—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 12. 1975 14 York Countian I Continued from Page 1) graduation from Kennard- Dale High School in 1961 when he went “on the halves” with his father. Two years ago he purchased his father’s share of the property and all told, the family now farms a total of 463 acres. Boasting a present herd average of 19,801 pounds of milk and 783 pounds of butterfat, Stewart has his fingers crossed to go over 800 pounds of fat this year, and claims he has a fair chance for it. He owns two dairy farms, with him managing the 50-cow operation at home, while a hired manager takes care of the 75-cow herd a few miles down the road. In addition, the Stewarts keep ap proximately 120 heifers and calves, and several bulls. Citing breeding difficulties as his major problem, Stewart said a number of his cows must be served four and five times before they conceive. “I don’t usually breed too many that are milking less than 80 pounds per day,” he added, ‘‘and I don’t believe I’m losing money until the cow has gone without calf for 100 days or more.” He explained his high production records afford him the extra leeway in breeding time. Asked what he attributed his farming success to, Stewart replied: “Dedication - get the most out of everything you do, don’t try to take any short cuts, always try to do the best of your ability.” As far as getting milk out of cows is concerned, Stewart is a firm believer in regularity - regularity as it applies to milking schedules, feed, feeding procedures, and milking habits. Mangers are swept twice a day to assure cleanliness and in crease appitites. Milking cows are limited to 20 lbs of silage per day, but are of fered the best quality alfalfa hay he has available. Grain is fed at a ratio of one pound of grain per three pounds of milk, although highest producers are allowed to have “all they can eat.” He added, however, that “we can’t get more than 40 pounds of grain per day into them.” “No sir!” was Stewart’s immediate answer to a question concerning lead feeding. “1 don’t believe in it,” he emphasized, “all it does is swell up the cows’ Martin's LIMESTONE Appfy Km early Take advantage of early results by liming in the late Summer and Fall. Get ground ready for the first Spring shoots by allowing the lime all winter to condition the soil MARTIN LIMESTONE. INC. Blue Ball, Pa. 354-4125 Pa. 442-4148 York Countian S. David Stewart is the 1975 Outstanding Young Cooperator for Inter-State Milk Producers Cooperative. The 32-year old dairyman farms 460 acres and has his fingers crossed to make an 800 pound butterfat herd average this year with his 51 Holsteins. bags and cause them to fall off.” Convinced that a dairyman’s feeding program, if it works well for him, is best, he sticks to his own nutrition ideas rather than those of feed salesmen or nutritionists. Displaying a definite in terest in registered Hol steins, production records, pedigrees, and feeding programs, Stewart noted some peculiarities about his management program which raise eyebrows elsewhere. For example, he is convinced that three pounds of baking soda added to a ton of feed will raise the butterfat test and help prevent twisted stomachs. But he warns that such a program must be initiated gradually and cannot exceed three pounds per ton. He also adds a special commercial product to the ration which helps break up amino acids in the cow’s stomach. In spite of the relatively high costs of feed, Stewart is convinced that feeding a little extra on protein, vitamins and minerals is a smart, precautionary practice. Feeding recom mendations from Penn State always have a little extra added on to them before Stewart is done examining the figures. The slow-talking, tobacco chewing young dairyman also provides Ms cows with more room in the stancMons than is commonly found, and continues to use the old suspended Surge bucket milkers, complete with vacuum pulsators. “With these I can feel it in my arm whether a cow is off in i New Idea’s Hay Tools LOW OOWN PAYMENT INTEREST FREE UNTIL SEPTEMBER 1,1975 CUT/DITIONERS, MOW/DITIONERS, RAKES, FORAGE BOXES, FORAGE BLOWERS, WAGONS MAXIMUM ALLOWANCE FOR TRADE IN USE NOW - PAY LATER NO INTEREST OR FINANCE CHARGE PRIOR TO SEPTEMBER 1.1975 SEE ABOUT AVCO NEW IDEA'S INTEREST FREE PLAN ON HAY TOOLS AT: A.L HERR&BRO. Quarryville 717-786 3521 ROY H. BUCK, INC Ephrata R D 2 , 717-859 2441 STOLTZfUS FARM SERVICE Cochranville, Pa 215-593 5280 LONGENECKER FARM SUPPLY LAN ® IS MO . S ’ INC RhMmc Lancaster 717-367 3590 717-393-3906 production or not,” btewart explained while sipping a cool drink of water in the milk house. Receiving his start with registered Holsteins at age 12 when his father gave him a pair of heifer calves, Stewart has continued to bree<f Holsteins through the years and has several “Stewardridge” bulls in studs. “As long as a man can get plenty of milk from his cows, he'll by okay,” Stewart opinionized on the present cost-price squeeze facing dairymen across the country. But he added: “Our average per cow has in creased 5,000 pounds since 1965, but the income has stayed the same.” He ex pressed concern over this situation but does not regret being a dairyman because of it. He operates his dairy farms -with the help of his family, and three full-time hired men. Some of the ways Stewart has for saving money in his farming enterprise are by doing all of his own repairs on equipment, except engine overhauls. With 10 tractors, 13 wagons, and a variety of other machines, he sometimes has his hands full. Outlays for new equipment are kept to a minimum, primarily because of the high price tags attached to it. Commenting briefly on marketing of agricultural products, the young farmer, who will go to New Oreleans in November for the National Milk Producers Federation contest, said: “I don’t feel that we’re getting our fair share of the money that’s stuck in food at any end of it. There’s somebody getting mqre out of it than the man who spends the most of it.” Agrifacts . . . Early agriculture had a silk worm craze centered in Penn sylvania from 1826 to 1839. But the cold steadily killed off the mulberry trees on-which the silkworms fed and silk farming died as quickly as it was bom. tHAS.I McCOMSEY A SONS Hickory Hill. Pa 215-932 2615 A.BC. 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Phone 717-354-4341 Daily Market Report Phone 717-354-7288 Abe Diffenbach, Manager Homeowners cut mowing time in half with commercial rider On the Yazoo pictured above, you can Now one man does it tn a day and a half mow up to 16 acres in a day You don't on a Yazoo " follow it with a trim mower It does it all W G “Buck” Siler, who is pro-owner You can trim under low-hanging shrubs of Longview Golf Club in Greensboro, in a senes of nimble passes, many times NC. says. “With the tractor, I was using faster than a man with a walk mower two hand mowers trimming continuously You can cut a clean radius right around dunng the season After I got the Yazoo, a tree-trunk or a pole Trim the edges of we had one hand mower trimming two .. to three hours a week" A ufjp? jjmA Commercial vs.“ Homeowner” When machines break down, wages go. £Ee9kRpH That's why commercial men don't buy f * homeowner" machines They can’t afford ponds, embankments, curbs Around flow- 10 Everything in a Yazoo is industrial er beds, pipe stands, under benches, along rjgT J ' -> B rac * e There is no walls and fences, in and out of ditches In compromise comers In high grass or low Evenly in residential use. Beautifully Without scalping or skipping it should last you a When You’re Done Riding, llfetime You’re Done Mowing. State Senator Henry Saylcr, of St Petersburg, Florida, says. “Mowing my Whar About Pri ce? one-acre place was killing my weekends wnat ADOUt 1 ncc ’ On the advice of some cemetery men, 1 Most of the best-known homeowner switched from a belly-slung rider to the ml |< es Wl || cost y OU m orc than a com- YR4B Now I cut all my grass, including p, r ablc-sizc commercial Yazoo, some the trimming, in forty-five minutes It’s Considerably more fun to drive, very responsive * , _ . AH five Yazoo Commercial Riders are What Commercial Men Say built to the same design Commercial turf men tell us their operators hate being shifted from the ~ . . ... . . Yazoo to another machine Your Y «o° de »'« r W 1" be glad to advise The Yazoo is spec.hcally designed for J™’ *“■ try ° nC f ° r SlZe ° n yOUr mowing It has front wheel drive It cuts own ® roun< k m front where you can see U steers from One caution Last, year, commercial I the rear cutters ran the dealers and the factory out Using a simple short-throw lever, you of ! locl£ >“ mid-season So act now Don’t can move forward or backward or stop e»d up m a shotgun marriage with a mower with your finger-tips, and steer with your V ou n » lw »y s f «' dissatisfied with other hand It's that simple TAZOO Irims as it mows. Ken Schoem, who is Superintendent of Athletic Facilities at Bowling Green Uni* vcrsily, Ohio, says, about one mowing job “It used to take two men three days c J ohnli Stauffer RD2, EAST EARL, PA. PH. 215-4*5-6175 >/ 2 MILE NORTH OF GOODVILLE ON UNION fcROVE ROAD VR7« YftCO YR4« YR 42 YR 3« DRIVE THE YAZOO COMMERCIAL RIDER NOW AT
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