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—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, A|
Holstein breeders tour
top farms in Virginia
By JOYCE BUPP
York Co. Reporter
LOUDON COUNTY, Va. -
Under leaden skies and
pouring rain, a busload of
York County Holstein
breeders beaded for nor
thern Virginia on April 5 for
their annual bus tour.
Harvue Farm, owned by
Jack Hardesty and sons,
near Berryville, Va. was the
first stop. The Hardesty
family milks 220 cows,
currently maintaining a herd
average of over 16,000
pounds of milk and 608 of fat.
“We have a low
investment operation here,”
stressed Hardesty, who
worked his herd up from one
calf. Milking is done in a
double-eight herringbone
parlor and cows are fed with
a loader scooping from a
4000-ton capacity trench silo.
Even the old stanchion (bury
bam has a unique purpose in
the operation. The top 20
cows are confined there each
afternoon and press-fed for
higher production. Five head
were milking over 100
pounds daily, with several
more just under that mark,
on tour day.
“Separating the cows daily
keeps us familiar with the
animals,” believes Har
desty, whose two sons are
key men in the feeding and
management areas.
Every cow, but two in the
herd, is home bred and
raised. Most trace their
pedigrees back to the Oregon
Challenger Baron sire. A
number of large, heavily
milking Paclamar Astronaut
daughters are in the herd, as
well as one Round Oak Rag
Apple Elevation progeny.
Near the trench silo a pile
of bags lay stacked. They
contained peanut shells, a
prime Virginia bedding
commodity. Bedding with
the peanut by-product was
new to the tour members,
but three of the four farms
visited were' found using
them regularly. Because of
nationwide fiber shortage,
many fanners have begun
using them in feed blends,
causing the price to
skyrocket.
Next farm visited was the
PUBLIC SALE
The undersigned will offer at public sale
located at Port Treverton RD 1 (turn east from
Route 104 at Meiserville and north Vz mile at
sale sign.)
SATURDAY, APRIL 23,1977
Beginning at 12:00 Noon
125 HEAD FEEDER STEERS
Varying in weight from 300 to 800 lbs. All are
dehorned and fully acclimated since calfhood. A broad
selection of Hereford, Charolais, Angus, Holstein and a
variety of crosses.
7 GOOD HEREFORD FEEDER HEIFERS
AND 2 ANGUS BULLS
PIES
Several brood sows due to farrow on or about sale
time and about 75 head good feeder pigs. 1 Yorkshire
Boar and 5 Yorkshire gilts.
Terms: Cash.
Owner,
ROY MARTIN
L. S. Klingler, Auctioneer
il 16. 1977
home of E. B. Lee and Sons,
at White Post. Lee greeted
his guests on the lawn of his
plantation-style farm home,
(hen led them to the original
milking barn where the best
animals were tied for
viewing. A new milking
parlor and free stall bam for
the 200 cows has been added
recently to the facilities.
“We freshen our heifers at
nearer three than two years
of age- because of their
having to compete in the
parlor milking
arrangement.” Lee ex
plained. Several of the top
breeding animals in the herd
shown by Lee to the visitors
came from Pennsylvania
farms.
Lee noted that one crop of
growing importance in the
area is fescue. Forty acres of
the legume wintered 75 of the
farm’s dry cows, with only
four pounds of supplement
per head daily.
The home of the popular
Round Oak Rag Apple
Elevation bull at Purcellville
was the third stop. Round
Oak farm is owned by John
Hope, who has just
modernized the milking
operation with the con
struction of a double-six
parlor. The main attraction
in the long tie-stall bam was
the line-up of homebred
Elevation daughters, some
of the oldest milking animals
anywhere, sired by the bull.
Also housed at the Hope
farm is the famous Har
borcrest Mary Hoe cow, 13-
year-old maternal sister to
all-time great brood cow
Harborcrest Rose Milly.
The York countians were
also shown Round Oak’s two
young sons of Elevation,
both being sampled by
Virginia breeders.
PI
STATE GRADED
SALE
FRI., APRIL 22
1:30 P.M.
AT
WESTMINSTER
LIVESTOCK AUCTION
Westminster, Md.
Phone (301) 848-9820
A large lake, with a guest
house on the island in the
center, elegantly greets
visitors to Foxlease Farms
at Upperville, the final herd
visit. Owner is Mr. Sinclair,
vice-president of the Stan
dard Oil company.
Ted a German'
refugee, manages the farm
and Holstein
breeding herd for Foxlease.
Total acreage in the crop
ping program is 1200, with
800 acres of that owned. Feed
for the 100-plus milking
animals housed in the long
stanchion bam is raised on
400 acres of com and 200 of
hay. Large rolling pastures
surround the farm buildings
and provide fresh forage for
the animals.
There are a number of No-
Na-Me Fond Matt milking
animals in the herd, as well
as several Elevation heifers.
E. B. Lee, who guided the
busload of visitors on their
Virginia tour, treated
them to a surprise drive
OUR OWN ANNUAL FARM
FEEDER STEER &
HEIFER SALE
SATURDAY, APRIL 30,1977
At l:OOP.M.
At our Troxelville Farm.
OFFERING 80 HEAD
About 50 percent Steer Calves
All Steers castrated.
All Cattle polled or dehorned.
All bred & raised on our farm.
All sired by French bred Charolais bull.
Excellent recorded Charolais heifers. Health charts
with heifers.
Club calf quality steers.
Write or Phone for Brochure:
Dan Baker - Auctioneer
BROOKS END & PAR KAY FARMS
RENO H. THOMAS
PARK F. THOMAS
MARK L STEHR
Reno H. Thomas, Sales Manager
Beavertown, PA 17813
PH: 717-658-5821,7007 or 6544
Lunch available by
UCC Church Women
PUBLIC SALE
SATURDAY, APRIL 23,1977
Location from Mt. Airy to Girl Scout Camp,
about 4 miles north of Route 322 in West
Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Penn
sylvania.
3 TRACTS OF WOODLAND
TRACT #l-3 Acres more or less with Spring, never
dry; Heavy Timber along Netzley Road.
TRACT #2-12 Acres more or less along Netzley
Road.
TRACT #3-3% Acres more or less along Girl Scout
Road.
These 3 Tracts join each other.
These tracts are in a good location if you are looking
for woodland.
Sale to be held at Tract #3.
Anyone wishing to view these tracts call in the
evening, 733-6618.
Sale at 1:30 P.M.
Terms by.
RAYMOND ft LUTHER EDWARDS
Frank and Paul Snyder, Auctioneers.
859-2688 or 733-7052
Shirk, Reist& BuckwaKer, Attorneys
Ted Haberland briefs visitors on uermany many years ago. Several of
the breeding and management the Foxlease animals have been
aspects of Foxlease farms. Haberland exported to the "old country” as he
left behind a large farm when he fled terms it; and he visits there yearly.
around Carter Hall mansion,
a hugh colonial home set on
the rolling Virginia hills.
Surrounded with towering
old trees and blossoming
daffodils, the home has been
featured in a Walt Disney
movie and on nationally
distributed Carter Hall pipe
tobacco packets.
1:30 P.M.
SPECIAL SALE
SPRING FEEDER CALF & YEARLING SALE
600 HEAD 600
STEERS—HEIFERS
ANGUS-BLACK BALDIES-HEREFORDSCROSSBREOS
Sale to be held at the ABERDEEN SALES CO.
INC.; Livestock Auction Market located on Rt.
22 6 miles east of Bel Air, Md., via U.S. Rt. 1 or
6 miles west of Aberdeen, Md. via 1*95 or U.S.
Rt. 40 in Churchviile, Harford County, Md. on
SATURDAY, APRIL 39,1977
1:00 P.M. Sharp
These cattle are consigned from the surrounding
counties of Cecil, Kent, Baltimore, York, and Lan
caster —no shipped cattle in this sale. All cattle will be
sorted, graded and sold on out weights to suit all
buyers. This has proven to be a sale of the highest
quality feeder cattle. Consign your cattle early. Cattle
will be accepted from Friday A.M. until sale time
Saturday.
ABERDEEN SALES CO. INC,
Box C, Aberdeen, Md. 21001
Phone: 301-734-6050
734-7105 Night
734-7978
TRUCKING AVAILABLE.
ORDER BUYING SERVICE.
RESTAURANT OPEN.
PUDLIC AUCTION
SATURDAY, APRIL 30,1977
At 11:00 A.M.
At the former Ray Kiefer Farm on Maple
Street in Hegins, Pa. (behind Kiefer’s Mill)
FARM EQUIPMENT
Farmall H tractor, M.-M.-R tractor with cultivator, Oliver
13 disk grain drill, good condition; (2) farm wagons on
rubber, Oliver No. 5 cornpicker, Oliver 2-row planter, Nl 7'
mower Brillion 5* rotary cutter, Hardie 200 gal. orchard
sprayer with fan, Wisconsin motor t wooden tank, tractor
disk, Oliver 4-wheel manure spreader, good condition;
Champion single-row potato digger, side-delivery rake, lime
drill, 24' bale elevator, PTO seeder, potato grader, cement
mixer, small farm trailer, Swab wagon running gear, horse
plow t cultivators, wagon seat, apple boxes t fruit baskets,
orchard ladders, (2) air pruning guns and other pruning
equipment, egg washer, grader & baskets, chicken
brooders, feeders and nests, brooder houses, range
shelters, 12' metal com cribs. S' fencing, snowfence,
butcher kettles, wagon iack, rope block, single and double
trees, hay hook, sprayer boom, huckster scale, harness,
wooden wheelbarrow, water pump with motor, barrels,
exhaust I circulating fans, cast iron troughs coal chute,
chest-type freezer, pipes, many other items not listed.
Frame bank-type barn approximately 35’ x 70' with good
timber and aluminum roof, (this barn must be removed by
purchaser.)
1950 Chevrolet V-Tag truck. 2-speed Transmission Van
type body. 1946 Chevrolet U-Tag truck. 10:00 x 20 tires
and rims.
Sale ordered by,
PINE CREEK INVESTORS, INC.
Lunch Available.
George N. Deibert, Auctioneer
(717)425-3313