—Lanoutir Farming, Saturday. Nov. 9,1974 36 Beefalo Calves I Continual Fr*« Pap 1| trying to crocs buffalo and beef animals when he owned a buffalo ranch in Wyoming, and says he went through 1000 breeding failures before achieving what he calls the perfect marriage. Basolo says he was getting nothing but sterile, sickly ■nfanals until 1970, when he successfully crossed a Holstein cow with a buffalo bull. That mating did the trick, and Basolo is now selling cows, bulls and beefalo sperm to other ranchers. He expects beefalo meat to start appearing in California markets this year. The Canadian government feels so strongly about the future of the breed, that they recently plunked down $2.5 million for an outstanding sire. That is a lot of nickels. Kobut got his start in Beefalo with the purchase of 12 ampules of semen. “At first, we had a very, very bad conception rate,” Kobut told us at Graterford. “But then suddenly it got better. I tend to believe that our original problem was caused by some damage to the semen while it was being shipped here. The container seemed to have lost a lot of nitrogen by the time we got it.” Now, Kohut is well-pleased with the conception rate, and he’s very happy with the healthy looking Beefalo calves he’ll be rearing with the help of Graterford in mates. The calves are out of a Holstein dam, an Angus- A ALLIS-CHALMERS MANURE SPREADERS 281 spreader with optional pan attachment 299 spreader with optional rear endgate 1 THE WORD’S SPREADING - with 281 or 299 i spreaders that work well with tractor loaders or bam i cleaners - team with equipment you already have. BLANKET COVERAGE - comes with the 14 big, buzz saw paddles that rip, shred and spread the load. - Husky Tongue and Undercarriage - Box combines steel for strength ... wood durability. - Rugged drive and gear box. - Aggressive, self-cleaning paddles. - Four spreading rates j - Low loading height Nissley Farm Service L H. 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And the beefalo calves really stirred up some excitement. “When that first calf was born,” Kohut said, “I saw a man serving a life sentence watching that calf like a mother hen.” In addition to Kohut, the farm staff includes two assistant managers, a'dairy herdsman and three assistants, a swine herd sman, shop foreman and a detail officer. Using inmate labor, the staff produces much of the food used at Graterford and some other institutions. They farm 300 acres of corn, 200 acres of barley, 28 acres of oats and 350 acres of hay. In addition to a beef operation, there’s a dairy herd with 141 bead milking, they’re building a farrowing house for a feeder GrumeHi Form Service Quarryville, Pa. swine operation, and they grow all tbo fruits and vegetables mad in tbo prison. Rockviaw Penitentary, near SUU Collage, hu the biggaat farm In the Mate prison system, but Graterford rans a close second. “The nice thing about getting inmates involved in farm work, is that there are so many skills to be lear ned,” Kobut said. “We’re putting up a new free stall dairy barn, and most of the finishing work - including carpentry, plumbing and electrical - is going to be handled by inmates. Our people learn to drive trucks, they learn to handle heavy equipment, bricklaying, plumbing. They learn how to work hard. I know that most of them won’t go into far ming when they get out of here. 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