Farming comes naturally to the Mowrer family
MY-T-Hi Farm of Spring City R 1 milks 125 The Mowrers try to feed and raise all. their own
Holstein cows and raises 120 replacement heifers. feed. They work with about 700 acres of land.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 2, 1978-
By JOAN LIESAU
SPRING CITY - Farm
machinery ranging from a
John Deere 3300 combine to
a chisel plow, towered above
the many Farm Tour
visitors of the MY-T-Hi
Farm, a sixth generation
dairy farm owned in part
nership by S. Horace
Mowrer and his son Michael.
The Mowrers have 125
Holstein cows and 120
replacement heifers. “We
raise all our heifers and sell
the bull calves” Mike said.
The calves are weaned at
five to six weeks and put on
ready mixed feed and hay to
start, and then changed over
to home grown feed. The
calves start out in their own
pens and then move to a total
of three other pens, ac
cording to their size and age.
The heifers will calve at two
to two and a half years old.
The heifers are bred
naturally and calve at
another farm. They are then
returned to MY-T-Hi farm
and bred artificially. At five
to six years old the cows are
sold. “If they’re not making
what we want them to, they
don’t stay” Mike said. And
right now, the Mowrers want
their cows to milk a
minimum of 14,000 pounds in
305 days.
The Mowrers try to feed
and raise all their own feed.
Last year they made 28,000
bales of hay and 4000 bales of
straw. They work with about
700 acres; 104 acres of their
own, and renting the rest.
Their acreage is mainly
utilized for crops. “It cost
too much to have the cows on
pasture, it pays better to
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If you need 1 cow or a truck load, we have
from 100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your
price. Mostly fresh and close springing Hols
tems.
Cows from local farmers and our regular ship
pers including Marvin Eshleman, Glenn Fite,
Kelly Bowser, Bill Lang, Blame Hoffer, Dale
Hostetter, H.D. Matz, and Jerry Miller
SALE STARTS - 12:00 SHARP
Also Every Wednesday,
Hay, Straw & Ear Corn Sale -12:00 Noon.
All Dairy Cows & Heifers must be
eligible for Pennsylvania Health Charts.
For arrangements for special sales or herd
dispersals at our barn or on your farm, contact:
Abram Diffenbach, Mgr.
717-354-4341
Norman Kolb
717-397-5538
plant” Mike said. AUoting 85
to 100 acres to pasture, 340
acres are in com, 220 in bay,
80 in small grains and 20
acres are planted with
soybeans, while double
cropping some of the com
and soybeans. “The
soybeans and half of the hay
and com is our cash crop”
Mike said.
The Mowrers feed high
moisture ear com, com
silage and hayage with
soybean meal on a limited
basis, not buying more than
eight tons per month. The
cows are fed with electric
feed carts ana bunk feeder.
The cows are milked in a
tie stall bam with an
automatic pipeline milker
system. They market their
milk through Interstate Milk
Producers Co-op. The milk
then goes to Bechtel’s Dairy
in Royersford.
The herd is DHIA tested
and produces 40 pounds per
day per cow. The herd is
pregnancy checked every 30
days.
Bather than using mold
board plowing, the Mowrers
use the chisel plow “soil
saver.” “It just losens the
top up” Mike said, “we use it
mainly to save the soil. It
helps hold the water and
won’t let the soil wash
away” he added.
Tom Mowrer, Mike’s
brother is presently working
on the farm and plans to
enter the partnership in the
near future.
In 1976 Horace was named
one of six Master Fanners in
the five state area. In 1977
Mike was the top com
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