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Sow crossing pays dividends c
How good is your sow cress
breeding program?
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Research has shown that a
three -breed crossbred, as
compared to pure breds,
should give you 15 percent
larger litter size at birth, 42
percent larger litter size at
weaning, 58. percent larger
weaning weight . per litter
and an 11 percent im-
proven*ent _in average daily
gain. These are research
figures that can be quite
variable but very definite
improvements. For these
reasons, all pork producers
should have a planned
breeding program to get the
maximum hybrid vigour out
of their animals.
Heterosis or hybrid vigour
is the increased per-
formance of the offspring
over the parents. For
example, if Yorkshire
average a litter size of 10 and
Landrace 10 and if you
crossed the twobreeds and
had a litter size of 12, then
the hybrid vigour would be
the extra two piglets.'It's the
increase over the parents
that is called hybrid vigour.
Hybrid vigour is best with
traits of low heritability
(litter seize piglet survival,
weaning weight).. Cross
breeding improves these
traits. Pure breeding gives
you the best opportunity to
improve traits with high
heritability (backfat,
average daily gain and feed
efficiency.)
How good is your cross
breeding program? What do
you want to improve most?
If you use only two breeds in
your cross breeding
program, then you can only
obtain 67 percent of the
hybrid vigour possible. With
three breeds, you will be able
tar obtain 86 percent. A four
breed terminal cross gives
you maximum hybrid vigour
but no opportunity to select
BACK ADVERTISING = In
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promoting the upcoming
Zurich Bean Festival, the message could be seen both coming
and going. Riding the miniature motorcycle and sidecar com-
bindtion were Jay Schwartzentruber and Dorothy Pember-
ton. Staff photo
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replacements. The biggest question is
what kind of progeny will
cross bred boars produce
when mated to cross bred
sows. The offspring will be
born larger and, healthier,
but aocording to hybrid seed
companies, you would not
save the offspring for
replacement females. But
with pigs, health is so im-
portant that you should have
a breeding program'
especially designed for
raising your own
replacements, if possible.
Richard Smelski,
Swine Specialist
for Huron and Perth.
A bad dream that's true: •
The other nightI dreamed
I had agreed to help an area
hog farmer with his chores.
He had,left for the weekend
and all I bad to do was the
feeding and some cleaning.
When he got back, he was
quite upset. Some pig pens
had 6 inches of feed on the
floor. The pigs in those pens
hadn't eaten half of what I
gave them. More was kicked
down through the slots at the
back of the pen. In other
pens, the pigs were
squealing like you wouldn't
believe. They were starving.
Needless to say, the owner
was quite upset. He asked
me what I had done. I told
him I gave every pen the
same amount of feed. Ten
big shovel fulls, twice a day.
Then he really got upset and
asked me why I did that. I
told'him I thought that was
the way he wanted it done.
had seen his cropping
program and that is the way
he treated his crops. He put
the same herbicide on all
fields. He never checked to
see what weeds, were there.
He just sprayed them all the
same, irregardless of the
weeds. He never walked the
fields in the summer time to
see what weeds ecapes he
had. •
Thal is the part of the
dream that has come true.
This year I have seen too
many fields 'kith bad weed
escapes. These weeds just
didn't suddenly appear.
They have been building up
for the past 2 or more years.
They could have been con-
trolled earlier. I am seeing
triazine resistant lambs, -
quarter, proso millet, velvet
leaf - just to name 3 of the
goodies. All can be con-
trolled.
Now you know I didn't
dream about feeding
somebody's pigs for a
weekend. I have better
things to dream about. I am
just trying to make the point.
How can you possibly pick
the right herbicide com-
bination for next year if you
don't walk your fields' this
year to see what weeds4you
have?
And while you are walking
the field, why_ don'tyau _take
a soil probe and do some soil
testing too.
Pat Lynch,
Soils and Crops Specialist
Details of sow weaner
stabilization plan now final
Agriculture and Food
Minister Lorne C. Henderson
has announced the final
details of the Sow Weaner
Pig Stabilization Plan which
has come into ,effect
retroactive to April 1, 1980.
Farmers will enrol as
producers for a five-year
period, ending March 31,
1985. The plan will work on
two six-month periods per
year, ending September 30
and March 31 of each year.
The minimum number of
sows eligible for enrolment
is four; the maximum
number a producer' may
enrol is 100. The commission
will verify sow counts by
making spot , checks on
randomly chosen farms.
As in other stabilization
plans, the government will
pay two-thirds. For a sow
weaner plan, however, the
commishion will pay most of
the farmers' fees in advance
and recover them when hog
prices improve.
Payments Will be based on
such prices of market hogs,
but paid on sows.
Additional details on such
items as eligiblity of part-
nerships and method of
registering sows will be
covered in a brochure to be
mailed early in August,
together with application
forms, to all producers
registered with the Ontario
Pork Producers' Marketing
Board. Brochures and ap-
plication forms will also be
available from
the griculture Office,
Clinton.
Don Pullen
Agricultural Representative
If you're a poor bridge
player everyone hates you
and never asks you back; But
if you're a poor poker player
and 'lose a lot of money then
everyone loves you and you
always get asked back.
THE STAGES OF UFE -- Giving a humorous protrayal of the stages of life in the Zurich Fair parade Saturday were Mark
Clausius, Jeff Laporte, Paul Bedard, Mark Laporte, Mark Johnston and Steve Consitt. ` Staff photo
Citizens News, July 24, 1980 .. a 13
PRIZE WINNING PERFORMANCE — Joanne Verlinde, RR 2
Hensall, concentrates on playing her accordion solo called
"Polketta" at the Kirkton Garden Party Wednesday night.
Joanne won `irst prize in the instrumental category for her
performance. Staff photo
Golden jubilee at
English Martyrs
The Jubilee Mass wa
celebrated by his Excellent
J.M. Sherlock Bishop o
London, with Msgr. J.A
Cooke and Msgr. W
Bourdeau celebrating
The latter, as Pastor, in
troduced the Bishop and
warmly welcomed him on
his second visit to this
church and thanked him for
coming this time to help
celebrate the Jubilee.
His Excellency, reminded
of his visit last summer, told
us that two days after having
returned to Grand Bend, he
had fallen off a bicycle and
fractured his skull. He hoped
that his "pontifical array"
would protect him this time.
In his homily he spoke of
the scripture readings for
the " day which dealt
specifically with our
fidelity to Christ. The good
Samaritan parable was
directly related to the Jesuit
and other missionaries who,
over a century ago, carte to
this area to see the religious
needs of the Indians and
early settlers. One par-
ticular Jesuit priest at that
time was a Father Moncoq
who travelled to the east
coast of Lake Huron from
1850 to 1854 when, on a sick
call, he fell -through the ice
and drowned. This was a
man who truly carried the
word of God "on his mind, on
his lips and in his heart."
Bishop Sherlock urged his
listeners to remember that
they are inheritors of that
faith, so courageously im-
planted, and their com-
mitment to it must prevail in
daily life carrying the word
of God "on our minds, on our
lips and in our hearts."
The Bishop continued:
"The word must become a
reality because it contains
all truth, life and being. The
concrete form of his faith
can be 'found in Our Lord
Jesus Christ."
His Excellency said that
we have existed in Christ
always and in Him is found
our true being. By our faith
we have made a convenant
with Him for time and
eternity and it is up to us to
honour our commitment
through concrete expression.
It was because of this
commitment, the Bishop
added, that the missionaries
came here to encourage the
practice of the faith, a faith
that was partially expressed
by the building of churches
to show that Christ is part of
man's daily existence and
that commitment to His
Gospel love, compassion and
concern towards the neigh-
bour.
The - speaker ended by
s expressing the gratitude of
y the present congregation to
f the small original flock of the
church of the English -Mar-
. tyrs (built in 1906 by the
. Methodists of Bayfield,
- deeded to the Diocese of
London, Nov. 20, 1929 and
donated finally to it, July 13.
After the celebration of the
Mass, a plaque com-
memorating this Golden
Jubilee was unveiled and
blessed. It matches the one
installed fifty years ago.
both are now hanging in the
church vestibule.
A delicious dinner in the
Bayfield Community Centre
followed the religious ser-
vices with some 115 guests
present. Seated at the head
tablewereMrs. Evelyn Shea,
Bishop Sherlock, Mr. Joe
• Beechie, Msgr. W. Bourdeau
and Msgr. J.A. Cook. Mr.
Beechie was the Master of
ceremonies. Mrs. Shea
proposed a toast to the
Queen; Reeve McFadden
brought greetings from the
village council and Dr.W.A.
Tillmann proposed a toast to
Msgr. Bourdeau who, in
turn, introduced the speaker,
Msgr. Cook.
The speaker, who had been
Pastor of the church in
Bayfield from 1939 to 1945,
reminisced about those
years. He recalled that his
family came up by train to
Brucefield and continued the
journey by horse and rig to
Deer Park Lodge.He
remembered a time when,
on Judy 12, he called upon
the services of the Master of
the " Orange Lodge and his
horse to help pull his car but
of the ditch. He saw this as a
first move towards church
unity!
He also told us of the time
he rushed up to Bayfield
from London only to realize
he had forgotton his cassock
and so improvised by pin-
ning one of the altar boys*
cassocks under his long Lace
gown. The pins began to pop
after the first genuflection
and he finally walked out of
the cassock while
distributing communion.
Msgr. Cook thanked us all
for the opportunity to
reminisce about his years in
Bayfield which have always
reminded special to him. He
spoke about his pleasure at
watching the congregation
grow and congratulated the
present Pastor on his
dedicated service to the
church. He is now retired
'and living in Sarnia.
All those present at the
banquet wish to thank the
Bayfield Lioness Club for
catering such a lovely din-
ner.