The Raymond Hetman barn is full of classey looking two year olds. Helmans got their start with a Canadian bull, and will have seven animals from their herd at Farm Show. w»m K K * the Improved AgwayVfeal _ Feeding Program is another Winner The feeding trials involved more than 400 calves at three separate facilities managed by experi enced, commercial veal growers Ail of the calves received Agway Veal Pre-Starter From there, half of the calves were fed improved Agway Veal Starter and Finisher The other half were fed original formula Veal Starter and Finisher Typey heifers are top crop on Franklin County dairy farm 2I Field trials proved it... MM The results 7 Agway animal nutritionists and researchers have made a good thing better 1 From start to finish at about 325 pounds, the improved formulas won hands down Calves fed improved Starter and Finisher showed an average daily gam of 2 28 pounds per animal per day with a feed conver sion rate of IG4 pounds of feed per pound of gam Agway Veal Pre-Starter, Starter and Finisher are made from quality ingredients From > top quality protein, 100% derived from milk products From 100% animal fat Because Agway knows that protein quality and fat source are the keys to top performance Every grower knows that prime veal depends on the quality and vigor of the cglves, proper housing, feeding, management and sanita tion Do all of them right and the improved Agway Veal Feeding Program can do a superior job for you FARM For more information on huttoddicc the Agway Veal Feeding ' • C Program, call your SERVICE local Agway. s ■x {AGWfIYj See them at Farm Show iw 3% CHAMBERSBURG - A remarkable bargain bull has given a Chambersburg dairy family an outstanding herd of Registered Holstems, and a growing pile of awards from shows in Franklin ‘“'minty and in Harrisburg. Raymond Helman had been a Holstein breeder for over a quarter of a century in 1970, when he made a special trip to Canada to attend a dairy sale. A local cattle dealer had told him there would be some special animals going under the auctioneer’s gavel, and Helman and his wife, Mary, wasnted to see for them selves. They came back with a young bull named C. Kenola Rocky, a son of the legen dary Selling Rockman. Selling Rockman is to Canada what Ivanhoe is to the U.S., Helman said, and any son of Selling Rockman ■/? v, «• Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 5,1980—A25 seemed a good bet for the herd in Chambersburg. C. Kenola Rocky - “Rocky” for short - was bought for $7OO, and earned both his purchase pnce and his keep for nearly a decade before a broken leg did him m a year ago New Year’s Eve. Helman and his three sons Robert, Stanley and Wayne, talked about Rocky and about dairying one recent morning m their dining room while Mrs. Helman bustled about the kitchen, pausing to throw out names, dates and figures her menfolk were slow in remembering. The Helmans farm 477 acres of Franklin County ground, 147 acres of which is the home farm. They grow mostly alfalfa and com, with some oats, barley and clover-timothy hay. About 200 animals live on the farm, with a milking herd of some 85 head. Although artificial in- semination is used m the 'Helman’s breeding program, Rocky was a busy fellow when he was on the farm, and his offspring are the backbone of the herd. His genes added about 3000 pounds to the herd’s annual average, Helman figures, and he left a legacy of very “typey” daughters. 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They don’t sell all of their top animals, but they do pick a few of the best every time they send a load to the auction. Last year they sold a first calf heifer an Ivanhoe Star daughter that earned an 85 classification the first time she was seen by the Holstein classifier. Not a bad cow to keep in the herd, Helman pointed out, but they got a very good price for her. “The milk money keeps the operation going, but the cow sales account for a big chunk of our profits,” he said. And who can argue with the logic of an operation that’s providing a living for Helman and his wife, two married sons with families and a third son working full time on the farm? Even with that philosophy, Helman said they are seriously trying to build cow families with much stronger pedigrees. Increased (Turn to Page A 26) iroximatelv 400° rature
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