Sheaffer’s Holsteins average 752 pounds of fat
By DIETER KRIEG
CARLISLE - M. Tom
Sheaffer’s herd of 49
Holstems captured the top
award m Cumberland
County’s 1976-77 DHIA
program with an average
production per cow of 18,854
pounds of milk and 752
pounds of butterfat.
The Carlisle R 5 dairyman,
whose herd has received
much recognition for per
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formance in the barn as well
as in the show ring, received
this most recent honor on
Thursday night when the
Cumberland County DHI
Association held its annual
banquet at the Embers
Restaurant.
Sheaffer farms ap
proximately 135 acres and
keeps 100 head of registered
Holsteins. They’re housed in
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a tie-stall barn equipped
with pipeline
Sheaffer’s operation is
known to breeders and
others as “Huntsdale Stock
Farm.” He purchased the
place and herd from his
father, Merle, a year and a
half ago.
According to information
provided to Lancaster
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Tom Sheaffer and his father, Merle, have won recognition for their dairying
skills both in the barn as well as in the show ring. Here they're with an Excellent
91 Black Eagle daughter which was All-Pennsylvania 4-year old in 1976.
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