6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 29, 1966 THREE-INCH PLASTIC TUBES connect the oven head, out-of-sight, feed conveyor with the feed troughs Sn the milking parlor at the farm of Melvin Stoitzfus, Honks R 2. Frank Barker (left) and Donald Bucks (right), salesmen for Big Dutchman, examine the auto matic stop switch. L. P. Photo '• Melvin Stoitzfus must an additional two hours,” he said. (Continued from Page 1) Stoitzfus uses sawdust in placed between the 40x95 ft the free-stalls, and needs to free-sball bam, and the spaci- a dd bedding only about every oos, well-lighted milk house, two weeks Cleaning and An eight-ton, Big Dutchman sweeping the regular stable bulk feed bin was erected to are eliminated supply the chain conveyed One of the unique features (feeders placed overhead, out- here is the sloped floor under oif-sdght, in the milking parlor, the free-stalls. When a cow Three-inch plastic tubes con- rests on a hillside in the oneoted to the feed conveyor meadow she always lays with drop the chop into the feeders her back up the MU. This bo- Big Dutchman’s feed system vine characteristic is used to works automatically when the make the cows aU lay in the last feeder is filled. some direction when they are Also, a liquid manure pit in their stalls It also funnels was installed to handle all of the liquids into the manure the wastes from the free-StaU pit operation Silage stays in nice condition “The first-costs are about when it comes directly from equal between the free-stall the silo into the feed bunk and the conventional systems,” Stoitzfus thinks he gets more Stoitzfus said, “and I like to feed into his cows because see cows in a regular stall they have to compete for the barn. My reason for going silage “Cows have a better into free-stalls was to save la- appetite in this system,” he bor ” said. And save labor he does In However, the real pioof of the farmer set-up, Melvin the new method is in the m could run thiee milking units dividual pioduction records with the aid of an assistant For example Cherrycrest Nero Now he can operate foui units Beaulty, last year in the con and still “do a better job ” ventoonal barn, had a produc- He thinks he saves at least taon record of 313 d, 15,676 m, one and one-half hours’ chore 620 f Now, under the new time each day duung the sum- system, she has just completed mer season. “In winter we (Continued on Page 7) THIS EIGHT-TON bulk feed bin on the Cherry crest Farm of Melvin Stoltzfus at Honks R 2, supplies the chain-conveyed feeders which carry feed into the milking parlor. There Green Pastures D Do More For Your IN THE BODY . .. The best milk-producing cows are healthy cows. And Miller and Bus Green Pasture Dairy Pellets help to keep cows healthy. How? Byj ing the cow with enough energy intake to help her keep a const therms per pound of milk ... by supplying enough of the right mi to assure the cow of an even and complete mineral balance,,, k plying enough protein and the amino acids necessary for more mil duCtion ... by supplying the right vitamins (according to the latestn nutritional findings) to keep the cow in top condition. < w <£ % **