—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. July 12. 1975
14
York Countian
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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’
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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
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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.
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Homeowners cut mowing time
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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
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State Senator Henry Saylcr, of St
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On the advice of some cemetery men, 1 Most of the best-known homeowner
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AH five Yazoo Commercial Riders are
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Ken Schoem, who is Superintendent of
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