12—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 6, 1964
;• County Dairymen
(Continued Irom Page 1)
Giemev’s 20 8 cows had an
over all avei age of 606 pounds
of butterfat and 15.642 pounds
of milk with a 39 per cent
test.
Gieiner has been in the dairy
business since he moved on
the 60 acre farm of his grand
father in 1939, but it was not
until 1946 that he began buy
ing a “few pui ebred Holsteins.”
The 23 milkeis and 13 head of
young stock in the herd are
now registered and all are ar
tificially sired
Greiner has about 13 acres
of permanent pasture in three
patches on his 60 acres, hut he
does not count on pasture for
the total summer feeding pro
gram.
He plants rye in the fall and
uses it for late pastuie In the
spnng it goes into the silo and
until it ferments, the cows are
on a ration of hay, pasture and
gram As soon as the rye sil
age is icady to feed, Greiner
hauls it to the cows on pas
tuie twice a day. He also feeds
his herd all the alfalfa hay
they will clean up twice a day
and a grain mixture of his
home grown grains and a com
mercial supplement He relies
heavily on bailey in the gram
mix “I didn’t husk any corn
at all last year,” he said.
Coin silage in the winter is
fed m the barn both morning
and evening and at noon on a
wagon in the barn lot Hay is
fed as the cows clean it up
during winter months. '‘lf I
walk through the barn five or
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six times a day, I will check
to see that all the cows have
hay in the trough,” is the way
Greiner explains it.
Greiner and his wife do all
the work on the dairy herd
and keep a laying flock of
1600 to 1700 laying hens.
One other factor in the high
production picture could be
added to Greiner’s two—atten
tion to detail where cow com
fort is concerned
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The 28 Registered Holsteins
in the herd of Christ K. Lapp
and Son, Gap R 2, was second
high in the averages with 67
pounds of butterfat in 1,701
pounds of milk with a S.B test.
High 305 day lactation record
completed during the month
belongs to a registered Hol
stein in the herd of Calvin D.
Beiler, Paradise Rl, Martha, a
six year old cow, made 791
pounds of butterfat in 18,022
pounds of milk with a 44 per
cent test.
Linda, an eight year old reg
istered Holstein in the herd of
John E. Esh, Gordonville Rl,
had a 305 day record of 767
pounds of butterfat in 22,626
pounds of milk with a 3.4 test.
Another Linda, a grade Hol
stein in the Clair M. Hershey
herd had 766 pounds of but
terfat in 16,207 pounds of milk
with a 47 test
Other cows finishing lacta
tions with more than 700
pounds of butterfat were in
the herds of Paul B. Zimmer
man, C. Witmer Sherer, J.
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