Farming. Saturday. April 13. 1974 Beef Crossbreeds Becoming More Important may be desirable in terms of dicate Limousin carcass the amount of feed required quality may be more to maintain the cows. (Continued on Page 23( B|Dr. Lowell L. Wllion Department of Animal Science Venn State Unlveiaity The ZERO CONCORD is the only system that provides stable milking vacuum at the teat end in parlor or stanchion barn with a low or high, short or long, pipeline —and without injecting air into the milker units to move the milk Only with stable vacuum and no air injection can you hope to reduce leucocyte counts up to 65% increase milk production as much as 20% and prevent off-flavor and rancid milk The safe, stable vacuum is made possible by a patented, scientific principle . TWIN-VACUUM whereby one vacuum milks the cows, and a different vacuum moves the milk through a separate pipeline into the bulk tank In addition thanks to ZERO’S patented SPATTER-SPRAY Automatic Washer and new, improved, high-ca pacity, transparent milker unit—you have built-in, “push-button”, visible self-cleaning and sanitizing of the entire system without disassembling And there are many other advantages. Come in. Write or Phone for Full Information! DEALERS FOR TANKS AND PIPELINE MILKER EQUIPMENT URGENTLY NEEDED 1352 Union St Phone 717-393-6055 (Editor’s Note: Last week Dr. Lowell L. Wilson, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on new beef Lancaster, Pa. 17603 crossbreeds, spoke to a joint meeting of the Gkrden Spot and Ephrata Young Far mers Associations. This article covers the main points of his speech to the group.) Crossbreeding among well-known beef breeds and “new” breeds will make the next 20 years challenging and interesting! Preliminary results of Penn State research, to give one example, show one group of steer calves averaged 1110 pounds at 408 days of age. By well-known breeds we mean Angus, Brahmam, Brangus, Charolais, Hereford, Polled Hereford, Santa Gertrudis, and Shorthorn. These have been the main beef cattle breeds in the United States for many years. Some of the dairy breeds like Holstein and Brown Swiss have also been used for beef production but not very often. The “new” breeds in troduced into the United States the past few years are not really new because most are as old or older than the breeds that have been in the United States for many years. We refer to the Limousin, Simmental. Main- Anjou and Chianina. Many people think we have enough breeds for beef production, but most of the “new” breeds seem to be off to a good start. It will be several years before all the research has been conducted and analyzed to determine the place of each of these new breeds. 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The main thing to remember in all crossbreeding is to select breeds that complement each other. Two breeds weak in the same econo mic characteristics fertility, milking ability or growth rate - should not be crossed. Breeds that cover up each other’s weaknesses should be used. There are many things beef cattle must do in order to make a profit. First, the brood cow must be fertile and milk well. The calves must grow well up to weaning time and continue to grow rapidly and ef ficiently to slaughter weights. The carcass must be meaty with sufficient quality to meet the con sumer’s taste. No one breed is the best in all economic traits. This is the primary reason for crossbreeding. New Breeds Simmental. Simmentals (dual purpose meat and milk production) originated primarily from Switzerland, but cattle of the same breeding are also in France, Germany and Austria (named Pie Rouge and Fleckvieh). Simmental is one of the oldest known breeds. Research indicates Simmentals may grow as rapidly as Charolais, with comparable mature size and carcass quality. They are white-faced with solid or spotted red body patterns. Some of the early work at the Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, Nebraska, indicated calving difficulty from Simmental and Charolais was similar on Angus and Hereford cows. Preliminary research at Penn State in dicates only limited calving difficulties from Simmental bulls on Angus-Holstein crossbred cows. Limousin. Limousins originated in France, and are noted for desirable muscle thickness, and growth rate which almost equals Charolais. Mature Limousin cows are not as If it’s quality seed corn you want P-A-G’S SX9B favorites SX-39 is your number 7565 High yields, top performance, SX-92^ harvestability, earjy vigor. SX-572 SX-53 CALL OR SEE: 315 MERVIN DEITER H. WEAVER REITZ R p! 3 S k PA - R D #1 ’ CONESTOGA, PA. PH 626-7515 pn ; 872-2557 ELI 0. NOLT EUGENE SPOTTS, INC. R.DJI, NEW HOLLAND. 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