State’s DHIA Celebrates 10th Year;
Processed 20 Million Cow Records p r Si ? " ro " K '
A ten-year story of success ic recordkeeping. Today, the as- ~ , W 1 .1 0,, is „'l!, C, .! ( ‘ n p L I
with “cows and computers” was sociation has giown into a $l3 L, . U , \ P*' o " l :l1 1 01111
celebrated March 1 when Penn- million a year business which f tale ’ !?°, c . c ' lhe t ' 01 ”l ) ] utcl ' ! ’-y s '
sylvania’s Dairy Herd Impiove- employs the management prac- lcm ?P 0V '\ , m , J n ‘Y a , c .^ anti 'f cs
ment Association paused to ob- tices of big business ov ® 1 ’ thu 0 c b.ind-wn(ten rcc
servo m innivovcirv „„ ords program The same num
. , , . ... Since more tbdn 20 ber ol supei visors handle more
A decade ago the DHIA milk million individual cow records cow recoi-t*s human errois me
P ■'.? C l U nn t J. on , rec ° rd , s P™gram. have been processed at the eliminated,"reports arc more
with 4,900 skeptical dairymen Data Processing Center on the . .. . ~ .
enrolled, became one of the Penn State Univeisity campus,” le “ lb e ’ aiul additional data is
first Commonwealth farm or- Herbert C Gilmore, extension provided to the danyman.
gamzations to adapt to electron- dairy specialist, said ‘‘This in-
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 18, 19U7--
cide which s i i c s to uhe in
hi ceding progiams. unprollta
bio cows to cull fiom the held,
and those cows that should be
kept lor raising herd icplace
inents, the official said In ad
dition, extension specialists use
DHIA data in many analysis
studies in an effort to deter
mine which management, feed
ing, and breeding practices are
the most profitable. •
In explaining how the rec
ordkeepm," system operates,
Gilmor said DHIA supei isois,
who visit each held once a
month, ucigh and sample the
milk from each cow A repoit
of this data is loi warded to the
Penn State Dany Extension 01
lice where it is checked foi ac
curacy and completeness Data
is then sent to the Data Plot
essmg Center wheie it is punch
ed on cards and then tians
fened tc magnetic tape Using
magnetic tape, ihe data is cal
culated and repoits are print
ed
“Pennsylvania's DH I A pi o
duction average ten years ago
was 9,529 pounds of milk and
488 pounds of butteifat Today
it is 12,524 pounds of milk and
488 pounds of butterlat," he
said.
The testing program is undci
the genet ai supei vision ot the
Cooperative Extension Service
In addition to Gilmore, anoth
er extension dairy specialist, D
N Putnam, is responsible foi
piocessing phases, form design
and opeialional procedures
Two fielcimen, Carl Holhnger
and Eail Baum, aie employed
by the association to work with
supervisors in the field Two
other DHIA employees Wilmei
Geist and Bail Johnson, aie re
sponsible for checking all re
ports and maintaining an m
ventoiy of all data sent to
dairymen
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• Potato Research
U'nilimicc! liotn Page 1)
toes weio planted last April m
eat h field One plot had had
coin as tin previous ciop. and
the othei had been preceded
hv |).istuie
The long t tinge reseat th pio
giam had two pumaiy objec
tives 1) to determ’re the el
teets of ctillerenl Kites ol leilil
ization on the pi Dressing qual
ily of potatoes, and 2) to deter
mine whelhei dilleicnl varie
ties have distinct fertilize! ic
qimeme s As a side cspeii*
mentatit . d was hoped to get
an indication wh e Hum the
somee ol potash had anv effect
on chipping quality ol potatoes.
RESULTS
Ilaninglon refused to label
his finding l in this fii stvear
study as icsults, but said they
weie sliong suggestions They
will become lesults attei this
study has been earned on ion
a few yeais, he said
He piesenled the findings on
five eommcicial varieties in the
Lancaster County Inal Nor
land, Puneo, Kalahdin, Kenne
bec, and Sebago These weie all
compaiable fiom a yield and
chipping quality point ot view,
he explained
FERTILIZER
As a piehminaiy conclusion,
Harrington reported that the
feitihzei tuuls in which nitio
gen and potassium were vauecl
while phosnhoms was held con
stant, indicated that “you could
have put on 150 pounds of ni
trogen and toigot about e\ciy
thing else” The yields inci eas
ed as nitiogen amounts weie
increased, up to 150 pounds
This also pointed up the eflects
of residual leiuiizauon and the
high state ot fertility ot most
of the state’s potato fields, he
noted
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Akron. Pa.
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l.Hiti, Pa.
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