A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 9,1980
BY PAT KAUFFMAN
WILLOW STREET - An
August heat wave dampened
the brows but not the spirits
of over 150 Guernsey en
thusiasts Tuesday as they
gathered at the Kenneth
Garber farm here for then
annual field day.
Judging contests, a farm
tour, a barbecued chicken
lunch, speakers, dairy
queens and a calf drawing
were all part of the day’s
activities.
Guernseys and Garbers
have been together since
1913, according to Snavely
Garber, herd patriarch. He
related memories of making
butter in 1927 90 pounds
per week, which sold for
about $1 a pound. Garber
recalled the first field day
was held in 1929, about the
same time the 4-H club
began.
Currently the 194 acre
farm is farmed by Kenneth,
lus son. Both Millie Linde,
the 1980 National Guernsey
Queen and Connie Balmer,
the reigning Lancaster
County Dairy Princess were
m attendance.
Connie, a Guernsey girl at
heart, topped the ladies
judging competition.
Gerald Harmsh, an 8-year
employee at the farm ex
plained that they’re feeding
the herd at a ratio of 1 pound
of ration per 2% pounds of
milk, He said the herd
receives ear com, roasted
soybeans, and a 40 percent
protein mix in addition to the
6 pounds of alfalfa/orchard
grass hay m the summer
Com silage is fed at the rate
of 25 pounds/day m the
warm weather.
When pasture is finished,
the herd receives the hay at
the rate of 9 pounds per day,
and 35 pounds of com silage
Harmsh said dry cows are
fed oats/rye hay and about
10 pounds of com silage. Two
weeks before freshening, the
cows are started back on
gram In addition, each
animal receives a 6cc shot of
A,D, & E vitamin mixture 2
weeks before freshening
Ginger Secnst from the
Guernsey Breeders’
Association gave *he group
food for thought with some
statistics on bulls She said
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extra dollars for the far
mer’s pocket.
Millie Linde challenged
the audience to breed
Guernseys with bodies
capable of supporting the
kind of production the
modern breeder is
demanding from them.
Steve Leiser area manager
for Pennfield, spoke on
Selenium additives. Leiser
tried to relate the tiny
figures of parts per million
to the group. He said for
every $lO,OOO of the farmers
milk check, 1 part per
million would equal 1 cent.
He reminded the group that
Northeastern soils are
deficient in Selenium, and
said that in his experience
some rather dramatic
reductions in twisted
stomachs can be achieved by
the addition of the mineral.
He admonished the farmers
that feed companies are
hard pressed to make up in
feeds the roughage
sacrificed with 12 blade
haylage choppers. He said
the result of destroyirf the
roughage in the haylage can
be a rash of twisted
stomachs.
Leiser also told the group
Selenium works with
Vitamin E m aiding the
reproductive and digestive
tracts Fewer retained
placentas with a resulting
ease of 60 day breed backs
are a result of supplemen
ting the cows diets with
Selenium, he said.
Vitamin E also appears to
help the immune response,
increasing antibody
production, he said
He warned the group to be
cautious of increasing and
decreasing the Selenium
dosage in animals which
obtain their ration through
their feed He told the group
that a dry cow would not get
enough of the supplement,
and a heavy milker may
overdo He said feed com
panies compensate for this
Lancaster Guernsey
enthusiasts talk heat and milk
by formulating two separate
rations.
Winners m the dairy
judging contest were as
follows.
Men’s division 1. Melvin
Brenneman, 2. Ken Hanks, 3.
David Smith, 4, Peter
Witmer, 5. Robert Wagner.
Ladies division 1
Millie Linde, left, the 1980 National Guernsey Queen was on hand Tuesday for
the Lancaster Guernsey field day. Connie Balmer, center, the reigning Lan
caster County Dairy Princess, topped the ladies' division in the dairy judging
competition. Brian Ressler won the youth division judging. Home milking when
the picture was taken were Melvin Brenneman, men’s division and overall
winner, and his son Scott, the recipient of the Guernsey calf.
ield day held at Garber
Connie Balmer, 2. Nancy
Balmer, 3. Barbara Kreider,
4. Mane Brenneman, 5.
Elsie Wolf.
Youth division was
dominated by Penn Manor
FFA students. The top three
winners were all from that
chapter. Winners were 1
GUT
arm
Brian Ressler, 2. Karen
Long, 3. Mike nlssley, 4.
John Rohrer, 5j Robert Kirk.
Scott Brenneman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin
Brenneman, won a calf.
Janice Garber, daughter of
the host won a $25 donation
from Farmers First Bank.
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