’6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 28,1981 El Ddiiy Pipeline By t Glenn A. Shirk Extension Dairy Agent Cows Are Your Business If you are a dairyman, the dairy cow is your business Her offspring are your future. Unlike most other business property, she is a living, sensitive creature that is working for you 24 hours a day and without over time pay She doesn’t even quit at the end of the day, even while she is sleeping, nor does she shut down for weekends and holidays' Wouldn’t it be nice though if she did at least once in a while 9 Like most good workers, a cow will usually respond favorably to good treatment In otherwords, if you take good care of her, chances PARS SOIL SERVICE HAS A NEW SOLUTION TO AN OLD PROBLEM. (LIQUID CALCIUM SOLUTION) Get That Extra Edge You Need For More Profits At Harvest With PROMESOL. For Correction Of Calcium Deficiency In Crops. 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CONTACT MARTIN’S REFRIGERATION SERVICE 1122 Woodstock Road Fayetteville, PA 17222 Phone: (717) 352-2783 SALES & SERVICE are, she’ll take good care of you How well a cow will perform is determined in part by her inherited genetic ability to produce Fortunately, we are well blessed with a large selection of good dairy bulls Assuming we have bred our cows “right”, our next challenge is to keep each newborn calf alive Each new generation of calves should be genetically superior and have the ability to outproduce their dams by at least 300 pounds of milk per year That alone is worth over $4O per lactation Add to that, the increased value of their genetically superior offspring L HiPerForm * "OH” USED TANKS 300 Gal. & Up 0 Sales Co-ordinator ROBERT CAIN Willow Street, PA BULK DELIVERY AVAILABLE ON YOUR FARM 7\ • 1, “MHL" Each new calf is valuable for the potential it possesses' But remember, a dead calf can never develoo into a good cow Thus, the more well-bred, genetically supenor calves you can raise, the more good heifers you’ll have to select from when upgrading your herd Hopefully, yoil’ll also have a few good cattle left over to sell as breeding stock In other words, you’ll probably be able to start doing some selective culling as opposed to forced culling - and that makes a big difference Protect Your Future There is much more to raising heifers than merely keeping them alive Your heifers are your cows of the future your future business I have yet to see a good cow which did not have a healthy set of lungs, a good digestive tract, a strong sei of feet and legs, a sound udder and a healthy reproductive tract All of these parts are essential to a good cow, and all of them are vulnerable to damage Some of tin-- . inr l ai ><> > ui early in her life For example, calfhood pneumonia can scar a calf’s lungs for life This could seriously impair her ability to produce milk and lower her resistance to diseases and in fections That is not the kind of cow I would want in my herd Similarly, a severe infestation of intestinal worms can scar the YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND A FURMAN CANNING CO. TOMATO GROWER’S MEETING Farmersville Fire Hall MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1981 Intercourse Fire Hall TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1981 invites you to attend these meet ings to discuss Contract Tomato Growing. We are prepared to present to you our complete 1981 “Tomato Program”. John E. Everitt, Field Manager delicate lining of a calf’s digestive tract This could permanently reduce her ability to efficiently convert feed into milk A heifer foundered early in her life because of improper feeding, can experience foot problems for life Poor nutrition can also stunt a heifer’s growth an impair her ability to produce Nutrition is also closly related to reproduction, and complications at calving time can predispose heifers to uterine in fections The same can be said of unsanitary conditions and the use of infected herd sires Recently, I was on a farm where a large percentage of first-calf heifers freshened with mastitis Even though it was not observed, we suspected these heifers were sucked as calves In this case, all infected heifers had one thing in common, at one time or another, all of them had been penned with a small group of heifers that had been raised together from weaning to calving, one of them was probably a “sucker” This can result in permanent damage to the udder These are only a few examples of things, that can happen to heifers, injuries which may affect them for life It puts a lid on their ability to produce, no matter how well we care for them as cows These affected heifers develop into cows that perform about as 1:30 P.M. 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Furman Canning Co., Palms, Pa. 18070 Telephone 215-679-6206 poorly as a tractor that is misfiring on several cylinders However there is one important difference You can replace a set of plugs on a tractor, but when is the last time you replaced a cow’s lungs, her feet and legs, or her udder’ 7 A cow has but one body, and it has to last her for life - and that h» e starts when she is a calf How well a cow performs on the outside depends on how well she is on the inside, and a lot of that is determined by how we have bred her, and how well we have cared for her from calfhood through maturity Md. offers beekeeper eourse cUUisUt, me iim Annual t>hurt Couisc iui Beginning Beekeepeis is scheduled loi Ma> i and 2 Ihe session will he held ai Hie apiaiy on ine Univcnsiiy ut Mai yland s college Pai k campus Ihe Umveisily will he oitei mg an inlei mediate level cuuise duimg March Die woikshops will he held each luesday evening ui the month at the same location i«oi molt intoi illation, toniati Uavul J' luinn oi Min iNtUon at the Mainland Agiitulluiai hv pemuenl blalion Koom ul i j i>>inoiib hall, Univeibity ut Maty land, College PatK MU 20/42, phone 501/434-2022 V.B. 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