—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 11, 1972
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Feeding and Breeding Closely Belated, Dairymen Told
The dairy industry is becoming
increasingly aware that there’s a
very close relationship between
feeding and breeding of dairy
cows, Dr. Richard S. Adams,
Penn State dairy Extension
specialist, emphasized at the
Lancaster County Dairy Day
program Tuesday.
“If the whole body isn’t in good
shape, neither is reproduction,”
Adams stated.
Adams emphasized that this
attitude represents a complete
change of thinking in the past
several years. He recalled that it
was once believed that there was
little or no connection between
feeding and reproduction ef
ficiency.
He reviewed some of the major
causes of breeding problems and
the connection of these problems
with feeding management.
On the problem of retained
placenta, he said this usually
stems from vitamin A and E
deficiency. This problem grows
worse and farmers move away
from green chop and pasture
programs
Manganese and zinc
deficiencies also can be im
portant factors in breeding
problems.
Cows will not show heat
symptoms if they are anemic, he
stated.
Farmers have two major tools
to assist them in overcoming
feeding-related breeding
problems, he stated. These tools
are-
First, blood samples to get an
accurate picture of the animals’
blood deficiencies.
Second, feed samples, in
cluding mineral tests, to show
what’s going into the animals.
Information provided by these
two tests and proper use of it will
enable the farmer to overcome
breeding problems related to
nutrition, Adams indicated.
He also emphasized the close
relationship between breeding
problems and over-fat animals.
He stated that farmers in this
part of the state have a tendency
to over feed and have over-fat
animals.
He also stated that 90 per cent
WASHINGTON REPORT
Congressman Edwin D. Eshleman
Ifth Dtitrict-Pmuuytaala UHIHi
One of the most controversial
issues to come before the country
in some months is busing.
Opinions on both sides of the
question of whether children
should be bused from schools
near their homes to schools
further away from their homes to
achieve racial and-or economic
balance are strong and becoming
increasingly embittered.
My feeling is that forced busing
makes no sense economically or
educationally.
The chief reason for developing
neighborhood schools in the first
place was that they were the
most inexpensive way of
providing the best possible public
education for everyone. They had
the additional advantage of
keeping the pupil reasonably
close to his home.
But the prime consideration
was that each local area could
handle its own schools with less
cost than could be expected if
bigger areas were involved.
I make this point because it
means that we did not develop the
neighborhood school to exclude
anyone for racial or economic
reasons. While it is true that in
the South there were dual neigh
borhood school systems
developed one system for
blacks and one for whites it is
also true that those dual systems
have been eliminated in favor of
integrated neighborhood schools.
To use busing to destroy the
neighborhood school concept
would simply put us on the road
toward vastly more expensive
public education. And it is pretty
obvious to me that the increased
of forage in Pennsylvania doesn’t
contain enough phosphorus to
encourage good reproduction
rates.
expense would contribute nothing
to helping children learn more.
The educational value would be
minimal at best, and the in
creased spending would go for
taking pupils further from their
homes to possibly worse schools.
My personal position on
Congressional action is that I will
support any legislation which
appears to have the muscle
needed to stop forced busing and
keep it stopped.
A legislative route which has
been proposed is to amend the
Constitution to prohibit busing.
This is the one sure way of
dealing with the busing
operation, and I have supported
some preliminary moves to get
Congress to consider such an
amendment.
But the amendment route is,
also the longest and most difficult'
way of dealing with an issue that
needs some action now. It has the
additional disadvantage of using
the Constitution as a legislative
tool rather than regarding it as j
an instrument above issues of the
moment.
If some strong legislation can
be developed to end busing
without passing a Constitutional
Amendment, I am very willing to
support that kind of action too.
It might be preferable for
Congress, through a regular bill,
to instruct the courts not to order
local districts to bus for racial
reasons and to prevent Federal
funds from being used for such
busing. Certainly it would be the
quickest method for handling the
problem. The danger here is that
the courts might strike down the
legislation passed and thereby
cancel its effects.
This is an issue which I am.
studying closely to decide on the
best course of action to take. But,'
my studying is aimed in just one
direction to keep busing from
destroying local school districts.
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