COLLEGE PARK -
Known as a tough man to
please, Gordon M. Cairns
was wearing a broad smile
on his face shortly after the
final bull was sold at the
April 19 auction of per
formance-tested bulls from
the famous Wye Angus herd.
The bustling, 2-hour, 15-
nunute sale was held at the
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“We’re happy with the
way things went,” said
Cairns, supervisor of the
Wye Angus program for the
University of Maryland and
dean emeritus of the College
of Agriculture at the
university’s College Park
campus. “Under the market
circumstances, we came
through in good shape. ’ ’
By market circumstances
Cairns meant the overall
slowdown in the cattle in
dustry brought about, in
part, by high interest rates.
Feeder calf prices have
been cut by 30 percent m the
last month, he said, “and
that has an unpact upon
people’s thinking so they do
not want to spend the
money.”
Top calves at the auction
did exceedingly well. All
told, the 48 bulls offered at
the auction sold of a total of
$125,725, an average of $2,619
per head.
Top price went for Florey
of Wye, which sold for
$15,000 to Greenbrier Farm
of Carlisle, Kentucky. Sired
by Lucan of Wye, Florey had
an adjusted 365-weight of
1,196 pounds.
Another Lucan son,
Buchan of Wye, sold for
$lO,OOO to Blame and Theron
Horrocks of Neola, Utah.
Sons of four other Wye sires
sold for $5,000 or more in the
sale.
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This was the second sale of
Wye Angus bulls smce 1978,
when the herd was donated
to the university of Arthur A.
Houghton, Ji., owner of the
Wye Plantation and a
respected cattle breeder.
The first srle was held last
year.
The herd, which now
numbers about 400 bulls, was
begun in 1938 with 18 heifers
and a bull calf on the 1,400-
acre plantation, located on
the bay side of Maryland’s
Eastern Shore.
Superior performance and
weight gem charac-
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
Assistant Secretary of
Agriculture Carol Tucker
Foreman said regulations
have been published that
spell out what cattle feeders
suspected of violating the
ban on diethylatilbestrol
must do before they can
market their cattle for
human food.
The regulations follow an
announcement by USDA and
the Food and Drug Ad
ministration April 4 that an
FDA investigation had
revealed widespread
disregard for FDA’s
November 1 ban on DEIS.
As of April 17, Foreman
said, FDA had identified 140
feedlots which may have
illegally implanted DES
pellets in cattle as a growth
promotant.
“USDA will require sworn
statements from cattle
feeders suspected of
violating the DES ban,”
Foreman said. “Feeders can
market the muscle tissue
from their cattle 41 days
after a USDA accredited'
veterinarian certifies the
DES implant has been
surgically removed.”
If the livers and kidneys
are to be sold for food, the
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teristic of Wye Angus bulls
and have made them ex
tremely attractive to cattle
buyers, noted Ronald
Nelson, head of the
Department of Animals
Husbandry at Michigan
State University and
chairman of the Wye Angus
Herd Advisory Panel.
Made up of research
leaders, cattle breeders,
association representatives
and commercial interests,
the panel serves m an ad
visory capacity to the
director of the Maryland
USDA announces
DES regulations
animal must be held for 61
days after the implant is
removed, Foreman said,
smce those organs retain
residues of the drug longer
than muscle tissue.
Once FDA suspects a
feeder has violated the ban,
that agency notifies USDA’s
Food Safety and Quality
Service, the agency
responsible for ensuring the
safety of the meat and
poultry supply. '
To assure that slaughtered
cattle are free from DEIS,
Foreman said, FSQS is
reinstituting its national
sampling program in which
randomly selected tissues
are tested for DES. The
Tentative opening dates set
HARRISBURG - Ten
tative opening dates for 1981
hunting seasons have been
established by the Penn
sylvania Game Commission
for the convenience of those
who wish to plan ahead.
The archery deer season in
1961 is tentatively scheduled
to open on Saturday, October
3.
The tentative opening date
for the early small game
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“Angus cattle are known
for bemg a good mother
breed,” Nelson said.
“They’re good milk cows,
they’re good mothers,
they’re highly fertile ancfare
very good m crossbreeding
programs to bring in the
mothering side.”
In all, buyers came to the
sale from 16 states and
Ontario, Canada.
agency suspended the
program in January to focus
its resources on the serious
contamination of food
products with
polychlorinated byphenyls in
the Western United States.
“Anyone violating these
requirements may face
severe legal penalties,”
Foreman said.
The policy was published
in the April 22 Federal
Register, available in local
libraries. The rules were
published without op
portunity for public com
ment because of the need for
prompt action to prevent
adulterated meat from
entering food channels.
season is Saturday, October
17, and the general small
game season tentative
opening date is Saturday,
October 31.
The antlered deer season
will open on November 30,
1981.
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