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1 - Elwood Flowers,
Manhelm, Farmall M, 427
Chev.; 2 - Coleman Wheatly,
Laurel Del., Massey 44, 440
Dodge; 3 - Galen Spickler,
Elizabethtown, Massey 44,2-
327 Chev.; 4 - Eugene
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560; 3 - Rodger Frey,
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James Ginder, Mount Joy,
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7000-lb. Modified
1 - Les Houck, Kinzers,
Cockshutt 2-440 Dodge; 2 •
Les Landis, Lititz, Massey
55, 2-440 Dodge; 3 - Glen
Darnell, Laytonsville, Md.,
Cockshutt 40,2-427 Chev.; 4 •
Richard Zimmerman,
Elizabethtown, Cockshutt 40,
2-440 Dodge.
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own herd. Naturally, this
means that every once in
consider Registered Holstein
heifers our cash crop.”
Ruth said that by selling
animals instead of cash
crops, they could con-
centrate on dairy animals.
He said it also gives them a
wider selection of animals to
choose from when selecting
herd replacements. Ruth
and his 27-year-old son,
Joseph, signed a partnership
agreement m April. The
Ruths employ one hired hand
to help with field and bam
chores.
At his first cow sale in 1964,
Ruth said he sold three
excellent cows. “I’ll never
make that mistake again,”
he said. “From now on, any
Excellent cows we get are
going to stay in the herd.”
The rolling herd average
on the Ruth herd is 13,014
milk and 4 percent test for
528 pounds of fat, with a herd
that numbers about half two
year olds.
Ruth has been a
Registered Holstein breeder
since 1940, and a member of
DHIA since 1938. “Back
then, it cost $4.17 a month to
have the whole herd tested.
DHIA fees are higher now,
but they’re still a bargain,”
Ruth said. The milking herd
normally numbers about 80,
but is down to about 64 now
after a sale last fall. There
are presently 30 bred heifers
in the herd which totals
about 150 animals in all.
Production is important to
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 17,1975
Ruth, but It's not everything.
"I like cows that milk well,
but they've got to have good
udders and good feet, and
they've got to be easy to
work with, too,” Ruth said.
"High production is nice, but
you can’t always get
everything in one package.”
Nearly all the present
Ruth herd are the offspring
of a heifer calf brought to the
farm in 1943. She presented
her owners with 15 heifer
calves, including two sets of
good twin heifers, and four
bulls over the years. He said
they’ve tried to stick mainly
to one bloodline, but have
imported and Excellent bull
from Kansas to avoid in
breeding problems.
Although the Ruths do use
artificial insemination on
their cows, all the bulls are
kept on the farm. A stroll
through the Ruth dairy bam
is enough to convince anyone
that he has managed to
produce a good string of
placid milk producers, cows
that are nice to work with
and that can be handled well
in the show ring.
Ruth said that type alone
wouldn’t keep an animal in
his herd, but that neither
would production alone. The
herd is on a heavy com
silage program, sup
plemented by top quality
alfiafa hay and protein and
mineral supplements.
Some 90 to 100 acres of the
corn harvest goes into a pair
of concrete silos, . and
another 40 acres or so is
stored in cribs as ear corn.
The ear com goes through an
on-farm grinder mixer
before it’s fed to the cows.
Last year, Ruth said they
averaged 25 to 30 tons of
silage to the acre, and had
yield checks running up to 50
tons. They fertilize ac
cording to soil tests, lime to
keep soil pH in the neigh
borhood or 6.5 or above, and
put manure on the com
ground. The alfalfa fields get
around 600 pounds of 1-30-15
in the fall, but they don’t get
any manure.
“One year we didn’t get
manure onto some of our
alfalfa ground, and during
the year we had hardly any
weed problems at all with
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that ground. The fields that
got manure had almost more
weeds than alfalfa, so I
figured the weed seeds were
getting to the fields in the
manure. Now we put all the
manure onto the corn
ground, where the weeds are
a lot easier to control.”
Last year Ruth figured his
alfalfa yielded a good four to
five tons of baled hay to the
acre.
What about Lehigh, we
asked towards the end of our
conversation. How are
things going?
“It’s improving. It’s not a
fast road back, but things
are getting better. We have
excellent people in
management now, and we’re
getting our problems
whipped.”
“A few weeks ago I was on
the witness stand for almost
three hours in front of Kent
Shelhamer’s agriculture
committee, talking about
cooperatives. Three times he
asked me, “What can we
legislate to prevent other
coops from getting into the
bind Lehigh got into?’ and
three times I told him you
can’t legislate honesty and
intergrity. If a board of
directors can’t depend on the
intergrity of the top
managers who are running a
coop, than those directors
can still be sold down the
drain.
“Directors have to hire
key people, they have to set
salaries, and they have to
verify financial statements.
But they should stay out of
daily operations, because
that’s management’s job.
There has to be just one top
manager, and if he doesn’t
perform, then it’s the job of
the directors to replace
him.“
In addition to their son
Joseph, the Ruths have four
other children. Esther is a
school teacher in Bucks
County, Mary Ellen is
married to a plant
pathologist and currently
living in Brazil, Samuel owns
an auto repair and service
station at Port Allegheny,
Pa., and Phoebe, a freshman
at Albright College, was the
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