A32—Lancaster Farmini - „y< .2 Leon Musser’s calf housing unit, known as Virginia Calf Housing allows calves to be outdoors all winter long. The right side of the barn is exposed Calf housing takes positive turn BY DEBBIE KOONTZ LANDISVILLE - A lot of people seeing Leon Musser’s calf barn for the first time could think that part of the walls and the middle of the roof are missing. When they discover it’s a finished construction, they ask the inevitable, “Don’t the calves get cold?” “No,” says Musser who himself worried about the same thing when he first began using the barn The building which con tains six pens, each twelve feet wide, is known as Virginia Calf Housing Musser points out the advantages of such a set-up, *‘My calves did much better this past winter in this type housing than they ever have Tanks all bear Underwriters’ Label, and are coated with black asphaltum paint We can provide timely delivery from Quarryv ille, PA (15 miles from the Pennsylvania Maryland hne) to Maryland Delaware Virginia, New Jersey & New York The rule of thumb for figuring delivery charges (ft) $1 25 a loaded mile We invite inquiries by phone or mail Saturday, December 6,1980 any other winter in my barn They used to get sick with pnemonia quite often until I started using this con struction “The calves slowly get used to the cold weather and actually thrive on it. Here they don’t have to con tinually smell the amoma that they smelled in the barn I think the fresh air is the key to their good health,” Mussersaid The housing unit is open to the south, a must according to Musser, or it won’t work The roof is placed at such an angle that the calves receive the sunlight all day long In the winter the calves can lay in the sun and in the summer they can lay in the shade which the divided 18- NEW UNDERGROUND STEEL FUEL STORAGE TANKS Capacity Diameter Length Gauge Weight Price FOB (Gallons) (Thickness) (Pounds) Quarryville 285 STT 5 T 6” 12 278 110.00 550 4’o" 6'o" 10 549 205.00 550 4’o” 6’o" 7 751 250.00 1.000 4'o” 10'8" 10 827 300.00 1.000 4'o" 10’8" 7 1,129 370.00 1.000 5’4” 6’o" 7 1,028 350.00 1,500 5’4” 9’o” 7 1,388 470.00 2.000 5’4” 120" 7 1,735 570.00 3.000 5’4” 17’11” 7 2,432 770.00 4.000 5'4" 23'10” 7 3,130 950.00 5.000 8’0” 13’7” 1/4" 4,484 1,540.00 6.000 8’0” 16’2” 1/4" 5,123 1.690.00 8.000 8’0” 21’6” 1/4" 6,475 2.095.00 10.000 8'0” 26’10” 1/4” 7,825 2,495.00 10.000 lO’O” 17'0" 1/4” 6,956 2.250.00 12.000 lO’O” 20’6" 1/4” 8,074 2.630.00 12.000 10’6” 18’7" 1/4” 7,900 2.525.00 15.000 10’6" 23'2" 5/16" 11,857 3,825.00 20.000 10’6” 31'0” 5/16” 15,105 4.790.00 25.000 10'6” 38’7” 3/8” 22,115 7.225.00 30.000 10’6" 46’4" 3/8" 25,999 8.390.00 FH-L- RITE & CSASBO'f' • PUMPS HOWARD E. GROFF CO. Over Forty Years of Reliable Service Fuel Oil, Gasoline, and Coal 111 E. State Street, Quarryville, PA 17566 Phone. 717 786-2166 i , to the south, catching the sun all day long and the left side is completely closed in to prevent drafts. feet-wide roof provides The northern wall is completely closed against the cold The pens are complete with three heated water units and a long trough on the southern end of the pens Musser says he hasn’t had to change his feeding habits at all except maybe to give them a little more food in the winter because of the cold. What has changed however, is that the calves have larger pens to roam in and Musser has an easier time cleaning these pens than those pens a barn provides. A gutter-like drop in the cement and gates between each pen allow him to easily clean the pens Musser says he first saw . t/; .' t i t t < ! the construction in a farm magazine and sent for the blueprints He then con structed the unit using lumber from an Old tobacco shed which was previously on his farm After building the unit, about one year ago, he “grouped the calves by age from eight weeks till they’re ready to calf and filled the pens It wasn’t that ex pensive because I built it myself but it was sure worth it,” he said. Musser also has 62,000 pullets and 54 Holstein cows Blueprints for the calf housing unit are available from Hoards Dairyman, 28 Milwaukee Ave., West, Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, 53538, for a low selling price (Continued from Page A3l) individuals who handled the bookwork previously. Computerized updating at the new central laboratory will cost over $300,000, or a cent per cow per month for the next 15 years. In addition to combining and cutting down on staff numbers, the computerization will also greatly reduce the turn around time on papers, getting them back to the farms much sooner than in the past Pruss also announced another change, the increase by four cents per cow, in the state DHIA fee One cent of that will go toward the equipment, one cent toward the building and two cents Make Compact, portable bales. See the new Gehl 1400 round baler It gives you well-formed, easily portable 900 lbs bales With faster bale starts' Gehl’s patented A-frame drawbar and top mounted shuttle let you watch the bale as it forms And you get overload protection the hay pickup automatically stops when the chamber is full Stop m and see the new Gehl 1400 today' PEOPLE’S SALES & SERVICE Oakland Mills PA 717 463 2735 NG. HERSHEY & SON Manheim PA 71 7 666 2271 A. I. HERR & BRO Quarryville PA 717 786 3621 S JOHNSON HURFF Pole Tavern Monroeville NJ 609 358 2565 or 609 769 2565 STOUFFER BROS. INC. ( hambersburg PA 717 263 8424 ARNETT'S GARAGE Rt 9 Box 12b Hagerstowvn MD 501 733 051 b UMBERGER’S MILL Rt 4lebanon PA (Fontana) 71 7 867 5161 ZOOK'S FARM STORE Honey Brook PA York DHIA for operating costs of the program State administrators are also looking at an on-line computerized system that would someday enable farmers to hook-up to the records right from their farm offices Pruss in dicated that one farmer in the state is already linked to a phone computerization of cattle records, tied into a system in the state of Utah Other speakers during the evening mcluded alternate York dairy princess Angie Eyster, who urged the dairy families to always serve butter, and extension agent Neil Jones, with a brief progress leport on the county’s DHIA program Waiver of Interest Plan Until Mayl, 1981 On All Hay & Forage Equipment GEHL FARM EQUIPMENT AGWAY, INC i hapmanEquip i enter ( haproan PA 216 398 2663 CHAS J McCOMSEY & SONS 1 ake Road RI fhomasville PA 71 7 259 045 5 PETERMAN FARM EQUIPMENT. 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