—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 10,1978
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Dr. Alan McCauley, left, and M. Robert Young are two of the nine men who
work at Via Pax, U.S.A., an embryo transfer business in northwestern Lancaster
County. McCauley is technical director while Young is director of marketing. In
the background are 31 heifers which were recently implanted with the fertilized
- eggs from some of top cows in the United States
Embryo
for one
By DIETER KRIEG number of offspring they dozens of calves from a top
REDEEMS - Dairymen might get from their best cow. The economic returns
with top quality cattle have a cows. Although the practice- can be just as astounding,
relatively new concept to - known as embryo tran- despite the relative
consider which can spiriting -is rather costly, costliness of the procedures
significantly increase the it’s now possible to have involved. Consider, for
Household Livestock
Molasses Molasses
Horses
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ir Hogs - Chickens
• Liquid feeding cane molasses
Baking Molasses • Honey Brook Brand
Table Syrup dried molasses
Blackstrap Molasses • z Brand dried molasses
LOOK FOR HONEY BROOK MOLASSES
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The female version of AJ,
transfers are making it possible
cow to have dozens of offspring
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example, that the breeder transfer first became slow at first, it is growing
has a cow whose bull calf is available in North America, rapidly and it’s expected
worth $5OOO. Ova tran- 0 f these firms is Via that in many respects it will
splanting can increase such p aXj inc., a division of Via parallel the path of artificial
sales potential ten-fold and p ax international. It has one insemination.
more - . center of operations oi One of the recently
There are now about 15 Milan, Italy, another at heralded milestones which is
embryo transplanting Woodbridge, Ontario, and a boosting interest and suo
companies in the United third i n northwestern cess in embryo tran
slates, all of them haying Lancaster County, near splantmg is the frozen
come into existence since Rheems. While interest in embryo technique. As was
1972 when the idea of embryo embryo transplanting was (Turn to Page 23)
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