—Lancastar Farming, Saturday. Oct 12.1974 24 ABS by: Melina Piper Dairymen from a cron the United States and several foreign countries gathered for the World Daily Expo held in Madison, Wisconsin, October 24th. It was the Bth annual Expo representing the world’s largest trade show for dairy farmers and drew a record crowd with its displays and daily showing and judging competitions. Activities during the week included intercollegiate and 4-H judging events along with beef and dairy workshops. Breed judging of some of the finest cattle in the world was also a highlight of the week’s ac tivities. Unique programs such as silo singing and polka parties also attracted many in terested visitors. Thursday evening, Oc tober 3rd, marked perhaps one of the most highly at tended activities of all-that being the World Premiere Holstein Sale. The sale of fered 29 head of some of the most outstanding bulls and cows in the Holstein breed. Also auctioned off after the sales were numerous am pules of semen from some of the top sires in the breed. American Breeders Help Organize Expo American Breeders Service, the largest artifical cattle breeding organization in America represented one of the main organizational companies for the Expo. American Breeders Service not only sponsored an outstanding booth display Brahma bulls are one of the many beef animals being kept at the ABS stud farm in DeForest. Evidently this Brahma wasn’t too interested in the tour as his expression demonstrates. American Breeders Service has a and supplies to technicians across fleet of trucks that>work on regular the country, schedule delivering ordered semen Holds Open House During World Dairy Expo IBtg , v ***,»**mtt l * " M ' 111 —*- - ri 1 I-' ' ' « i »-W> t, , * nr— • / * Select sires are housed in the main barn is the organization’s Hall of barn facilities at the DeFor&st Fame featuring the history of the Headquarters of the American group and the outstanding sires that Breeders Service. Also located in the have been used over the years. but also provided a hospitality wagon which toured the dairy bams in the early morning hours providing coffee and donuts for the dairymen. ABS put many hours into the organizing activities at the Expo along with helping to obtain the official catalog for the show. ABS Holds Open House The officials of the American Breeders Service not only manned the display tv.; —*■‘‘l ''' * at the Dairy Expo but also enough genetic material to opened their doors to myriad maintain top producing visitors wishing to leam dairy animals, more about their operation. Visitors were invited to tour the companies’ facilities at Madison and also their main stud farm in DeForest Wisconsin. This writer along with a delegation of ABS personnel from Pennsylvania toured both the Madison and DeForest facilities learning first hand the workings of the company since its inception in 1941. Since that period ABS has seen many remarkable changes helping the com pany not only' to gain recognition in the dairy breeding field but also in the beef and horse areas. The DeForest center or main stud farm as it is called, is located on 1100 acres and bouses 600 bulls along with beef animals and 125 horses for research. To maintain the best supply of superior sires for the future ABS has in stigated the Young Sire Program. The young bulls screened from 300 animals must prove their worth by being mated with the highest producing daughters of the top tested sires in the nation. This outstanding screening of young sires insures that in the future there will be "I i ORTHO-GUARD A TOTAL APPROACH TO TREATING AND STORING HIGH-MOISTURE FEED GRAIN. ORTHO GRAIN PRESERVATIVE Ortho Gram Preservative offers a practical way of cashing in on the advantages of harvesting and storing high mositure feed grains. Ortho Gram Preservative lets you move your crop directly from the field to storage where it gets a chemical coating of protection before it goes into conventional buildings. The result; there’s no need to tie up huge amounts of capital in drying equipment or sealed silos. 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