24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June 28.1969 Central Milk Testing Lab Now Operating The pilot piogi.im of Daily Held Impi moment Association testing in a statewide cential testing laboi.itoiy is proving to be successful and future expan sion of the pioject is planned, it was iccenth pointed out by Hei beit C Gilmoic Extension dany specialist at The Pennsylvania State Univeisity. Gilmoie lepoited on Pennsyl vania's cential testing laboiatoiy opeiations at the annual meeting ol the Amencan Dany Science Association convening in St Paul Minnesota In Octobei 1968, when the cen tial testing progiam was initiat ed, 4,410 samples were tested, the dany specialist said During April 1969. 21,612 samples were tested ‘•The addition of an automatic Milko-tester this past April add ed greatly to the testing capa city of the laboratory, “Gilmore emphasized “The automatic de vice is able to test 180 samples per hour compared to 100 per hour for the hand-operated mod el. Three technicians are current ly handling over 1,500 samples in an 8-hour day,” he added. Milk samples in plastic bags with a potassium dichromate pre servative added are shipped to the lab in cardboard containers, the Penn State professor explain ed Previous work has shown that this method of handling is satis factory if all air is excluded from the plastic bags “The demand for this service has been great as our ability to expand facilities,” Gilmore said. “Plans are now being developed for facilities and equipment to handle 200,000 samples a month ” Assisting Gilmore with this pilot program are Dexter N. Put nam, Extension dairy specialist, and Manfred Kroger, assistant professor of food science. Putnam Says Dairymen Satisfied With New Milk Testing Plan Appioximately 1,000 Pennsyl vania dairymen have adopted the alternate AM-PM milk testing program since it was made avail able in October 1968 and a high percentage aie satisfied with the results, it was leported in St Paul, Minnesota, recently, by Dextei N Putnam, Extension dairy specialist at The Pennsyl vania State University Putnam, who presented a paper at the annual meeting of the American Dairy Science As sociation, explained that under the Pennsylvania plan, milk weights and samples are taken in the evening one month and the morning of the next month. “Milk weights are doubled to get the daily weight for calculation of production records,” the dairy specialist said. “The cost to dairy men is 20 percent less than for herds on test where two milkings aie used ” Dairymen especially like the convenience and lower cost of the records, Putnam emphasized Supervisors have been satisfied because of more desirable work ing hours They also are able to receive highei wages because they have more time to test laiger herds in one day, or in some cases, two hei ds in one day, he added 10 SPEED UP CROWT FEED BABY CALF FORMULA THE MILK and ANIMAL FAT FORMULA FOR ALL BABY ANIMALS GUARANTEED TO PERFORM LIKE WHOLE MILK! • Programming • Planning t Management stock THE TRUE MILK REPLACER FOR ASSISTANCE IN Make an appointment with our Dairy Specialist, or Coll Us Direct at Lancaster 392-2T45 MILLER & BUSHONG, Inc. S Rohrerstowm, Pa. FINEST SERVKE ANYWHERE Phone Lancaster 392-2145 (Area Code 717)
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