2&—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 31. 1976
New wheat standards passed
WASHINGTON - A
revision of the official U.S.
grade standards for wheat
was announced last month
by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture. TTie changes,
proposed in the April 27
Federal Register, were
made to bring the standards
in line with current
production and marketing
practices.
According to officials in
USDA’s Agricultural
Marketing Service (AMS),
the revised U.S. grade
standards for wheat:
- Delete the three sub
classed of Hard Red Winter
Wheat, retaining only the
general class designation;
- Modify inspection
procedures so that the
amount of heat-damaged
kernels, damaged kernels
(total), and foreign material
will be determined on the
basis of a wheat sample free
from dockage and shrunken
and broken kernels;
- Allow a newly developed
purple-colored wheat to be
designated as Unclassed
Wheat, a classification not
available in the previous
standards;
- Specify that Red Durum
Wheat will also be
designated as Unclassed
Wheat, because Red Durum
is no longer grown com
mercially in the United
States;
- Delete the previously
used special grades Heavy
Wheat and Tough Wheat;
- Require that percentages
of Western White Wheat,
Unclassed Wheat, and Mixed
Wheat be listed in the
“Remarks” section of the
official inspection cer
tifirpfc; and
Juice flow
HARRISBURG -
Pennsylvania consumers
used 60 per cent more
electricity in 1975 than they
did a decade earlier, the
Pennsylvania Electric
Association (PEA) reported
recently.
- Adjust the limit for heat
damaged kernels in the U.S.
No. 1 grade from 0.1 to 0.2
per cent.
One change proposed April
27 but not adopted would
have required wheat con
taining more than 0.1 per
cent ergot a type of fungus
to be designated as Ergoty
Wheat. AMS officials said
further study is needed
before new grade limits for
ergot can be established.
The revision was published
in the June 29 Federal
Register. Copies can be
obtained from the Grain
Division, AMS, USDA,
Washington, D.C. 20250.
increasing
Residential, commercial
and industrial customers
consulted 87.6 billion
kilowatt-hours, compared
with 53.7 billion in 1965.
PEA President Earl J.
Miller said that a “con
servation ethic” has helped
slow the historical trend of a
doubling in consumption
every ten years in the
decades following World
Warn.
“But in the next decade,
we can expect major growth
in electricity use nearly 70
per cent higher than today,”
he added.
Miller explained that in
dustry and consumers are
shifting the energy base
away Rom depleting oil and
natural gas to electricity. He
cited estimates that the 1976
consumption of electricity in
Pennsylvania will be 92.7
billion kilowatt-hours, and
that this will increase to 114.5
in 1980 and 147.1 in 1985.
“These are more than just
projections,” Miller said.
“The numbers mirror the
growth of industry that is
necessary if we will have
jobs for the next generation
of Pennsylvanians.”
Correction
The two top land judges at
the Lancaster County
Conservation Field Day
were Les Hershey and Bruce
Kreider. The caption on page
18 of last week’s issue in
correctly identified Kreider
as Gary Akers. Lancaster
Fanning apologizes for the
error.
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Scientist claims public saves
$2-billion with feed additives
NEW YORK, N.Y. -
American consumers save
more than two billion dollars
annually for meat when
antibiotics are fed to cattle
and swine, the FDA Sub
committee on Antibiotics in
Animal Feeds of the
National Advisory Food and
Drug Committee was told
recently.
In addition, Dr. R. G.
Eggert, American
Cyanamid Company, told the
Subcommittee that an in
crease of 103 million bushels
of corn and about 23 million
bushels of soybeans would be
required to produce the
same amount of meat if
antibiotics were banned.
Eggert focused his
presentation on antibiotics
which are disease preventive
as well as growth promoting.
The scientist stated that
waiting until animals are
clinically ill before taking
action is uneconomical. If
the sick animal recovers, he
must first regain lost weight
Milk-feed
ratio down
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The
June milk-feed price ratio, at
1.42, registered a six per cent
decline from May due to a
decline in milk prices and
increases in feed costs. The
June ratio was still 9.2 per
cent above that of a year
earlier as higher milk prices
were partially offset by
higher feed costs than a year
ago.
Milk production in June is
estimated to have been
10,865 million pounds - a 4.1
per cent increase over a year
ago and 2.4 per cent above
June, 1974. The reason for
the increase is a record high
average production per cow
for June of 982 pounds - up 46
pounds from a year earlier
and 35 pounds above June,
1974. Milk cows during June,
at 11,061,000 head, were
unchanged from last month
but off one per cent from a
year ago.
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before he can make new
gains. Much disease can be
prevented by using an
tibiotics in the feed during
periods of stress when
animals are especially prone
to illness.
“More than a billion
dollars a year are being
saved by the prophylactic
„ use of antibiotics in the feed
•of poultry, swine and cattle,”
stressed Eggert.
He said that tetracycline
antibiotics are a major
factor in both the cattle
feeding and hog raising
businesses. He cited an
experiment conducted on a
commercial hog farm in
lowa which involved 600 pigs
in four treatment groups.
The treatment group
receiving a chlortetracycline
combination during the
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starter period had by far the
lowest mortality rate. The
other groups received either
no antibiotics in their feed or
a non-therapeutic feed ad
ditive.
Bdsed on 1975 prices, the
group receiving the an
tibiotics combination had an
economic advantage of
$10.35 per pig over the
groups receiving no an
tibiotics. If this economic
advantage of $10.35 per pig
was applied across the 1975
pig crop (83.5 million), there
would be a potential savings
of 864 million dollars.
The Subcommittee of the
FDA advisory group is
reviewing the use of an
tibiotics at low levels to
determine whether ad
ditional controls on their use
is needed.-