A2o—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 21,1981
Manheim
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
MANHEIM Dairy farmer
Andrew Miller Jr , R 2 Manheim,
didn’t mind this winter’s frigid
temperatures or brisk, biting
winds one bit.
Well, at least he didn’t mind
them as much as he has during
previous winters
This past winter he didn’t need to
coax a stubborn tractor into action
every day and then climb onto the
cabless seat to haul manure onto
the windswept fields
Miller and his son, Lamar, who
operate an 85-acre dairy farm
At the end of new barn expansion is a holding pit that
receives manure from gutter cleaner. Underground 30-inch
pipe moves waste by gravity some 120 feet to pond.
TOBACCO
MEEDKI
WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 25, 1981
5:30 P.M.
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dairyman doesn’t miss daily manure hauling
between Manheim and Mount Joy,
ended their daily manure hauling
routine when they included a
gravity flow manure system into
their recent barn and herd ex
pansion
“I didn’t miss the daily hauling
one bit,” Miller said
“It was a pleasure to come out to
the barn on those cold days,
knowing there was no manure that
had to be hauled ”
The gravity flow system became
an integral part of the planning for
the barn expansion, which more
than doubled stall capacity
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2313 Norman Rd., Lancaster, PA 17601
Phone: 717-397-5152
Andrew Miller Jr., right, and son, Lamar, which was constructed last year in their new
look out over earthen bank holding pond, gravity flow manure system
“It was a little more than a year The sxx-foot square pit is 8 feet
ago when we started planning,” deep and is equipped with an
Miller said exhaust fan The fan provides at
Miller was introduced to the least two advantages
gravity flow concept at a manure "The fan in the pit pulls odors
management meeting held last from both the barn and the milk
year by Lancaster County Ex- house,” Miller explained
tension The meeting featured a “Also, as it pulls the warmer air
slide presentation and explanation from the barn it prevents freeze
of the gravity flow concept ups m the holding pit We had no
developed at Cornell University trouble With freezing during the
County dairy agent Glenn Shirk
and Roger Giout, Penn State ag
engineer, also visited the Miller
farm and helped with the planning
Construction was started last
April and completed in August An
80 X 55-foot barn addition contains
40 stalls The older, original part of
the barn has 37 stalls
A gutter-cleaner is utilized to
move the manure from both
sections of the barn to a holding pit
at the end of the new addition
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past winter ”
A 30-inch underground concrete
pipe extends 120 feet from the pit to
an earthen bank holding pond
The top level of the pond is about
five feet lower than the bottom of
the gutter. This difference
provides the necessary force for
the manure to flow from the
holding pit to the pond
The pond, which was designed by
ASC personnel, is 100 feet square at
the top and tapers to 40-feet square
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at the bottom ItislJteetdeep
Manure from gutters in the older
section of the barn began moving
into the pond in mid-July. Manure
depth in the pond is presently
about six and one-half feet Total
capacity is believed sufficient to
accomodate 80 cows for a year
“Excavation for the pond fitted
in with the construction of the barn
addition because we needed fill,”
Miller said
He said total cost for the pit, pipe
and pond excavation was about
$9,000
■That’s just about what a ram
alone would have cost,” Miller
said
When he went to the gravity flow
system, Miller switched his type of
bedding. He now uses wood
shavings instead of straw and each
stall is equipped with a mat
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