New Central Milk Testing Lab at Penn State Is Dedicated
Dedication ceremonies for the
Central Milk Testing Laboratory
on the Pennsylvania State Uni
versity campus were held April
20 'vfith officials of the College of
Agriculture and Pennsylvania
Dairy Herd Improvement As
sociation participating.
The .laboratory, which tests
200,000 milk samples per month
for hutterfat percentage by-using
automatic equipment, is the only
bne of its kind in the United
States, The lab, completed last
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November, runs tests on all cows need within the dairy industry
enrolled in the state DHIA pro- “Results of the tests aie uti
gram lized to maintain complete and
The project is paid from fees continuing herd production
collected for services offered by accords for DHIA membeis using
DHIA The Association and Col-
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facilities
Dr. Russell E Larson, dean of Paul H Heir, Holtwood RDI,
the College of Agriculture, was one of 50 men attending a
speaking at the dedication cere- Regional Seminar of American
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Herr Attends Seminar
A day long seminar included
panel discussions and work ses
sions, involving business topics
in which Herr took part. Herr
provides local artifieal insemina
tion service for dairy and beef
herds.
Corn Shelters Received
Donald Stoltzfus, an Eastern
Board agricultural development
worker in Tanzania, has report
ed, “I want to acknowledge, with
many thanks, the receipt of four
corn shellers If nothing else,
there will at least be fewer blist
ers this year in four villages ”
Stoltzfus said that four hand
powered corn shellers contri
buted by members of the Con
estoga Mennonite Church, Mor
gantown, will be placed in four
Tanzanian villages Tarani, Bu
mangi, Biharamulo, and North
Mara.
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most United States farmers, the
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Musoma area by saving time in
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this service,” Dr Larson said
“All results of tests and test
ing procedures are available to
faculty members for research
and educational purposes ”•
Clyde S Robison, Coal Center
RDI, state DHIA president, em
phasized that Pennsylvania
dairymen will appreciate the
new service He also pointed
out that construction of a facility
oi this type is the biggest step
and most solid one the state
DHIA has ever taken.
Herbert C. Gilmore, t-mi State
Extension dairy specialist and
supervisor of the state DHIA
program, m explaining the func
tions of the lab, said a staff of
14 are employed. Five automatic
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milk-o-testers record the butter
fat percentages of 900 samples
per hour
The DHIA supervisor in each
county takes a sample from the
milk of each cow in the herd on
test This is placed in a plastic
hag to which a preservation has
been added, Gilmore noted
Samples are then packaged m
specially designed containers and
mailed to the laboratory. After
the samples are removed from
the containers, the entire pro
cedure is automatic
Policies of Central Milk Test
ing Laboratory operations are
governed by a 15-member DHIA
board of directors and faculty
members of the College of Agri
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