D2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 3,1983
BUSINESS NE
Beacon
adlib
BV LAURA ENGLAND
HOCK SPRINGS - Designed
with nature in mind, a new, ad lib
feeding system for herd
replacement calves was in
troduced by Beacon Milling
Company Inc. during Ag Progress
Days last week.
The new system, an alternative
to the conventional twice a day
bucket feeding method, was an
nounced by Beacon, Cayuga, NY,
and is available to dairymen in the
Northeast. According to Ray
Branas, a Beacon advisor from
York, the calves are self-fed,
similar to what nature intended.
“They (the calves) get a little
milk at one tune but more often,”
Branas said, “similar to the
natural setting with the mother.”
Under this method, the calves
are fed an acidified milk replacer
which is stored in a plastic or
rubber container. A tube connects
the milk supply to a nipple
fastened on the pen partition.
An all-milk, milk replacer
developed by Beacon is recom
mended for this system, Branas
said. The replacer, Kalf Ad Lib, is
preserved by organic acid salts
which prevent the feed from
souring for varying lengths of time
depending on the weather.
Calves can be fed from this
method at three days of age,
Branas said, after they’ve
received colostrum from their
mothers. The milk replacer should
be mixed with cold water. If mixed
with warm water, Branas said, the
calves may tend to overfeed the
first tune.
In starting calves on the ad lib
feeding, Beacon recommends that
calves be fed an eight-ounce Kalf
Ad Lib with 3.6 pounds cold water
mixture from a nipple pail or bottle
for two feedings. From here, the
ratio is changed to one pound Kalf
Ad Lib with one gallon cold water
fed from the plastic or rubber
container.
!ys ist week, was this new, ad lib feeding system
developed by Beacon Milling Company Inc. Under this method, which includes a nipple
connected to a milk supply stored in a plastic container, calves are self-fed and drink a
little milk at one time but more often, similar to what nature intended.
introduces
feeding
A free choice of calf starter
should be provided at the end of the
second week and water at the
beginning of the third week.
Branas adds that no more than five
calves be kept in a pen at one time.
Among the advantages of this
program, Beacon cites research in
the United States and England
where significant weight gains
were found as compared to con
ventional feeding methods. Daily
gains of 1.6 pounds, as compared to
.7 pounds on twice a day feeding,
were reported.
Other advantages mclude in
creased liveability, less labor
required in feeding calves, and a
reduction in stress factors since
calves are housed in pens.
Calves under the ad lib feeding
will have looser feces and more
unne, Branas said. This is
because the calves are running
more fluid through their bodies.
Calves drink about three gallons
per day, he said.
Additional information about the
feeding system and management
recommendations can be obtained
by writing The Beacon Milling
Company Inc., Cayuga, NY 13034.
Ciba-Geigy cites ‘inappropriate’ revocation
GREENSBORO, N.C. - An official
of Ciba-Geigy Corporation
termed the recent suspension by
the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) of emergency use
permit registrations for the
company’s larvacide, Larvadex,
as “inappropriate.”
Larvadex is a “feed-through"
larvacide used to control flies in
poultry houses where eggs are
produced. Ciba-Geigy applied to
EPA for nationwide registration of
the product in June, 1982, EPA had
granted use of the product in 28
states under Section 18 Emergency
• ••
He’s walking, talking IH parts manual
NEW BERLINVILLE - Where
there’s com to combine, it won’t be
too long before those big red and
black machines start rolling into
the fields.
And now’s the tune that farmers
are getting the metalic behemoths
ready.
For farmers in eastern Berks
and neighboring Montgomery
County that means a visit to a man
who over the past half-century has
become a living and walking IH
parts manual.
Just walk into Erb and Henry
Equipment of New Berlinville and
ask “Hen" Crater for:
An 826 720 Cl.
Or, perhaps a 176 279 C9l.
To most of us that may just be a
jumble of numbers and letters, but
to this living and breathing manual
behind the counter of the IH Parts
Mart they represent just a couple
of the combine parts needed to cut
and harvest that com.
This past July, "Hen” - or more
formally Harry Crater observed
a half-century as an IH parts man -
- starting in die days of the waning
horse-pulled equipment and early
mechanization to the complicated
machinery of today,
“I’ve seen great changes over
the years,” Hen explains, "and
went through a lot of models in that
time.
‘‘You know these days, you got ti
have air conditioning and a stereo
radio or you can't even get an
operator into the cab.”
Crater started out with Carl
Dunmire in Sanatoga in neigh
boring Montgomery County and
came over to Erb and Henry in
1961 when Dunmire closed.
"It seems to get worse all the
time - more and more com
plicated,” he said.
“In the beginning, there may
have been 4,000 to 5,000 different
parts. Now, there’s anywhere
between 75,000 and 100,000.”
When Crater isn’t pouring
through his manuals or rum
maging through the parts bins to
Use Permits, beginning in
December 1981.
EPA’s suspension action
prohibits the distribution, sale and
use of the larvacide, at least until
the agency completes a risk
assessment study.
The basis of EPA’s suspension of
the product was a study conducted
by the National Toxicology
Program (NTP) in which male
rats developed tumors after being
fed extremely high levels of
melamine, a metabolite of Lar
vadex. (Melamine is a common
chemical widely used in din-
“Hen” Crater, of Erb and Henry, New Berlinville, begins his
second half-century as IH parts man
fill an order, you’ll likely find him
in one of two avocations
For the past 22 years, he and his
wife, Ruth, have been active in Cub
Scouting in North Coventry
Township of Chester County.
“We’ve been active ever since
the pack was organized,” he said.
'T’ve served as Cub Master for
the past 18 years.”
At other times, you might find
“Hen” deeply engrossed in the
Greeting Card Section of a drug or
netware, food wrappings, etc.)
Carl J. Kensil, president of Ciba-
Geigy’s Agricultural Division,
headquartered in Greensboro,
characterized EP A’s suspension
action as “Inappropriate, because
the agency has not completed its
risk assessment of the product.
“After receiving a copy of the
final report, our toxicologists
evaluated the NTP data,” Kensil
added. “They concluded that
human exposure to melamine
through Larvadex is so small that
it poses absolutely no health
hazard, and there is no justifiable
reason to remove the product from
the market based on scientific
evidence. This information was
verbally transmitted to EPA just
before we were notified of the
suspension. Had our people con
cluded that a safety hazard
existed, we would have withdrawn
Larvadex ourselves. We continue
to maintain that Larvadex is a
safe, effective, worthwhile product
and will do our best to convince
GPA that the evidence supports
our belief.”
Larvadex is mixed in poultry
feed by feedmills at the normal
Chairman
TUNKHANNOCK - 9H584 Cal-
Clark Board Chairman, owned by
Sire Power, Inc., Tunkhannock,
has been designated a Gold Medal
Sire by the Holstein-Friesian
Association of America based on
July, 1983, performance in
formation.
Cal-Clark Board Chairman,
1723741, is scored VG(B6) and
remains as one of the top TPI sires
in the Holstein breed. His current
July, 1983 USDA for production is
+2527 PDM -.12% +72F +|296
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gift store.
“I have this bad habit of sending
crazy get-well cards,” he said.
"You know, I get as much fun out
of picking them out as they do
getting them.”
So, here's a greeting card to you,
Hen, from Lancaster Farming and
the countless area farmers you’ve
served over the past 50 years.
"Happy Golden Anniversary a.s
a Parts Man Extraordinary.” J
rate of one-twentieth of an ounce
per ton of feed. This results in a
feeding level of 1.5 parts of Lar
vadex active ingredient per million
parts of feed. Treated feed is used
during the fly-breeding season,
May through October in most parts
of the country. About 99 percent of
the larvacide passes through the
layer's digestive system and ends
up in manure, where it interferes
with the development of fly larvae.
Ciba-Geigy scientists fed Lar
vadex to test animals at different
levels up to 3,000 parts per million
during earlier safety tests. They
observed that it metabolized into-.,
melamine. The
tolerance request to EPA for
Larvadex is 0.4 parts per million in
poultry meat and eggs. The
metabolite melamine generally
constitutes less than half the
residues found in eggs (0.2 parts
per million maximum). Company
toxicologists always evaluate the
significance of metabolites, and,
because melamine has such a long
safe-use history in many consumer
products, concluded that there was
no reason to consider it unsafe.
gets ‘gold’
with 81% repeatability. His HFA
Predicted Difference for Type is
+1.77 with 82% repeatability.
9H584 Chairman is a son of Milu
Betty Ivanhoe Chief, VG(B7) and
his dam is an (EX)2E Elevation
daughter.
A Gold Medal Sire recognition is
the highest recognition for genetic
transmitting ability in the Holstein
breed. The date of recognition will
accompany the Gold Medal
designation in all performance
files.