Free eartags issued by state
ITARRISBIIRG --
Pennsylvania’s Secretary of
Agriculture Kent D.
Shelhamer has announced
that the- department’s
Bureau of Animal Industry is
currently providing free of
charge ear tags for cattle
identification. The ear tags
are prenumbered in
conformance with national
standards.
The official Pennsylvania
ear tag,” Shelhamer said,
EVERY
WEDNESDAY IS
mf DAIRY
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AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC.
New Holland, PA
If you need 1 cow or a truckload, we have from
100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your price.
Mostly fresh and close springing Holsteins.
Cows from local farmers and our regular
shippers including Marvin Eshleman, Glenn Fite,
Gordon Fritz, Blame Hoffer, Dale Hostetter, H. D.
Matz, and Jerry Miller.
SALE STARTS 12;30 SHARP
Also Every Wednesday. Hay, Straw &
Ear Corn Sale 12:00 Noon.
All Dairy Cows & Heifers must be
eligible for Pennsylvania Health Charts.
For arrangements for special sales or herd
dispersals at our barn or on your farm, contact -
Abram Diffenbach, Mgr.
717-354-4341
Norman Kolb
717-397-5538 V*'
WHO'S MINDING
THE MIIKP
“is available to our prac
ticing veterinarians, and will
provide a standard per
manent identification which
will be invaluable in the
issuance of health cer
tificates and identification of
tested cattle.”
The Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture is
supporing the new iden
tification program spon
sored by the Pennsylvania
Holstein Association for
tank. Here's what it provides:
• Permanent proof that proper temperature was
maintained.
• Record of cooling equipment effic mcy.
• Cleaning temperature recording on the same
chart
The Sentinel is also available with provision for
actuating an alarm or warning light if pre-set tempera
ture is exceeded
Remember —if it prevents the loss of only one
tank of product, the Sentinel has paid for itself It
minds your milk.
rj 1 PARTLOW
See your dealer about die
Sentinel —or drop us a line
PO. Box 433
Elizabethtown, PA 17022
grade Holstein cattle,
Shelhamer explained. '‘Our
cattle ear tag is available to
any Pennsylvania fanner
who wishes to have his
calves tagged for this
program.”
Shelhamer said that many
female calves in Penn
sylvania are vaccinated for
brucellosis between the ages
of two and six months. “Now
the veterinarian can tag
grade calves at that time, so
application for grade
registry can be completed
within the required time
limit. Other calves can be
tagged by the farmer or
veterinarian for iden
tification purposes only.”
Shelhamer noted that the
ear tag also provides another
service to the farmers of the
Commonwealth, as a method
to trace infected cattle found
through the department’s
disease surveillance
programs. “Traceback
information is very im
portant in our disease
programs, and particularly
tuberculosis and
brucellosis,” Shelhamer
said. “As the disease in
cidence continues to
decrease, we cannot afford
to neglect identification for
the potential threat of ex
posure to disease that still
exists.”
BE ALERT
If you depend upon
your milk check
for a living,
who’s minding
your milk?
, one-shot insurance you can
tiie 10-inch recorder which
tout milk-cooling x>r holding
While John Blyholder of
the Pennsylvania Guernsey
Association and I were over
eating at a luncheon banquet
several weeks ago, the
discussion came around to
what it cost to raise a
replacement animal. John
had overheard a county
agent from central Penn
sylvania using figures in
excess of $7OO per
replacement. While Don Ace
took a third helping of dried
com, he observed that the
normal figure used was
closer to $550 per animal but
costs are rising. Since Roger
£mig from Atlantic
Breeders Coop was with us
someone quickly brought up
the rising cost of semen as a
reason for the high cost of
heifers. Up to this point
Roger had been con
centrating more on his pork
and sauerkraut than the cost
of heifers, but he quickly
joined the'discussion poin
ting out that it takes six units
of semen for every
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DISTRIBUTOR
WILLARD HAAS
& SON
Klingerstown, Pa. 17941
717-425-3698
Lancaster Faj
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Facts for
dairymen
Assoc. County Agent
Lancaster, Fa.
replacement female that
enters the milking string.
Well, our discussion was
never completed because the
program started, but I did
have a chance a few days
later to talk with Larry
Specht, our Extension dairy
specialist who works with
dairy breeding. He had some
interesting thoughts about
sire selection and semen
costs.
Larry says that it’s easy to
be convinced that semen
from highly advertised sires
is worth $4O-$5O or even $6O
per unit - but look at the
cost! He agrees that it takes
six units per replacement
and at $lO per unit you have
$6O invested in each heifer
from breeding costs alone. If
the semen cost $5O per unit
you have a $3OO investment.
Unless the second heifer can
be sold for $240 more than
the first one, you are paying
too much for the higher
priced semen.
Semen from the average
(BETTER-BHJ)
IMH
Vacuum Bpraadar
ScH Rllbif—Rear Dear Optianal
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ling, Saturday. April 16,1977
AI sire is sold for about $8
per service. Such sires
usually have a Predicted
Difference (PD) for milk of
500 pounds. Several studies
show that you can afford to
pay about one dollar per 100
pound increase in PD milk
above the base figure.
Therefore, a plus 1000 PD
milk bull is still a good value
at up to $l3 per unit while a
plus 1500 PD milk bull would
be a good investment at up to
$lB per unit. With all this
information it’s really too
bad that Larry missed the
shoofly pie with ice cream!
“Slippery free stalls are
not a good place to observe
cows in heat” was just one of
the many straight forward
management hints that Dr.
Robert Gutzwiller threw out
at the second of our breeding
meetings held several weeks
ago. Sounds simple enough,
but how many of you
dairymen with free stall
bams are willing to do
something about the poor
footing in the bam!
Daily scraping of the
concrete alleys will eve
ntually make them smooth -
no matter how rough you had
them to start with. Matt
Young from Red Nob Farm
at Wakefield, has told me
several times that this was
one of their concerns when
they were designing their
new bam. By going to a flush
manure handling system the
problem of smooth floors
was taken care of. Obviously
not all diarymen can solve
the problem this way, but
there is a reasonable
solution.
Rubber cutting edges for
scraping blades are avilable.
This rubber edge fits bet
ween your present steel edge
and the backing plate. From
what I hear, this cutting edge
will scrape clean, but will not
smooth the alley concrete. It
also lasts longer and costs
less than a steel blade.
Dairymen who are using
them really like them - to
me that’s the most important
measure of their worth.
Check with your equipment
dealer - your cows will
appreciate your efforts and
the number of “missed” or
“silent” heats may be
reduced.
TRY A
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