Simmentals caught on at Rocky Springs
f fEQUINUNK, Pa. - Rocky
'-prings Farms, here, has
received shipment of 29
registered Simmental
heifers from Simmental
Breeders Ltd. of Canada, it
was announced late last year
by Howard Bomze, Rocky
Springs’ owner, who selected
the animals himself from
SBL’s herd of 'over 3500
animals at SBL:’s "12,000-
acre in Cardston, Alberta.
SBL’s general manager, Ron
Gibson, preceded the
shipment to oversee
preparation for its final
transfer to Rocky Springs’
new confinement system,
and the charge of its
manager, Tim Amlaw.
s Bomze said, “We
■- /<sre very pleased to be able
to select the top purebreds
from SBL’s 1975 calf crop.
We believe this gives us the
highest percentage of
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purebloods of any Sim
mental herd in the East, and
it will enable us to provide
superior breeding stock to
other Simmental breeders
and commercial herds.”
The Simmental breed
originated in Switzerland’s
Simme Valley, and is now
widespread throughout
Europe. Simmentals were
introduced into North
America in 1967 by SBL with
the importation of the bull
“Parisien,” whose name has
become a byword in the beef
industry.
Simmentals are a dual
purpose breed, combining
meat ~ and - milk to an
unusually high degree. Cows
average 8000 pounds milk
and a 4 per cent butterfat
test. The well-muscled,
rugged appearing cattle
weigh in at approximately
1600-1700 pounds for cows
and up to 2800 pounds for
mature bulls. Simmentals
are generally red and white,
with a white face which
appears to be dominant in
inheritance, as with
Herefords, although body
color ranges from blonde to
the .grey (“lavendar”) and
white combinations.
The 29 heifers, all of which
are carrying the calves of
the breed’s top sires -
“Galant,” “Beat,” “Extra
Star,” “Red Knight” and
“Parisien,” will arid sub
stantially to the already
existing purebred Sim-
Smut found
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Various
smuts of wheat, barley and
oats in several Midwest
states were more serious in
1976, compared to previous
years.
Plant disease specialists in
states affected are pushing
seed treatment more than
ever. In Michigan, loose
smut in wheat showed a
“marked increase” last
year, according to Larry
Copeland, Michigan Sxate
University crop specialist.
“We’ve also seen a tr
mendous amount of com
smut this year,” says Bob
Nyvall, Extension plant
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mental breeding herd at
Rocky Springs Farms,
where Black Angus, with a
Wye Plantation herd sire j
have been" furnishing'
registered Angus breeding
stock for the past five years.
Rocky Springs Farms was
the first farm in Penn
sylvania to own a full
blooded Simmental bull.
pathologist at lowa State
University. Dry weather and
hail were two chief causes,
he says. “With as much smut
as we’ve seen on kernels and
ears there must be some
yield reductions from it,” he
adds.
Herb Johnson, plant
pathologist at the University
of Minnesota, said he’s also
received many more reports
of com smut this year. “In
one case a farmer was
hospitalized due to dusty
conditions caused by the
smut during harvest,” he
said. However, the smut
itself is not toxic to humans
or animals.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 8,1977
U.S. energy
record ‘disastrous’
WASHINGTON, D.C. - “A
disastrous failure of national
will” 11. the area of energy
conservation is responsible
for our steadily increasing
dependence upon foreign oil,
Environmental Protection
Agency Administrator
Bussell E. Train says.
But, Train added, “serious
steps to cut waste and in
crease efficiency in our use
of energy - including tax and
other measures to make the
price of gasoline reflect the
true cost of consuming it”
could significantly improve
the situation.
The EPA Administrator
declared that energy con
servation “must be the
keystone, the center piece,
the fundamental basis of a
national energy strategy. We
should not look to energy
conservation as a last resort,
as a means of filling the gap
after all efforts to improve
supplies have been
exhausted. On the contrary,
we should look first to the
development and im
plementation of an optimum
energy conservation policy -
one that is consistent with a
healthy economy - and then
decided on the amount and
the kinds of new energy
supplies.”
Train noted that since the
1973 Arab oil embargo:
U.S. oil imports have risen
from 29 per cent to more
than 40 per cent.
Arab oil now accounts for
more than one-third of all
U.S. oil imports whereas
prior to the embargo it ac
counted for only 15 per cent.
Of 19 industrial, oil
importing nations including
the U.S. that belong to the
International Energy
Agency, the conservation
record of he U.S. ranks as
“nearly the worst,” Tram
stated. '
He stressed energy con
servation because “no single
step could do more to
alleviate our energy, our
environmental and our
economic difficulties. No.
smgle step could do more to
strengthen our credibility
and our clout in dealing with
the other nations of the world
- both the industrialized and
the developing.”
Train also examined a host
of other international
problems and possible
solutions in his address. He
spoke with an eye toward the
agendas of two recent or
current meetings: those of
the Oil Producing and Ex
porting Countries con
cerning a possible price
increase in exported oil, and
talks between the “have”
and “have-not” nations at
the Paris Conference on
International Cooperation.
Desertification, deforest
ation, soil erosion and other
environmental devastation
in the poor nations have
occurred, according to
Train, “not because of
development, but because of
a lack of development.”
Train declared that “the
tood to feed these hungry and
starving poor must come,
not from the granaries of
North America - although we
must meet emergencies
from these - but from their
own earth and their own
effort, and outside aid can
have no more important and
urgent aim than to help them
develop an agriculture that
is both strong and
sustainable.”
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grain acreage is farmed
weekends and evenings.
Like many successful
livestock breeders, the
Ebersoles willing assist
county youth by serving as 4-
H adult leaders. They have
worked with the Ore Valley
Community Club, the York
County Lamb Club, and
contribute the use of their
animals to livestock judging
practices. Steward is active
in work with the Penn
sylvania Hampshire Sheep
Association and gives his
time as a director for the
organization.
Steve has spent the last
few weeks grooming eight
head, four ewes, and four
rams, for the upcoming
Farm Show classes. At age
20, he-s too old to enter 4-H
competition, but he’s eagerly
awaiting that first step into
the open-class arena.
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