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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 24,1971
State Extension Specialists Speak on Dairy Management
Three Extension dairy special- bleeding and management topics much equipment is purchased
Ists at Pennsylvania State Uni- to state DHIA directors from 28 tor the operation or the existing
•versity told delegates participat- states who attended the national equipment is not operating at
ing in the sixth annual meeting conference recently on the Penn maximum efficiency He added
of the National Dairy Herd Im- State campus that other causes of failure are
provement Association that “the the lack of professional manage
art of efficiently managing a Ace ’ who s P eciallzes in dair y ment tools such as recordkeep
dairy enterprise is not a spec- management, said too many ngi ml]k testing, forage an
lator spoit but rather a detailed dair y aien fail t 0 acce P t their alysis, and blood tests,
science.” operation as a business and look Ace pomted out that in 1970,
The three specialists, Dr Law- 31 33 3 Ol6 Pennsylvania records indicate
rence Specht, Stephen Spencer, He pointed out that many that a cow pioducing 12,000
and Donald Ace, presented business failures occur when too pounds of milk annually return
ed a ?187 profit to the dairyman
He emphasized, however, that
not all dairymen should expand
USDA Considers Changes In Egg Market News
The deadline for comments ed for all markets in the east
on the proposal to discontinue ern half of the US. Prices and
certain egg market news re- general market conditions
ports has been extended to May would be reported each Monday
1, 1971, according to the U.S. covering most egg market acti- “Milking procedures are a re-
Department of Agriculture The vity for the preceding week i a tionship°among cows, men, and
original proposal (published in These Monday reports would machines and dairvmen should
the March 9 issue of the Feder- not cover any information on aXolt j developing pronounced
al Register) called for com- wholesale prices in Chicago and habits that will hamner efficient
ments by March 20, 1971 New York City. The wholesale milkuig operations, Stephen
The proposal was submitted prices series in these two cities gp encer sai( j.
fcy the Executive Committee of 1 the only one now reported) . ’ . ~
the United Egg Producers, a would be discontinued. A ! numbers gr ™ ln
nationwide cooperative of egg Interested persons may sub- e mor ® complex the
producers and marketers. mit written comments in tripli- P ro , ced^ e becomes,
If their recommendations cate to the Hearing Clerk, Unit- This, therefore,
were adopted by the Federal- ed States Department of Agri- ne cessitates changes in milking
State Market News Service, all culture, Room 112, Administra- anp systems,
reporting of egg prices on a tion Building, Washington, D.C a uded that it takes the
daily basis would be discontinu- 20250, no later than May 1,1971. same period of time and same
amount of labor to milk a low
producer as a high one In or
der to maximize production, the
milking machine must operate
properly and the dairyman must
understand the physiological
characteristics of each cow in
the herd
Dr. Specht, speaking on “Are
You Using the Right Bulls’”
said that dairymen must make
more efficient use of electronic
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