Thursday, October 7.1962
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Farm Tips
By Dr.J.W. Pou
shortening the
weeing period for pigs, Tar
HqeL- swine producers are
getting more litters per sow
petVflWpr.
“Twenty years ago the
weaning period averaged
eight but now it is
dowq to five weeks or less,”
said! Dr. J.R. Jones,
of
extension swine husbandry,
North Carolina State
University.
Also, Jones said, a
changeover to'the .con
finement system of
production has enabled
m ny farmers to boost feed
efi ciency and get\ pore
po inds of gain per pound of
fe i. v
ls recently as the 1960’5,
average producers needed
4.!; pounds of feed for a
pc ind of gain. Today, many
pr iducera with the same
ty ies of pigs are getting a
pc of gain with four or
ev » 3.8 pounds of feed.
[‘Some producers are
dc to using only 3.4 to 3.5
pc pels of feed per pound of
gi n,” Jones said..
pe specialist said the
cc ifinement system also
ei ables - one person to
sifiervise a’large operation.
forth Carolina has more
la ge swine production units
-1 iming over 5,000 or more
he >s per year - than any
ot er state. In total number
of hogs apd. pigs on farms,
N rth Carolina ranks
sc r enth among the states.
)ne swine operation in the
st te markets 150,000 hogs a
yc ir, and several others
al o are very large.
logs produced on modern
T r Heel farms bear little
rc Semblance to their
fc ebears of 20 to 30 years
ag 9. Their carcasses yield
m ich more lean meat and
mggh less fat.
This of course, has been
achieved through genetics.
■bars (males) are per
f nance tested at the N.C.
£ > ne Evaluation Station at
f L yton. Boars whose off
s) ing yield desirable meat -
t r e carcasses qualify as
s i erior herd sires and are
i j d for breeding.
By shifting to meat - type
1 d js, producers in North
<; rolina and across the
i s ion have been able to
lintain per capita pork
tilsumption at a higher
el than otherwise,” Jones
d.
n 1981, Tar Heel farmers’
ih receipts from swine
] reduction reached an all -
t me high of $357.6 million.
North Carolina apple
( rowers have has a major
< faster this year, primarily
i » a result of the severe
i jeze on March 25. ..
Mel Kolbe, horticultural
! pecialist for the
i gricultural Extension
1 a-vice said growers may
I 4 million to sls million
1 >f what remains of this
; ear’s crop. Apples grossed
] firth Carolina farmers
i tout S4O million in 1981.
’he huge losses, the
1 < rticulture specialist
i c led, will affect the in
iine of everyone who
i c pends on the crop.
‘ I ickers won’t be needed,
(retainers won’t be sold,
i b esmen won’t have a job,”
I c pointed out.
Colbe said that the Red
) ► licious variety, which
i c rmally accounts for about
1 1 If of the North Carolina
I r xiuction was essentially
i c itroyed. About half a crop
i f Golden Delicious is ex-
I i :ted.
lie Rome Beauty variety
i i which many growers
t re counting to pull them
i ough “snow - balled” last
I ing at bloom time. This is
ondition in which all buds
1 om at the same time
i her than in stages, and
i en it occurs a poor fruit
i is likely. Kolbe now
i imates the Rome Beauty
4op at 50 per cent of nor
rid.
Adding to grower woes,
i re four hailstorms this V
i mmer in Henderson
) iftnty, which normally
» oduces about three • i ,
i nths of the state’s apple
; up. Damaged fruit can be J 1
i ed for juice, but Kolbe
m id, “There’e no money in
I at for the growers.”
However, a few orchards
i the state look good. Some
owers on parts of Brushy
ountain in Wilkes County
i a reported to have good
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