18—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, December 15.1973
Four of the Brown Swiss cows in Don Trimble’s herd are
classified Excellent, and this is one of them. In her last lac
tation, this cow produced 18.380 pounds of milk and 776
pounds of butterfefr
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Trimble said he feels there’s, a
good future for dairying in
Lancaster County, as long as
urban sprawl and skyrocketing
land prices don’t push the far
mers out.
Trimble was bom and raised on
a dairy farm in Chestnut Level
where bis parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Daniel Trimble, still live
although they’re now retired.
Trimble is a 1960 graduate of
Solanco High School, where be
1973 Farm
Payment Savings
As a result of the rise in wheat
prices since August, no final
payments to producers will be
required under the 1973 set-aside
program for wheat, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture an
nounced recently.
This represents a savings in
farm payments of around $3BO
million over 1972 payments to
wheat farmers.
The Department also an
nounced that no refund will be
required from an estimated
$475,696,000 in preliminary
payments to wheat farmers,
made shortly after July 1, which
were larger than the final face
value of wheat certificates.
Hie preliminary wheat paym
ents were made in compliance
with provisions of the
Agricultural Act of 1970. On July
1, based on current market and
futures prices, it was estimated
that the total 1973 domestic wheat
certificate value would be 90
cents per bushel. All par
ticipating wheat farmers
received 1973 preliminary
payments of 68 cents per bushel
in accordance with legislation
that specifies preliminary
payments for wheat of 75 percent
of the estimated value of cer
tificates.
The final wheat payment
normally would be the difference
between the final face value of
the domestic certificate and the
preliminary payment. Final face
value is the difference between
100 percent of parity on July 1 and
the national average wheat price
farmers received for the 5-month
period, July through November.
If you have a consumer com
plaint, first bring it to the at
tention of the store where you
made the purchase. If you’re not
satisfied, contact the Penn
sylvania Bureau of Consumer
Protection, which suggests you
put your complaint in writing.
Enclose copies of all contracts,
documents or sales agreements
relating to your complaint.
Jaycees Pick
was active in 4-H and FFA ac
tivities. He holds an American
Farmer degree, and was a state
FFA reporter as well as
president of the Lancaster
County 4-H Council. Today, he’s a
member of the Fulton Grange,
Solanco Young Farmer group,
vice-president of the Solanco Fair
Association, a Lancaster County
Extension director, a delegate to
Inter-State Milk Producers
Cooperative, and a member of
state and national Brown Stfiss
Cattle Breeders Association.
After graduating from high
school, Trimble worked as a
herdsman at Lees Hill Farm in
New Vernon, N. J. It was there he
met his wife of eight years, Carol,
a native of Green Village, N.J.
Before meeting her husband,
Carol was a surgical nurse and
not at all a farm girl. “On our
first date,” she recalled
laughing, “neither one of us was
very much impressed.” Fate had
its way, though, and the Trimbles
are both staunch farm folk now
and they’ve got two children,
three-year-old Scott and six-year
old Cindy, a first-grader at
Fulton Elementary.
Presently, the Trimbles are
farming in partnership with Mr.
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and Mrs. Leon Kreider, long-time
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Trimble grows all the feed he
needs for his 87 cow herd, with 110
acres of corn and 38 acres of
alfalfa. The main farm has 145
acres, and there’s another 70
rented acres about five miles
away.
Sometime in the future,
Trimble hopes to have a herd
composed only of Registered
Brown Swiss cows. Right now, he
has about one-third Swiss and
two-thirds Holstein. “Why,” we
asked Trimble, “would the 1962
National Holstein Boy want to
start a Brown Swiss herd in the
biggest Holstein county in the
East?”
Like the good-natured soul he
is, Trimble-laughed at the
question. “I worked with Brown
Swiss in Lees Hill,” he said, “and
I just like them. They’ve got a
better disposition and I think
they’re nicer to work with. Also, I
feel I get just about as much milk
out of a Brown Swiss cow, but
more fat. And if milk is ever sold
on its protein content, I think I’ll
be ahead with my cows.”
When he took over the farm in
1969, Trimble remodeled a steer
barn into a free-stall dairy barn,
and changed a chicken house into
a calf barn. He also installed a
double-4 herringbone milking
parlor, where he handles both
milkings himself. Milking takes
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about two hours. “I believe in
mechanization,” Trimble says,
“although I do believe you can
mechanize yourself out of
existence.”
The young farmer feels he’s got
about all the mechanization he
wants right now, and he feels also
that he doesn’t want to get any
bigger. “If you double in size, you
triple your problems,” he said. “I
want to continue to be a family
farmer, and I’d rather use
machines instead of hired labor
to help me with my work.”
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his forage and silage tested, as
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in 30-inch rows, trying for a plant
population of 25,000 to the acre.
Last year his silage yield was 26
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