SWINE BRUCELLOSIS 



If you discover voii Ii.i\l tht iIiscim. 

 in your herd you h.i\c tiircc LliOKt.s ol 

 proiidure to follow. 



1. ^ ou tan sell out \our hrcL-dmii 

 stoik and buy repi.ucriicntN The ob- 

 jection I see to this IS tlut. unli.^-- vou 

 can buy from a clean herd, liow do you 

 know vou \e improved vour situation an\ ' 



^ ^'ou lan test vour pitjs at wcaniii!,' 

 ai;c, remove rcaUors, and isolate them 

 from the adult brecdiiii; animals. These 

 piys should be toted ai^ain and even 

 twiie betore breediiit; it the -econd test 

 reveals some intetlion Then ht >ure 

 vou >:et a non-intei.tLd boar and vou 

 should uct aloiii; tine. Premises that 

 have had inteited hoi;s on theiii should 

 be safe after three or lour months ot 

 summer weather sli^htlv lon_i;er tor 



tall and winter weather. Moistue and 

 tree/Ml'; are conduiiM. to the lite of 

 these i:erms. Sheds should be thorouuhU 

 cleaiiid and ilisinle. ted wlici 'iK in 

 fettcil ho!:s .ire rvliioved 



MINNESOTA NO Is 



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and till bone liirhl 'I'leid uui kUiaiil\ 

 ot the ham have been hiph. 



Reientiv the l")etroit 1'ai.kiPL: ( onipain 

 only lar_<;e lOoperatUL pai.kiiii; plant in 

 the Midwest, nought J i boars and 2°> 

 _i;ilts tor toumlation sto^k to ilistribiitc 

 amoiii; their tanner [Mlniiis, 



fariass tjualitv permits the .Muhitj.in 

 vOopcr.itiM to pa\ a premium ot .'^ lents 

 a hundred tor hoi:s raiseii from this stoik 



Is it possible that these hoes michi 

 reopen the distussion. whkh paikers h.ive 

 never promoted, of buvuii: li\t hofs 

 on a drtssed or variass basis.-' 



rile luifTibers ot Minnesota No 1 s 

 have sj-read most r.ipidiv b\ the pur- 

 ,'hase ot boars. A number liavc been 

 released to farmers tor top crossing; on 

 v>ther breeds. Or Winters says he has 

 personallv observeil 6()()() of these first 

 rOsses and farmers, bv .ind larce, h.ive 

 been well ple.ised with the results 



In every lase the Minnesota No 1 

 has stainped his tvpi- on the progeny .md 

 has .idded somethinc to the cross not 

 found in other i rosses ' Dr W'inters 

 savs 



A uood dc-al ot Inbrid v i^or results 

 from the cross. The fact that they differ 

 more in ^'enetic baikt^round from other 

 breeds than the breeds differ from each 

 other (because of their inbrecdint;) will 

 account for this ' 



This fall Hohenboken went to the 

 first excess s.ile helil bv ^^he llniversir\' 



ol .Minnesota and reported that the boars 

 .md open gilts sold tor ,in average of 



s::i. 



Ihc University added soinethuii; new 

 lo hot: sales by includint; the rate ot pro- 

 duction record (ROP) of the litter from 

 whaii the hogs were sold. 



A typical uilt tlut sold for 5Js(i was 

 i.irrowed .Marih 1- and on Sept. d, the 

 s.ile date, weighed IS 4 pounds. Her 

 Rf)P record showed that there were 10 

 (ML's in the litter which were ted -(^ 

 pounds tor each UK) pounds of ,t,ain, 



Hohenboken is one of about _(' .Min- 

 nesota No. 1 breeders in Illinois This 

 t.iil he had a foundation herd oi one 

 boar, four sows, and 24 fall pi^s. 



He has a breeder's pride in this new 

 :\pe of hoi: wlmh he admitted looked 

 It first a little stran,i:e to him. He has 

 .ill .mswer. ihough, to the unbelievers 

 I'.irmers, he says, are snapping up his 

 boar pigs .is soon as thev are old i.nough 

 ni Wean 





Earl Weniel holds dressed turkey stored in 



his walk-in home locker. He keeps a few 



dressed birds on hand. 



TURKEYS BY TON 



member of the DeKalb county and 

 State I"arm Bureau Locker Board and 

 is on the National Frozen I-'ood Locker 

 .Association board. 



That beautiful bird that Mom has 

 set aside for Christmas dinner started 

 out, if it came from Wenzel's, as a 

 pretty speckled egg, laid by any one 

 of their lUOO-hen parent flock along 

 about the last of January. 



The egg went into a large incubator 

 with 12,000 other turkey eggs on Feb. 

 27. The baby poult pecked out of his 

 shell four weeks later and joined the 

 others in the large brooder house 

 where he enjoyed the warmth of a 

 stove and rays of the winter's sun from 

 the confines of a wire sun porch. 



Just Fit To Kill 



He was put on the turkey alfalfa 

 range on May 25. There the leggy 

 poult took life easy, looked for bugs 

 and grasshoppers. When the weather 

 got hot he joined his buddies in a 

 water drinking marathon, doing his 

 part to down .s,0(X) gallons a day. 



( ame a good cold snap, and that 

 growing mash and oats didn't taste 

 cjuite good enough for Mr Hand) 

 Gobbler. '\'eIlow torn, that's the stull 



Of course a young gent eating corn 

 maybe fleshes up a bit. But it adds to 

 his looks, doesn't it.' It makes him, you 

 might say, mighty gay and frisky, lust 

 fit to kill, as the saying goes. 



lust tit to kill. 



12-GRADE DISTRICT 



Iv because thcv are the most outstanding 

 school men in their communities. In 

 the future, we can e.xpect to have more 

 School superuitendents better trained 

 th.iii .it present in both elementary and 

 liigli school administration. 



A cjuestion often .isked is, iiow do we 

 know tli.il the; unit svslem is the best' 

 The answer is tli.it the experience iii 

 other si.iies. as well as the various .studies 

 made m this state, all point to the supcr- 

 loritv. educationally .uid tinaneially, ot 

 the unit district. 



We must remember, however, that 

 many high school principals have had 

 courses in eleinentarv education and past 

 eNpericiHc 'ii elenicntarv school admin 

 istraiion. It would be up to the par- 

 ents of more than "0 per cent of the 

 public school children in the elemen- 

 tary school in any given community to 

 see th.it such former high school prin- 

 cipal, on becoming superintendent, 

 does place ccpial emphasis on all 12 

 grades. 



HAY MAKES BEEF 



i (.^'/n/nfutj -r^Tt! p.i^^t 



i: I 



He made the interesting observation 

 that he figures the corn he feeds is paid 

 for by the increased fertility from hav- 

 ing the cattle. This way, he says, he 

 gets a very high rental for his pastures 



He starts feeding silage about the 

 middle of December, or after tlie 

 weather changes. They graze old and 

 new seeding throughout November, 

 and do not fall plow, giving cattle a 

 chance to pasture at least an extra 

 month. 



They have the best results, he said, 

 with a timothy, clover, alfalfa pasture, 

 with a fairly high amount of timothy, 

 a grass he described as highly palatable 

 and less likely to bloat cattle. 



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