10—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. March 13.1969 h-Lysinc Corn Hi Tomorrow's One-Shot Ration? cannot live on hybrid ol com was discovered only ie coin alone, but someday they tenlly. m.n thine on unsupplemenlcd , n , 963 OUoi , E Nclson and high lysine coin Edwin T Mertz, scientists at the Ljsine and tryptophan me j> lir£ i„ c (inrit.ma> Experiment ammo acids essential for high weic searching for ways quality protein. Both are defict- increase protein value of cent in all giains now used as corn _ During their research, feed Trying to finish hogs 01 e y discovered that opaque-2 poultry without a supplement to sam pi es had twice the lysine and supply these amino acids would content of normal be like tiymg to build houses c( J rn> without nails Research was partly financed This fall thiee seed companies by funds from t he U.S. Depart announced that they would have , rent 0 f Agriculture, enough seed to plant 18,000 acres of high-iysine coin next spring The opaque-2 gene was intro- This indicates that large-scale duced into seveial lines of corn, pi eduction may be closer than which showed increased protein the icseaicheis who discoveied content —as well as having twice high lysine coin had expected, as much lysine and increased „ , , tivptophan The piotem con- The high lysine corn sto.y be- • { the h ,gh-lysine varieties can ove. 30 yeais ago at Cornell ; ig t com . Lnueisity, when scientists , , „ ... paied to 8 peicent in regular round a mutant lecessive gene in opaque coin and named it 00111 cpaque-2 The effect that the A level of 15 percent portein gene has on the piotem content is adequate for most voung an- ATTENTION Tobacco Growers Have a labor shortage? Tired of costly time consuming hoeing and weeding operations? Consider ENIDE SOW Weed Killer for your tobacco crop this year ADVANTAGES • Controls most grasses and many broadleaf weeds. • Assures tobacco seedlings of less weed competi tion in the plant bed. • Gives up to full season control in the field with one application. • Wide margin of tolerance on tobacco when used as directed. • Shallow cultivation does not reduce effectiveness. • Can be applied directly over the seeds and transplants. Enide SOW can also be used for tomatoes, peppers, sweet and regular potatoes, soybeans, strawberries, fruit trees, evergreen shrubs and trees, annual and perennial flowers and ground cover. NIAGARA CHEMICAL DIVISION fmc CORPORATION Intercourse, Pa. or , Denver, Pa. 717-768-8451 215-267-2253 Sale: High-lysine com will be mi a Is: 12 pc.cent suffices fo. lts P lOU;m fre , (llnK '• ,l ' nnlinc animals ««’• not lusl,on ltb mols,Mie con ‘ v ... i <r . i„lent New marketing miangc- Nutnlional effects o hgl ■ nicnls Wl n ansc s 0 the giowcr lysine were then tested on ials CMI hencflt from the hl({h pro . and pigs, which gained weight t con tcnt. 3 6 times faster than animals fed on normal corn alone. The Use: High-lysine com will weight gam on animals tested compete with soybean meal as was similar to animals fed on feed for hogs and poultiy Hogs hybird corn with a soybean meal and poultry, which consumed 62 supplement percent of the corn fed in 1967, Other tests indicated that high- «° not thier own lysine corn diets would improve J™ n 0 "aJdSs Present human diets. When used as the Applies their sole source of protein in young y . , IQR7 children’s diets h.gh. l ysine»r„’s „" d '% r " y d w SC Snf £ .«-» ol soybean meat ted South American children suffer- One study projects that if mg with kwashiorkor, a severe high-lysine com yields aie 94 protein deficiency disease, le- peicent of regular hybrid corn covered when high-lysine coin yields, the price of high-lysine was their only source of piotein to a hog producer would be Yeilds of corn ciossed with equal to that of hybrid corn plus the opaque-2 gene averaged 15 soybean meal If high-lysme percent lower than regular corn yields equal that of regular com, However, some of the lines did feed costs savings aie projected yield the equal of their normalat 8 8 pei cent LIME NOW For Service as you like it We are also doing back-hoe work Call or write PARADISE NDUSTRIES INC. BOX 326 Willow Street, Pa. 17584 Phone 464-3661 Office located South of Willow Street on Rt. 272 • BARN SNOW • FREE SOIL TESTING • S & H GREEN STAMPS STOCKADE BRAND Livestock Equipment 8 Models all steel welded farm and feedlot gates 2 Models oil steel welded head catch gate All weather salt and mineral feeder/face fly cc trcl All steel hay and silage bunks Grain troughs 4 models Pickup stockracks Lifetime free stalls: "unequalled in quality" Ritchie Waterers and Behlen Steel Buildings For prices, contact: Fred Frey, Mgr. 786-2235 ,7,7, pj^y countci ports. Willi proper sc lection, it should be possible to develop high-lysine corns lo c'liml the blithest yielding lines It hiftlelysinc varieties do Meld as hifih or nearlv as hijth as hybrid corns presently mown, some changes c.m be minted on R. D. #2 Quarryville, Penna. 17566 No studies on ef fects on the poultry ItiuMiy have been made. Consumers: Sonic food com panies are alic.ulv at "*>ik on high protein com prodmi, \d vertising. which is quick •> note inipiovements, can be e\p»*(U*<l to make the most of lysir-* So, hi pi olein corn flake- with Ijsine mav well appear Foreign diets In some *.f ican and Conti al Amencan coi times, corn is the major food e/>*n. Toitillas made from h’-ih- ly sine com will supply mud 1 need ed protein to childien, especially those under 4. who nee* 't for hi am development. Safe Operation Correct installation of an au tomatic washer or dryei » im portant to the operation of the appliance, reminds Helm E. Bell, Penn State evasion home management speci-mt A competent maintenance man can best handle the job \ dry er, gas or electric, must be con nected to exhaust ducts leading outside For electrical safety, all major appliances sho-xld he grounded, either by a separate wire or with a thie=:nong plug and outlet.
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