News: Seif - Red Pines Inc. (17 Nov 1966)

Contact: Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon
E-mail: dolores@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Ives, Leonard

----Source: Clark County Press (Neillsville, Clark Co., WI) 11/17/1966

Red Pines, Inc. (17 November 1966)

First shipments of laboratory guinea pigs have been made by Red Pines, Inc., laboratory animal breeder in the Town of Seif. The shipments, two in numbers, have been made to a research laboratory connected with the Canadian government. They consisted of 300 last week and second shipment of 300 Wednesday of this week.

Red Pines, Inc. was established last spring as a breeder of laboratory research animals by Dr. Margaret Ives and John P. Leonard who, until that time, were connected with Wedge’s Creek Research Farm, Inc., also located in the Town of Seif.

Red Pines currently is concentrating on building its breeding stock of guinea pigs, but also will produce other laboratory animals used in research work on cosmetics, insecticides and drugs.