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Howes Ivanhoe Nora sold for the highest price to date this year, according to
William Nichol, Pa. Holstein Assoc. The state record, set a year ago, is $71,000.
Holly Milk Co-op stages
\
official open house
BYCURT HAULER
MI- HOLLY SPRINGS -
Most farmers and farm
businesses welcome friends
and neighbors to tour new
buddings or setups once
things get rolling.
The Holly -Milk
Cooperative, owned by -
members of Inter-State Milk
Producers’ Cooperative and
the Maryland Cooperative
Milk Producers, Inc., is no
different. It opened its doors
Thursday so farmers,
dignitaries, and members of
the press could tour the plant
during the day-long open
house.
The Holly Milk
Cooperative’s processing
plant is designed to convert
as much as two million
Pounds of milk per day into
skim milk powder, whole
milk powder, or butter.
On hand to tour the plant
Were representatives of the
Pennsylvania, Maryland,
and Delaware Departments
of Agriculture.
In addition, many
BY SALLY BAIR
STATE COLLEGE -
About 180 Pennsylvania
dairymen attending the
Dairy Herd Management
Conference Thursday and
t 'rida> at Penn State receiv-
e d in-depth information on
nutritional needs of the
dairy herd and learned
specifics of raising dairy
ford replacements
Calling Total Mixed Ra
llons ‘an exciting concept
*dose time has come” Dar-
Braund, director of
members both of Inter-State
and'” MCMP ~ swelled the
group which toured the
plant. -
It is the dairymen
members of the Holly Co-op
venture who stand to gam
the most from the plant’s
operations.
The logic behind-the plant
Welfare farms 9 dispersal
batted around on Hill
BY DICK WANNER
HARRISBURG - The
week’s biggest legislative
story was, -of course, the
fight in the House to stop
cash grants to 81,000 able
bodied welfare recipients. A
number of pieces of farm
legislation, meanwhile,
languished.
But as one observer noted,
“If we get that welfare
legislation passed, farmers
can celebrate along with
everybody else.”
Dairymen hear latest management tips
Dairy Herd Conference
dairy and livestock research
for Agway, explained that
TMR is the blending of gram
and forage, balancing it for
nutrient content, and offer
ing it free choice.
Braund said allowing
dairy cows to decide for
themselves what they will
eat can be economically
detrimental, since many
cows will wait for their
preferred forage although
all forages offered may be of
excellent quality
fn TMK each bite is
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 0,1980
is to provide ar Weekend
destination for milk produc
ed on area farms.
With the coming of 40 and
35 hours workweeks, many
milk processors were
limiting operation time to
five, even four, days. This
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On Wednesday, the Capitol
Building was bursting at the
seams with welfare rights
demonstrators and touring
school children Agriculture
Secretary Penrose Hallowell
striding through the Capitol
rotunda seemed hardly
aware of the boisterous
crowd. He had his own
concerns with the Depart
ment of Welfare, concerns
which he was preparing to
balanced and the cow
decides how much she will
eat and how often she will
eat. Braund called it -a
casserole for cows which is
ready for them to eat when
the spirit moves them
Traditional methods of
feeding, according to
Braund, mean that gram
feeding precision is limited*
because farmers can’t ac
curately predict the forage
intake of individual animals
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Highest price paid this year
Heifer sells at $32,200
' BY SHEILA MILLER
LANCASTER - There
was excitement in the air at
the Thursday afternoon sale
at Melvin Kolb, Inc,’s sale
bam when an Osbomdale
Ivanhoe daughter sold, for
$32,200.
The price was one of the
highest prices ever paid for a
Holstein heifer, which ac
cording to Park Myers may
be the highest paid in Lan
caster County this year.
The high-priced heifer sold
to Strouse and Neer
Associates, a syndicate out
of Centre Hall. The contend
ing bidder on the Ivanhoe
daughter was Dean Franz,
Minnesota.
Myers explained Howes
Ivanhoe Nora was an em
bryo transplant out of an ex
cellent cow, a Roybrook
Telstar daughter, that sold
for s4o,oooin-Wisconsin. This
cow has mgde- over 20,000
pounds milk since her lacta
tion as a four year old.
And, going back one more
generation, the second dam,
a very good Thomlea Texal
Supreme Saugbter, had a
record of 110,650 pounds in
six lactations, with 4500
pounds milkfat.
- The heifer, bom March 4,
discuss that night over
dinner.
On Monday, Welfare
Secretary Helen O’Bannon
announced that the
Department of Public
Welfare was going ahead
with a plan to phase out the
department's institutional
farming programs.
Furlough notices were
prepared for the 141 full-time
state employees who operate
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BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
LANCASTER - A large
standing-room-only crowd of
450 farmers heard first-hand
reports on mastitis pro
blems, including one new to
Pennsylvania for which
there is no treatment, at
Lancaster County Dairy Day
on Tuesday.
Individual experiences
with treating and overcom
ing mastitis were outlined by
three dairymen, including
Donald Ranch, Paradise,on
staph and strep; David Wm
1978, is in calf to Pawnee
Farm Arhnda Chief.
The second high selling
heifer is a product of an em
bryo transfer from another
$40,000 dam. Her mother is
an excellent cow by Fond
Matt with a five-year-old lac
tation record of 21, 500
pounds milk, and 887 pounds
fat. She was sold at the 1976
World Premiere Sale.
Agri-Women hear
pro-pesticide talk
BY PAT KAUFFMAN
HERSHEY - “There’s no
such thing as a safe poison,
only safe ways to use it,”
remarked Leavitt S. White,
Dupont Chemical Represen
tative.
“What
doing in hearings can be
extremely the
farmer,”he stated.
White addressed Penn’s
Agri-Women members
Thursday. In his address to
the group. White emphasized
the need to develop and use
good public relations tactics
in dealing with farm
community problems.
Citing examples of
problems arising from
public concern over the use
of certain pesticides. White
urged members to use force
of fact to influence public
opinion. He urged members
SECTION A; Editorials, 10; Hogs win battle, lose war,
15; Crop production, 22; Loan rate changes, 30; Cattle
rustling, 38.
SECTION B: Expo straw poll, 2; Manure tour, 6;
Beeferendum defeat, 8; Expo tractor pull, 9; Farm
Talk, 10.
SECTION C: Maple syrup, 2; Joyce Bupp, 7; Home on
the Range, 8; Franklin FFA, 11; Young farmer
volleyball, 23; Ask VMD, 29.
SECTION D: Lebanon DHIA, 2; The Dairy Business,
6; York DHIA, 9; Expo photo roundap, 19.
Lancaster Dairy Day
die, Cochranville, on col
iform; and Jay Frey,
Washington Boro, on
mycoplasma.
(Additional information on
the Dairy Day program ap
pears on pages 21 & 22.)
Discussing mycoplasma,
Frey, manager of Turkey
Hill Dairy, spoke of some of
the unique difficulties en
countered with this new
type, which has been
associated with large dairy
herds in California for the
past five years.
Miss Pinehurst is a
February 20, 1978 heifer by
Roybrook Starlite. She is in
calf to Plushanski Per
suader.
The heifer sold to William
He of Newburg for $15,100.
There were a total of 344
head sold at the Thursday
sale, with a sale average of
$2lOO.
to present themselves as
they are, mothers with
children and families who
live with and use the
pesticides and who are living
proof of their safety.
“Opposing groups are
often very well organized,
they know foe instance that
the press works on a tight
schedule, and where the
press table at a hearing is.
They produce printed copies
of their testimony and place
them conveniently on the
press table. Naturally, a
reporter with limited time
and many daily assignments
will welcome this. The result
is very often that much of
what is handed to a reporter
ends up in his story.”
Therefore, White stressed
the need for farm groups to
think public relations. Neat
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This new type doesn’t res
pond to normal antibiotic
treatment and can’t even be
detected in regular culture
tests, Frey said.
“The only way to get it out
of our herd was to sell the
animals,’’ Frey said.
“The cost was 200 cows,
about one-third of the herd,
with a high percentage of
fresh cows and heifers milk
ing over 100 lbs. a day.
“We sent the culture
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