C3B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 6,1981
Moor
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cutting down on the labor
requirement for milking.
Sanitation also is the reason
Barbara chose easy-to-clean
plastic paneling for the barn’s
interior walls.
In the barn, gooved concrete
floors were installed to keep the
cows from slipping with asphalt
floors for the free-stalls. Haenlem
notes the asphalt floors keep the
cows from digging up their stalls.
Modem technology is evident m
the new feeding system too. Large
tanks hold com silage, whole gram
corn and supplement. The
ingredients move on conveyor
belts, are weighed on electronic
scales and mixed at the rate of 800
pounds com, 400 pounds sup
plement, 1000 pounds silage, and a
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