—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 20, 1976 16 Manure [Continued from fete 1] manure daily from his free stall bam and has solved the problem by installing a manure stacker system. The timbersided stacker is designed for 100 cows and is adequately handling manure from his present 80 head. The holding area was built of timber to keep down the cost of the project and because that type of construction was a way of getting around the problem of underground springs on the site which would not allow for a deep foundation. The walls are six feet high, made of three laminated two-by-ten Panelists who participated at the recent Berks County Dairy Day program were (bottom row from left) Robert Sattazahn, Robert Manbeck, Farm [Continued from Rate tournament at the high school, 7 p.m. Other area schools are going too. Thomasville 4-H Community dub meets at the 4-H Center at 7:30 p.m. Pennfield “Dairy Day” at the Good ’n Plenty Restaurant, Smoketown, 12 noon. Wednesday, Mar. 24 Farm Financial Management Clinic today and tome the Lancaster Farm and Home Center, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, Mar. 25 Holstein association holds State Calf Sale at the Farm Show Building. Chickies Creek Watershed Association steering committee meets at 7:30 p.m. at the Manheim Central High School. Friday, Mar. 26 Holstein association holds State Cow and Bred Heifer Sale at the Farm Show Building Lancaster County Mini- Farm Coop. Meets at the Coca-Cola Building, Manheim Pike, Lan caster. Berks County Conservation District meets 7 p.m. at Kutztown State College. Saturday, Mar. 27 State Black and White Show, Farm Show Building, Harrisburg. Sunday. Mar. 2t The National DHIA meeting convenes at the Baltimore Hilton and continues through Wednesday, Mar. 31. creosoted posts placed six feet apart. With an accumulation of up to four and a half feet of manure, no movement of the walls or seepage have been detected. The five-foot thick concrete floor and access ramp are reinforced with iron mesh, and the whole pit slopes to a hole to ac commodate a Patz liquidator. Duncan men tioned that because of dry crusting due to water evaporation, the liquidator handles only about one-half of the waste accumulated and the rest must be removed by a front end P. L. ROHRER & BRO., INC. Smoketown, Pa. loader. Using two spreaders of 35fi and 280-bushel capacity, the area can be emptied of about 100 loads of waste in less than a day and a half. Duncan points out, however, that he does not have to haul the manure for any great distance and if he did, the operation would be costly. In presenting his feed lot runoff lagoon' system, Roy Christman of Hamburg R 1 pointed out that the road to satisfactory waste disposal has been a rocky one for him. His problems with waste grew over the years in proportion to the growth of his dairy herd. The runoffs and underground pits which had handled 30 cows proved inadequate, as did the diversion ditch and tile drains he tried later, as his herd increased to 400 head. Mark Wolfskin (back row) Roy Christman and Donald Duncan. The producers discussed manure disposal systems. 717-299-2571 With three acres under roof and existing farm buildings not ideally located on -a hUI as he would like them, Christman’s major disposal problem has been liquid waste and the lagoon seems to be the answer. The lagoon system has been operating since last Fall, and although the solids which escape the pumping system to collect in the lagoon will have to be pumped out eventually, the only drawback to the system as the dairyman sees it is the weather. The heavy rains falling on frozen ground this past winter caused some overflow, but Christman pointed out that the amount of rainfall this winter was not typical for this area. A feed lot runoff lagoon system which bandies up to 200 head of beef cattle was outlined by Mark Wolfskill of Robesonia who also manages a separate dairy &ve- YOUR ANSWER FOR A 10 TO 20% INCREASED MILK PRODUCTION. ASK FOR DEMONSTRATION ON BOU-MATIC MILKING A milking system for any size herd programmed for top results. Less Mastitis, better udder quality, more gentle milking, equals higher milk production. -4-Pail milkers (Electric or vacuum pulsator) +Pipeline for stall barns +Herringbone Parlors +Carousel Parlors +Polygon Parlors +Auto Detachers INVENTORY REDUCTION SALE USED MILK TANKS 625 gal. Sunset D-2 600 gai.Girton 300 gal. Mojonirier Hat top 425 gal. Esco 800 gal. Esco (2) 400 gal. Jame*way 1-Sputnik SHENK<S FAMKERVICE 501 E. WOODS DRIVE, LITITZ. PA 17543 PHONE (717) 626-1151 operation. The lagoon, tape'and delay. He was the located within a few feet of first former in the area to ' the barnyard, is a round one put in this type of system and about 30 feet in diameter and any former who wants to do about four to five feet deep, so now can benefit from Us The solid waste is kept in the experience. The main barnyard -and the liquid problem was a matter of waste runs off from the feed • classification until it was lot to-the lagoon.- Ap- discovered that by installing proximately 250 feet of six- a length of pipe above inch pipe carries the water ground the system became a from the lagoon to a 600-foot portable one and so could be diversion terrace. Wolfskill approved for form use. The estimates that only about 10 irrigation system seemed to of the solid waste be the only answer to the manages to get into the Robesonia dairyman's lagoon. Although that problem with milkhouse amount of solid matter does waste which was corn rise to the surface of the plicated by the fact that his lagoon during the cold winter buildings are located close to months, this condition is the road with no place for quickly reversed when the runoff. It pumps about five to temperature rises and six hundred gallons of water system is working quite well, a day, spraying about two- According to Robert- thirds of an acre, and no Manbeck, getting his spray signs of ferosion have been irrigation of milkhouse detected, waste system into operation • „ . _ ’ involved ten months of red iConbmud on Pije 1/1 *««#** BOU-MATIC IS TOPS SEEING IS BELIEVING PROGRAMMED MILKING 1$ LAGOON BOU-MATIC BULK MILK COOLERS AT DONALD McCULLOUGH FARM Directions; Take Rt. 81 - off at Newville Exit north on Rt. 233 - approx. 4 miles on right. Model DKE irecl Expansion INQUIRIES INVITED FROM OUTLYING AREAS. 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