at large commercial dairy farm
Farm was built and is their employees to learn
create something positive operated as a management management inputs
out of various negatives. research dairy farm to necessary to successfully
“The Arkavallcy Dairy enable the company and operate a large dairy,"
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Cows at "Arkavalley Farm" wait in Approximately 1,900 head of grade
the holding area prior to walking into Holsteins are kept at the 802-acre
the automatic washing area and research farm,
finally the parlor at the far end.
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ranty and rtmtdy on OEKAIB orders and tags
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Grab hold of one of those beautiful XL-78ears Notice those quality kernels
You've got hold of a top-yielding, dependable corn You've got cash m
hand Ask Donald Meckley of Glen Rock, Penn He produced 168 97 b pa
in the DEKALB YIELDMASTER Club* "I like XL-78 because of good stand
ability and high yield,” says Donald See your DEKALB dealer for XL-78
It means cash in your hand
XL-54 XL-75
A top yielder of excellent quality Outstanding single cross with su
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DEKALB ’ is • r#glft#r»d brsnd nimt Numbers dtsignats hybrids
visitors arc informed. A
dairy conference was held
here earlier this week which
drew close to 1,000 dairymen
from all over the eastern
United Slates including
several dozen from l,an
castcr Farming's prime
coverage area.
The major purpose of the
research farm was to find
answers to common dairy
farm problems such as. 1.
breeding, 2. retained
placentas, 3 adequate
roughage, 4 cow groupings,
5 low fat tests, 6 calf
raising, and 7. personnel.
Workable solutions are made
available to dairymen, as
arc any other results of
management and building
experiments which have
been tried. Aside from some
product research, such as
testing new feeds prior to
marketing, the mam areas of
study concern:
1. Buildings and equip
ment and their most prac
tical type and arrangement
for these facilities.
2. Breeding, cow health
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•DEKALB VIEirMASTEHS Club yields aie mechanically bar
vested wwilhoi l gleaning from a measured acre of more ana
computed to 'Jo 2 corn m the presence of impartial witnesses
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. March 13.1976
Only about a third of the milking parlor is shown
in this view. It has an 18-cow capacity and can
handle 150 cows per hour. Milking the 1500 lac
tating cows takes 20 hours per day and is done in
shifts. Men and women do the milking.
and mastitis problems
commonly associated with
large dairies and some
practical measures that can
be taken to reduce them.
3. Practical feeding
programs and equipment
needed to feed large herds.
4. Adequate pollution
control measures.
Asked at one point why
such a large dairy operation
was chosen as the basis for
experiments and research,
several spokesmen an
swered: “Large, medium
and small dairy farms have
many things in common, but
large dairies have some
unique problems, par
ticularly large dairies where
cows are held in close con
finement. Findings from a
large dairy would be more
widely applicable than those
from a small farm.”
Stressing a need for
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• Low PTO HP requirements For rated performance 50 HP
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• Tank titled with propeller type agitator synthetic rustproof strainer
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Lancaster County's Only Dealer
Specializing in Sprayer Sales & Service
practical research and
service to commercial
agriculture, the giant feeds
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Survey Results
A recent Food and Drug
Administration survey
found that shoppers were
most concerned about
making sure families got the
nourishment they needed
Ranked almost as high was
the concern for saving
money on food prices Those
shoppers who know more
about nutrition realized it
was possible to follow a
budget and still eat nutri
tionally Of the shoppers
polled, eight per cent said
they would prefer having
nutrition labeling, rather
than recipes on product
packages
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