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-
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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
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• 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
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We are also doing
back-hoe work
Call or write
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BOX 326
Willow Street, Pa. 17584
Phone 464-3661
Office located South of Willow Street on Rt. 272
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All steel hay and silage bunks
Grain troughs 4 models
Pickup stockracks
Lifetime free stalls: "unequalled in quality"
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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.