A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 20, 1960 Oakenbound BY SHEILA MILLER RICHLAND - It was like finding a gold mine in a coal dump when Richard Troutman and his sons found the Holstein heifer at a consignment sale in Schuylkill County in 1977 The yearling heifer was to be the first of a family of the black and whites to bring fortune to the Troutman partnership, Oakenbound Holsteins located near Richland “After we bought the heifer, we liked her so much we decided to go after the family,” said Richard in recounting a success story filled with hopes and misfortune When they went to the heifer’s former owner and inquired about her dam, Troutmans learned the cow was not on Carl Snyder’s list of favorites She had failed to become pregnant for the dairy farmer, so it was either sell her or make hamburgers out of her As Nelson described it, when he studied the cow’s pedigree his only concern was “Can she walk 9 ” The Troutmans’ first purchase in the family was Carl-A Chief Faith, bought at a consignment sale in 1977 Her 305 day record as a two-year-old was 20,152 pounds milk with 823 pounds fat, and her three-year-old record increased to 25,599 pounds milk and 1262 pounds fat Her first ET calves, bred by Glen Valley Star will be on the ground this March Fobes. It was a shock and a disappointment for the farm when this top-pedigree cow died this past fall. However, these five bull calves by S-W-D Valiant will be carrying on her traits of milk production and type. What was so exciting about a cow who was one step off the kill floor mother of a heifer who had proven to be a top milker on the Oakenbound string 9 Bloodlines the dam, Carl-A Bootmaker Fobes, was sired by Paclamar Bootmaker out of a Whirlhill Kingpin dam Add to the pedigree the fact the third dam was an Osbornedale Ivanhoe daughter and you come up with a combination that’s dynamite The heifer, Carl-A Chief Faith, had a pedigree equally worth its weight in gold Her sire was the out standing Pawnee Farm Arhnda Chief another heavyweight in the Holstein stud world According to a spokesman for a leading bull stud, the bloodlines on Faith and her dam Fobes were the building blocks to a “continental pedigree” Production records were the proof of the pudding as far as the Troutmans’ faith in Faith was concerned After her first calf, a Whittier-Farms Apollo Holsteins find gold mine Richard Troutman, right, and his sons Nelson, center, and Richard, Jr. have high hopes for these daughters of Fobes. Both Farah, left, and Faith have contributed to the Oakenbound Holstems Rocket son. Faith made a 365 day record of 22,869 pounds in black and whites milk, and 957 pounds fat with a 4 2 percent test Her 305 day record as a two-year-old was 20,152 pounds milk, and 823 pounds fat with a 4 1 percent test She indexed 11 42 with a predicted fat difference of +5l pounds Faith’s production record didn’t fizzle out after her second Apollo Rocket calf, a heifer Her record at three years and eight months of age stands at 26,981 pounds of milk with 1340 pounds fat for a 5 0 percent test over the 338 day record After Faith’s probationary first year and the purchase of Fobes, the Troutmans’ decided to go for one more family member That same year they purchased Faitn’s half sister Carl-A Jet Stream Farah a yeai ling daughter of Arhnda Jet Stream In her first lactation, Farah also milked in the 20,000 pound range Her 305 day record was 20,295 pounds milk, 694 pounds fat, with a 3 4 percent test For the year, Farah let down 23,293 pounds milk with 810 pounds fat with a 3 5 percent test She indexed 15 61 with a V * A T '—