Ida’s Notebook Halloween is a time for fun. From the time of my youth, I remember it as an opportunity to get away from my parents stern discipline and have one night out with the other children of our small village. It was also an opportunity to meet some of our neighbors as we went into their homes for refresh ments. The following quotation was written by a con cerned supervisor in the March-April Edition of “The Northeast Improver". “Why will some dairymen have forage samples analyzed, and then not do anything aboutthe results? I just heard from a neighbor about one of my dairymen who had severed cases of acetonemia. I had checked out his minerals, he was high in calcium, low in phosphorus, and very low in magnesium. Believe it or not, now he’s looking at his reports and doing something about them”! This story could have been written by many, and in all sections of the United States. To help prevent metabolic diseases, obtain increased production, and utilize feeds most efficiently, does require laboratory analyses, then formulating rations based on these facts. When this is done, it doesn’t mean it’s right for two years, or two mon ths, or even two weeks. Oft times, roughages are changed in short periods of time and to utilize test results correctly requires the formulation of a balan ced ration whenever these changes are made. The following hay samples are indicative to illustrate the significance of test variations and their affect on a balanced ration. Test Results Of Four Hay Samples Protein Calcium Phosphorus 27 21 25 30 Magnesium 11 12 38 35 Based on these analysis and hay being the only roughage fed, the following rations were recommended, based on Holstein cows averaging 1400 lbs. and producing 50 lbs of milk Hay . Grain Ration Southeastern Penna George F Delong Regional Manager 225 West Woods Drive Lititz PA 17543 Call Collect 717 626 0261 Eastern Lancaster Co Melvin Herr RR2 New Holland PA 17557 Ph 717 354 5977 North Western Lancaster Co Earl B Cinder RD2 Manheim PA 17545 Phone 717 655 3126 Southei Henry Delong, Jr RD2 Box .69 Peach Bottom PA 17563 Phone 717-546-3471 Ida Risser The costumes weren’t important as you could throw com grains on the porches and then run and scream in any old outfit. But this year our children agonized over what to wear to two different parties. As a starter they tore up two sheets into narrow strips to be wound around as a Mummy costume. Why The Agri King Program? * Dr. Warren Bonhoff Jk/t/k Director of Nutrition- Veterinary Consultant No 3113 No. 3110 No. 3098 No 3079 10 73 12 52 15 68 20 75 1 11 No. 3113 No. 3110 No. 3098 No 3079 26 0 lbs 26 7 lbs. 26 6 lbs. 29.0 lbs 20.0 lbs 19 3 lbs. 19 4 lbs 17 0 lbs Southwestern Lancaster Co Ben Greenawall RD2 Conestoga PA 17516 Phone 717 872 5686 Chester Co William Wmdle RDI Atglen PA 19310 Phone 215 593 6143 Lebanon Co Marvin Meyer RD2 Box 157 Annville PA 17003 Phone 717 867 1445 Northeast Berks Co Roger Heller RDI Robesoma 'PA Phone 215 693 6160 However, at the last minute it? was discarded, in favor of an old tramp’s and atatfarmer get-up. As I - may have mentioned before, one year my two older boys made a frame, covered with a spotted sheet, and went as a Holstein cow. It was the hit of the party. Recently I traveled with a, big busload of eighth graders * to the Hagley Museum and Gleutherian Mills in Delaware. The museum has many exhibits showing early American industrial history and tracing it through manufacturing in the early 20th Century. The mills constructed by the DuPonts in 1802 manufactured black powder used in explosives. The heavy granite walls on three sides of the buildings with a AGRI-KING I I Grain Ration Formulas With Hay Sample Numbers ff No. 3113 Na3llo N 0.3098 No. 307 Iff 16255 1763 1916 ■■ 1932 |ff 265 165 20 |ff 12 43 ' 42 ff 195 ff s ff 25 18 5 ff 2000 ff ff S These hay analyses are of common occurrence and ff actually occur on the same farm within the same ff year. Is it any wonder that serious problems exist CL on many dairy farms today, especially considering CL the increase in production per cow, yet still feeding mf similar to what was done in previous decades? jpf- If one had the previous hay samples, wouldn’t it ff be difficult to choose a protein, calcium, iff phosphorus, and magnesium level to possibly iff “balance a grain ration/' The odds would be iff astronomical, in fact it couldn’t be done. Yet it’s ff being attempted every day. So we go on accepting ff the hypocalcemias (milk fever), ketosis, retained CL placentas, mastitis, foot problems, breeding CL problems, grass tetany (magnesium deficiency), ff etc.; as partners for being in the profession of dairying. - |ff No, providing good balanced nutrition will not ff prevent all metabolic diseases but they certainly cm ff be reduced. Daily specialists state that eighty to ff ninety percent of all diseases are directly related to ff nutrition. This statement certainly appears valid, ff yet today what percentage of livestock producers or ff others related to the subject of nutrition are suf- ff ficiently devoted to do the best possible. ff Now, and in the future laboratory analyses of CL roughages and grain are going to increase. Don't ff stop there; the results are interesting but of very lit- CL tie value unless these analyses are used honestly mf and diligently in the formulation of a complete iff balanced feeding program. ff KEY TO PROFIT Shell Corn 44% Soybean Meal Monosodium (26% Ph) Di Cal (18 s%ph-21% CA) 24 Calcium (38%) . 43 Salt Key-Mm-R Dairy Multi-Factors 1 77 1 79 Agri King is unique in the fact that we have an ex cellent computerized program that does put together the roughage analyses and information to accomplish the results a dairyman is seeking .thigh & Norl Thomas Heist Mam Street Alburtis PA 18101 Phone 215 965 5124 South Central Penna James L Yoder Regional Manager 250 Edwards Ave Chambersburg PA 17201 Call Collect 717 264 9321 Earl H Moyer RDS Box 277 Eldon Martin Hagerstown MD 21740 RDS Waynesboro PA 17268 Phone 301 739 5199 Phone 717 762 4130 Eastern Franklin Co ROSEMONT, 111 - Par ticipants in the 50th Anniversary Convention of ,the American School Health Association were told of a new- consecutive, sequential fourth side and roof lightly built in order to vent the blast force of accidental explosions toward the Brandywine Creek, were very interesting. Many lives were lost in this dangerous business but it is said that DuPont provided for the surviving families. 10 5 13 5 16 5 2000 13 5 16 2000 lhami Cumberland Ci Marlin E Ebersole R 5 Carlisle PA 17013 Phone 717 776 7324 Western Washington Co . Md Charlie Campbell Rt 4 Box 229 A Hagerstown MD 21740 Phone 301 791 2157 Eastern Washim New education program for nutrition set nutrition education program which will bring nutrition into the classroom from kindergarten through 12th grade. Mary Hughes, PH.D., of the National Dairy Council, described the K-12 Project to the ASHA audience in New Orleans on Octobers. Dr. Hughes, NDC’s K-12 project coordinator, said that the program reflects the thinking of the nation’s top education experts, studies done by the Society for Nutrition Education and Dairy Council, reports from die Senate Select Committee on Nutrition, the White House Conference, and input from representatives of Sarah H. Fretz, 14-year-old member of the Lehigh County beef and heifer club was recently awarded the certificate of achievement offered by the National Angus Auxiliary.* This program was started to honor outstanding young ladies in the area of breeding fitting, and showing Angus cattle. The achievement must be the result of com petitiion in the catagories of steer or breeding cattle, 1 5 16 5 2000 iton Co . Ml Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Oct 30,1976 Fretz wins certificate s£*£*»■* jm m y ( affiliated Dairy Council units nationwide. The program offers the latitude to satisfy the teacher’s various needs, and can be integrated with other subjects in the curriculum. The K-12 Program is aimed to bring nutrition out of the realm of memorizing nutrients and deficiency states and into the personal lifestyles of students. Dr. Hughes promised it would be authoritative, interesting, and relevant. The first phase of the program, K-6, is now being tested in 19 sites across the country, and will be available for general use next fall. showmanship, judging, scholarship finalists or winners in any other com petition relative to Angus cattle. Sarah has a herd of five purebred Angus cows. In 1975 she entered a bull calf bred and owned by her in the Pa. State Bull Test Station, The bull went on to test first of all Angus bulls on test for that year. He was sold that March at the annual Bull Sale for $7OO. 51
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