Reason Experts predict the government would hold back pork
purchases until prices dropped below $2 c At the same time
economists predict this falls low price will be between $2 and $l3
following the recent price upturn
Another alternative for help steppedup exports
and pork products in return for foreign currency
UsDA isn't the only group lukewarm to premium pay
the they have
strong arguments. =
They say any kind of price guarantee only
steadier hogs and unealc onhe-farm
breeding and farrowng plans.
more, lot of topnotch hog point out that
make money with hogeven prices dip to around $250-
toda cheap and actionpacked supplement like Pills
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Hog Deber Burda that he pu 55 pounds
pig just IS days. He "Our records show they gained
pounds $50 pounds of total feed The gains cost
less than &c pound"
good gains like Burda reports Super Maxi
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WhatSp I hnsh huii hlayeds ion
growth factors It's high in important to finishing
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Hot of the farm fertilizer
million yearup go year earlier scientists
attempt 2Oday forecasts of late blight infections potatoes and
tomatoes tobacco inventories July were 16O million
pounds under earlier USDA for
honey in medicinal preparations USDA discovers
that DDT and don't mix WELL begins to apply that
knowledge improved mosquito eggeed during
August 8S compared to 73 month earlier demand
for credit continues to strengthen forcing interest rates
trend which will filter down to the rural later
cordng to economists
Sort your pullets when them-puttng under
developed birds into you'll boost your
+ profits in this business of poultry farming
New York researchers tried this very trick year
this time with S50Obid aosk They 100 the pulets
those that looked four to six weeks youngnto partoned
of section of the laying house where they got better
worked In four or five
weeks the yOungerlookng birds had caught up with the
Others.
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Feed free choice The birds balance their
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centrate lets you make maximum of home grains
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The IT, has had thousands stripped of its
Ohio scientists exploring possibility of returning the
subsoil to production.
Although Of the land is toxic plants, prospects
look good for forest
wood products this could be good bet for the
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Iowa economists say, though that it's possible
many these earnings than per
Mainly operators would be willing expand herd
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