Cows Pump Water For Selves With The, Aid Of Pasture Pump ' - * - , * '■What do you the' is-a device called a pasture spring goes dry iu -th,e cow pump which will lift water up The old windmill which once pasture and the milk company to 30 feet in height and draw pumped water from the well says' the cows may not wade it 300 feet from a stream or had long since rusted away •m the farm''pond?'" pond. 'But the important fea-' an( j become useless, but the , Several'farmers around \Vil-- ture is the motive force wa ter was stilt cool and pure, low Street have found -at least The cow pumps the water when a local representative one answer this summer. They when she wants it and in the' . fapmcr mnnerativp Wii «t «.e cows pump .holt own- .mount site wants. 1 water from the pond, or, in Ross Frey, Willow Street a pasture pump, Frey agreed, the case of one* farmer, from ri, found his spring drying up b ut “only until the spring a shallow well. ‘ during the drought period. He cam e back ” The solution to the problem faced the alternatives of bring- HERE IS A PICTURE OF A COW PUMPING WATER for herself. Fence encloses an old well with a worn out windmill standing lonely guard The water was fresh and pure, but the windmill long ago became useless. When the spring in the pasture went dry, Ross Frey installed a Pasture Pump for his Guern seys. They now serve themselves with cool, fresh water whenever they are thirsty. L F. Photo V * •> <• * ❖ ❖ •i* * *:• « V <• <• * <■ Sauder LOADER Xow available lor certain models ot the lolbmin” tiaetois FORD FERGUSON INTERNATIONAL JOHN DEERE MASSEY - FERGUSON MINNEAPOLIS-MOLINE OLIVER PORSCHE DIESEL DEXTA ALLIS - CHALMERS f ossa J fe- V, FEATURES: (1) Easily attached or detached. (2) Operated bj tractor’s own h><lraufic sj.stem. (3) Lever trip within easy re.ich of operator. (4). Pork raises “le\el” and has removable tines. (5) liteak-Away Coupler is standard on all Loaders, {(i) Scoop c.m easily be attached to the Fork. (7) Stnrdj construction, jet reason.iblj priced. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT YOUR LOCAL <* g NEW HOLLAND, PA. Easily Attached in Only a Minutes jK 5 v 'N 'j&fc •rV' ' r '' TRACTOR DEALER OR US DIRECTLY Manufactured by ing his herd of Guernseys to the barn for water and there by threaenting his domeVuo supply, or finding some way to utilize the old shallow well in the pasture. PHONE EL 4-8721 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 20, 1962 The spring is still dry, and the pump is working perfect, Frey says It took some per suading and a little training before all the cows weie push ing the plunger back and forth to pump cool, fresh water into the bowl, but within a week, milk production was back up to normal, and the cows have been using the pump ever since, Frey reports. One farmer in the area re ports he has carried water to his pigs on pasture for years. This year he installed a past ure pump and now lifts the water out of a creek about 200 feet away, and the pork- PUBLIC HORSE SALE MONDAY EVE., OCTOBER 22, AT MARTIN’S SALES STABLES Blue Ball, Pa., Lancaster Co. 2 loads standard bred horses, saddle horses, driv ers and ponies. Tack at 6:30 P.M. Horses at 7:30 P.M. PAUL Z. MARTIN Phone area 717 New Holland EL 4-6671 New Holland Sales Stables Horse Sale Every Monday at 11 A.M. Fat Hogs & Calves Every Monday at 2 P.M. Dairy Cattle Every Wednesday at 12:30 Beef Cattle and Calves Every Thursday at 12:30 JOHN H. GINGRICH, Mgr. Ph. New Holland EL 4-2194, New Holland, Pa. Livestock Auction Market EVERY TUESDAY Storting Promptly at 1:30 p.m. Stalling itli bulls, steels, heifeis, cons, bogs and cah es. We get top $$ for your Livestock Give us a call HI 2-4181 Vintage Sales Stables, Inc. VINTAGE, PA. Frank Dussmger, Manager AUCTION 53 AYRSHIRES Sell in the Keystone Classic TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1962 at 12 Noon At the Guernsey Sale Barn, 6 miles east of Lan caster, along Rt. 30. One ol the Finest Gumps of Am shoes P.\er to he Sold m Feiina. Ass’u. Sponsoi ed Sale. 33 BRKB HEIPPRS - dams' lets. .ug. 12302 41 4.3% 537 P. 11 YOCXG COMS - their recs. aig.: 11415 41 4.2% 483 P. 7 HEIFER CAMPS - dams’ tecs. a\g.: 13070 41 4.1% 507 P. 3 VKARLING BULLS - both Iron) high record Excellent Bams. The Cows and Bred Heitors Mill be Itesh or due soon alter sale date. HEALTH: Accredited, Vaccinated, Certilied, tested within 30 da> s, eligible lor anj state. $lOO. POT-O-GOLl) Pri/.e will go to some bujer at this sale. Catalogs at the Sale 10.41 WHITTAKER, Sale Mgr. BRAN BOX, 4X. ers have a steady supply for the pumping. Scott says the device is idea for the dairyman who has a farm pond and no con \cnient way to get the water out to the cows All that is needed is the pump and en ough hose to reach the watei. The cow's supply all the power and they appear to do it eag erly Other Pit tint's On Page 24 The pumps is not a new idea, says Scott, but as tai as he Knows, theie aie teiy few in the county. 19
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