—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 6,1969
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A new barn is now under con
fines the fall shows, they will struction for thc herd that will
eventually succeed ” feature 78 tie stalls, rubber
Andy says he admires the man mats * or each cow, a pipe-line
who builds a lop herd and can milker, tile milk house, farm
say he never bought a cow But P® ce and a liquid manure handl
this dairyman likes to add two system. The goal for this
or three good cows to his herd new addition is to have an efH
each year If possible ‘T think attractive place for the
the average person’s life is too production and sale of Register
short to breed everything good Holsteins.
in his herd You still can use conservation Program
your own breeding piogram even
if you buy an occasional good conservation farm plan has
cow. In fact, I would lather milk keen developed in cooperation
the dam of my herd sire,” he ihe Berks County Soil Con
sai(j servation District. All fields are
And he is milking the Excel- bme <l and
lent, 92 point, N-Del Cee Lodes- |® rtlllzer 31 e accordin e
tar Duchess cow that has 22,421 Iy ‘. - „ ~, .
, anA , - Andy has established cut-back
pounds of milk snd 8W pounds v*l # «
„„ „ borders for wildlife and has re
of butterfat as a five*yeai*old in „j » i * • TT
oco ~, moved 2 miles of fence rows He
CaernlSan he d ?.re -cS instaUed 3 ’ 600 feet of cro P land
SS”wt is\l% excelS J’ 300 feet
and was nominated All-American ?£ n £ c T
as a two-year-old in 1968 and patterns of his stops for
now has seven up-standing “™ m C ° nSerV " d WOrk ‘
milky daughters in the herd. y ' . , n , , ...
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Another cow inithe herd class- stoltzfus thinks more farmers
ified Excellent 92 is the well should practice is complete rec
known show cow Rhoda Edge- ords on fertilizer, lime, and ma
field Ivanhoe with a string of nure that is applied on each field
show winnings. A pair of Ivan- j n his 216 acre operation; the
hoe daughters are contract bred crop variety that is planted;
for a national breeding establish- w jj en ant j -what pesticides are ap
ment and two Caernarvan bulls phed; and the fina i yield the
are now in artificial breeding g e j d produces.
s * uds - To keep himself motivated to
These are only a few of the do a better job with his cropland,
many fine cows that were seen Andy participates in both the
by visitors from twenty states, Garden Spot Young Farmer and
NOMINATED ALL-AMERICAN TWO-YEAR-OLD in
1968 is Andy Stoltzfus’ herd sire, N-Del-Cee Dutchman.
Dutchman is now classified Excellent and has seven up
standing, milky daughters in the Caernarvan herd.
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N-DEL-CEE LODESTAR DUCHESS,
classified Excellent at 92 points, is a favor
ite cow in the Caernarvan herd with a top
the Twin Valley Young Fanner
Silage and Corn contests. “If
someone is doing a good job and
getting high crop yields, I’m the
first to want to know how he
does it,” Stoltzfus said. “We
continue to learn all the time,”
he continued. “And I think pro
bably the most important man
agement practice a man can have
is to keep an open mind and
learn from those who are doing
a good job. It’s when you stop
learning because of a closed
mind that you fall along the
way.”
Preventative Maintenance
Each piece of farm machinery
in this young farmer’s operation
is treated with care Machines
are air cleaned, serviced and in
spected during the winter mon
ths to insure minimum break
downs in the harvest season
Andy inventories spare parts and
a well-equipped farm shop is
maintained for welding, painting
and carpentry work And this
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record of 5-7 y 352 d 22,421 m 804 f arid is the
dam of the Dutchman herd sire.
work proves necessary and in
valuable in Andy’s situation
where mechanical devices are
used to replace manual labor
whenever possible.
Farm Records
Probably one of the main en
terprises that holds this vast
family farm together is the office
system that includes finger-tip
filing developed by Mrs Stoltz
fus Not only are files kept on the
essential data of the daily herd;
but also a full system of headings
that include all farm operations
and individual interests
In addition, the farm business
has been put on Agway’s com
puterized record system and the
Penn State Linear Program Sys
tem is used. With a complete set
ol good records to feed into the
computers, the - Stoltzfus family
can be guided in future manage
ment decisions as well as be in
formed of the present situation
on their farm.
If Andy Stoltzfus’ interest in
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farming and dairying is exceed
ed by anything, it could only be
by his work on behalf of his fel
low dairyman. This has taken the
form of working with the Garden
Spot Young Farmer Program and
the Twin Valley Young Farmer
Program (he helped start the
organization) and his work as a
director of Inter-State Milk Pro
ducers Cooperative.
“Everybody doesn’t drink
milk,” he says. “So, we must pro
mote it.” And the best way to do
this is to vote for the state auth
orized program now up for ap
proval by dairymen, Stoltzfus
thinks. “The percentage deduct
ed is -fair and it will include
everyone,” he said. “And the
state is the only one who can col
lect it and they will only be al
lowed to receive up to five per
cent of the assessment for admin
istrative costs. That is reason
able.”
Stdltzfus was named Pennsyl
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