—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 3,1979
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Norlehco Chapter
receives National
Safety Award
KANSAS CITY, Mo., - In
recognition ,of their con
tinuing promotion of safety
awareness, 119 chapters of
the Future Fanners of
America (FFA) will receive
outstanding achievement
awards as a part of the
National FFA Chapter
Safety Award Program.
Sponsored jointly »v>the
Farm an£_, industrial
Equipment Institute (FIEI)
of Chicago and Dow
Chemical U.S.A. of Midland,
Michigan, through the
National FFA Foundation,
the awards will be presented
on Wednesday, November 7,
at the 1979 National FFA
Convention in Kansas City,
Missouri.
The top 20 FFA chapters
will be presented “Gold
Emblem” safety awards,
the highest award in the
program. “Silver Emblem”
awards will be presented to
another 37 chapters, and 62
chapters will receive the
“Bronze Emblem” award.
The Clear Spring Chapter,
Clear Spring, Maryland will
be receiving the gold em
blem for their Chapter
safety program.
In Pennsylvania the
Northern Lebanon County
Chapter, Fredericksburg,
has earned die silver em
blem. Two Pennsylvania
chapters, Curwensville, and
Headwaters Chapter,
Ulysses will be receiving the
bronze emblems.
Maryland herd
classifies cows
RISING SUN, Md. - The
Knutson Brothers Lovdal
Farms herd of Registered
Holstein dairy cattle
recently were evaluated for
functional conformation.
The work was completed by
a Holstein classifier
dispatched from the breed’s
headquarters in Vermont.
Holstein breeders use this
official service of the breed
to improve their herds, build
pedigree performance and
enhance the market value of
their animals. Over 6,000
progressive Holstein
dairymen throughout the
U.S. are enrolled in
classification with the
resulting information
summarized by sire to give
dairymen a “consumer
report” on the transmitting
profile of a bull.
Individual animals are
evaluated and receive a
rating of Excellent, Very
Good, Good Plus, Good, Fair
or Poor. Lovdal Farms herd
is made up of 4 Excellents, 26
Very Goods, and 31 Good
Pluses.
Holstein classification is a
companion effort in herd
improvement with a mon
thly check for milk yield
offered by the national dairy
herd improvement
association. Collectively,
these performance ranking
efforts are responsible for
elevating the American
Holstein into world
A broze emblem has also
been awarded to the
Damascus, Maryland
Chapter.
Li New Jersey, the Warren
Hills Regional Chapter has
received a silver medal with
the North Hunterdon
Chapter, Annandale,
receiving a bronze emblem.
The chapters recognized
this year participated in a
wide range of safety ac
tivities including: farm and
home safety surveys, auto
and farm equipment safety
inspections, promotion and
sale of slow moving vehicle
signs, safe corn harvest
campaigns, establishments
of rural fire districts,
programs to illustrate safety
procedures in the use (if
farm chemicals and many
other farm and home safety'
projects.
The FFA Chapter Safety
Award is one of three awards
ftwncnirinc chapter par
ticipation in activities of
national
designed to increase
awareness of'safety prac
tices through classroom
instruction and educational
activities. Each year ac
cidents on the farm and in
die home exact a tragic toll
of death, destruction, and
mutilation among rural and
urban families. The FFA
Safety Program is designed
to make students aware of
the causes of accidents and
how they can be prevented.
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they plan to build a crowd
gate of their own.
“I’d like to be able to say
things will be going smoothly
by the beginning of next
year,” Ray says.
The brothers estimate
milking time at two hours
when everything is flowing
right.
This is quite a hunk off the
three hours to three hours
and a quarter they now
spend.
The walls of the parlor are
lined with Kemlite glass
board. There are three in
ches of wall insulation and
six inches for the ceiling.
A 20 foot in-line cooler will
drop the milk temperature
by 25 degrees between the
cow and the bulk tank.
The only cost for cooling
will be the original cost of
the unit.
Milk will be held in a new
2000 gallon Girton bulk tank
for pickup every other day.
Milk is shipped to Eastern.
A separate 30-gallon water
heater will be used to
provide wash water. The
extra gas water heater will
assure uniform water
temperature.
A Mikro-Spray unit will
add detergent at a
predetermined rate for
washing.
The Kesslers will have a
small office area to one side
of the bulk tank room.
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are equipped with automatic detachers.
milking parlor is a 16 stall
treatment area. It can be
used to hold sick cows or for
breeding.
The treatment center is
designed so it can be washed
down to a sump at the center
of the area.
Outside, and beyond the
cow treatment area, will be
a separate block building for
heifers. It will be open
toward the warm side.
The building is designed at
40 by 80 feet, although the
Kesslers are not sure exactly
how many cows it will hold.
“We’ll start calves there
and take them to another
building after about six
months,’’ Lee Kessler
figures.
The existing dairy bam
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will be converted to box
stalls, the brothers say.
“It has been busy all
summer long,” Ray says.
Vyith the 215 acres thev own
plus another 50 rented, plus
the cows, plus the con
struction, it has been a
hectic period.
“I think I’ll appreciate
that parlor the most,” Ray
says.
He is looking forward to
the end of shifts m the bam,
he says.
The brothers expect to
have one man run all 12
units. Present plans call for
one of them to do all milking
for a week and the other to
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take the chores the following
week.
Chores will be a bit easier,
too, thanks to things like the (
clean-in-place washers, the
automatic, detachers, and
even the ease of feeding their
mechanized total mixed
ration program.
The Kesslers, and some of
the firms which helped them
take their “one big step” are
staging an open house at the
farm on November 10 from 9
until 3.
It might be a good-time to
stop by and offer them some
tips on getting their cows
used to all that newly built
comfort.
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