C42—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 18,1981
"One of the best things we've ever done," is heifer feeding setup installed in 1975 for
Dave Roth's assessment of the "tombstone" raising young stock.
Holstein tour
(Continued from Page C4l)
Nevm and Ann’s son, George,
will soon graduate from high
school and plans to step into the
dairy operation, assuring a fourth
generation to carry on the Blam
View Holstein tradition.
Ray McMillen’s picture-pretty
white-fenced farmstead at
Loysville R 1 nestled at the foot of a
mountain ndge, was the third stop
on the Perry tour.
Ray and his sons, John and
Larry, maintain a herd of about 70
registered Holstems on their Ray-
Mc Farm. McMillens had the first
Perry County herd to top both the
19,000 and 20,000 herd averages in
milk production. Last year, they
finished third in the county’s DHIA
listing with 19,411 of milk and 728 of
fat. The present rolling herd
average is over 20,000 with 765 of
fat.
The legacy of the great Whirlhill
Kingpin is again evident in this
herd. All but a few pedigree out
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siders in the milking string trace
their lineage back to Ray-McPride
Whirlhill.
“Whirlhill,” from an Irvington
Pride Admiral dam, was the first
Kingpin daughter to be named
Excellent-Gold Medal and scored
92-4 E.
Much of the outstanding
descendancy in the McMillen barn
is from the crossing of this Kingpin
line with the Elevation lines.
The McMillen operation en
compasses about a thousand acres
of valley and mountain ground on
three farms. Dry cows and heifers
up to yearling age are maintained
on one farm, while bred heifers
and those readily for service are
housed at another
Seventeen bulls from the Mc-
Millen herd have gone into A.I.
service and numerous pride
breeders have selected young sires
from this herd. One bull is in
service m Holland, while another is
in Germany, and additional
matings for foreign stud facilities
are presently under contract.
The accomplishments of
“Whirlhill”, and the production
and type legacy she left behind in
the McMillen comfort stalls, have
brought visitors from around the
world into this barn in quiet, rural
area of Perry County The guest
books include entries from Italy,
Germany, Switzerland, South
American and India.
Named a Master Farmer in 1972,
Ray gives much of the credit for
the farm’s successes to his late
wife, Helen G. McMillen, who died
recently following a prolonged
illness. He pays tribute to her for
having spent much tune at the
bam, working side-by-side with
him, to build the Ray-Mc Holstein
operation.
In addition to John and Larry,
partners in the dairy operation,
Ray has another son dairying on
his own farm near Landisburg, one
daughter living nearby -and five
grandchildren already interested
in cows and calves.
The final stop in the tour, was at
Oumbelle Farms, operated by
Shayne and Tom Dum 111, Lan
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Extending a welcome to Dumbelle Holsteins were Shayne
and Tom Dum 111, and Perry County extension agent John
Harris, left.
This young couple, the thir.
generation on the farm, recently
took over complete operation of the
50-head herd when Tom’s father,
Tom Dum, Jr., began working for
the Holstein Association as a cattle
classifier.
“I’d rather breed a cow ap
pealing to the eye, and then feed
her for production,” says Tom,
whose herd is well-known for
producing cows of fine type.
“That means stressing im
portance on good udders, stature
and correct legs,” he adds. “We
incorporate high P.D. (predicted
difference) proof bulls when it
suits.”
This careful cultivation of
typmess has paid off. Dumbelle’s
latest classification totaled up to a
B A.A. of 106.3, with seven cows
scored Excellent, 29 Very Goods
and 14 Goods.
But production doesn’t take a
back seat, either, last year’s DHIA
results compared out to an im
pressive 19,129 pounds of milk and
693 of fat.
Individual records are as im
pressive as the cows that made
them.
Full sisters by Elevation have
records to 32,000 milk and six
records over 10GO fat.
Ten head carry 18 records
averaging over 1000 fat. *
One tremendous bodied brood
cow is Dumbelle Skylmer Peggy
Lou, 3E-91. At fourteen, “Peggy
Lou” cames lifetime credits to
date of 265,689 milk and 9785 fat.
Since 1968, 30 bulls have left the
Dumbelle h&rd to go into sire
service. One of the best known is
“Peggy-Lou’s” son by Elevation,
Dumbelle Elevation Liftoff, now in
use at American Breeders Service.
Dum’s house the herd in a
comfort stall barn, which features
a rather unusual manure handling
system, installed in 1971.
Wastes are run out of the gutters
and elevated up onto a stack,
which settles into a cement block
enclosure. The block and concrete
holding area has a capacity of at
least nine months storage. A three
percent slope drains liquid to one
end where they partially envelope.
The enclosure is emptied twice
yearly, before corn ground
plowdown and on alfalfa ground
during the late fall.
Tom and Shayne have three's 1
daughters and the fourth Thomas ’
Dum, already busy poking around
the dairy bam, at 18 months of age,
on his riding toys.
Tom Is active m local, state and
national Holstein activities, and
both he and Shayne are en
thusiastic workers m the Perry
County dairy princess and milk
promotional programs.
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