COWS IN THESE COMFORT STALLS sure look
ed comfortable on the farm of J. Mowery Frey & Son.
Frtey uses rubber cow mats in all stalls, and told the
touring dairymen that this has substantially reduced
his bedding costs. L. F. Photo
• Dairy Tour
(Continued from Pago 61
i» the parlor. He found this
heftfe up the milk line. Even
so, he said that two men
can get all the milking dOne
in about 90 minutes.
Raymond F. Witmer farm
The tour concluded with
two vasijfcs to farms using
“'conventional” housing. The
first of these was the Ray
mond Witmer farm at Wil
low (Street R 1 Witmer had
the top-iproducinig DiHIA-ttestt
ed, Guernsey herd ah Penn-
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ATRAZINE
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Agwaj
sylvania fast year. These high
producers are housed in tie
stalls.
In commenting on this type
of housing, engineer Grout
said that the stall bam is a
long way [from being out of
the picture. Bt’s efficiency Can
be greatly increased without
basically changing its nature.
For example, he isaid that a
barn cleaner could easily be
added to most bamls. pipe
line milteag is a possibility,
as is some form of automat
ed feeding m front of the
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cows. "One real advantage,"
Grout said, "is that you Can
get more reasonable tempera
ture control, with little vari
ation." W 1 timer confirmed the
latter, saying that his barn
temperature seldom went be
low 50 degrees in winter.
One interesting feature at
the Wi tuner farm was the
manure handling system. His
barn cleaner runs to a com
pletely-en'closed manure shed
which adjoins the ibarn The
unioadcr is elevated at about
a 45 degree angle so that
much of the liquid will drain
back into a 10,000-gal'lon cis
tern instead of being con
veyed tto ‘the field in the
spreader The only thing Wit
mer felt he would change
aiboiiit that set up if he were
to do at over would be to lo
cate the manure shed at the
back instead of the side ito
eliminate the sharp turn the
conveyor must now make.
J. Moiwery (Frey & Son farm
The fin/al stop on ithe tour
was at the farm of J. Mow
ery Frey & Son, Beaver Val
ley Pike, Lancaster, Here the
group (Was shown another
standard tie-stall set up. The
Sfkstall Warn has been com
pleted /for about two years
according to Frey. When they
remodeled 'they in eluded such
features as pipeline milking,
tile mianigers, larid ruMber
cow mats. In eomlmenltinig on
the pipeline principle, Frey
pointed out that the barn
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QUARRYVILLE
AGWAY STORE
Church St., Quarryville, Pa.
ENOS R. BUCKWALTER
2281 Old Phila. Pike
MAURICE M. GOOD
Gordonville K 1
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 15, 1965
LEON KREIDER DEMONSTRATES operation of
the liquid manure handling system on his fully-auto
mated dairy farm. The traotor-drawn tank above holds
800 gallons and is used to spread the liquid manure in
the fields. It is filled several times a day from an
18,000-gallon underground holding tank. L. F. Photo
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