D6-Lancaster Farming Saturday, May 10,1986
Kelley Offers Low-Profile Backhoe
The new Kelley Model B3OFE low profile backhoe has an 8-foot, 6-inch maximum
digging depth. The low profile provides a more comfortable seating position for the
operator. Oscillating stabilizer pads provide better stability with less turf damage,
and wider bearing supports at the pivot points increase the machine's durability.
Increased reservoir capacity reduces heat to increase cylinder seal life.
An extensive listing of frame kits allows the backhoe to fit small and mid-size three
point hitch tractors. For additional information contact Hamilton Equipment, 567 S.
Reading Rd., Ephrata, Pa. 17522, or phone: 717-733-7951.
Upjohn celebrates 100th birthday
KALAMAZOO, Mich. - “Keep
the quality up” were the watch
words of William E. Upjohn, M.D.,
founder of The Upjohn Pill and
Granule Company in Kalamazoo,
Mich., in 1886.
One hundred years later, em
ployees of The Upjohn Company
still adhere to that advice. Or.
Upjohn’s pill-making firm has
grown into a worldwide, research
based manufacturer and marketer
of pharmaceuticals, health care
services, fine chemicals, bulk
pharmaceuticals, and veterinary
and agricultural specialties.
In the early 1880 s Dr. Upjohn, a
young physician with a practice in
rural Hastings, Mich., invented a
new kind of pill. He called his in
vention the friable pill, which
meant it could be easily crumbled.
Because the mass-produced pills
of the late 19th century were so
hard, they often passed through
the patient undissolved. The
properties of Dr. Upjohn's new pill
made it more easily digestible and
this guaranteed that patients got
the full benefit of the medicine.
With his new invention, Dr.
Upjohn began a business that by
the century’s end had expanded to
include compressed tablets, fluid
extracts, ointments and powders
- all produced with the careful
attention to quality that the
exacting doctor demanded.
With the hiring of the company’s
first research scientist in 1913. The
Upjohn Company (renamed in
1902) inaugurated a lasting
commitment to the development of
new pharmaceutical products.
Digitora, used in the treatment of
various kinds of heart failure, was
introduced in 1919. It was the first
standardized digitalis product on
the market and one of the first
drugs to have a warranted shelf
life.
Citrocarbonate, introduced in
1921, was the first nationally
recognized product for the
treatment of acidosis—a
derangement of the blood
chemistry that often accompanies
serious illness or injury.
The establishment of a
Farm Credit Names Scholarship Recipient
WEST CHESTER - The Board
of Directors of the Southeast Farm
Credit Service takes great
pleasure in announcing that Sylvia
Lee (Cissy) Trotman has been
selected as the recipient of its 1986
scholarship.
Cissy is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Jennings .of West
Chester, Chester County. She is a
senior at Avon Grbve High School,
West Grove, and will enter the
nutritional research laboratory in
1927 marked Upjohn’s entry into
the vitamin supplement market.
Super D Cod Liver Oil (1928) was
the first standardized vitamin D
product to reach a mass market. It
played an important role in
combating rickets in children.
Other vitamin products followed in
the ‘3os, culminating with Unicap
line of multivitamins in 1940.
During this first half-century,
two Upjohn products appeared
which still have a place in the
nation’s medicine cabinets;
Cheracol (1924), a flavored cough
syrup and Kaopectate (1936), an
antidiarrhea medicine.
Aids War Effort
During World War 11, wounded
Allied soldiers often received
battlefield transfusions of serum
albumin made in Upjohn
laboratories. Others treated
themselves with sterilized sulfa
powders and “wound tablets,”
nearly 600 million of which were
stamped with the Upjohn name.
Perhaps the biggest Upjohn
contribution to the war effort was
its participation in the joint effort
to produce penicillin. The suc
cessful and timely mass
production of this first antibiotic
by a coalition of government and
industrial forces saved countless
lives.
After the war, Upjohn resear
chers turned their efforts to the
synthesis of cortisone. In 1950,
Upjohn researchers discovered an
inexpensive way to manufacture
cortisone and hydrocortisone
steroids and made these products
available to millions of rheumatoid
arthritis sufferers. As it enters its
second century, Upjohn remains a
world leader in steroid research
and production.
In 1974, Upjohn introduced its
most successful product ever -
Motrin. This nonsteroidal anti
inflammatory drug brought relief
from pain and inflammation to
millions.
In 1980, the company introduced
Cortaid, the first topical
hydrocortisone product available
Pennsylvania State University,
Delaware County Campus, in the
fall. Cissy intends to major in
Wildlife Biology.
A $5OO check and com
memorative plaque will be
awarded to Cissy at the Avon
Grove High School graduation
ceremonies on June 13. Philip
Pyle, school principal, will make
the presentation.
This scholarship is offered an
in the U.S. without a prescription.
Recent Upjohn entries into the
important field of central nervous
system (CNS) drugs include the
first entirely new CNS compounds
in nearly 20 years: the anti-anxiety
agent Xanax, and Halcion, useful
in the short-term management of
insomnia.
Pharmaceuticals remain the
heart of Upjohn’s business. Over
the years, however, vigorous in
ternal expansion and outside
acquisitions have involved the
company in many new and ex
citing fields-all in some way
related to the company’s concern
for bettering human health and
welfare.
Upjohn’s Ag Division
The Upjohn Agricultural
Division produces and sells
worldwide a variety of animal
health products, feed supplements,
agronomic and vegetable seeds
and parent breeder stock for
broiler chickens. The division
includes the Asgrow Seed Com
pany, Upjohn/TUCO Animal
Products Division and Cobb, Inc.
The Fine Chemicals Division
produces bulk pharmaceuticals
and fine chemicals for use by
Upjohn and for sale to other in
dustries. Upjohn Healthcare
Services (UHCS), another division
of the company, provides for the
home care and institutional
staffing needs of the sick, con
valescent and the aged from more
than 300 offices in 200 cities across
the U.S. and Canada.
Upjohn enters its centennial
year as a multinational and
multifaceted corporation with
research, production and
distribution centers in more than
45 countries. Upjohn products are
marketed in more than 150
countries.
From a humble beginning in
rural Michigan 100 years ago, The
Upjohn Company has grown to
become one of the top 15 drug
companies in the world. But Dr.
Upjohn’s admonition to “keep the
quality up” has remained central
to the company’s philosophy.
nually to a high school senior who
is planning to major in some field
of agriculture of agribusiness at a
four-year college on a full-time
basis. The Southeast Farm Credit
Service, with offices in, Avondale,
Creamery, Silverdale' and West
Chester, serves agriculture in the
five-county Philadelphia area with
long, intermediate and short term
loans.
BUSINESS NE
Upjohn, Tyson Announce
New Corporation
KALAMAZOO, Mich. A new
broiler breeder corporation, Cobb-
Vantress, Inc., has been formed by
Cobb, Inc., a subsidiary of The
Upjohn Company, and Tyson
Foods, Inc.
David A. Phillipson, D.V.M.,
corporate vice president and
general manager of the
Agricultural Division of The Up
john Company, and Leland Tollett,
president of Tyson Foods, recently
announced formation of the new
company following the signing of
the contract.
Cobb-Vantress, Inc., a close
corporation owned equally by
Upjohn and Tyson, will begin
operations May 1 with ad
ministrative headquarters at
Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and
research headquarters at Jane,
Missouri. The new firm will be
headed by president Anthony H.
Barnes and a six-member board of
directors comprised of three
members each from Upjohn and
Tyson.
Cobb-Vantress will market the
Cobb 500 female and Cobb breeder
pullet, as well as Cobb and Van
Deutz-Allis beefs up
6200-Series tractors
MILWAUKEE, Wise. - Deutz-
Allis offers two new row-crop
tractors in its 6200 series line. The
model 6265 produces 65 PTO hp and
the 6275 has a 73 PTO hp unit. Both
are available in two- or all-wheel
drive models. The 6200 series is
now comprised of five tractors,
ranging from 43 PTO hp to 73 PTO
hp.
“The 6265 and 6275 are also
powered with fuel-stingy, direct
air-cooled diesel engines that don’t
require head gaskets. These four
cylinder engines have impressive
power reserve, low maintenance
requirements, long life and proven
economic payoff,” says Bob
Mcllrath, tractor product
manager.
“These engines need no
radiators, water pumps or hoses.
All cooling is accomplished by a
high-capacity fan which forces air
around cylinders and past oil
coolers. Cooling system main
tenance consists of little more than
occasionally checking fan belt
A Deutz air-cooled engine generates 65 PTO h.p. for the
new Deutz-Allis 6265 tractor.
tress males.
Cobb-Vantress will continue
operations of the former in.
temational Cobb subsidiaries and
affiliated operations in Europe,
South America and the Far East!
Becoming part of Cobb-Vantresi
are: Arkansas Breeders Con
poration, a joint venture of Cobb
and Tyson; the Cobb hatching
facilities in Gainesville, Georgia,
and Siloam Springs, Arkansas;
and Vantress research facilities at
Jane, Missouri.
With the establishment of the
new company, Cobb facilities in
Concord, Massachusetts, along
with its production farms in New
Hampshire and Massachusetts,
will be gradually phased out and
closed. The Vantress hatchery ia
Greensboro, Georgia, also will be
eventually closed. This will lead to
expansions of research facilities at
Jane, Missouri, and hatcheiy
operations at Siloam Springs,
Arkansas.
Cobb, Incorporated, a producer
of broiler breeder stock since 1916,
was purchased by The Upjohn
Company in 1974.
tension and cooling air
Mcllrath explains.
The power is put to work via i
multi-range mechanical trans
mission with 12 forward speeds
and four reverse speeds. All gears
are sychronized in each range.
Both models offer Transfermatic;
hydraulic systems of open center
design with tandem engine
mounted, gear-driven pumps. A
category 11, three-point hitch like
linkage stabilizers is standard
equipment.
These two new tractors are
available with the unique Twin-
Power option. This feature doubles
a tractor’s working ability because
it provides a PTO and 3-point hitch
at both the front and rear of the
machine. With this option two jobs
can be completed with one pass.
“These tractors pack the power
and features needed to get the job
done efficiently so there’s more
time for other profitable ven
tures,” says Macllr ith.