Milk jugger [Continued from Page 18] the hurdles, they’d do it again if they had'to. In the dairy business since 1949, Hitz says he’s never done anything else. The idea of going into retailing came up as a result of the children wanting to stay with the farm, but with Just 110 acres of their own land, the “The portable rig was a property would hardly good deal for starting out,” support them all once they Hitz remembered, but their were married and had own set-up coupled with their families. “We went into own schedule is even better, processing for the extra They- made that switch in income,” Hitz explained. January of 1975. They They’ve been processing market all of the milk from milk since Autiunn of 1973. their 64 registered and grade Their first venture into Holsteins, and have a retailing involved a portable capacity for 100 milkers, processing van which They’re milked in "a parlor rHATTENnONHHHj ARE YOU READY FOR I SPRING PLANTING SEASON? 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It caught on quickly. Now their biggest concern is running out of enough cows to keep the milk supply adequate. ‘Gold medal’ sire A registered Holstein bull owned by Sire Power, Inc., Tonkhannock, has recently been designated as a Gold Medal Sire by the Holstein- Friesian Association of America. He is 9H134 P-A-Longview “Big Apple”, a VG (86) son of 7H058 Round Oak Rag Apple ELEVATION, EX GM. “Big Apple permanently joins the Gold Medal Sire ranks after being designated PH: 609-298-1683 Guy Hitz demonstrates how the filling machine operates. The family prefers plastic bags to bottles because they reduce expenses in the processing room by eliminating the nooH bottle v wh »rs. Hitz also as both “Production and Type Qualified” in a recently published issue of Registered Holstein Sire Performance Summaries. The Holstein Association, in cooperation with USDA, calculates and prints sire performance information three times each year. 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