By JOYCE BUPP
Staff Correspondent
UNION BRIDGE, Md. - “I
have to belong to a
cooperative,” asserts Jim
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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
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