By JOYCE BUPP Staff Correspondent UNION BRIDGE, Md. - “I have to belong to a cooperative,” asserts Jim Here s a boy s style light weight comfort, and wear to spare Stop by and see our selection of these like father-like son boots RED WING r s BOOKS SHOE SERVBCE 107 E STATE ST QUARRYVILLE, PA 17566 717-786-2795 Stonesifer views cooperatives as avenue for ‘dairymen marketing power’ Stonesifer. It s the only Raised on a Carroll County him out of marrying her But Jim is a young man philosophy that is the basic way dairymen marketing general farm, Betty “becaue they didn’t think I’d who knows his own mind. He foundation for his success in po * er - f J laughingly suggests that make a satisfactory farm disregarded the would-be the dairying industry. tonesifer and his wife Jim’s friends tried to talk wife.” advice, based on a personal (Turn to Page 34) Betty were recently selected Outstanding Young Cooperator couple by Maryland Cooperative Milk Producers, Inc., Baltimore. Chosen m competition at Host Farms in Lancaster from a slate of 13 dairy farm couples, the Stonesifers will represent their cooperative during the annual meeting of the National Milk Producers Federation, set for late November in Seattle, Wash. Energetic and dedicated to family farming as a way of life, the Stonesifers en terted mto partnership with Jim’s dad after working for seven years with a Maryland Brown Swiss operation and one year as herdsman in a registered Holstein herd “We came home with two kids, a 5-year-old car, our household goods and a thousand dollars,” Betty recalls. “I worried about the initial $15,000 we borrowed toward cows and some machinery. But after a while you get sort of accustomed to the increasing debt load and leam not to let it get you down.” HORSEPOWER IS TOO EXPENSIVE TO WASTE ' See the Steiger in action at Ag Progress Days Jim and Betty Stonesifer value highly their farm way of life and friendships made through the dairying industry. STEIGER PUTS MORE HORSEPOWER TO WORK THAN ANY OTHER 4WD TRACTOR. In big tractors, horsepower is only half the story. The other half is weight. If a tractor doesn’t have enough weight to hold the power to the ground, then a lot of those horses will go to waste. It’s called traction and if your big tractor doesn’t have it, wheei spm will keep you from using all the horses you paid for. In recent independent tests, Steiger 4WD tractors demonstrated the highest percentage of engine hor sepower delivered to the drawbar pin. Steigers delivered an average 84.08% of the engine horsepower to the drawbar pin. The competition averaged 75.81%. That’s driveline efficiency. Other categories dominated by these big, beautiful Steigers included fuel efficiency and cab quietness. So if you’re looking at 4WD tractors, take a look at Steiger and compare. ‘According to official observed independent tests Specific details available from your Steiger dealer Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 22,1978 29
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