—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 15, 1965
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COWS SHOWN IN THE FREE STALLS on the
Jay Garber farm during the DHIA-member tour this
week Garber remodeled his old dairy barn with 66
stalls like these about one year ago. L. F. Photo
• Dairy Tour
(Continued from Page 1)
allows (the side shields to
swing free, then .when the at
tachment is towered th'e
shields are m reverse posi
fcion.
Garber’s stalls are about 7
feet tong and 42 inches wide.
The alleys are 8 feet wide,
and he says has entire daily
cleaning operation takes about
one half horn
Garber uses a bunk feeder
that is filled directly from the
silo H'e runs this feeder
thiee or four times a day.
He finds it especially helpful
in giving the 'cows a late
feeding that they can work
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on at night in the summer
time
The 'cowls enter the milk
ing parlor via a concrete run
way which Garber said can
be readily 'cleaned with the
tractor scraper blade. “The
way to choose a parlor is to
go watch somebody else
milk,” Garber told the group.
He 'app'roached the problem
in this way himself, and con
sequently had a good idea of
what to look for when he
put in his milking set-up He
has homemade ele'ctnc “heDp
eis” which stop or move the
cows as they approach in the
nu’.k line He has his heavi
est nnlkeis move in first, and
tries to gioup them all on
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one side of his douhle-her-
Wngbone, eightplace iparlor.
This permits the big fcrod/ue
ers a little exltra time to ‘eat,
'He claims that he has no
(trouble getting 12 pounds of
grain per feeding into them
'with this method
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Roger Grout, extension en
gineer. made an interesting
oibsei ration m discussing free
stall housing He said he had
noticed in other free stall
installations that generally
every cow 'Will he down with
feet all pointing in one di
rection He attributed this ts
the slope of the bam floois.
Leon Kreider farm
The gioup nexi stopped at
the farm of Leon Kreider,
Quarryvil'le Ri This-was also
a recently converted free stall
housing milking parlor oper
ation Kreider’s was the most
highly mechanized operation
that we saw Milk is com
pletely handled in bulk right
from the six place, side-open
mg parlor through a glass
pipeline to the tank. Silage
is angered into a feed bunk
directly from a silo. Manure
is scraped from the aliey
iways and 'concreted l Ibarnyard
into an underground tank
which is set at the lowest
point in the area. The eight
foot tank holds 18,000 gal
lons of liquefied manure It
has a built m agitator which
can be run independently of
the pump. Alt least on'ce a
day a load is pumiped into
'an 800 gallon portable tank
for spreading on the field's
lit takes about ten minutes,
Ki eider said, to fill the
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CORN SILAGE IS AUGERED .three to four times
a day to cows in the Jay Garber herd. He said he does
not feel a roof over the bunk is necessary since the
cows keep the feed cleaned up promptly. He likes to
give them a late feeding in the summer so they can
eat during the cooler hours. L. F. Photo
spreader (from the under
ground tank. 'He related a
humorous incident which was
perhaps not so funny §it the
tame it happened He said
that the other day a co*w had
managed to reach the pumtp
switch .and turn it on. With
no wagon to receive it, the
liquid manure 'began flowing
out onto the ground at aibout
50 gallons per nmniulte! Luck
ily .it wasn’t long before
someone caught the mistake.
(.Perhaps this Was one cow’s
w.ay of protesting the age of
automation')
Kreider’s stalls are 7Vz feet
long 'and slightly under 4
feet wide He was able to
buy some new-reject, 2-ineh
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piping which >be bent 4o fijt
in making Ms 72 stMlb. Af
ter they were ootopiteted, he
welded a rod across the rvrrdttila.
of the front of each stall.
He felt this was in
keeping 'the 'cows far esrovgh
hack in the staMls to aesure
the manure dropping into the
gutter.
Kreider told the group that
the cows have (been freshen
ing right m the stalls. He
felt this made a rough start
fo'r some of the calves, hut
it was often unavoidable. The
only problem that bothered
hi’im m this new operation
Was waiting for his high pro
ducer to eat enough gtrain
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