Sire Development’
Program Unveiled
The results of the world’s
most extensive dairy Sire De
velopment Program were unveil
ed at the American Breeders
Service, Inc. International Head
quarters at DeForest, Wisconsin,
this week.
Dr. Robert E. Walton, Presi
dent of the W. R. Grace & Co.
subsidiary,' outlined the details
of the program. The first of the
350 bulls in the system that be
gan in 1963 are now being put
into regular service. Fundamen
tal to this program is: (a)
searching out the best animals
in the world for use as the seed
stock for the bulls enteiing the
program, (b) a controlled sys
tcm for random sampling of the
bulls in ABS Associated Helds,
comprising 650 dairymen located
in 21 different states, (c) a sci
entifically sound system for eval
uating these bulls after their
waiting period of about four
years
Only the very best, about one
out of five, were selected for ex
tensive use. The remaining bulls
in each year’s class go to slaugh
ter. The daughters of the 8 bulls
selected average 4,957 pounds
of milk more than the U.S. DH-
I>’s breed average. “The pur
pose behind this tremendous ef
fort and investment is to breed
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EASIDE “DEAN” MASTERPIECE is a big bull now
He is among the first eight bulls to emerge from the
million dollar ABS Holstein Progeny Test Program. He is
shown here with the key men who developed the program.
(Left to right) Kenneth Young, Director of Dairy Cattle
Breeding; Dr. Robert E. Walton, ABS President; and Wil
lard Krueger, Vice-President, Marketing.
and develop a continuing flow of problem of slow genetic piog
bulls whose daughters will be as ress has now been solved Bulls
good as the most outstanding resulting from this program can
cows of today These are the cat- be a key factor in breaking the
tie that will produce more milk, genetic barrier that has existed
more efficiently, with more prof for years. The result will be
it for the man who earns his hv- more efficient production of bas
ing from his dairy herd,” Dr ic foods—milk and milk prod-
Walton said. “The traditional ucts”
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday, August 10.1968
Food And Drug Administration
Urged To Implement Plan To
Regulate Imitation Milk
Washington, DC. Edwin This would be important not
Christianson, National Vice only for the American family,
President of the Farmers Union, but also for the dairy farmer
today strongly urged the Food who has long fought to insure
and Drug Administration to im- the purity of the product which
plement its plan to regulate the he produces on his farm. The
sale of imitation milk which Farmers Union ‘Fly-In” group
does not meet the nutritional had worked on regulating the
standards of real milk or the manufacture of artificial imita
pure food standards Chris- tion milk,
tianson, in a wire to the Food Imitation milk usually con
and Drug Administration, urged tains sodium caseinate as a base,
“the immediate adoption of the some of which is also used in
proposed rule which would ban the preparation of paint Taste
the sale of most imitation milk tests indicate that some of the
since most of the imitation milk imitation milk cannot be dif
now produced does not meet the feientiated from real milk How
nutntional standards of real ever, the main difference be
milk ” (Continued on Page 20)
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