©Bare farm welcomes visitors during Farm-City weekend
LANCASTER -
Donald Bare family will
welcome questions as city
and urban visitors arrive on
their farm next weekend.
The Bare farm, located
south of Bridgeport, will be
open to the public as a part of
the Farm-City tours spon
sored by the Lancaster
County Farmers
Association.
Donald Bare was bom and
raised on this farm and took
a keen interest in its ac
tivities while quite young.
Six years ago he married
and took over the ownership
of the dairy farm.
Since that time, Bare has
doubled the size of the bam
and has installed a pipeline
n^ilker.
During each day of the
tour, the Bares will begin
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Donald Bare works on the hoses of the pipeline
milker in the milking parlor. The parlor will be open
to visitors on November 17 and 18.
milking at 4:30p.m. They are
presently milking 60
Registered Holsteins.
Last year the herd
averaged 18,700 pounds of
milk with a 6.95 butter fat
percentage.
The recent addition of two
Harvestores has helped herd
production.
The large 20x70 Har
vestore is used to store
haylage. The smaller -silo
stores high moisture com.
Behind the bam, visitors
will be able to look at the calf
hutches that house newborn
to three month old calves.
These hutches were a added
to the dairy operation this
year.
The Bares raise the
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majority of their
replacement herd. A
breeding service artificially
inseminates the herd.
Eventually Donald would
like to leam the techniques
and breed the cows himself.
In addition to the dairy
operation, Donald is kept
busy harvesting crops. This
week he was finishing the
Fall’s com harvest.
He raises 175 acres of com,
65 acres of hay and 10 acres
of wheat.
While touring the dairy
bam, milking parlor and
seeing the calves, visitors
will enjoy meeting Donald
and Brenda Bare and their
two daughters, Tricia and
Tara. -DS
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Donald and Brenda Bare and their two children, Tricia and Tana, will welcome
guests to their dairy farm south of Bridgeport, during the Farm City tour next
weekend.
HARRISBURG - Out-of
state exhibitors dominated
the 1979 open steer on-foot
judging during the 23rd
Keystone International
Livestock Exposition at the
State Farm Show Building in
Harrisburg.
The grand champion steer
of the show title went to a
Chianina-Angus cross owned
by Dan Hinshaw of Hudson,
Illinois. Hinshaw’s mid
dleweight steer was
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previously named champion
steer of the junior show.
The reserve grand
champion steer of the show,
also a Chianina-Angus cross,
was shown by Cambria
Countian John McKotcb of
Ebensburg. McKotch’s
middleweight steer was also
the previous reserve
champion junior steer
winner.
Champion open steer was
exhibited by Mike and Pat
Baker of Kendallville, In
diana. Taking the reserve
champion open steer title
was a middleweight steer
shown by Harry J. Molitor
Family of Fayetteville,
Ohio.
Judge for the open steer
on-foot competition was
Herman Purdy of Alexan
dria, Huntingdon County.
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