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
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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
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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
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25
18 5 ff
2000 ff
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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
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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.
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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,
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iton Co . Ml
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Oct 30,1976
Fretz wins certificate
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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.
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