Dl4-—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 26,1980
Spring Bottom Farm
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realize I need to keep on
showing at the local fairs
and smaller shows.”
Showing cattle is one of
Darcey’s interests and
management tools, and so he
likes to stay on top of any
new ideas and changes. One
of the new rules coming out
of the American Polled
Hereford Association has
caused Darcey to sit back
and smile. APHA is
recommending at all state
fairs that the senior heifers
at Standard of Performance
shows must be' exhibited
with a calf at their side.
“The grand champion cow
chosen at those shows will be
a cow that has proven to the
judge that she can milk,”
Darcey said. “This new rule
will help stop the changing of
calf dates, too.”
Darcey is currently ser
ving his second term as
president of the' Penn
sylvania Polled Hereford
Association. He comments
on the association and its
members:
“There are about 900
people in Pennsylvania that
own Polled Hereford cattle.
Our association’s mailing
list has about 550 names. As
far as paid members go,
there are 110, out of which
about 15 are active in the
breed association’s ac
tivities.”
He pointed out that the
association’s Spring sale had
to be cancelled because of
lack of interest. The few who
bad planned to consign cattle
at the Pennsylvania sale
took their cattle to the
Maryland Association’s sale,
instead.
Along with his PPHA
duties, Darcey is an active
member of the Adams
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County Cattlemen’s Association Bull Bali.
County Cattlemen’s
Association. He also gets
involved in trying to improve
conditions at Farm Show
and Expo by making
telephone calls to the
Secretary of Agriculture and
writing to the Farm Show
Director.
In his ‘spare’ time, Darcey
and his son operate their 300
acre farm, located close to
the Mason-Dizon line
southwest of the historic
battlefields of Gettysburg.
The farm is managed
mostly as pasture land,
although a small amount of
com for the silc is raised on
the farm.
Darcey said his brood
cows are fed the silage,
along with some hay. He
added be has his silage
analyzed so that he knows
the protein content of his
feed. If his protein levels are
not high enough, he said, he
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The feeding program for
his replacement heifers is
carefully planned, too.
Darcey said he mixes threfe
parts of oats to one part of
corn, plus a protein sup
plement of 13-14 percent. He
noted he buys his oats from
‘upstate’ because they have
more protein and are better
quality oats than if he grew
them in Adams County.
Cattle aren’t the only
animals on Spring Bottom
Farm. There are about 25
Shropshire ewes dotting the
pastures, too, with new bom
lambs at their sides.
“The sheep are Becky’s,”
Darcey said, “and she’s
trying to do the same thing
with them as we did with the
cattle.” He remarked thafin
her five years as a
shepherdess Becky - has
achieved 150 to 175 percent
live lamb crop, with em
phasis on the word ‘live’.
Becky took some of her
sheep to the Farm Show for
the first time this year. She
said she didn’t do well
because she was unable to be
there to show the' sheep
herself. However, in com
petition at the local fairs,
Becky has won enough
ribbons and trophies to start
decorating her own wall of.
the farm office.
“When I got into the cattle
business, I gave myself ten
years to be on top or get out.
Whatever a person does in
their life, they ought to do it
well or not at all. And, you’ve
got to like what you’re doing,
or you’ll be unhappy and it
will reflect in your work,”
Darcey commented.
In his tenth year, after a
shaky start with four wild
Herefords and growing to be
one of the top Polled
Hereford breeders in the
state, it seems like Darcej
has met his persona
deadline.
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