B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. August 12 ,1967
ft DHIA purchase about $60,000 worth
(Continued from Page 1) noted!" equipment ” Holling€r
probably be in the next two In comparing the new test
er three years. “The state as- »ng method with the 85-year
sociation would first have to old Babcock test, Holhnger
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said the milk-o-tcfter can sam
pie butterfat in 30 seconds.
According to Hettinger's es
timate, the Solids-Not Fat test
ing program is "phasing out”.
While at one time there were
80 Pennsylvania herds on the
program, he noted there are
now about 25.
He explained that failure of
the program to "catch on” was
partly due to the fact that its
objectives were too long-term.
“Genetically, it requires a min
imum of 12 years to gain sub
stantial improvement in such
factors in daily cows.”
One tester on the panel sug
gested that another reason the
program didn’t prosper was
that the supervisors weren’t
compensated properly for it,
and consequently didn’t push it.
OWNER-SAMPLER PROGRAM
Continuing to conjecture on
future practices, Hollinger told
the panel, and other directors
and testers present, that own
er-sampler herds will gain in
popularity in relation to DHIA
herds. “This will be particular
ly true among young dairymen
entering the business and
those who don’t need the na
tional publicity for selling
breeding stock,” he predicted.
He further noted that, when
the Babcock test is eliminated
as a prominant testing method,
the owner-sampler program will
become more practical. He sug
gested two possible drawbacks
to the OiS testing program:
many farmers don’t have the
labor or time to take samples;
and where a dairyman is heav
ily financed, his backers will
want to see official records.
The panel agenda included
three general subjects: size of
herds and number of cows for
a day’s testing work; director
supervisor relationship; and
milk-o-meters.
Tester Jay Risser noted that
his herds vary in size from
eight to 130 cows, with the av
erage running between 50 and
60. It wa% concluded that the
size herd a tester jean handle
in a day depends to'a great ex
tent on the individual tester,
and on the efficient operation
of the farm. It was fur'her
pointed out that the tester’s
relationship with the fanner
should be strictly according to
the state rules. While it should
be mutually friendly, it should
still be businesslike.
Serving on. the six-member
panel were directors Daniel
Martin, Allen Risser, and Mel
vin Groff; testers Jay Risser,
Clarence Crider, and J Wil
bur Houser. Moderator was as
sociation president Daniel S
Stoltzfus.
SOMEWHAT LESS BUZZING most hives produced a surplus
REPORTED IN BEE CROP of honey.
HARRISBURG Pennsylva- Leading causes of colony
nia beekeepers, plagued by two losses were starvation, winter
successive years of cold spring kill, and lack of queens. Ac
weather, reported an estimot- quisition of swarms and pac
ed 117,000 bee colonies in the kaged bees helped offset losses,
state on July 1 matching last According to the Pennsylva
year’s record low number. n i a Crop Reporting Service,
The unseasonable spring condition of colonies on July 1
weather caused bees to get a was 83 percent of normal,
late start in replenishing food down one percent from 1966.
reserves. However, favorable Nectar plants were 74 .percent
weather in late May and June of normal, nine points higher
brought increased activity and than a year ago.