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uco has new corn hybrids farm country page 3 united cooperatives of ontar io uco has received licenses for two new seed corn hybrids- coop 2695 and coop 2880 both will be available for the 1986 planting season coop 2695 is a 2700 heat unit singlecross with outstanding stalk quality and high yield bushel weight and grain quality have been described as excel lent coop 2880 is a 2850 heat unit hybrid with a deep dark green col or this hybrid has excellent dry- down capabilities on a green plant so it will stand up under the most severe stress high yields of top quality grain are characteristic of coop 2880 united cooperatives of ontar io the fourth largest seed corn op eration in the province has been in the seed corn business over 25 years at its research facilities in chatham the coop actively breeds and tests new hybrids for release each year and currently sells 18 seed corn hybrids hi a full range of maturities uco also provides a complete line of farm inputs including feed seed fertilizer petroleum and hardware through approximately 180 coop outlets in addition it markets livestock and grain uco is owned by 48000 indi vidual members and 45member coops representing an addition al 39000 members the hulshof hog farm on bloomington sideroad is a family affair as frank hulshof left works with his sons jim shown here and joe mr hulshof be lieves in giving dry feed by hand to produce super ior results the veteran farmer hopes to retire soon and hand the farm over to his sons erkki pohjolainen proof is in the pork pigs are very clean hog farmer insists by erkki pohjolainen the common phrase dirty as a pig isnt accurate accord ing to hog farmer frank hul shof he says swine are cleaner than most livestock during an interview at the family farm on bloomington road east of hwy 48 frank ex plained cattle void in their stalls while feeding but pigs he said sleep in a clean area of the pen and mess in- another franks been a pork producer in the stouffville area for more than 30 years with mary and sons joe 30 and jim 25 franks sowweenie opera tion yields more than 1200 weenines or baby pigs ev ery year to do that he keeps three boars busy with 75 sows having refined his methods of production over the years frank has strong feelings con cerning the best management for his farm he uses a dry manure system and hand feeds his animals cement floors like in a wet manure operation tear the skin off the little pigs knuckles he explained in a dry system the floors are covered with straw lie prefers to feed the hogs off the floor he said its better for disease control if a pig isnt eat ing you can see it just lying there but with an automatic system it can be sick for a long time before you notice it to further combat disease frank gives the young hogs a special medicated feed the ones still nursing off the mother receive medication squirted in their mouths frank said he seldom lets other farmers come close to the pigs for fear they might be car rying some kind of hog disease or virus he explained pigs are very susceptible to numerous maladies which can spread through the entire stock though the hulshofs grow barley on twothirds of their 150 acres they only produce about a third of the required feed for the hogs the rest is bought from nearby farms frank said the grain is stored on the farm county mobile sends a truck equipped with a portable mill to the hulshof farm to pre pare the feed frank said hed never swill- feed pigs because the meat would not be up to export stan dards he explained its too watery and pale the other third of their acreage produces cash- crops frank said they rotate the fields about 50 acres is used for growing cauliflower each year the soil can easily handle vegetables every third summer from midapril to novcm- pigs arent that dirty compared to other livestock according to frank hulshof shown here with one of the hundreds of piglets produced on his farm each year ber frank is busy with the cashcropping operation in early spring he starts the caulif lowers in a greenhouse plant ing enough for about three acres each week by the time hes transplanting the last of the seedlings after six weeks in the nursery hes already picking the cauliflower he planted in may to help with the vegetable production frank hires two loc al students for the summer he said hes never had any prob lem with them all the helpers ive had have been good workers mary also helps out in the fields frank explained you get tired fast when you have to climb on and off the tractor ev ery 10 feet with mary driving it i dont get so tired when not helping in the fields mary keeps house knits and crochets as well she sees to it that the men have a morning coffee break and an afternoon tea the hulshofs work seven days a week like most farmers frank said adding but we take time every week to go to church through the cold months work at the farm isnt as stre nuous as in the summer for the past five years frank and mary have taken winter vaca tions to florida before that they visited franks native hol land twice and this year took a trip to cuba the sons take care of the farm while the parents vacation in the south the 59ycarold smiled as he said i intend to retire soon and let the boys run the farm ive already severed a piece of the property to build a house on he added ill still help work the farm lie and mary looked at houses in town but decided not to move off the land were used to liv ing in the country and thats the way we like it he concluded y x lias ire for fa mii i bids we can supply most parts to keep your tractors stationary engines and other mechanical farm equipment in good working order many items like jacks pumps battery charger etc are built to tougher specifications for farm use rvbattery chargor 10a12v dcctcycte auomaseewgohv canboltcooinjinilolywhentkteg4ig troffino mofofs esmwr appsanesa er l iismstot 45 hr ottngtdmif stouffville 360 main st west 6405800associate store