A2B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 29,1980
Holstein tour
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Kenneth Fry, of Mar Cove
Farms, explained. Fry and
his father-in-law, George
Breidenbaugh, operate the
dairy farm that’s nestled in
the narrow Morrison Cove
valley in the shadow of
Tussey Mountain.
“There were six embryo
transplants from the first
super,” Fry said.
In fact, as the tour group of
nearly 70 visitors were filing
through the stanchion barn
and past Carmel, con
tentedly munching hay, her
Utter of six was m the
process of being born a
number of miles away.
“Three were on the ground
as of Wednesday,” Fry said.
“The remaining three are
due any time now. In fact,
the calvings could be going
on right now.”
The first three calves were
bulls, as well as the offspring
bom after she was brought
to Blair County following the
purchase. That bull, Dun
wood Pistdi Pete, is quar
tered at the farm
Semen from two bulls
were used in the first super.
They were Locust Glen
Elevation Ivanhoe and
Cahill Standout Cavalier.
“In Carmel’s second
super, eight eggs were
transplanted,” Fry said.
Second stop on the Holstein tour through Blair and Bedford Counties was the
Ken Mowry farm, home of past national production champion.
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“Six pregnancies resulted
and their calves are due the
end of April or the beginning
of May.”
Bulls used in the second
super were Straight Pine
Elevation Pete and SWD
Valiant.
Carmel is now pregnant to
Glendale Arlinda Chief.
Counting the two heifers
bom while still on the
Stoltzfus farm, she has borne
a total of 16 offspring as a
five-year-old.
Her production records
show 27,140 lbs. and 1146
butterfat as a two-year-old;
28,393 lbs. and 1331 butterfat
as a three-year-old and
27,967 lbs. and 1148 fat as a
five-year-old.
“We have about 300 acres
on two farms here,”
Breidenbaugh told the tour
group.
“We rent another 170
acres. We have 65 coWs and
are milking 55 now.”
The herd average stands
at 18,000 pounds and 620 fat.
He described their
operation as a combination
of dairying and nursery
business.
“It’s a terrible mixture,”
he admitted.
“The times for the most
work in each are always
conflicting with each other.”
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residential homes mixing
with the farm land, the two
buses moved on-to the Ken
Mowry farm, also in the
Morrison Cove valley, but
across the county line in
Bedford.
Along the narrow rural
roads the buses were
threaded past large
gleaming tankers, which
graphically demonstrated
that dairying was a leading
business of the valley.
Despite temperatures in
the low-50’s, patches of snow
were still visible through the
bus windows lying in the lea
of the picket fences still in
the fields.
At the Mowry farm, super
ovulation is centered around
Mowry Princess Comne, the
daughter of the former
national champion
production Holstein, Mowry
Prince Comne.
The national production
record of 50,750 pounds was
set about five years ago and
stood for about a year.
“I remember that she died
the exact day that the record
was topped by a cow in In
diana,” Steve Mowry said.
“I guess she just couldn’t
take getting beat.”
Princess Corrine had a
production record of 34,000
pounds as a two-year-old and
thus far in 260 days has
29,000 pounds.
“We’re up to the ninth
generation of this family of
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cows here on the farm,”
Mowry said.
“It all began with a cow
that grandfather bought
back in 1941 at a sale at the
Harrisburg State Hospital
for about $lOO.
The Princess has already
borne 14 offspring. She was
bom in 1975.
Her offspring include eight
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Present and past owners with Dunwood Chief Carmel include Kenneth Fry,
kneeling, of Blair County, and Alvin Stottzfus, of Chester County.
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