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Adams
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completing their 50th annual
year of officially supervised
production testing, Adams
County dairymen who are
members of the Adams
County Dairy Herd Im
provement Association
completed their best year on
record” said Thomas E
Piper, county Extension
director for Penn State when
he presented a summary of
the year’s test at the
association’s annual awards
banquet. The banquet was
held December 7. m the
Community Fireball at
Barlow President Wayne
Rodgers presided at the
meeting.
In distributing the sum
mary report for the testing
year ending September 30,
1978, Piper recalled that the
Association had its first herd
to average over 700 pounds
of butterfat of 1977 but had
closed out 1978 with five
herds m this prestegious
class. In addition, the 52
herds with 3,122 cows on test
was the largest number in
the associations’ history.
The county herds he said
produced an average of
14,890 pounds of milk and 568
pounds of butterfat during
the year, an increase of 703
pounds of milk and 23 pounds
of butterfat over the prior
year.
Piper noted that “the Pen-
Mar Farm owned by Earl
Noel of McSherrystown and
managed by Claude Holmes
was the county leader with
production which averaged
19,253 pounds of milk and 779
pounds of butterfat on a 66-
cow herd. He was followed
by the El Rho Farm of Mr.
and Mrs. Eldon Baum at
Abbottstown Rl, whose 35-
Co, DHIA completes best
cow herd produced an
average of 19,443 pounds of
milk and 749 pounds of
butterfat. In third place, the
Yellow Buttercup Farm of
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Mum
mert at East Berlin R 2. with
98 cows produced an average
of 19,134 pounds of milk and
733 pounds of butterfat.
Klmg Ayr Farms, fourth
place herd of 39 cows owned
by Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Klinger of New Oxford R 2,
produced an average of
19,237 pounds of milk and 721
pounds of butterfat. Stoner
Brothers Dairy at East
Berlin R 2, averaged 7C5
pounds of butterfat and
18,034 pounds of milk with a
herd of 49 cows ana olaced
fifth.
A record twelve additional
herds produced in excess of
600 pounds of butterfat and
made a significant con
tribution in boosting the
county’s overall record
Weun Sharr Farms of New
Oxford R 2, placed sixth with
89 cows producing 18,455
pounds of milk and 686
pounds of butterfat. In
seventh place, Oscar Win
ters, Hanover R 5, averaged
17,980 pounds of milk and 672
pounds of milk with a 20-cow
herd. Roy A. Weaner, Jr.,
Gettysburg R 6, ranked
eighth when his 51 cow herd
produced an average of
16,697 pounds of milk and 669
pounds of butterfat. The
William Myers’ herd of 36
cows at R. D. 3, Littlestown
produced 16,788 pounds of
milk, 644 pounds of butterfat
and ranked ninth. In tenth
place, the Leroy Deputy
herd of 88 cows at R.D. 1,
East Berlin averaged 18,294
pounds of milk and 639
pounds of butterfat.
Other herds which
produced in excess of 600
pounds of butterfat as
follows: Milton R. Hoffman,
Gettysburg R 7, at 625 pounds
of butterfat; Eugene Witter,
Gardners Rl, 619 pounds;
Brown Valley Farm, Lit
tlestown RS, 618 pounds;
James E. Miller, R 4, New
Oxford, 612 pounds: Glenn
Lippy, Littlestown Rl, 607
pounds; Mervm II Myers,
Littlestown R 2, 606 pounds
and Jonas Beiler, Lit
tlestown Rl, 605 pounds of
butterfat
An additional 26 herds
produced from 500 to 600
pounds and nine herds
averaged between 400 and
500 pounds.
Trophies were awarded to
the top three herds. Stoner
Brothers Dairy received the
trophies for the cow with the
highest lifetime production
of milk and butterfat.
“Carol” was a repeat winner
having now produced a total
of 204,438 pounds of milk and
8,646 pounds of butterfat in
twelve lactations.
Weim Sharr Farms, New
Oxford R 2, owned by D.H.
Sharrar and Sons and far
med by Stanley Weimer and
Sons garnered the trophies
for the cow with the highest
milk and butterfat record
completed during the year.
Their cow identified as “64”
produced 31,312 pounds of
milk and 1,153 pounds of
butterfat during a 305-day
lactation to win both awards
Among individual high
cow records based on but
terfat, Weim Sharr Farms
had a cow tied for fourth
place, two tied for sixth
place, one tied for eighth
place and another in ninth
place. In this ranking, El
Rho Farm, Rl, Abbottstown,
was second; Noel and
Holmes, Hanover Rl, was
third and tied for fourth;
Leroy Deputy, East Berlin
Rl, was seventh; Yellow-
Buttercup Farm, East, was
tied for ninth and William
Inskip, East Berlin
R2,ranked tenth. All these
records ' exceeded 1000
pounds of butterfat.
Weim Sharr Farms won an
equally large number of
honors among the top ten
cows based upon milk
production in one 305-day
lactation. In addition to first
place, this herd had cows
wlucn ranked second, fourth,
fifth, and ninth. Glenn and
Janet Lippy, Littlestown Rl,
were owners of the cow in
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third and eighth place; Noel
and Holmes, Hanover Rl,
ranked sixth; El Rho Farms
ranked seventh and a cow
owned by Penn Gate Farm,
Littlestown R 2, placed tenth.
All these records exceeded
25,000 pounds of milk.
The trophy for the herd
achieving the greatest
improvement in the herd
average for the year, based
on butterfat production.
Went to El Rho Farm, Ab
bottsiown Rl Their herd
average climbed from 570
pounds to 749 pounds, an
increase of 179 pounds.
Following in second place
was Shamrock Farm, York
Springs Rl, with 120 pounds
Wilkinson and Reynolds,
Biglerville Rl, third with
112; Mervm K. Myers,
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Littlestown R 2, fourth with
91; Jonas M. Beiler, Lit
tlestown Rl, fifth with 87;
John J. Hess, Gettysburg R 5,
sixth with 83; Klmg Ayr
Farm, New Oxford R 2,
seventh with 73; Stoner
Brothers, East Berlin and
Richard Herr, Gettysburg
R 5, tied for eighth place with
66 pounds; Yellow-
Buttercup, Berlin R 2,
ninth with 64 pounds and tied
for tenth place at 61 pounds
increase - Pleasant Acres
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Springs HI and his neighbor
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R 2.
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