" Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June 6.1970 40 Maryland 4-H’ers Find Dairy A fli.st of its kind feeder calf mlc dosed out the second phase of ('atioil Counts’s 411 dany sleet ptojccl at Westmmstet. Maryland. May 5 Thnteen 411 dub mombets sold holstcm feeder sleets ranging from 250 pounds to 710 pounds The membeis and then families sold a total of 40 head (o buycis from Vnginia. Penn sylvanta and Maty land Many of (he calves will stay in Carroll County feedlots The sale was handled by Western Maiyland Stockyards. Inc “So far as we know, this is the first dairy steer feeder calf sale in the United States," says John Wildesen, extension agent in Carroll County. Wildesen explains how the unique 4-H project stalled 4-H leader from Lmeboro, Don ald Baker, and I were talking about an animal pioject that could be completed in a iela lively shoit time and did not requn e too large an investment We finally hit on the idea of raising dairy calves for beef Then we worked out the details with John Moms, Extension dairyman at the University of Maryland ” Youths Snub Coffee, Turn to Cold Drinks The declining coffee maiket suffers most fiom ■waning ac ceptance among the undei-30 group, according to an aiticle by Ralph Leezenbaum in the May issue of Maiketing/Com mumcations. “The United States accounts for almost half of the woild’s coffee consumption The avei age American coffee dnnkei (over age 10) on an average day last year imbibed 2 68 cups of the brew. “That figure, however, is no cause for rejoicing among cof fee maiketers It lepresents a 16 per cent decline from cof fee’s zenith year seven yeai s be fore, when cups weie downed at their highest rate in history . 312 per drinker pel day Thanks to the population in crease, the effect of diminish ing demand on both a peicent age of populace and cups per capita basis has been to depiess poundage only slightly Coffee roasteis still managed to mar ket 3 3 billion pounds of coffee last year Like most othei hot bever ages, coffee is suffering at the expense of the proliferating preferences for cold dunks, es pecially among young people Significantly the general down turn in consumption after 1962 was presaged by an even earlier disfavor among the under twenties. Summer Eating Fiom Westminster. Maryland comes this recent rcpoit by the cooperative extension service of the University of Maiyland on a new kind of 4-H project which, so the rcpoit goes, has the unique ability in these troubled times of pleasing just about everyone involved. Since Southeastern Pennsylvania is daily country in general and Holstein country in particular, the pioject may be of interest to local people and maybe even have applica tion here. The member actually has four options in the project, Wildesen points out. He starts with a puiebred holstem calf. If the calf does well and the market is favorable, he can sell the calf as veal at about 200 pounds. In the second option, the member can sell the steer at feeder calf weight (up to about 700 pounds) A members could buy one of the feeder calves and feed it out to slaughter weight, or he could start with a baby calf and feed it all the way through to slaughtei steer weight. In this proj’ect. Wildesen ex palins, a 4-H member could complete the recoid in two ATTENTION DAIRY FARMERS in THE FACTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES Latest D.H.I.A. records from Geauga County Ohio SHOW PIONEER FED 30% of Cows with 3000 Lb. Lifetime Fat Production 40% of Cows Producing over 880 Lb. Fat 50% of Cows Producing over 20,000 Lb. Milk 100% of Herds with 15040 Lb. average and over. Pioneer Gets The Job Done. Why Not Give Us A Try? Call your Pioneer man: S ELMER M. SHREINER Trading as Good’s Feed Mill Specializing in DAIRY & HOG FEEDS New Providence, Pa. Ph ° ne 786 - 2500 \ months, or he could extend the project for a year If the mem ber does not have much capital, or if he does not have much room to keep an animal project, he can turn his money over quickly and get back in business again quickly. All the members in Carroll County’s dairy steer project bought their calves from local dairy farmers at three to seven days old and paid about $2O to $25 each for them “The 4-H’ers fed their calves milk replacer for the first eight weeks and gradually changed them over to an inexpensive grain mixture containing a large peicentage of corn-and cob meal,” according to Wilde- Beef Sale a Big Hit son "The members cither have the grain at home or they buy it mixed to our formula at a local feed mill.” Last fall, some of the club members began feeding calves about September,-but the pio ject didn’t officially start until November. And it ended at Westminster with a fitting and showing contest and sale. “We set it up as a six-month project, Wildesen explains, with plans to hold a sale in early May and another in early Novem ber.” Many of the club membeis are starting calves right now for the November sale. And no wonder 1 At the West minster sale, the 40 head brought prices of $3O to $36 pei hundredweight for an average of about 33.5 nearly four cents a pound over the maiket on May 5. But as one cattleman ic- marked at the end of the sale, “These calves were empty and in excellent condition. They have had the best of care and should be ready to go in the feedlot.” And as another buyer sum med up, “Everyone should be happy Here is another soutcc of beef for Arnei ic \’s tables; the dairymen have another sale for their bull calves, the 4-H club members have a ner T short-term project, and the cattle feeders have a new source of high quali ty feeder cattle ’ ’ At least three men are happy. They bought a calf at the sale and will feed it to slaughter weight. They are Wildesen, Charles Hommey, Extension agent in neighboring Fredeuck County, and John Morns, Ex tension dairyman at the Univer sity “We had a holstein steer last year,” says Moms, “and it is realty good eating ”
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