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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 BEURAL FOBES VANCE 2-11 120 days 9,026 306 snc. WHIRLHILL KINGPIN IS AT NEBA R. D. d±2, Tunkhannock, Pa. 18657 and practical plan adopted by a major breed to appeal to t significant segment of the unre gistered population. Several (Continued on Page 23) 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 (Continued on Page 27) 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 SECOND SECTION S • " M I s *s » / / till 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 17