4-H’ers Participate lE' IWARK, Del. Eleven 4-H ibers and three adults from idson County, N. C., spent a nt action-paced week visiting ' counterparts in New Castle ity, Del. »r 14-year-old Gary Snyder, the lorable experiences of the k included a visit to The Bou-Matic Computerized Feed Management System ... Through computerized feeding you can tailor your concentrate consumption on a cow-by-cow basis and regulate the maximum amount of con centrate consumed in 12 daily feeding periods With this means of control, your cows can be fed according to their production—not demand This eliminates overfeeding of low producers which results in better feed cost management and also provides high milkers the full nutrition they need to maximize milk produc tion CUMBERLAND FARM & DAIRY SERVICE 4560 Dairy Road Chambersburg, PA 17201 (717)263-0826 MENDENHALL DAIRY SUPPLY R.D. #4 Brookville, Pa. 15825 Baltimore’s Inner Harbor with its submarine. Science Center and National Aquarium; seining (fishing with a large net) from the University of Delaware’s Marine Studies boat off the coast of Lewes; and chasing his hat down the boardwalk in Rehoboth Beach. Another highlight was picking up BOU-MATIC PAULR. LANDIS Route 2 Milton. Pa. 17847 (717)437-2375 JONES DAIRY SERVICE Box 52. Fostertown Rd. Medford, NJ 08055 (609)267-0198 in Exchange the governor’s telephone during a tour of the state capital. Advisors Valene and Luther Owen, who came with their son Tracy, had praise for the Delaware 4-H host families. They also pronouned the local scenery beautiful, and not too different from their home county in the The Bou-Matic # Computerized Feeding System offers simplicity of use. cost effectiveness and record keeping printouts needed by even the most advanced dairymen—for a total feed management program From total herd adjustment by group (m one easy step), to individual cow tailoring of one or both feed rations, Bou-Matics Computerized Feeding System can demonstrate the favorable economics of indi vidual cow feeding management MILKING SYSTEMS a ivi , r • . Eiju Ci^ro^ SHENK’S FARM SERVICE 501 E. Woods Drive LititZ. PA 17543 (7X7)626-1151 W & J DAIRY SALES RD 2 Oxlord. Pa 19363 (717)529-2569 Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, September 10,1983—813 Piedmont Neither could they detect any big difference between the New Castle County accent and their own Southern drawl “When we visited New York last year," one teen explained, "everybody ribbed us about our accents - but not here in Delaware!” The experience was an enjoyable one for all concerned. TRI-STATE AUTOMATION Route 9, Whitehall Rd Hagerstown, MD21740 (301)790-3698 J&R SERVICE, INC 215 N Cornwall Rd Lebanon. Pa 17042 (717) 273-6232 We tried to give our guests a good educational experience," said University of Delaware Ex tension 4-H Agent Jim Moore "We introduced them to our govern ment in Dover, the Dover Air Force Base, our marine en vironment and our local agriculture. We also picked up plenty of ideas from each other about 4-H.’’ Camera, computer rate beef WASHINGTON, D.C A video camera and computer are telling meat researchers how much lean and fat meat are in beef carcasses. At the experimental stage now, the video computer analysis may become a new elec tronic technique for meat grading by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said Terry B. Kinney, Jr., ad ministrator of USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. Kinney said the system, called a visual image analyzer, could help the meat industry assure consumers they will get the leanness in beef they desire. That’s because the automated technique may offer a new degree of accuracy and con sistency in predicting the lean and fat content in beef, reported H. Russell Cross, food technologist at the research agency’s Roman L. Hmska Meat Animal Research Center in Clav Center, Neb In laboratory tests, the technique was estimated to be 93.6 percent accurate in its measurements of the lean and fat content of the ninth, tenth and eleventh ribs of the carcass, which is an indicator of its leanness. USDA meat graders, in the current system, measure visible areas of lean and fat of the twelfth and thirteenth ribs and then apply an equation to predict the total content. This conventional way of determining the same measurement was 84 percent accurate. Similar studies on a larger scale in meat packing houses are needed. Cross said, to confirm the analyzer’s accuracy and speed Cross said the analyzer resulted from several years of research on automating meat grading Collaborating in the work were Clay Center animal scientists and Kansas State University engineers who developed the analyzer under a contract with the research agency