A2D-U«<««ter faming, Saturday, November 7,1951
BY DONNA TOMMELLEO
MIDDLETOWN One January
night, eight years ago the Howard
Kopps of Stoneylawn Holstein
Farm, lived through what every
farm family dreads a barn
burning.
Fire swept through their one
story bam, leaving nothing but a
foundation, a feed trough and
stanchions.
Howard and sons Jay and
Ronald managed to save all the
animals. It was only in going back
for a tractor that Howard was'
burned and had to spend time in a
hospital.
Jay’s wife Anne was at their
house, which is separated from the
main farm by several fields. The
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Eight years later a new barn stands on the level and the milking parlor, two years
existing foundation of the destroyed structure, afterconstruction is to the left.
The young stock are now housed in the first
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, night the barn burned was one
she’ll never forget..
“I was looking out a window
toward the farm when my father
in-law must have opened the bam
door. When I saw the flames I
couldn’t believe it and felt as if I
just wanted to crawl in bed and
pretend it didn’t happen,” she said.
But it did happen. And when the
smoke cleared the Kopps were
faced with picking up the pieces.
Although the tragedy proved to
be a “financial loss,” explained
Jay, his hearty herd of Holsteuis
had little trouble adjusting.
“The cows seemed to come right
back once they got adjusted to the
smell,” he said.
The Kopps covered the foun-
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dation with heavy plastic and tires
and continued to milk the herd
under the temporary roof for a few
days.
Later, the herd was scattered in
three different farms during
construction of the new facility.
With the help of neighbors and an
Amish carpenter crew, the Kopps
watched the new barn take shape.
Mother nature even pitched m
that year and provided a mild
winter and eventually the
Stoneylawn Holsteins settled into
their new bam, complete with
double-eight herringbone parlor.
But it seems that the Kopps’ big
Black and Whites will settle just
about everywhere Saudi Arabia,
Germany and around the U.S.
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Stoneylawn dairy takes ch£
Merchandising contributes about young stock have a price tag for
25 percent of the Income on the 400- interested parties,
acre farm. Jay estimated. Merchandising also helps spread
“We just couldn’t milk enough the. word about the Stoneylawn
for three families,” he said. genetics.
And that’s one of the reasons, If someone were to peek into the
Jay explained, that every one of Kopps’ semen tankttaey would find
the 100 milk cows and 100 head of Glendell, Sexation, Mars. Elmer
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While corn picking takes place in the background the
fodder-shredder stands ready to spit out huge stacks of
bedding. The Kopps share the money-saving machinery with
a neighbor
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