~ , tour
saw a pole barn-milking parlor sot up as well as poultry
housing on their tour this week. Here William Myer, center,
explains his green chop feeding program to Assistant Coun
ty Agent "Winthrop Memam, left, and JEarl Hershey, tour
director, Landisville. Myer milks 90 cows on lus farm north
of Myerstown, in Berks County.
• Poultry Tour
(From Page 11
SO more.” Myer said,
Myer has two bunker
silos undei .roof where he
stores both grass and corn
silage lie feeds the cows
through..p. gatc.,and says that
there is no need to break
down the face of the silage
for the cows. They pull down
what they eat-nud clean it
up before the gate is moved
forward.
“Wo don't have any troub
le with fighting!” Myer said
‘ Unless we forget to push
the gate up apd the cows
got hungry"” "Each day as the
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-feeding floor is scraped clean,
the gate is pushed forward
with the -tractor.
The first year I bought in the processing of 40,000
good hay, Myer said, and I head per day. Much of the
couldn’t get the 90 cows to poultry from the plant, it
eat 30 tons during the win- was learned, goes into frozen
ter. If they have good si’age TV dinners,
they won’t eat much hay. Raymond Musselman at his
•In the twelve stall herring- Bethel R 1 farm showed the
bone parlor Myer says two group his homemade feed
people can milk a cow per lank with a 40 ton capacity,
minute He buys feed in bulk and
At two commercial cstab- feeds 13,000 laying hens by
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with values important to ru
ral people.”
Dr. John recommended
continued research to expand
knowledge of the basic prin
ciples underlying rural com
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aspirations ’ol rural people
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Pavs For Self *n in A > since ha y is e *pow
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m averaged 75 per cent them into more direct con
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