A26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 16, 1980
Pep
BY PAT KAUFFMAN
OXFORD Showcasing a
brand new freestall cold
housing bam for dry stock,
Bob and Jane Pepple, Ox
ford, hosted the Chester
County Holstein
Association’s annual field
day Thursday evening.
The first animals mto the
new bam were three classes
of cows for guests and
members to judge. Winners
m the judging were:
Men’s division 1. Marlin
Getz, 2. Donnie Hostetter, 3.
Gideon Stoltzfus, Jr., 4. Stan
Guest, 5. Lester High.
Women’s division 1. Sue
Lambom, 2. Janet Beiler, 3.
Delons Elliott, 4. Ruth
Kauffman, 5. Susie Weaver.
Youth 1. Bonnie
Lambom, 2. Tom Kearns, 3.
Leonard Stoltzfus, 4. Clyde
Good, 5. Jennifer Beiler.
Lloyd Ebersole, assistant
manager of Sire Power was
on hand to judge the three
classes of animals.
Explaining his new
facihties, Bob Pepple said he
wanted freestalls and a
chance to let the animals out
m the grass The budding
features all natural ven
tilation.
Pepple said he raises more
young stock than some
people, smce he raises bulls
for his famdy’s commercial
herd. The barn has 53
freestalls and a center area
NEMA looks at effects
of heat , egg output
MAYTOWN Bill Rent,
General Manager of Nor
theast Egg Marketing
Association (A Cooperative
encompassing the eleven
Northeastern States),
Wednesday took a loook at
the effect of the Nation’s
heat wave on our egg supply.
The heat wave which
started on June 26 in most
parts of the country has had
a rapid and dramatic effect
on egg production
At temperatures in excess
of 90 degrees, chickens start
to suffer and as tem
peratures rise numerous
things happen Under the
worst circumstances they
die from heat prostration, he
said
If they escape death their
consumption of food
decreases and egg
production drops markedly
Along with the drop there is
a shrinking of egg size Eggs
that in normal weather
would be extra large become
large, large become
medium, etc
If the hen is near her
normal molting period, she
may drop her feathers and
go out of production for
approximately six months.
With that little bit of
background, Rent reviewed
what has happened as
reported by the United
States Department of
Agriculture
Nationally, as of Monday,
July 21, losses reported were
eight million broilers and
approximately a million
laying hens Represented in
the laying hens were 678,000
breeders The loss of
breeding stock is extremely
bad as it often represents
valuable stock that has
taken years to establish
genetically
The price of eggs certainly
L-Lea Farm hosts Chester Holstein breeders
which was planned as a
place to house bull calves or
could be used for Embryo
Transplant heifers.
Pepple said that while they
have experimented with ET
to some extent, he wasn’t
ready when the bam was
built m May to commit
himself to it, so the bam was
planned to be flexible.
A 72 foot travel belt with a
plow has been positioned in
the lot to allow him the
flexibility he needs to feed
different groups of cattle.
Pepple said the bam is the
result of a conglomeration of
ideas from other people that
they liked. The bam is ap
proximately 50x100 feet and
is cold housing with a lot of
approximately the same
dimensions housing the feed
plow. A new 20x60 foot silo
has yet to be filled.
Work on the new structure
started m May and Pepple
said they have no plans of
expanding their herd, only
handling their dry stock
more efficiently.
The Pepples farm 200
acres with the mam crops
alfalfa/orchard grass, corn
for sdage and high moisture
com.
Herd average is around
18,500 pounds of milk and 720
of fat. Jane Pepple said they
are not yet satisfied with
their production. She said it
seems to have leveled off the
past couple of years.
will rise. The loss of hen
numbers from heat is not the
only reason for escalating
prices. Projected reduced
gram yields has increased
the price of poultry feed by
$l4 a ton m the last three
weeks.
Let’s consider briefly what
a dozen eggs is. It is 1.5
pounds of the highest quality
protein (egg protein is the
standard by which other
proteins are measured). An
egg contains all vitamins
February calf brings
$9OOO at sale
KUTZTOWN The 1980 The second high selling
Sire Power Sale was held anunal was a bred heifer,
recently at the Kutztown, Kish-Creek Tulip. She was
Fairgrounds. Eight-six head consigned by Jacob K Zook
sold for an average of $3575 and purchased for $7OOO by
in a sale representative of Glen Peachey, Milroy, Pa.
many top Sire Power sires. u r u wo tied for third
Topping the Sale at $9,000 high selling at $6600 A Very
was a strong pedigreed Good Elevation daughter
February calf consigned by lust lresll ar *d milking 100
Kingstead Farm, P? I®* 1 ®*- a day was pur-
Damascus, Maryland This chased by Lester and Wilma
Elevation calf is the next , Hagerstown,
generation of the great J Maryland Seh was con
”BESS Family” at signed by Arthur Rhoderick,
Hagerstown, Maryland. Her
Her dam, Kingstead Gemini daughter sold for
Arlmda Bess is VG (87) and 51750 to 831111131 Stoltzfus,
a record at 4-9 358 d 26800 Honey Brook, Pa. .
milk 3 8 percent and 1015 fat °^ iei " 50000 3nunal
Kingstead RORAS Libby- was Stoney-Lea Jet Stream
ET was purchased by O C Em y Tlus Jet Stream
Smith and Norman Hill, daughter was consigned by
Jefferson, Maryland Richard Remsburg & Son,
Jefferson, Maryland and
purchased by Richard and
Virginia Yule, W Winfield,
NY
Of the six high selling
animals, five were by
Elevation and one by Jet
Stream The sires of con
signments for the 1980 Sale
was 57 Elevations, 12 Jet
Streams, nine Kingpins,
eight Jerrys, six Jemms,
four Vans, three Jobs, two
Doctors, and one New Hope
daughter
A calf donated by Joel
Brown was raffled during
the evening. Mel Stoltzfus
suggested to his friend,
Glenn Freese that Glenn put
up~a buck so the two could go
halves > dollar chance
The new ‘syndicate’ won the
calf and donated it to the
Chester Holstein club.
Mike Weimer, newly
appointed director of special
programs for the 'PA
Holstein Association,
challenged the crowd to
recruit members for the
state breed association.
Weimer said that at least a
ten percent increase should
be a feasible goal for the
group.
Yvonne King, Chester
Dairy Princess, and Betsy
Wollaston, the alternate,
gave brief remarks to the
crowd and scored a hit with
the younger group as they
handed out pencils and cow
erasers.
And Harold Bare, Chester
association president, said
that the association changed
to evening meetings, about
four years ago. While it may
not work for every county,
he said he saw a big mcrease
in attendance over those
past few years He said the
evening agenda had less
conflicts with farm work.
A crowd of more than 200
people visited with friends
and dairy agents, and en
joyed the cool night time air
except Vitamin C.'No other
natural food can make that
claim.
“We must start to realize
that eggs at $l.OO per dozen
or $1.25 a dozen are a
tremendous protein buy, and
that this is the price that
should have been for some
time. Producers have been
losing one million per day for
months and consumers have
been the big winner At $l.OO
per dozen, they are 67 cents a
pound,” he said.
General Manager, W.L
Campbell welcomed one of
the largest attendances ever
to the 1980 Sire Power Sale.
“Lew" encouraged breeders
to take advantage of the
quality and selection of
consignments
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Part o) the crowd of approximately 200 people that assembled at Pep-L-Lea
Farm Thursday night. Chester association president, Harold Bare, said that
since they switched to evening meetings about a four years ago, many of the
farm work conflicts have been eliminated and the crowd on hand was about
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e Pepple, hosts for the Chester Holstein field day are shown in the
front row. Others left to right are: Mike Weimer, new director of special
programs for the PA Holstein Association; Lloyd Ebersoie, judge for the evening;
Dieter Kreig, speaker; and Harold Bare, president of the local association.
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A Job daughter out of a first freshening Simsoi m,
milking 61.8 pounds on her first test, was raffled off Thursday evening. The
winning ticket was purchased by Mel Stoltzfus, center, with Glenn Freeses
dollar, right and put up for auction. The animal was purchased by Calvin Blank,
left, for 5275 which will go into the Chester Holstein treasury.
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