Farm Pondi low, wet area which preaenti a
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The benefits from a farm pond l mtr month 9 wlth 100 much mud .
are many, and the fall of the Most contractors prefer to work
year is one of the best seasons dry soil, rather than mud, and a
to construct the pond. In many better job of construction may
cases the pond is located in a be obtained.
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AN ADVANCE LOOK at the operation chatting with Elwood Williard, of Spread
of Spread Eagle Farms finds NEPPCO’s Eagle. See story Page 17.
Executive Director, Dick Ammon (left),
Increase
Donated
To improve diets of school
children, needy families, and
needy persons in charitable in
stitutions in this country, the
U S. Department of Agriculture
donated almost 14 billion
pounds of food during the first
nine months of 1967-68 fiscal
year This is about 20 percent
more than during the same peri
od a yeai eailier, points out
Catherine B Love, extension
consumer education specialist of
The Pennsylvania State Univer
sity
Schools received more than
713 million pounds of donated
food during this mne-month pe
riod, nearly 44 percent more
than for the same period the
year before. Steadily increasing
enrollments in elementary and
high schools and higher costs of
serving school lunches are
among reasons for increasing
food donations.
Food donations to needy per
sons in family units accounted
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In USDA
Foods
for more than 537 million
pounds, says Miss Love In
Maich, 3 5 million peisons ic
ceived food donations and anoth
er 2 4 million benefited from the
USDA’s Food Stamp Program.
To help feed needy adults and
children in chatitable institu
tions and childien in nonprofit
summei camps, USDA provided
food for the nine-month penod
amounting to almost 107 million
pounds
One or moie of USDA’s food
donation programs, earned out
through state and local govern
ments, operated in all 50 states,
District of Columbia, Puerto
Rico, Vngm Islands, Guam,
American Samoa, and the Trust
Territory of the Pacific
The U.S Department of Agri
culture acquires food, suitably
pi ocessed and packaged, and
ships it to the states and terri
tories for use in their school
lunch, needy family, and other
food-aid programs, Miss Love ex
plains
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DOUBLE PREGNANCY
CATTLE RESEARCH GOAL
Daily scientists at The Penn
sylvania State University are ex
ploring the possibility of devel
oping a second calf in daily
cows aheady carrying a calf ons
to three months of age, accord
ing to Dr T Y Tanabe, repio
ductive physiologist with the de
partment of dauy science
Such work is termed superfe
tation, Dr Tanabe says Artifi
cial insemination dunng preg
nancy has been accomplished
successfully without disrupting
fetal development in 94 percent
oi the cows studied at Penn
State's Dauy Bleeding Research
Center However, fertilization of
expei imentally develope-d eggs,
the ciucial step in any such
technique, has not been
achieved
To accomplish superfetation
and successful birth of two
healthy calves of different ages
within a period of one to three
months will lequire control of
five major processes without dis
rupting the initial pregnancy.
Fust, a viable egg must be de
veloped in the ovary on the side
opposite the pregnant uterine
hom Then ovulation must be in-
duced by hormone injection to
luptuie the ovarian follicle or
egg sac and release the egg.
Next, the experimentally induc
ed egg must be fertilized Then
each fetus must be maintained
thiough a noimal gestation peri
od The final step is to induce
separate and spaced births
Dr Tanabe and associates
have found that pregnancy can
be maintained by injecting sub
noimally low levels of progestei
one after surgically removing
the corpus luteum the gland
that pi oduces progesterone
which in tuin maintains fetal de
velopment Such treatments
have been 90 percent successful
When pregnancy was tenuous
ly maintained under conditions
of low level progesterone substi
tution, laige follicles developed
which contained normal appeal
ing eggs This basic proceduie
pioduced a single follicle in 80
percent of the experimental am
mals By hoimone injection,
such follicles were caused to
rupture and release an egg in 70
pei cent of the cattle
Have you checked your home
recently for faulty wiring, fray
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The National Fire Protection
Association says these things,
along with defective electric
appliances, are a major cause
of file in oui homes Make sure
youi home is an electrically
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