between fanner and consumer
'ing big responsibilities and considerable danger
liam Maule, a former dairyman, hasspent four
hauling milk and says he enjoys the
msibilities. Most of all. he appreciates the
rtunity to talk with farmers.
ow had 137 youths competing
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Jiffy, bred,
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Susan Seidel,
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Pine Grove;
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isan Seidel,
in Sattazahn,
eith Hertzog,
mglas Seipt,
±er, Chester
Id Stoltzfus,
oanne Belke,
den Seidel,
tis Dietrich,
aren Fabian,
lin Dietrich,
New Tripoli; Ruth Shuler,
Fleetwood; Brian Dietrich,
New Tripoli; Tisa Robert
son, Jennyn; Glenn Stoltz
fus, Morgantown; Christine
Worthington, Doylestown;
Scott Pysher, Bangor; Amy
Yerkes, PipersvQle; Keith
Bach, Fleetwood; Ken
Fabian, Nazareth; John
Hoppes, Hamburg.
Master Showmen
Daniel Cooke, New Hope;
Joanne Belke, Newtown;
Susan Pepple, Oxford; Ken
Fabian, Nazareth; Steven
Shaw, Oley; Keith Buch,
Fleetwood; Scott Miller,
Hamburg; Wendy Shaw,
Oley; Christine Worthington,
Doylestown; Brian Carl
Dietrich, New Tripoli;
Eileen Kurtz, Pine Grove;
Susan Seidel, Richland;
Kenneth Craig Worthington,
Doylestown; Curtis Dietrich,
New Tripoli; Jonathan
David Keener, Easton;
Helen Seidel, Richland;
Beverly Guest, Pottstown;
Tina Acker, Chester
Springs; W. Douglas Seipt,
Easton; Keith Hertzog,
Topton; Karen Sattazahn,
Womelsdorf; Warren Buck
man HI, Perkasie; Annette
Gross, Plumsteadville;
David Wurster, Ottsville;
Edwin Mast, Elverson.
BROWN SWISS
Junior Calf
1. Dennis Daubert, Pine
Grove.
Senior Calf
1. Dean Daubert, Pine
Grove; 2. Dennis Daubert.
Junior Yearling
1. Daryl Urmy, Coo
persburg; 2. Anne Daubert,
Pine Grove.
Senior Yearling
1. Daryl Unny, Cooper
sburg.
Two Year Olds
1. Dennis Daubert; 2.
Stephen Nolan, Bir
cfamnville.
3 and 4 Year Olds
1. Dean Daubert; 2. David
Nolan, Bircfaninville.
Aged Cow
1. Daryl Unny.
The Champions
Dennis Daubert bad the
grand champion and senior
champion with his entry.
Wind Mill Bridget, a two
year old daughter of Norvic
Lilason’s Beautician.
Following him in the reserve
spot in Dotn contests was
Daryl Urmy’s 5% year old
cow whose name also hap
pened to be Bridget and who
shared the same sire.
Junior champion and
reserve junior champion
banners went to Daryl Unny
and Dean Daubert,
respectively.
County Groups
1. Schuylkill, 2. Lehigh, 3.
Chester.
Master Fitters
and Showmen
Daryl Urmy, Cooper
sburg; David Nolan, Bir
chrunville; Dennis Daubert,
Pine Grove; Bryan Urmy,
Coopersburg; Dean
Daubert, Pine Grove; Scott
Hauseman, Oley.
GUERNSEY
Junior Calf
1. Holly Ann Scheib,
Phoenixville; 2. Denise
Andrien, West Chester; 3.
loads are allowed to differ considerably more than large
shipments.
This particular plant, which processes and supplies
miiit for much of the mid-Atlantic region, had two 30,000
gallon silos and six which held half that much. Last month
574 tankers came here to unload milk.
The processing and bottling facilities offer the visitor an
insight as to why there's a significant price difference
between what the fanner receives and what milk sells for
in the store. One part of the building resembled the engine
room of an ocean liner, with huge motors, ducts, and
valves filling most of the area. The noise was like that of
an engine room too.
In the bottling area itself, thousands of paper cartons
and plastic containers paraded with military precision
from one end of the line to the other. The place was noisy
enough to be an airport. And with all the moving belts,
most of them full with milk containers, it all looked like a
mass of busy freeway interchanges. Automobiles should
move dong so smoothly.
It was now getting dose to 8:00 a.m. Made’s tanker had
three water lines hooked to it as automatic washers
cleaned the inside thoroughly. Meanwhile, Made
scrubbed the exterior of the truck from one end to the
other.
The ride back to western Lancaster County was a little
bounder than the east bound trip. The empty trailer made
quite a difference
Hie pick-up route included stops stretching along the
River HiUs from Silver Spring, Columbia, Conestoga,
Rawlinsville to Chestnut Level. The entire route from
Georgetown to Georgetown was 172 miles long. Maule
drives it every other day. On days in between he has a
second route which measures 126 miles in length. He has
(me regular day off per week, plus one Sunday per month.
Maule, who has been trucking milk for four years, says
he has “always been interested in hauling milk” and likes
the responsibility and challenge involved in being in
command of a $50,000 rig. A former dairyman, he
remarked he didn’t want to leave the farm entirely and
likes the “association with other people.”
There’s more to picking up milk and hauling it to town
than meets the eye. Drivers must pass a test concerning
their knowledge of milk and milk handling, and be
thoroughly familiar with proper procedures for
measuring, taking samples, perishability, and sanitation.
There is actually a prescribed way for entering the milk
room. This includes turning on the lights, raising the lids
Jeffrey Staner, Berwyn.
Intermediate Cal!
1. Gary Barton, Berwyn;
2. Jeffrey Welsh, Malvern.
Senior Calf
1. Douglas Soliday,
Bethel; 2. Holly Ann Scheib,
Phoenixville.
Junior Yearling
1. Denise K. Andrien,
West Chester.
Senior Yearling
1. Jeffrey Staner, Berwyn.
Two Year Olds
1. Jeffrey Staner.
3 and 4 Year Olds
(No blue ribbons).
Aged Cows
(No blue ribbons).
The Champions
Jeffrey Staner’s Kelsos
Winning Flash daughter, a
three year old, was chosen as
senior and grand champion.
The reserve senior champ
slot remained vacant. The
reserve grand champion was
also shown by Staner. The
senior yearling was sired by
Lyreme May Rose Prince,
and bad earlier been given
the junior champion banner.
Reserve junior champion
honors went to Gary Bar
ton’s Kelsos Winning Flash
daughter.
The only county group to
be listed was that from
Chester.
Master Fitters and Master
Showmen were: Holly Ann
Scheib, Denise K. Andrien,
Jeffrey Staner and Jeffrey
Smith.
MILKING SHORTHORN
Junior Calf
Wendy Yoder,
Sboemakersville.
t-.i-j nuuirjii-f-ir ShoemakersviUe. and senior champion. Hie
S am
Sho«imkersville 1. Nedra Yoder, 2. Samuel contests was filled by a two
smoemarcersviue. vnrfpr year old daughter of the
Senior Calf same bull, with Miss Yoder
John D. Marsh, Sad- 3 and 4 Year Olds again at the halter.
sburyville. 1. Samuel Yoder. jn fljg junior champion
Aged Cow contest, it was Wendy Yoder
Wendy Yoder. 1. Nedra Yoder. first, followed by John
Senior Yearling The Champions Marsh
1, Nedra Yoder, Nedra Yoder’s 5% year old Berks County took it all in
ShoemakersviUe; 2. daughter of Pinesedge Echo
Frederick Yoder, King doubled as the grand
Tina Acker (left), Chester Springs,
and Wendy Shaw (right), formerly
from Chester Springs but now
residing in Berks County, were
among the top winners at the S.E.
Penna. 4-H Dairy Show, held August
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. September 6.1975
to the tank, washing your hands, sniffing the milk for
odor, agitating the milk for at least five minutes, taking a
sample, and more.
Several forms are filled out at each stop. Each
dairyman is familiar with the pick-up slips because he
himself receives one every time the truck takes his milk.
There is also a “manifest” on which each farm’s amount
of milk, the date of pick-up. and destination is recorded.
Amounts are totalled at each stop to let the driver know
how much is on board. A third item of paperwork is the
“quality control sheet” on which the driver records the
time of pickup and temperature of the milk. It
corresponds with the sample which he takes along for the
laboratory.
Among the tests which may be run on each sample are:
standard plate count, direct microscopic count and
thermoduric count all of them for bacteria; antibiotic
test, freezing point determination, sediment tek, somatic
cell count, and butterfat test.
Maule arrived at his last stop at about 4:00 p.m. which is
a little behind schedule. That was due to having stopped
briefly for breakfast earlier in the day, he explained.
Lunch was just a pair of small cakes bought at a country
store.
Married, and the father of three children, Maule has no
regrets about having gone into milk hauling as a career.
He takes his responsibilities seriously and enjoys it. But
there are days when it’s not much fun, and even downright
dangerous.
Last year during the truckers’ strike, Maule recollec
ted, he bad bricks thrown at him and his truck. Oc
casionally he was confronted with roadblocks. “When you
tell them you have a highly perishable item they usually
let you through,” he explained.
Trucking milk on a holiday (as it must be) can also be
discouraging. Maule explains:
“Many dairies close on holidays and that means we get
diverted to other plants which are usually much farther
away. That can tie you up all day. It’s nothing to go to a
large dairy on a holiday and have 100 trucks waiting to be
unloaded. Also, dairies want milk to carry them through
holidays, which means we have to deliver more. Then we
make two trips to the dairy in one day amounting to Vh
days’ work. And, of course, sometimes the roads are bad
or our equipment breaks down.”
A 12-hour work day is pretty much par for the course for
Maule and others like him. And it doesn’t take much to
make it much longer than that.
29 at the Allentown Fair Grounds
Tina’s 2 year old cow won Reserve
Grand Champion Holsteins honors,
and Wendy's cow was judged Gram
Champion Holstein.
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