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I’m working." But the farm
pi oup seemed to get. as many
looks of critical analysis from
the weavers as they gave in re
turn
Many of the farm women pur
chased material from the fabric
shop to take home and many
icported the visit very interest
ing
The first stop of the day for
the 200 danymen on the tour
that left the Conestoga Trans
portation Terminal Wednesday
morning at 8.00 a m., was the
1300 acre, 250 cow herd of
Robeit Eichelberger. The
Eichelbergers have a modern
350’ x 50’ comfort stall barn
with pipeline milkers and rub
ber mats on the stalls
In the February DHIA test
there weie five cows milking
over 100 pounds of milk a day
to 110 pounds, and first calf
heifers milking 74 pounds a
day. The held produces 6,800
pounds of milk a day
The second visit was to the
high heid in milk in the nation
last jeai for herds of 50 cows
or more
Sinking Spnngs Farn under
the management of Herman
Stebbins,, has> a herd a /erage of
19 534 pounds of milk, 725
pounds of butteifat and indivi
dual cows up to 1 200 pounds of
butteifat in a lactation First
ca’f heifeis milk to 90 pounds
The manager in gieeting the
gioup said I believe cows aie
cieatiues of habit We milk at
4 p m and Sam I don t think
it impoitant what time we milk
but that \ie do it legulaily
e\ ei v day is important
The tinal stop was the loose
housing ictail milk faim of the
Joseph Stump family
Under the banner of Stump
Acies this family milks 65
Registered Holsteins and sells lor The farm has 500 acres Myrtle has a 4-year-old record
up to 185 gal of the milk at tillable of 22,988 m, 4 6%, 1,050 f
their retail outlet right on the The herd has close to a 600 The group was served a roast
farm They have 90 fiee stalls pound butterfat average and the chicken dinner at noon and re
and a herringbone milking par- top cow, ADA Regal Lucifer turned to Lancaster at 5 00 p m
ON THE HOLSTEIN TOUR, (left to and John Smith, York County Agent The
i ight) Victor Plastow, Associate Lancas- cow is Smkmg Springs Ivan Margo, classi
ter County Agent; Jay Landis, Tour Com- fied Very Good 87 with Excellent udder,
nit tee Chairman; Paul Zimmerman and Her two-year-old record is 305 d 16,756 m
John Herr, Tour Committee; Herman 6451 L. F. Photo
Stebbins, Sinking Springs Farm Manager;
Improved Postures where either zero grazing or yearly average of five drought
Bnncf fin'rv P ft g°°d pastuie is also essential years, a mixture of Vernal al-
DOOSr uoiry rrorirs stored feeding is the mam pas- falfa and p enn late orchard
-iTmay dema„d"more mto yielded 4 7 tom dry mat
management! Tut tg"h *»a. cows 0„ p.atura ,ust seem tar ,550 potm S crude prole,„
quality” pastuie is still one of to do better” than cows kept and 5 000 pounds of total diges
jour least expensive sources of 111 confinement tible nutiients During the same
feed nutrients, Pennsylvania What returns can a dairyman five years, corn for silage grown
State University agronomists expect from good pasture'’ A on a near by field averaged 4 9
c iv five year lotation grazing study , , _.. , ,
y just completed by Dr. John B tons dry matter ’ 1000 pounds
And theie is more and more Washko provides some interest- crude protein and 6,000 pounds
evidence to suggest that some ing answers For example, a’s a TDN.
THE LOOSE HOUSING barn and the retail milk
outlet of the Joseph Stump Family in York Colinty. The
Stumps sell up to 185 gal. of raw milk a day at the farm
A 150 COMFORT STALL BARN owned by Robert
Eichelberger and visited by the Lancaster County Hoi-
where they have 65 Registered
stein Tour on Wednesday.
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