—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 27, 1972
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New Forage Evaluation
Methods used by scientists to
evaluate quality of new forages
for livestock will be displayed
June 28 during a field day at the
Agronomy Research Farm of
Pennsylvania State University on
Route 45 in Centre County.
Displayed will be various
New Museum Features
Eggs and Seashells
Over 100,000 sets com
prising the largest egg col
lection in the world, are
housed in the newly opened
multi-milhon-dollar Delaware
Museum of Natural History
in Greenville, near Wilming
ton, Del.
Conceived by John E. du
Pont in 1957, the museum is
a repository for eggs accu
mulated from older collec
tions around the world. It
also features collections of
rare seashells, birds and
mammals.
The museum’s research
collection comprises one mil
lion seashells, ami 40,000
specimens of birds, including
many extinct and vanishing
species, besides the egg col
lection.
Mr, du Pont said that the
work of the museum’s re
searchers in the past two
years has shed new light on
how man has harmed his nat
ural resources and what he
must do in order to preserve
them
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methods used to determine
forage quality. Such forages are
produced in management and
breeding experiments by
scientists with the Regional
Pasture Research Laboratory of
the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, located at Penn
State.
Indirect methods of estimating
forage quality include chemical
analysis, the artificial rumen
technique, and feeding of forage
diets to small laboratory animals
such as the meadow vole—a
mouse-like rodent..
The meadow vole will be
exhibited. Such trials enable
scientists to discard low quality
forages found unsuitable with
small, inexpensive laboratory
animals. Then the most
promising forage varieties are
evaluated in the more expensive
experiments using livestock.
One of the studies at the USDA
Pasture Research Laboratory
has determined that the sugar
content of grasses is highest in
early spring and autumn, and
lowest in July. From this sugar
content animals obtain a portion
of their energy requirements. As
the grasses matured, the energy
levels in the forages likewise
decreased.
As a result of these findings,
Pasture Laboratory scientists
are working to increase the sugar
content of forages for livestock.
The same energy levels were
also found to decrease when
nitrogen levels were increased.
The decrease in the energy level
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in the spring was more rapid in
tall fescue and reed canarygrass
than in smooth bromegrass and
perennial ryegrass.
Other studies are attempting to
increase energy levels from
fiber, alter mineral content, and
eliminate toxic factors from
forage crops.
The June 28 Agronomy Field
Day at Rock Springs will feature
two wagon tours of crops
research. The program will be a
day-long event. To see
everything, plan to take one tour
at 9:30 a.m. and the other at 1:30
p.m., suggests Dr. Joseph D.
Harrington, general chairman.
The Agronomy Research Farm is
three miles west of Pine Grove
Mills on Route 45.
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