Khrushchev's Visit to Iowa 1959 - film 5 part 1
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Description: This film shows the news footage of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's visit to Iowa in 1959. Film five focuses on Krushchev at the Iowa State Univeristy Swine Nutrition Farm. It shows him seeing how hogs were raised from birth to market.
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photographers are appearing in front of the official party and it seems as if they are going to go directly to the exhibit which professor know they have turned and they're going into the building and dr. spear will while mr. Khrushchev is out of view of our television cameras explain to you exactly what dr. caitrin will explain later to chairman crews job here is dr. spear all right we thought we would go through this display before the mob of reporters got here so the TV audience would have a chance at seeing just what mr. Khrushchev will see his first stop out here of course will be this pen of two days meet type hog the swine industry is striving to reduce the amount of fat in port and this is the type of a pig which will yield a high dressing carcass giving us a high percentage of good lean cuts in pork now we will move over to the other table and he will see a display on the modern life cycle swine feeding program again that has been developed here at Iowa State College in this section we have displayed here a chart showing the complete life cycle of the pig the various stages of gestation lactation growing and finishing in this display we have pictured the amount of feed involved in producing a 200-pound market pig from 10 pounds of body weight in other words two weeks after throwing until market weight during the first few days of the baby pigs life after weenie we will feed this big three pounds of a 20-percent pig starter we will then change the ration to a 25-percent or 25 pounds of an 18-percent pig start the ration is again changed at approximately 25 pounds of body weight and 50 pounds of a 16-percent picnic growers fed when the pig weighs in the neighborhood of fifty pounds the ration is again changed to a 14-percent pig gore and a total of 204 pounds fed had a body weight of 125 pounds the ration is again changed to a 12-percent finish erection making a total of five hundred and thirty-two pounds of feed that is fed to today's meet type pig for feed efficiency and again mr. Khrushchev will be very interested in this a feed efficiency of 2.8 pounds of feed building than we did on our original run-through of what was to happen here on our television pick up there is an animated discussion now going on between professor caitrin and chairman Khrushchev and in just a moment professor caitrin will pick up another microphone and we hope that you will be able to hear the discussion the questions and the answers and the interpretations as Professor caitrin explains this exhibit to chairman Khrushchev that is only a small alcove as it were mr. Khrushchev is to be in that location for only a moment or so and then he will return to the area which is a little bit to the left out of range in your picture where dr. Speier explained the exhibit to just a moment ago also the discussion will be on a public address system here and the press will be able to hear professor Caitlin's explanations to mr. Khrushchev something else seems to have captured his attention for a moment because his remaining Pig disease controlled laboratory exact I believe the professor Caitrin is picking up our microphone now not yet but in a moment we hope that you'll be able to hear this removed conversation between the manager the swine nutrition farm and chairman Khrushchev yes apparently dr. cable is having some trouble finding there we go Marianne our chairman chruch off I'd like to show you some of the basic sciences involved in our swine nutrition research today chemistry M enzymology engineering statistics and ricotta G bacteriology anatomy and physiology these are all the different disciplines which we are using today in our research technique now if I might I would like to show you again here are what we call a lifecycle feeding program if you would come down here please we try to divide the life cycle of swine into different sections different periods so that we can study the nutritional requirements during these different periods and build the Russians according to the nutritional needs during the different periods and if i might i'd like for us for you to see here we start out here with the pre starter for the baby pay it takes three pounds of this piece starter then we go to a starter starter writing and then a grower ration no that's the amount to make a 200-pound market hall from faring coming from fouling to market it takes three pounds of a pre starter for the hitter and of that system need especially me antiqua the worst of a karmic of the virginia door oh boy you know today the element these no these are the complete feeds i will show that the dangers of Baghdadi component above the diet know there are complete rations within themselves or this this is that's i have a fine that's right that's right make some wonderful starting with a pre starter then the starter ration then the grill ration and then we have another drawer and then a finisher ration usually fed in and all total it takes five hundred and thirty-two pounds of feet that is it to a point to this according to make a 200-pound market hall from birth an impetus Union to to 200 pounds these are scientifically balanced rations the best we know how to build then I would like to show you if i can get my cordless here gentlemen please believe it all right this is a scientifically balanced baby pic twenty percent starter ration these are the different ingredients like corn soybean oil mill played skim milk condensed free solubles distiller solubles fat calcium carbonate and then we down here have sole trace mineral mixtures like iron copper cobalt manganese and zinc we are adding infants to these baby figurations to help them digest their feed better antioxidant and a flavor to make the meat it better than the different vitamins vitamin A vitamin D riboflavin pantothenic acid niacin b12 and antibiotics this helps to protect the health of the page thank you very much Damon and now chairman Khrushchev on behalf of the faculty in agriculture at Iowa State College we'd like to give you a token of remembrance to you on your visit here and this is a meat type hawk which we hope you will carry back and put on your desk to remember Iowa State University we're very happy you were here today you
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