—Lancastar Farming, Saturday. Oct 12.1974
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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
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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
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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
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Perhaps on of the most offspring.
interesting and novel Richard
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has been the Genetic Mating plained the operatlon by
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HOG PRODUCERS)
Sold in sorted lots the auction way. See them
weighed and sold and pick up your check.
SALE EVERY MONDAY 9;00 A.M.
NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC.
Phone 717-354-4341
Daily Market Report Phone 717-354-7288
Abe Diffenbach, Manager
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Smoketown. Pa,
Ph. 717-299-2571
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