Dairy nutrition
WILLOW STREET -
Robert Patton, Centre
County dairy farmer and
former Penn State staff
Ford to market Clans
TROY, MI - Ford trac
tor dealers in North
America early next year will
begin marketing an ex
panded line of self-propelled
gram combines.
Ford Tractor Operations
announced an agreement
undd - which Claas of
America, a wholly owned
subsidiary of Claas OHG of
Harsewinkel, West Ger
many, will merchandise
combines through North
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New Hope, PA Bloomsburg, PA
215-598-7501 717-784-7456
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PO Box 548, Reedsville, PA 412-286-9606
717-667-3944
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RDI, Rt 6
Mansfield, PA
717-724-2731
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member, who was never shy
about differing with his
colleagues, had some in
teresting tips on practical
American Ford Tractor
dealers,
Claas, one of Europe’s
leading combine
manufacturers, previously
supplied combines marketed
under the Ford name m
North America Under the
new agreement, Ford
tractor dealers will have
North American marketing
rights to the Claas line
Parts distribution will be
handled by Ford through i
FARMERS EQUIPMENT
EXCHANGE, INC.
East Petersburg, PA
717-569-8756
tips you may or may not agree with
dairy nutrition at the Fourth
Annual Fertrell Conference
sponsored by The Natural
Development Co , Bain-
combines
North American tractor
supply depots. l
Two .combine models, the
Dommator 96 and
Dommator 76, will be offered
initially, with others of
Claas’s 14 combine models to
be made available later.
Claas of America earlier
announced establishment of
offices in Troy and plans for
eventual assembly and
manufacture of farm im
plements in North America
bridge, this week
Among feeding recom
mendations he outlined
Tuesday at a conference
session at the Willow Valley
Motel were.
-Don’t ever put urea in
your cattle ration
-Don’t forget the forage
and fiber in the ration The
cow is a ruminant; don’t try
to turn it into a pig
-Determine dry matter
and fiber needs by lumping
them together into Hay
Equivalent Intake Needs for
Hay Equivalent Intake
amount to 1 5 pounds per 100
pouxjds of cow body weight
GRUMELLI FARM SERVICE MAIDENCREEK FARM
RD #2, Box 36, Quarryville, PA SUPPLY
717-786-7318 Blandon.PA
215-926-3851
ROBERT G. HAMPTON INC.
Route 49, PO Box 109, Shiloh, NJ
609-451-9520
I.G. SALES
Silverdale, PA
215-257-5136
LEISER’S INC.
3608 Nazareth Pike
Bethlehem PA
215-691 3070
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 16,1980—€
Amounts can be mcreased to
2.5 pounds.
-If you’re feeding less
than 15 pounds per 100
pounds of we'ght, you’re
headed for trouble.
-The best tools of a
practical nutritionist are a
scale and feed test. Weigh
the hay and silage exactly.
Don’t trust the weight of the
hay bale you remember
when it was harvested at a
higher moisture level And
get a lot of samples for
testmg
-Get your protem for your
cows from two different
sources He recommends
brewers’ mix and soybeans.
-Forage sampling is only
S&l/s
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REED BROTHERS EQUIP.
Petticoat Bridge Rd , Columbus, NJ
609-298-3441
ROORKSFARM
SUPPLYING.
RD3 Hwy No 77, Elmer, NJ
609-358-3100
WENGER’S, INC.
S Race St Myerstown, PA
717 866 2138
a guideline at best. It is
certainly not the last word in
determining the mix of a
ration.
-Use 180,000 units of
Vitamin A per day for a cow
producmg 50 pounds of milk.
He admits that is high, but
claims it is needed for
membrane structure and
milk secretion.
--Likewise keep the
calcium down to about 7
percent of dry matter For 39
pounds of dry matter, this
would be 2.73 pounds of
calcium.
-Also, keep the calcium to
phosphofus ratio to about 1.5
to 1 or even down to 1 3 to 1.
If it must be brought down,
just add more phosphorus.
-Selenium is not all that
some crack it up to be It is
not a cure-all.
-Sodium bicarbonate, he
simply doesn’t like it Agam,
you re trying to turn a cow
into a pig by using it It’s
better to even feed some old
mulch hay than the bicarb.
For 90 percent of cows,
there’s no reason to use it.
-Get trace elements for
cows by growing them; don’t
buy them. And uSe
organically-bound trace
elements that the cow can
better utilize
Patton is sold on the ad
vantages of the Fertrell
Rumi-Cult for dairy cows
He feeds a quarter pound a
day to cows producing 50
pounds of milk; a half pound
for 60 to 75 pounds of milk
and three-fourths of a pound
a day for over 75-pound
producers.
-And he doesn’t go along
with the practice of using a
dry cow ration. A cow can be
dry six to eight weeks and it
takes three of them for the
rumen population to change.
He claims dairymen are just
defeating themselves with a
dry cow ration. Changing
feed is a stressful thing and
it pays to keep stress down at
this tune.
The three-day conference
was held Monday through
Wednesday. Iq addition to
discussion on subjects such
as the Fertrell liquid natural
fertilizer programs, test
plots of The Natural
Development Co were
visited at Bambndge.-DA
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