A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 11,1984 Will 100 embryo splits be possible someda’ 9 BY JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent AIRVILLE - Dr. Alan Mc- Cauley, who has literally tran sferred thousands of embryonic cells of life from donor cows to recipient heifers, says the ability of science to transfer life from one system to another “still amazes me.” McCauley, who founded the Em- Tran firm, located at Elizabethtown, was the featured speaker for the York Holstein club’s annual field day, hosted at the George Knight family’s Woodbine Farms, R 2 Airville. About 200 members and guests gave up a day of hay baling weather to question the reproductive specialist, fellowship over a barbequed chicken dinner and judge classes of cows that included a group of four aged-cow Excellents, topped by a 92-point member of the Knight herd. Speaking to the group gathered under the farm’s spreading shade trees, McCauley said that embryo transfer work has made him ap preciate life. In fact, he related that he still finds it hard to com prehend that a cell can be manipulated from one system to another and still be a living, healthy calf. "It’s the people, though, that have become the most rewarding part,” claims McCauley, ad mitting that the actual physical transfer process becomes routine with repetition Praising the benefits of 4-H dub involvement, the vet says he sees “young things” as agriculture’s greatest assets, whether they be embryos or children. He sees the future of farming as “exciting and competitive, ’ and predicts that ET technology will winners Dave Miller and Paul King. CALL US FOR FREE ESTIMATES on TOP QUALITY BARN SPRAY t BRUSH PAINTING Try Our New Concept In Penetration And Adhesion. To earn a dollar - give a dollars worth of service and work Pay only $750 for the best kind of barn painting on an average barn - if you pay more you paid too much On barn siding painting - temperature and timing are factors as well as penetrating kind of quality for adhesion are helpful guides for long lasting under average conditions of siding type and age I will share helpful guidelines on roof maintenance of steel roofs by brushing on at primetime The farmers in Lancaster Co. are lucky because of the amount of competition in barn painting. Check with us for the best deal! PHARES S. HURST Years of experience plus self I RDI, Box 503, Narvon, PA 17555 employment gives you quality 215-445-6186 work for less expense. follow a path similar to that of the development of artificial in semination, only on a much more rapid path of progression. An admitted competitive in dividual, McCauley sees keeping up with rapid developments in the industry part of the competition angle of the ET business. To stay abreast of new embryo-splitting techniques being developed, Em- Tran recently hired a specialist in that field from Colorado State University, where egg division was pioneered. New technology of embryo splitting, adds McCauley, now adds some value to formerly useless unfertilized eggs. Shells of these sterile eggs can beused to insert the ova created by halving fertilized cells. Splitting is becoming so per fected that, at Colorado Univer sity, specialists implanted 35 eggs, split in halves, into 70 recipients during just one afternoon. Dr. McCauley says he believes a four-way egg split has already been performed in Texas, and projects that, theoretically, up to one hundred divisions could someday come from a single fertilized egg. In response to an audience question, he explained that identical twins resulting from embryo splitting do not necessarily have precisely the same coat coloring, although thus far they have been the same sex. Transplant recipients have been found to occasionally deliver more than one calf from the documented implantation of a single embryo, leading reproductive specialists to conclude that multiple birth divisions take place beyond the seven to eight day age of embryos used in transplanting. ON TOE GROW In 1984 BRUNING Embryo transfer specialist Dr. Alan following talk at group's field day. We Specialize In Aerial Work Using Our Twin ; Bucket Boom Truck ELECTRICAL \ Extends / CONTRACTING \ 55Ft I Specializing In \ \ I AGRICULTURAL rz&Jt J WIRING / Also Residential Industrial J r a And Commercial Work / Estimate^^^^^/ We Have Poles In Stock 25' 30 35 1 45 SICS' i fillUffY £W*J| 1 fWt» idWwww mmtK wlrlww# » Wwn §M/gUftg n * §&tp *WWt TUMMM TFiH? WrMflmJw mJHRm* fir fiWWill §99m gwy g ’fWU&O j^ingyygMf wIjHWWIrPrIPWIf flßWpl Wmmmmn *» «y ->' y-'s£ " ' '- ?*r&v \^;3 ? tats witl ley. LONG JOHN BALMER INSULATION RD 5.80«61D‘ Manheim, PA > (717)665-4132 - M'f '' 4 >" * ork Holstein breeders Insulation For Life 01 Structure • Fully Insured • Free Estimates We Can Do The Job Now *< s* t&'-r * > y