A26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 22,1980
Moyer, Kelly exchange
(Continued from Page A2l)
he said. Moyer added he is wing of the barn. A pair of
using primarily two bulls fans and a vent system in the
Elevation and Creek’s Bluff ceiling which allows fresh
Elevation Lester. air to circulate from the top
Like many of the area floor of the barn are the key
farmers, Moyer said he is to raising the calves inside,
concerned about having said Moyer
enough feed for his cattle
this winter. “I planted 200
acres of com and only got a
quarter crop. Instead of 150
bushels per acre, I only got
40. If it would have been like
last year, I would still have
had 10,000 bushels of corn to
sell after I filled the silos ”
Moyer also ensiles his first
cutting alfalfa, and bales the
second and third cuttings.
“The cows like the hay,” he
said, “and they seem to have
less twisted stomachs ”
Kelly pointed out the
haylage that was harvested
in the earlier part of the year
is moister than the com
silage harvested this fall.
“The cows eat and do better
on the moister feed,’ he
said.
In raising his calves,
Moyer does not use hutches
They’re raised in individual
pens m a well ventilated
Perry County
agent retires
NEW BLOOMFIELD -
Roy F. Snyder, Perry
County Extension agent on
Penn State Extension Ser
vice staff retired November
15th with 32 years of ser
vices.
A native of Berks County,
he served as assistant
county agent in Snyder,
Cumberland, and Perry
counties prior to his
promotion to county agent in
1953.
Snyder earned a bachelor
of science degree from Penn
State in 1948, majoring m
dairy husbandry. He
received a master of arts
degree in Extension
education from Michigan
State University in 1959. He
also served three years as an
officer in the Army Air
Corps during World War 11.
During his tenure in Perry
County, the Dairy Herd
Improvement Association
testing program has more
than doubled in enrollment
and production per cow has
increased by about 75 per
cent.
Snyder initiated a
brucellosis eradication
program for county
dairymen in the early 1950’s
Through his leadership,
brucellosis was eliminated
as a major disease with
educational programs
contributing to this success.
The retired Perry County
agent emphasized efficient
crop production to support
dairy production. Numerous
farmers have been winners
in the 5-Acre Com Contest
He also placed emphasis on
testing for lime and fertilizer
requirements.
After a closer look at
Moyer’s massive corn
harvester and hay mower
and conditioner, both self
propelled, Kelly was aware
of the physical dangers that
can occur by accident and
carelessness on the farm
Rounding out the day with
a trip to neighbor Hershey
Bare’s modern dairy farm,
Kelly left the farm of in
dependent dairyman Albert
Moyer witn a better ap
preciation of agri-business
“I’d like to bring my son
here for the day Farmer’s
don’t get a chance to sit
down in front of the
television they’re too bush
for anything more than the
news and futures markets,”
he smiled.
Snyder assisted county
farmers with barn
remodeling and plans for
new farm structures. He also
worked closely with
livestock producers in the
improvement of waste
management procedures.
The county agent has
supported a strong 4-H
program and has developed
projects to enable members
to earn money while lear
ning new skills.
n an effort to keep older 4-
,J . members m club work, he
assisted in designing a
cantaloupe project in con
junction with the New
Bloomfield Lions Club. Older
members grow cantaloupes
for sale and displayed their
products at the service club
sponsored roih.aup Profit
from their projects aveiug' ’
$176.
Snyder served as a
member of the All-American
Dairy Show and Farm Show
committees for many years
In 1969 he was recipient of
a Distinguished Service
Award from the National
Association ot County
Agricultural Agents for his
service to the state s
agriculture. He also was
winner of a ‘Search for
Excellence” Award and was
an Information Awards
Contest radio winner
He is a member of the
Pennsylvania and National
Associations of County
Agricultural Agents, Epsilon
Sigma Phi, New Bloomfield
Lions Club, and the Grange
He is married to the for
mer Lois Zubler, of Centre
County They are the pai ents
of three children
Fred Kelly pitched in with the chores at Fernhost
Farms. His experience on the 90 milking cow
operation is one he said he’d like to share with" his
son.
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County since 1970, added
Bollinger
The top cow m the herd is
Willow Maple Apollo Ginger,
whose record is 28,000
pounds milk and over 1000
pounds fat She is the cow
Bollinger has used as his
primary transplant cow
Bollinger first started
transplanting in November
1978
Ginger’s sire is Hilltop
Ivanhoe Apollo out of Willow
Maple Gay Annette, a
daughter of Harrisburg Gay
Ideal Annette is also the
dam of a young bull bred at
Willow Maple Farm who
now stands at stud for
Atlantic Breeders
Cooperative According to
Harold Bollinger, Donald’s
father and partner. Superb,
shows a lot of promise
although he is not old enough
to be proven
In the AI program,
Bollingers use several top
studs, including Marvex,
Superior, Penn Star, Keyhoe
Eric, Topper, and Very
In order to feed his top
producing herd, Bollinger
raises about 80 acres of corn
and 55 acres of alfalfa
“Two-thirds of my ground
no-tilled,"
Bollinger explained, '• and
the remainder is chiseled
All my full-season corn
goes into the silo and my
mid-season corn is shelled
The alfalfa either goes into
the silo or is baled ”
Bollinger pointed out he
hires a custom combine to
shell his-mid season corn
when it has dried down to
about 22 percent He ex
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acid to the gram and stores it
in a pile about six to seven
feet deep on his upstairs
barn floor
The propionic acid, he
said, costs about 38 cents a
pound, and it takes l 2 pound
of acid per bushel of corn
But, Bollinger said, he
doesn't have the expense ot
hauling the grain to a dryer,
along with the extra expense
of drying ‘And I can’t keep
it in the silo at that percent
moisture it would rot ”
Bollinger said he feeds his
cattle according to each
cow’s production * They get
corn silage, haylage, and
about 4 pounds of baled hay
per cow Then shelled corn,
soybean meal, vegetable oil,
and distiller’s gram are
added
Murry summed up his
learning experience on the
farm by saying, “A cow is a
machine You feed it to
produce milk And when it’s
not making milk, it had
better be making babies
Otherwise, it’ll be making
hamburgers."
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