A2Q—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 14,19*1 Eliminates back Strain, tOO Parallel parking SEVEN VALLEYS - A per sistent cattle rustler and an aging milking parlor were largely responsible for a decision by Leroy Bupp, Seven Valleys R 2, to buck the current dairy-building trend and construct a new stanchion barn. When a cattle rustler hit twice in six months, stealing six of his best registered Holstein heifers and butchering two in the pasture of the heifer bam over the lull from the mam buildings, Bupp con sidered putting up a more visible heifer-raising facility. But what he really wanted was a new dairy bam. “It had always been one of our dreams to milk the Bupplynn herd m a tie-stall bam, where we could give better individual care to each of our registered cows,” Bupp reflects. The old double-three Surge walk through parlor was almost 25 years old, one of York county’s earliest, and both Bupp and his Maryland Cooperative Milk Producers fieldmen agreed that some major remodeling was needed. On a borrowed drafting table, Bupp began experimenting with designs. Among his bam construction goals were ways to eliminate the back and knee strain of constant kneeling and bending during milking, the incorporation of labor saving systems and methods of holding down energy costs. He also figured on tying in the earthenbank manure storage and bunker feeder systems that had been m use for several years with the parlor operation. After several layouts on paper, and a mockup of stall design in his wagon shed, Bupp was satisfied FARMSTED® I - Building Engineered For Farmer Erection 40^X75*X 14* s 7,ooo°° P. L HESS, BORER MFC. CO. Box 337, Oxford. PA 19363 Dealer Inquiries Available in Pennsylvania Counties Arm > strong, Indiana, Erie, Crawford, Warren, Elk Cameron ! McKean, Clinton, Lycoming, Sullivan Wyoming Luzerne J Columbia, Cambria, Blair, Huntingdon New Jersey j Counties - Sussex. Somerset Morris, Passaic Atlantic j Cape May No Dealer Fees. | Name Address County City Phone. with a bam nlan. His fmal drawing incorporated angled stalls, raised ten inches above the center alleyway and extending out over a grated gravity-flow-gutter manure handling system. Bupp took his rough blueprints to Amish builder Elam S. King of Strasburg, who agreed to tackle construction of the angled stall barn On Thanksgiving Eve, 1980, the herd was tied in their new home. For lack 1 of a better name, Penn State dairy specialist Dr Larry Specht has dubbed the design a “herringbone stanchion barn ’ The 82 rubber-matted, angled tie stalls are 72 inches long and range from 48 to 54 inches in width, to accommodate big-bodied older cows as well as younger heifers. Small quantities of well-dried sawdust are used for bedding. Because Bupp could not locate commercially produced gutter grates to meet his specifications, he fabricated his own of square five-eighths inch steel. The manure gutter is 27 mches wide at the top, sloping beneath the center alley to 34 mches of width at the gutter depth of four feet. The sloped side of the gutter allows for extra manure volume for the bacterial action and gravity flow processes to work. Ten-inch dams are built into the gutter at intervals of 50 feet, which retain the liquids that keep the bacterial organisms breaking down waste solids. More solid materials float to the top, and are pushed by gravity flow from one dam to the next, moving through the gutter system at the distance of about two stalls per day. Manure flows into a cross-gutter that also handles milkhouse water, BUTLER AGRI-BUILDER State. makes dairy business nicer J C „ . £ ~ _ f - Parallel parking for cows, in an angled-stali design, and a gravity-flow manure system are two features of the Bupplynn Farms tie-stall then into a receiving room with a large ventilating fan, and finally flowing into the storage pond. Fans at both ends of the gutter ventilate odors and are an integral part of the barn’s ventilating system. “Contrary to what we might believe in this country, this manure system is not a new one,” says Bupp. “European dairy farms have had them for years.” To cut down on the use of high energy fans for ventilation, Bupp designed five three-by-three foot ceiling vents spaced through the barn’s 220-foot length, to carry air up through the barn attic and out cupolas on the roof. If necessary, fans could later be installed up in the plywood vents, reducing fan noises to a minimum. Eighty 40-mch windows are BEAT THE PRICE INCREASE ON BUILDINGS AP KNOXVILLE CONSTRUCTION Knoxville, Pa 16928 PH 814-326-4188 1 A. E. ENGEL. INC. C&M SALES INC. ORVILLE MACK 8111 BRIDGEWATER O. A. NEWTON I I PO 80X216 RDII P O Box 47 BUILDING SYSTEMS & SON CO. j Marl ton, NJ. 06053 Honesdale, Pa 18431 Nazareth, Pa 18064 'NC. BndgSvilfe Delaware 19933 ■ l PH 609-983-4404 PH 717-253-1612 PH 215-759-1331 RD - *2 PHJB2-33m 11 Gi | Thompson, Pa 18465 PH 717-727-2868*' (Turn to Page A2l) Galvanized Wails and Galvanized Roof FM B.T. CONTRACTOR LEROY E. MYERS, INC. D. E. SMITH, INC. P O Box 535 Route #l, Box 163 Miff lin town. Pa. 17059 Biglerville, 8a 17303 Clear Spring, Md 21722 PH 717-436-2151 PH 717 677 6121 PH 301 582-1552 Stall angling in the barn also extends to the feedway, where cows are fed on a glazed tile trough. with 20'x13' D/S Door FARMSTED I barn. The Bupps will host an open house for their new barn this Friday. 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