—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 4, 1971
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Simmental Yearling Weighs 1,705 Pounds
Big Red, a half-blood Sim
mental bull has broken the world
yearling weight record
Bred and owned by In
ternational Simmental Co , Route
28, Kansas City, Mo , Big Red has
been stationed at the Southwest
Bull Evaluation Center at
Frederick, Oklahoma
Upon reaching his first bir
thday, he was officially weighed
by Laxton Malcom, county ex
tension director, at 1,705 actual
pounds
The bull is sired by Pansien,
the first Sunmental bull to be
introduced into North America in
1967. The dam, a Brown Swiss
and Angus cross cow, was bred
from frozen semen from Pansien
by artificial insemination, a
service that is available
throughout the U S
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LANCASTER BONE FERT.
CO.
Quarryville
SENSENIGMILL
Hmkletown, Pa.
ANDERSON
FEED & GRAIN
RDI, Oxford
H. H. GOOD MILL
Fivepomtville
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RD, New Holland
DISTRIBUTED BY
STANFORD SEED COMPANY
Plymouth Meeting, Pa. 19462
To date over a million dollars of
semen from Pansien has been
sold He has been proven as a
Golden Certified Meat Sire. Ken
Holloway and Edgar Hamm,
managers of the Southwest Bull
Evaluation Center, observed that
“Big Red is an outstanding
example of the beef animal of the
future . blending size and
growthmess of the exotic Sim
mental breed of cattle with
American cows descended from
British Breeds Hybrid vigor
gives a big ‘extra kick’ to the
growth process which Big Red so
remarkably demonstrated by his
fantastic growth in only one
year ”
Big Red entered the Bull
Station weighing 870 pounds for
testing After 140 days on test he
weighed 1,535 pounds with ap
proximately 25 pounds of feed
w“ r,m
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F. M. BROWN’S SONS, INC
Sinking Spring
Birdsboro
MARTIN FEED MILL
Ephrata RD3
BOMBERGER’S STORE
Elm
GERMAN FEED MILL
Denver
CHEMGRO FERTILIZER CO.
East Petersburg
Big Red, a Simmental, Brown Swiss, weight record. The bull managed to pack
Angus cross, claims a new world yearling on a hefty 1,705 pounds in 365 days.
and roughage per day. His
average daily gain was 4.75
pounds with a weight per day of
age of 4.68 pounds then.
The previous three world
record yearlings were claimed by
Charolais, the latest yearling
weight record being 1,685 pounds.
Big Red has been returned to
the International Simmental Co.
Ranch in Kansas City.
To continue the Company’s
Pa. Milk Output Down
Pennsylvania milk
production for the first nine
months of 1971 totaled 5,414-
milhon pounds, a decline of one
million pounds from the same
period last year.
In its third quarter special
dairy report, the Pennsylvania
Crop Reporting Service also
reported today that production
per a cow averaged a record high
of 855 pounds per cow during this
period or 12 pounds above last
year Average number of cows
milked were 703,000 or 11,000
below the same period last year
The blend price of milk during
the first eight months of 1971
averaged 2.3 per cent higher than
the same period last year
REAL CON *t*Uc TIOn
No toys have ever worked like these nor
given so much play fun—for no other toys are actual
blueprint replicas to scale of real John Deere equipment
They're die-cast in rust-resistant aluminum or zinc for authentic
detail and to be strong and last long Come see
the collection we have of many John Deere
Farm and Construction Toys
i : : r
JOHN DEERE
SCRAPER NO. 506
PLAY FEATURES: Steers (articu
lated) from connecting swivel joint,
whole front end has knee-action PLAY FEATURES: Rolls along
movement, crank operates rotating on endless rubber crawler
elevator to load dirt into bowl tracks, body pivots a full 360*,
which raises and lowers by crank operates boom and bucket
operating separate lever; another for digging with simulated cylinder
lever operates both gate and action, turning crank extends, lowers,
movable floor at same time to digs, raises and dumps in one continuous
dump load, can be locked into cycle, lever raises and lowers boom to
position for loading, unlocked 3 different digging positions . and bucket
for dumping to dump load at truck height
you’ll find JOHN DEERE CONSTRUCTION TOYS
a t A. B. C. Groff, Inc.
New Holland 354-4191
Wenger Implement Inc. M. S. Yearsiey & Sons Landis Bros. Inc.
The Buck 284-4141 West Chester 696-2990 Lancaster 393-3906
research program for more meat cattlemen throughout the U.S.
per day of age, semen from Big After he reaches 2,000 pounds,
Red will be frozen and made plans are to offer Big Red for
available to Universities and sale.
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LOCAL DISTRIBUTOR
JOHN DEERE
EXCAVATOR NO. 505
Phone Lane. 397-0751
Shotzberger's
Elm 665-2141