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at Rinehart Farms, known for
strong cow families.
Castle berg Brothers and David
Castleberg of Aspm, Wis. pur
chased two full-sisters which were
Bootmaker daughters. The
Wisconsin buyers bought Rinehart
Bootmaker Vamue, an Excellent
90 6-year-old, for $27,000. Her sister
Rinehart Bootmaker Vale, a Very
Good 87 3-year-old, brought an
$19,000 pnce tag.
New York buyer Scott Donaldson
purchased more than $40,000 worth
of Rinehart animals including a
Very Good 87 MUu Betty Ivanhoe
Chief daughter.
The sale animals were dispersed
across the country from Maine to
California.
John and Sharon Rinehart’s 400-
acre registered Holstein farm is
located near Taneytown, Md., just
south of the Pennsylvania border.
To the casual observer, it ap
pears as just another lovely farm.
Big black and white cows dot the
rolling pasture hills as a stream
gently winds its way along the
field.
But to the trained eye or even the
most serious of Holstein
breeding, the farm is nothing short
of incredible. Many of the
Hoisteins .quietly grazing at
Rinehart Farms, represent some
The sale topper, Rinehart Dawfinette drew scored Very Good 89 as a 2-year-old and ex
the high bid of $70,000. The Marquis daughter cellent on mammary.
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provided much of the ground work for John American.
Rinehart's top Holstein herd. The Apollo
Cow families excel at Rinehart farms
of the strongest cow families in the
nation if not the world.
' When John purchased his
father’s farm in the late 1960’s he
bought a herd of cows which ex
- panded the herd from 30 to 100
head. The University of Marland
dairy science graduate looked for
the best bull to use on the new herd
and he settled on Apollo. That
decision helped Rinehart build the
remarkable herd he has today.
The keystone of the herd, without
a doubt, would be Rinehart’s
“complete” All-American,
Rinehart Apollo Dawfin. The All-
American 2-year-old, Dawfin
scored a Very Good 88 and from
there her track record reads like a
report card of a straight A student.
The excellent cow scored 92 as a
3-year-old, 94 as a 4 and 5-year-old,
95 as a 6-year-old, and today the 9-
year-old Holstein topped it all with
a 96 score.
"She's what every registered
breeder dreams of,” Sharon ex
claimed. “She always was a
young-looking cow.”
Dawfin’s lifetime record stands
at better than 165,000 pounds of
milk with a 4.4 percent buterfat
test.
Typically, the Rinehart cows
exhibit excellent mammary
systems and said Sharon, are
exceptionally big and carry a lot of
strength.
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John and Sharon Rinehart have built one of country. They base
the finest registered Holstein herds in the cellent cow families.
Another influential cow family at
Rinehart Farms, traces back to a
big white cow, Pleasant View Lilly
Pond, affectionately known as
“Whitie.”
John bred Whitie, a 92 Gold
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The White cow family claims
three generations of Excellent
Holsteins. Wimpy’s daughter,
Rinehart R Maple Wimpy, sired by
Citation, also has an Excellent
rating in her pedigree.
The Ruby line, which produced
four generations of Excellents
began with a Glendell daughter,
Rinehart Chief Rubin. Other
Excellents in the Ruby line in
cludes a Matt daughter, an
Elevation daughter and a Ecraso
Golden Topper daughter.
In addition to using several older
proven bulls in the herd, such as
Apollo, Glendell, Valiant,
Elevation and Ivanhoe, the
Rineharts breed to various young
sires.
However, the young sire must
be out of a strong cow family, ex
plains Sharon. She said her
husband wishes he had more time
to travel and look at daughters of
the young sires in building his
strong cow families.
“In the last 10 years, people are
turning away from cow families
and relying more on numbers,”
added Sharon.
But Rinehart Farm is living
proof that cow families can add to
the genetic progress of the breed.
The farm family is comprised of
John, Sharon and their daughter, 8-
year-old Jenell who will be on the
show circuit in the near future.
Although her parents will be there
to guide Jenell in the beginning,
No, this isn’t a fancy horse barn, but rather individual
boxstalls for several fancy Rinehart cows. When completed
each boxstall will have an individual exercise pen.
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Medal Dam, with Zeldenrust
Royal Pontiac and that mating
produced Sarob Royal Wimpy, a
4E93.
sir success on strong ex-
the youngest Rinehart will leam
responsibility in the show ring.
“We want her to be able to say,
‘l've done this on my own,’ ” ex
plained the proud mother.
Sharon, a former veterinary
assistant, presides over the 35
calves m hutches. At birth, the
calves get a bellyful of colustrum,
a painted, navel and injections of
vitamins A,D and E plus Iron.
The Rinehart’s maternity ward
also includes an oxygen machine,
which Sharon said, has saved
many valuable calves.
“If you just save a few veal
calves, its paid for,” she said of the
economical tool.
The high producers and 2-year
olds in the milking herd are fed an
18 percent protein feed in the
parlor. The feed bunks are Med
'with coni silage and the high pro
ducers are treated to good quality
alfalfa hay twice a day to mam
tain the 17,000 pounds of milk herd
average'.
Sharon and John both supervise
the twice a day milking in their
doufale-8 herringbone parlor. Most
of the herd is housed in a free stall
bam, but recently the Rineharts
have added a new facility with
individual box stalls for Dawfm
and many of her lofty peers.
In a recent advertisement of
Rinehart Farms, John Rinehart
challenged all registered Holstein
breeders to establish high goals n
the breeding, promoting, ad
vertising and merchandising of the
breed.
And according to many Holstein
breeders, there’s no better role
model around than John Rinehart.