Cumberland County DHIA records summarized
CARLISLE M. Thomas
Sheaffer was singled out
Thursday evening for again
having Cumberland
County’s highest DHIA
average. The occasion for
the presentation of the
award was the Cumberland
County dairy banquet, held
two days ago at the South
Middleton Fire Hall
Sheaffer, Carlisle R 5, has
a herd of 50 registered
Holstems with an average of
18,532 pounds of milk and 681
of fat.
Cumberland County
dairymen who are on DHIA
had 5622 cows tested during
the DHIA year, which ended
Sept. 30. The average for the
county now stands at 14,678
pounds of milk and 541
pounds of butterfat. That
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compares with a state
average of 14,475 and 548 for
milk and butterfat,
respectively
In other statistics revealed
at the banquet, the average
Cumberland County dairy
herd consists of 63 cows,
compared with a statewide
average of 55. The value of
the milk produced by a
Cumberland County cow on
DHIA last year was pegged
at $1532, compared with a
statewide average of $1498
This came about despite
higher feed costs, the
statistics revealed. Total
feed costs pei head were
calculated at $655 in Cum
berland County, while the
state average stands at $641.
The average value of the
milk after feed costs was
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$877. The state average for
the 1977-78 DHIA testing
year stands at $857.
Cumberland County’s
DHIA average has been
moving up steadily over the
years, records show. In 1928,
for example, the average
stood at 8935 pounds of milk
with a 3.5 per cent test and
318 pounds of butterfat. By
1948 that average had in
creased to 9386, 3.8 per cent
and 355. In 1968 the
respective figures were
12,983, 3.9 and 506. A year
ago the Cumberland County
DHIA average stood at
14,525 pounds of milk with a
3.8 per cent test and 547
pounds of butterfat.
The high cow for milk m
the 1977-78 DHIA summary
is Chamberlm-Dale Rae, a 7-
year old registered Holstein
owned by Clifford Cham
berlain of Shippensburg Rl.
She produced 24,382 pounds
of milk with a 4.5 test and
1092 pounds of milk. Second
high was Huntsdale Emma
Imperial Chief, owned by M.
Thomas Sheaffer, who
pumped out a record of
26,649 pounds of milk with a
3 9 per cent butterfat con
tent, amounting to 1036
pounds of actual butterfat.
The same cow stood second
in the list of high milk
production records. Third in
butterfat production was
another Huntsdale cow.
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Huntsdale Janet Imperial
Chief, with 24,659 pounds of
milk, a 4.0 test and 987
pounds of butterfat to her
credit.
Fourth was Marquis Eagle
Jolly, also owned by
Sheaffer, with 21,866 pounds
of milk, a 4.4 test, and 970
pounds of butterfat.
Chamberlain-Dale Elva was
fifth highest with a lactation
of 21,590 pounds of milk, a 4.5
test, and 964 pounds of
butterfat.
In the milk production
race, J. Shephard Wolf,
Newville Rl, had the first
place cow. She is Lady
Valley Acres Magnet Jo, a 4-
year old with 27,098 pounds
of the white fluid. She had a
2.4 per cent test and 650
pounds of butterfat. Hunt
sdale Emma was second. In
third place was Stroc-Key
Performer Diana, owned by
J. Paul Strock of
Mechamcsburg R 9. She
produced 25,752 pounds of
milk, testing 3.6 per cent
butterfat, and yielding 928
pounds of butterfat. Fourth
was Weaver Dale Ideal Star
Lu, owned by Chester
Weaver of Carlisle R 9. She
produced 25,566 pounds of
milk, with a 3.8 per cent test
and 966 pounds of butterfat.
Fifth was another Strock
cow, Stroc-Key Ivan Star
Karen, with a record of
25,277 pounds of milk, 3.7 test
and 942 pounds of butterfat.
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In lifetime production,
Lady Osbomdale Pabst Joe
is credited with 12 lactations
and 3941 days of milk for a
total output of 188,446 pounds
of milk and 8048 pounds of
butterfat. She is in the
Thrush Brothers herd at
Shippensburg Rl.
Chamberlin Dale Daisy,
now deceased, is second in
the lifetime production list
with 197,607 and 7923 pounds
of milk and butterfat,
respectively. She was owned
by Clifford Chamberlin and
had completed 13 lactations.
M. Thomas Sheaffer
Alfred Gaisler
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Clifford Chamberlin
Paul Strock
NevmShughart
Mark E. Lemaweaver
Fred B. McGillvray
Elmer Gettle
Lee G. Davidson
John M. Lippert
Carl Kelso, Jr.
Paul E. Hombaker
J.B Brymesser&Sons
R. Rice & Amos King Jr.
Donald L. Basehore
J Shephard Wolf
J. Glenn Glesner
Leroy Showaker & Son
Roy J. & Merle Dice
Norman Hertzler
Fred Naugle
Berkhimer Farms
Paul R. Comman
Charles L. Nehf
Harry & Paul Hoch
Thursh Brothers
Herbert B. Shughart
D. Clinton Sauder
K. Hale &N. Burkholder
Roy L. & James Miller
Robert H. Jamison
Chester C. Weaver
Creddin C. Comman
Richard L. Lehman
Edward L. Brackbill
Roy E. Snoke
Paul Basehore
Chester & Galen Smith
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Third in line is Frena
Penstate Connie, owned by
Fred Naugle of Carlisle R 7,
with 180,937 pounds of milk
and 7719 pounds of butterfat
in 10 lactations.
Other owners of top
lifetime production cows
are, in order, Chester and
Galen Smith, Shippensburg
R 5; Fred Naugle; Robert
Strock, Mechanicsburg; and
John lippert, Carlisle.
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yearly herd averages above
550 pounds of butterfat.
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