Brown Swiss May Register
Qualified Grade Cattle
Directors of the Brown Swiss
Cattle Breeders’ Association are
ready to take a bold step for
ward. depending on the reac
tion of association members.
It is their unanimous recom
mendation, following the report
of a special committee and sur
vey of owners of grade Brown
Swiss cattle, that a program of
provisional registration be put
into effect. It consists of three
steps: (1) Identification (2) A
separate Identity Enrollment
Herd Book and (3) Certifica
tion by attaining established
production and type standards.
Called Identity Enrollment,
the program will be given care
ful study by the membership be
fore the next board meeting in
November, when a decision will
be made on final adoption of
the program.
At present almost 50% of all
official DHIA records cannot be
used in USDA sire summaries
because of the lack of proper
identification Therefore, it is
of utmost importance to in
crease the number of positively
identified animals on test in or
der that their records can be
used for proving young sires.
All member organizations of
the Purebred Dairy Cattle Asso
ciation (Ayrshire, Swiss, Guern
sey, Holstein and Jersey) have
given careful study to a pro
gram for provisional registra
tion, but this is the first simple
SPEAKING OF DAIRY MONTH
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and practical plan adopted by
a major breed to appeal to t
significant segment of the unre
gistered population. Several
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DHIA And Plant
Tests Differ
Periodically, milk producers
request some information rela
tive to the results of fat tests.
Specifically, they want to know
why'the DHIA herd sample tests
higher in fat content than the
sample tested at the plant for
purposes of payment. While oc
casionally there may be agree
,ment between these two tests,
*the DHIA test will usually differ
from the plant test. Why? The
following reasons are offered by
Dr. Dick Kleyn, dairy industry
professor at Rutgers:
DHIA tests are based on a one
day sample. Most dairy plants
make up 10- and 15-day compos
ite samples by taking daily sam
ples from the patrons’ shipment.
Often dairies pay on a fresh
sample basis by taking from 3 to
5 fresh samples on various days
during the month.
The cows may be milked out
more completely on the day of
DHIA test. Such a practice will
make that lot of milk have a
higher test
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SPEAK OF KINGPIN
717-836-3127
Sire of
Serving you in Lancaster County
NELSON KREIDER
717-687-6214
ROBERT KURTZ
717-626-8065
There’s Nothing Quite Like A Cow!
A cow has been described as
the hardest working animal, and
for want of more complete
knowledge on the subject. I will
accept that. No doubt the cow is
a truly remarkable creature. To
attempt to imitate the product
of her work day all but stumps
man.
A milk substitute I picked up
the other day contained these
ingredients, according to the la
bel: “A pasteurized blend of wa
ter. hydrogenated vegetable oil,
corn syrup solids, sodium case
mate, carrageenan, sodium ci
trate, disodiutn phosphate, salt,
mono and di glycerides of the
fat forming acids (except laur
ic), polysorbate 60, sorbitan
monstearate, lecithin, artificial
flavor and artificial color.”
And to think the lowly cow can
produce milk without all that
trouble—simply by eating grass
—and without any particular in
struction in chemistry or manu
facturing techniques.
Her service to mankind does
not stop there, naturally. She
gives, although not so willingly
as she provides milk, shoe leath
er and hamburger, and she re
produces her species so that
there will be others to take up
where she leaves, o|L _ - -
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. June 1.1968
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PARTS OF THE DAIRY COW —The parts as mailed In the dk*
gram are: 1) muzzle, 2) jaw, 3) throat, 4) point of shoulder, 5}
dewlap, 6) point of elbow, 7) brisket, 8) chest Boor, 9) knee,
10) heel, 11) sole, 12) milk wells, 13) mammary veins, 14) foN
udder, 15) teals, 16) hoof, 17) pastern, 18) dew claw, 19) switch,
20) hock, 21) rear udder, 22) flank, 23) stifle, 24) thigh, 25) rear
udder attachment, 26) pin bones, 27) tail, 28) tail head, 29)
rump, 30) thurl, 31) loin, 32) hip, 33) back, 34) chine, 35) ribs,
36) barrel, 37) crops, 38) withers, 39) heart girth, 40) neck, 41)
horns, 42) poll, 43) forehead, and 44) bridge of nose.
Dr. Honan Named To
Promotion Committee
Dr. James E. Honan, general the use of Penna -produced milk,
manager of Inter-State Milk The committee s recommenda-
Producers’ Cooperative, has tions will be presented to milk
been named as one of the mem- producers, who will vote on
bers of a 20-man committee to whether they want a milk pro*
study_ a possible milk marketing motion order,
promotion order for Penna. A milk promotion order hing-
State Agriculture Secretary es on legislation (Senate Bill
Leland H. Bull said the commit- 1273) which has passed the Sen
tee will consider assessment (Continued on Page 26)
rates for milk produced in the
state, methods to collect the as-
sessments and ways to promote
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