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AS IS TRUE ON MOST FARMS in this area, layers are
kept, and eggs must be cleaned. On the John Umble farm,
Dorothy, 14, oldest of five children, gets the job. She is a
sophomore at Lancaster Mennonite School. This year her
Holstein heifer won second in the two year old class at the
Chester County dairy club roundup (LF Photo)
John Umble Got Back in Dairying
By Selecting Good Foundation Stock
By Bob Best
In 1947 John R Umble of R 1
Atglen got out of the dairy busi
ness He sold his grade herd and
quit completely
In the fall of 1948 he was back
again with a herd of registered
Holsteins. And the cows were in
a completely remodeled dairy
barn
Buying the new herd, Umble
got cows from Canada and from
the Wisconsm-Michigan dairy
country The bulk of the herd is
Ragapple breeding Which is now,
being crossed with Pabst Farm
bulls
Umble recognized good cows
when he saw them JPhis was
proved this summer when two of
the cows in the herd were offi
cially classified as Excellent
Both cows are from Canadian
bloodlines One, Avanll Sover
eign Tiny Pabst, produced 537
pounds of butterfat and 13,000
pounds of milk as a five-year-old
This year she is heading toward a
600 pound record She has made
400 pounds of lat in 240 days on
test
The other cow Hyup Inka Sal
ly, has been on the show circuit
too much to have an accurate
production record, although she
has been in the 400 pound class.
This cow was named All Pennsyl
vania three year old at Farm
Show and last year was third in
the aged cow class at Farm Show.
The present herd sire on the
farm is a Pabst bull that was
Grand Champion at the 1957
Farm Show.
On the -farm, Umble keeps
about 30 cows in the milking
herd, and has an equal number
of junior and senior heifers.
One of the unique construction
features Umble incorporated into
his remodeled barn is a covered
manure pit. The pit is so con
structed that the gutter cleaners
feed directly into it.
In the pit there Is enough room
for a tractor, spreader, and a
tractor with loader. If Umble de
sires, the manure can be drop
ped directly into the spreader
However, he usually allows it
to accumulate on the floor of pd,
then loading it onto the spreader
with the tractor loader.
“This seems to catch and soak
in more of the liquids,” Umble
says. “I’ve noticed a big differ
ence in crops since we started
using it this way. By using more
manure, we cut down on the
amount of chemical fertilizer and
get the same yield ”
Strength and Uniformity - the Twins of New Holland
ASSISTING JOHN UMBLE hold the two
cows that were classified Excellent is his
son, J. Richard Umhle, nine. And a little
too young to be ot help is Allen Ray, five
The cows, Avorill Soverign Tiny Pabst,
Speaking of yields, Umble re
ports that he is going to have a
good corn crop this year, despite
the dry weather, “Its not as good
as it could have been if there
would have been more rain, but
it will still make about 70 bush
els to the acre,’ - he said.
Hay is short on the farm Um
ble believes that h£ will have to
get about 1,000 bales of hay to
carry the herd through to grass
next spring
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Lancaster Fanning, Friday, Oct. 18, 1957—5
front, and Hyup Inka Sally, are both from
Canadian bloodlines and were purchased
by Umble when he started to rebuild a
registered herd. (LF Photo)
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Roughage plays a big part m
(he herd management Heifers
are kept out all winter with only
hay being fed Umble believes
that he has less calving trouble,
less disease, and gets young cows
with a greater body capacity by
using this method.
Just before calving time, the
heifer is given some grain, but
this is more to tram her to be
come used to the bam than it is
to do anything else
One heifer that freshened re
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cently bears out the results ol
the program The heiler had nev
er been in the bain from the time
she was a calf until she dropped
her calf She is now milking
about 50 pounds a day
By using good bulls and by
culling low producing animals,
Umble has raised his herd avei
age by about 60 pounds of butter
fat in the past live years Last
>ear the held averaged 449
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