—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 20, 1976
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Manure
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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
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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.
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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
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