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
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