Kansas Farmer Saves His Hay Crop
With New Butler Stor-N-Feed Structure
Alvin Beachey of Hutchinson, Kansas, says, “This
year some of my neighbors lost most of their second
crop of hay because of the rainy weather. I saved mine
because I could put up low moisture silage (LMS or
haylage) in one day.”
Beachey has 45 cows with a herd average of about
14,000 pounds of milk. He has had an increase in milk
production since switching to the Butler Stor-N-Feed
system. He says, “The cows clean up all the LMS.
'When I was feeding baled hay, I had to clean out the
stems, and cows refused hay every day. I have no bloat
problems with newly ensiled LMS, and I can’t see any
drop in milk production when I switch from filling to
feeding.”
Beachey also comments, “The structure unloads
fast; it only takes me 4Va minutes to fill a 60’ long feed
bunk. I like the quality of the feed coming out; the
cows like it and eat more of it than they did baled
hay.”
Beachey also has a concrete stave silo. In 1966, he
topped off his Butler structure with the sorghum and
put the remainder in his concrete stave silo. He re
calls, “The silage in the Butler sealed storage was a
better color and smelled better than that in the stave
silo. The cows preferred it, too.”
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Lancaster Farming,
Ruffer Bros. At York
Named Gold Star
Guernsey Breeder
Rutter Bros., York, Pennsyl
vania, have been named Gold
Star Guernsey Breeder for 1967
by the American Guernsey Cat
tle Club. This is the fourth
straight year that they won this
coveted award
Rutter Bros met all of the re
quirements for this award dur
ing the past year. Some of these
requirements were that all
Guernseys over eight months of
age owned by the farm weie
registered, that the herd includ
ed at least 10 registered Guern
sey cows with production re
cords made official during the
year with at least 70% of. them
homebi ed, that the herd was on
with a lactation average at least
official AR or HIR-DHIR test
15% over the breed average for
either milk or butteifat 305 2x
M E and that 80% of the cows
with official recoids completed
duung the yeai weie classified
with an aveiage score for the
group ot 82 5% oi better
The Pi eduction summary of
Rutter Bios, heid showed 60
cows with 63 recoids averaging
12,461 pounds of milk and 627
pounds of fat, 305-2 x ME, and
with an average classification
for 59 cows of 85 5 pei cent
To win a Gold Star Guernsey
Breeders Award a herd must
also meet rigid health requne
ments and an applicant for the
award must be an active mem
ber of both a State Guernsey As
sociation and the American
Guernsey Cattle Club
Rutter Bros will receive a
special certificate from the
American Guernsey Cattle Club
in recognition of their Gold Star
Guernsey Bleeder Award for
1967
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