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Members of the Lebanon County Holstein Club
visited Round Oak Farms, home of the famous
Round Oak Rag Apple Elevation, a bull who left his
Lebanon farmers
other Virginia dairy farms
LEBANON
Lebanon County Holstein
breeders and agn-business
men visited breeder herds in
Virginia and the Shenandoah
Valley recently. The two day
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The Round Oak operation today boasts about 30 Elevation daughters, of
which 23 are classified Excellent. Farmers had ample opportunity to inspect
udder attachments and toplines on the tour.
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tour featured stops at eight
well known herds throughout
the state.
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The first stop was at Har-
Vue Farm, operated by Jack
Hardesty and Sons. The 300
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mark on the Holstein breed. They also visited
seven other top dairy operations in Virginia on
their two day tour.
visit Round Oak,
cow herd has a herd average
of 17,000 pounds of milk and
features a large number of
Excellent and Very Good
cows.
The Hardesty sons, all
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graduates of Virginia Tech,
are enthusiastic students of
breeding good cattle and
know the herd as well as
their own family.
Other herds visited on the
tour were: Roc-Hil-Val
Farm, owned by Berme
Frye; Rocby Holstems,
owned by the Nelson Gard
ner family; Mid-Rock,
owned by W. G. Blose; John
Hunt farm; Oak Green
Farm, owned by Richard
Harris; and Round Oak
Farm, owned by the Ronald
Hope family.
The tour was highlighted
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by a visit to Round Oak at
Purcellville, Virginia. Well
known as the home of Round
Oak Rag Apple Elevation, a
nationally known herd sire,
the herd featured about 30
Elevation daughters, of
which 23 are classified
Excellent.
Overnight
commodations were
arranged for the tour par
ticipants at the Sheraton
Motel in Harrisonburg,
Virginia. Everyone attended
an evening banquet at
Lloyd’s Steak House. Guests
of the evening were Mr. Jim
McKenna, Rockingham
County Agent and John
Miller, Executive Secretary
of the Virginia Dairymen’s
Association.
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McKenna presented a
discussion of the nature and
development of the dairy
industry m Virginia and its
importance to the economy
of the state. Miller gave a
detailed explanation of the
development of a valuable
working relationship bet
ween dairymen, dairy
organizations and the land
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grant college. A strong
leadership and cooperation
has been developed
nurtered among thesc
segments of the industry.
Arrangements for the
Virginia tour were made
through the cooperation of
the Lebanon County Holstein
Tour Committee and Dairy
Specialists at Virginia Tech
and local county agents in
the counties visited.
Club Tour Committee
members are; Irvin Horst,
Ray Sattazahn, Raymond
Getz, Clifford Groff, Ken
neth Sellers, Albert Moyer
and Newton Bair.
Cooperating county agents
were: Lance Kauf, Clark
County; Ned Conklin,
Shenandoah County; Jim
McKenna, Rockingham
County; Roy Heltzel,
Culpeper County; and Bill
Harrison, Loudoun County.
Gerald Jones, dairy
specialist at Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, Virginia,
coordinated the tour m
cooperation with Newton
Bair, Lebanon County Ejsvv
tension Agent. *9)
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