New Cattle Microbe Named For OSU Scientist WOOSTER, Ohio Billions of creatures natu ral, needed microbes live in the innards of cattle. But they’re known to only a handful of people. One of them is Burk Dehority, a scientist with Ohio State Uni versity. Dehority, of the university’s Ohio Agricultural Re search and Development Center in Wooster, is an expert in rumen and gastrointestinal microbiology the study of microbes that live in the guts of herbi vores, or plant‘eating animals. Among his subjects are cattle, sheep, kangaroos and quokkas. The quokka, an endangered Australian marsupial, is downright abundant compared to the number of sci entists like Dehority: worldwide maybe a dozen. So when Turkish scientists discovered an unknown protozoa in the rumens of their cattle, they knew who to turn tor Dehority, who in the course of his 45-year career has described and named 21 new species. He sent the researchers photographs of a species that ap peared to be a match, one he had found in Alaskan Dali sheep. They used the photos to identify the mi crobe. In subsequent studies the scientists found and de scribed a new species. It, too, was a protozoa that lived in the rumens of Turkish cattle. The researchers thanked Dehority for his previous help by naming the species after him: Eudiplodinium dehorityi. Details pf* CHOP AND PROCESS Makes More Milk w/Kern Processor ! NH 790, FP 230 &FP 240 '' Chop and process corn silage in one operation with New Holland’s optional onboard Crop Pro™ crop processor KIMWHOILAN) CREDIT Remove Crop Processor In Seconds With The Push Of A MESSICK’S SERVING TWO LOCATIONS www.messicks.com Rheems Exit - Route 283 Elizabethtown, PA 17022 717-367-1319 800-222-3373 are in a recent issue of the journal Acta Parasitologies Turcica. The researchers work at Turkey’s Ege Uni versity. The new species is of interest because its physical characteristics fall between previously described spe cies a sort of “missing link” in rumen protozoa evo lution. (Continued from Page 25) Transition Cow Workshop. Cumberland County. Reproductive Management Workshop, Lebanon County. Pennsylvania Dairy Stakeholders Conference, Grant- ville, thru Dec. 13. Computer Workshops, call Laura Watts, (717) 240- 6500,9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Windows 11, York County Extension Office, thru Dec. 13. Button RD 1, Box 225 A, Abbottstown, PA 17301 West of York, PA On Route 30 717-259-6617 - 888-285-0225 (Turn to Page 27) HW34O SP DISCBINE 15' Head, Less 200 Hrs. uea se SAVE ■aeX^ 0 $ $ $ & (CWHOUAW
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