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