Alumni Memories

Arlie A. Pearson

Animal Science, B.S., 1949

In 1946, we three returning veterans (Robert Vohs from Holstein, Jim Rector from Manchester and I) were animal husbandry students at ISU. We needed money and were employed at the ISC swine farm. About the same year Damon Catron saw a need for a sow replacer so that pigs could be weaned earlier than the usual eight weeks. We were asked to give several sows shots of putuitrin and then milk them in a tray and deliver the milk to Dr. Catron. We did this through one lactation period. This gave Dr. Catron a complete picture of the needs of the baby pigs, and from that analysis he developed the commercial "Sow Replacer."

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