B2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 19,1980 ANNVILLE It’s rough to start life as a calf when you come from your mother weighing only 20 pounds. Most runts don’t stand a chance without some outside help. And a 20 pound calf is a runt in anyone’s book. On December 20, 1979 Lynnacres Astro Faith gave birth to a heifer calf that barely tipped the scales at 20 pounds. Faith was bred to Will-Tri-Frans Legacy, a - bull with a PD of 1000 pounds. In most cases the veterinarian would simply shake his head and go on down the line to the next maternity stall to do his best for a calf which stood half a chance of survival The Richard Batz family knew the stopr. This daiping family from R 2 Annville milks 30 cows and tends 122 acres of cropland. Richard Batz said be never likes to lose any calf— he tries to save them all. It’s important to save calves when you’ve been farming Sale reports Brooks End and Par Kay Farms, Beavertown, held their annual Winter Sale January 11,1980. 238 head sold for $304 average to total $72,325. 136 head of purebred boars and gilts averaged $386. The top-selling animal was a Yorkshire Bred Gilt Lot 41 RTBB Greenback 159-1 for $1,550, going to R. L. Gill and Sons Gum Spring, Va. The top-selling Yorkshire Board was Lot 119 purchased by Howard Moye, Farmville, N.C. for $lOOO. The top-selling Landrace Bred Gilt was Lot 70 pur chased by Mitch Rogers, Mayville, N.Y. for $650. The top-selling Landrace Open Gilts were Lot 153 and 151 both gUts were purchased by Howard Moye, Farmville, N.C. for $270. The top-selling it’s in vour hands .. . control of your crop • control of the price you receive for that crop - control all the way from harvest to market - when you have your own, on-the-farm grain drying and stor age equipment Now is the time - your mfs dealer i£,the place - he can tell you all the advantages of on-the-farm drying and storage equipment and the many reasons why mfs "Stor-age" is the equipment for you. Get control - keep control - with the "world's most wanted gram bin" - mfs "Stor-age". f^NTTRD^COu7^^^fETF7crI BUYjIOW ANPSAVEIS | DONALD L LICHTEHWALNER jfinfsw & SON * R.D. 2, Macungie, Pa. 7.74-2 Phone 215/965-5214 Premature calf beats odds, survives, grows stand on her own. It wasn’t always so for the prematurely born calf. on your own for just about a year. Plus it was Christmas time. And lasing such a pitiful little-calf was neither a good way to end a decade nor a good way to begin one. The Batz’s children, Tammy and Michael, sort of took to the little runt. It wouldn’t do to let it die. So, Richard Batz and his Landrace Boar was Lot 129 purchased by Howard Moye, Farmville, N.C. for $7OO. The 40 head of Yorkshire Bred GUts averaged $407; 20 head of Yorkshire Boars averaged $466; 49 head of Landrace Bred Gilts averaged $352; 17 bead of Landrace Boars averaged $419; 10 head of Landrace Open GUts averaged $248; 102 Commercial Open GUts averaged $195. This sale offering sold into eight different states. Most of this sale offering was of our Scotland Importation Bloodline Heritage. The next sale offering of Brooks End and Par Kay Farms wUI be on March 7, 1980 with something new and different and more Scotch Bloodlines. wife put the calf into a calf hutch and placed a heat lamp over her. They fed her with a baby bottle because she was unable to drink from a normal calf nurser. At first the tiny calf would drink only eight ounces or less at a feeding. It hardly seemed worth the trouble for the first feeding or two. At that rate, the calf was not taking enough nutrients to survive. But the Batz family per sisted. They started her out on colostrum from the cow. Each day the heifer would drink a bit more. As the days went on she began to demand four or five eight ounce bottles at each feeding. Young Tammy and Michael enjoyed feeding and taking care of the calf. They named her Holly. Somehow, the tiny calf seemed more Yield is the big goal, just as you’d expect from The World Yield Leader. The whole Funk's family of top yielding hybrids provides the strong base for new, even better-yielding hybrids And Funk's researchers are working on more ways to combat diseases, insects and stress, too. HOFFMAN SEEDS. INC. Tammy Batz took her heifer calf which was not from the mother. their size and they identified with her. For two weeks, Holly survived on colostrum from her dam. Finally, just after New Year’s day, the calf began to take food out of a bucket. While Holly was nowhere near as big as a normal calf, she was showing signs of improvement. Holly, who weighed 61 pounds on Tuesday, still is about 20 pounds lighter than a normal heifer calf. But her activity has picked up. As a three week old she is on her own and improving everyday. Richard Batz said he hopes Holly will make it as a replacement heifer for the family herd. The little heifer has made it this far. Batz has I have the facts that will earn your confidence. Landisville, PA 17538 turns bottle feeding a strong enough to nurse registered her with the Holstein Association. So it appears her future is well mapped out. FARMERS AgCREOU 9 East Main Street, LitiU, PA. 717-626-4721 We really want to be part of your corn program. What else could a Holstei ask: papers; a spot ui thi milking string; an , someday, perhaps, the pia C( of honor next to the harm door. CH 1 New Underground STEEL FUEL STORAGE TANKS -IN STOCK NOW capacity dia (aii|e price 27? 14 $97 275 12 112 285 38" 12 no 550 48" 10 220 550 48" 1.000 48" 1.000 48" 2.000 84" 4.000 64” 10.000 96" 10.000 120” HOWARD L GROFF CO. (taanyville, Pa. 17566 717-786-2166 7 265 10 320 7 390 7 510 , 7 980 W 2,635 'W 2,390
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers