Al4—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, December 6,1980
Dairy partners
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decided to milk three times a
day, something the
arrangement allows easily
Lamar says three times a
day milking had been on his
mind for several years, but
he was unable to implement
it when he was milking alone
in rented facilities Now,
Harold takes the 6 00 a m
milking with Lamar milking
snd 10 DO p m
It takes just one person to
milk their 60 cows with the
bucket system they use
Lamar said, “Neither of us
wanted a pipeline because
we like to see how much milk
they give Often I weigh each
time I milk ”
The three times daily
milking just began in Sep
tember so Lamar says it’s
too early to make a
judgement He says, We
can’t tell yet, but they are
definitely giving more milk
You have to feed more but
we believe that the more you
feed, according to produc
tion, the more money you
will make ”
Lamar says they want to
give the milking routine a
year before making a fmal
decision “If we come to the
point where it is not doing
good for us anymore we
wouldn’t hesitate to quit
Right now we have no plans
for quitting.”
He said the extra work
that goes with three tunes a
day milking doesn’t bother
them because they have just
71 acres of land to farm We
have time,” he states, ad
ding that his father does
most of the field work and he
is happy to do most of the
care of the cows It takes
about 1 hour and 45 minutes
at each milking
Both men enjoy the
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flexibility of the milking
schedule and since they both
handle the cows one can
easily take over tor the othu
to give tune off They use
three units and the milk is
stored in separate bulk
tanks.
They each have their own
400 gallon bulk tank and the
tanks sit side by side in the
expanded milk house They
ship to Mount Joy Farmers
Cooperative, which readily
agreed to the arrangement
We both had our own tanks
and we kept them,” Lamar
explains
Lamar feels one of the
strengths of both herds is
their compact, tight udders
He says, “Both herds have
fairly small udders which is
one reason why we thought
we’d try three tunes a day
milking ’
The only difficulty they
have encountered so far is a
rule in the Red Rose Dairy
Herd Improvement
Association which does not
allow two herds to be housed
in one barn They are
allowed on official test and
have official records, ac
cording to Lamar, but the
Association does not include
the herds in their published
records
Both Lamar and his father
feed complete rations, but
they feed their herds
separately Lamar feeds a 20
pei cent protein grain mix
and his father a 14 percent
mix Lamar purchases
alfalfa hay which he feeds at
20 pounds, and his father
grows a timothy-clover mix
which he feeds at 11 pounds
Lamar purchases silage
from his father and feeds 12
pounds while his father feeds
28 pounds
hovers need to be As the
temperature warms up,
some of the hovers need to be
removed
Failure to manage these
hovers can cause pigs to get
overheated or stay too cold
causing them to pile up
Sows need the same at
tention if you want to save
feed A warm sleeping area
can save two or more pounds
of feed per day per sow, adds
Kadwill
The teed rations are
purchased ti um Grubb s
Feed Supply, and Nevin Gish
has worked closely with the
rations'’'’LamaV states, "’We
appreciate the good job he
does tor us The cows
respond welt and are really
healthy
Having worked as a
breeding technician and still
working as a substitute, it is
natural that Lamar does the
breeding in both herds, and
even makes the selections ot
bulls tor his own herd and his
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for mating, Lamar says he
feels it is most important to
breed for proper type It
you have the correct dairy
type, milk will come along,
he said
In choosing bulls, Lamai
looks for bulls which are plus
over two points in type
They have to sire out
standing udders and real
good stature,’ he says 1
look for those two things and
to see that they are
reasonably high in test He
also looks for bulls which are
1,000 pounds plus in milk but
says that it they are
tremendous in type they
don’t have to be that high
Both he and his father
classified, with Lamar
having a BAA of 102 9 and
Harold having 102 4 Lamar
states, I am working to
improve that ”
Calf raising is done dif
ferently in the two herds
Both men raise all their
heifer calves, but Harold
uses the more conventional
methods of raising them in
the barn and Lamar chooses
to raise his in hutches The
next plan is to build a heifer
barn because of over
crowded conditions m their
current heifer barn
Lamar adds, I would like
to merchandise my animals
and make some con
signments ’ He reports that
his lather has had buyers
from several states and he is
interested in following along
those same lines
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Lamar says, 1 think we get,
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