Swatara Springs from Page C 36) her slapped as tops of the show, waiting for her m the bams beating the grand champion She bellowed the whole wav bull for the honor. around the ring “Rowina was nervous, like “ T he judge kept looking at a race horse. She was a two- her—he couldn’t take his AMERICAN BREEDERS SERVICE A BOOT-NICK ' T I „ x '■'V v* v Alpine-Haven Charlens Nickie, VG-85 3-5 309 2x 20.969 M 3.8% 7908 F BOOT-NICK’S proof; RPT 91% +99s +956M -.06% 268 F RPT 82% POT +1.91 TPI +359 Over The Years ABS has been a leader in the dairy industry. AMERICAN BREEDERS SERVICE is the only Al Organization to have its own research team. 1950 - The first successful embryo transplant in the US was performed by Dr Elwm Willetof the ABS veterinarian staff 1953 - May 29, first born calf from frozen semen was ABS sired 1954 - ABS and Linds developed the first LN refrigerators 1956 LN refers available commercially 1958 - First and only Al Organization in the US to have its own national distribution system 1963 - Estimated Daughter Superiority (EDS), first herdmate comparison for milk production, used by ABS for sire evaluation 1965 - USDA adopted predicted difference (PD) - a version of EDS 1968 - ABS has the first sire to exceed +2OOOPDM 29H1879 Westside AB Seaman 1968 - The Genetic Mating Service (GMS) - first computerized sire recommendation program available in the industry 1973 - First US Al Organization to sample 100 young Holstein bulls in one year 1975 - The Genetic Trait Summary (GTS) - the first individual trait summary computed by the herdmate comparison method ‘Bellies’ eyes off her. The more she went in the ring, the better she got And, he picked her a