A22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 14,1981
BY SHEILA MILLER
PRESCOTT Lebanon County
dairy producers gathered here at
the Fire Hall on Tuesday evening
to honor the top producers of the
52nd year of Dairy Herd Im
provement Association progress in
the county.
The crowd of approximately 300
people applauded the record
turned in by Donald Bollinger’s
herd of registered Holsteins.
Bollinger, along with his father,
Harold, milks 42 head at Willow
Maple Farm, located near
Klemfeltersville.
For the eighth consecutive year,
these black and white milkers out
produced every other herd in the
county. This past year they turned
in a record of 20,884 pounds milk
with 702 pounds fat. Bollinger
attributes the consistent high
production of Willow Maple
Farm’s Holsteins to a balanced
feeding program.
The county award for high fat
herd went to the 43 head of
Holsteins milking for Kenneth
Sellers, R 4 Lebanon. These ‘ladies’
put out 741 pounds of butterfat with
18,738 pounds of milk. This is the
second year in a row that Sellers’
cows earned the top fat production
award
The award for top individual cow
in fat production went to a
registered Holstein owned by Dale
Hostetter & Sons, R 2 Annville.
Hostetterdale Fobes Paclamar 92-
2E made a record of 1,204 pounds
fat with 27,941 pounds milk, for a
4.3 test. This was the highest
lactation record for the 9-year-old
daughter of Paclamar Astronaut,
but all her previous records
averaged 4.3 test, explained
Hostetter
A grade Holstein in the barn of
Luke Patches, R 7 Lebanon,
produced the record poundage of
milk in Lebanon County last year.
Radar made 31,056 pounds of milk
during her 305-day record with 982
pounds fat and a 3.2 test. This was
the Willowlyn Sky Cross
daughter’s highest lactation,
according to Patches.
Norman Kline, R 2 Myerstown,
and son David, accepted the award
for highest percent increase in
yearly herd average for milk and
fat. Their 77-head herd made a
record of 17,604 pounds milk and
673 pounds fat. Commenting on
their accomplishment, son David
explained, “It’s not that we came
up that much this year, but that we
had dropped down that much the
year before.”
A total of rune herds in the
county made more than 700 pounds
in fat records. They were on the
farms of: Kenneth I. Sellers;
Bennetch Bros., R 2 Myerstown, 73
head, 19,863 pounds milk, 735
pounds fat; Kenneth Mase,
Lebanon, 78 head, 19,125 milk, 732
fat; Dale Hostetter & Son, 87 head,
19,372 milk, 731 fat; Marlin M.
High, R 1 Lebanon, 35 head, 20,105
milk, 727 fat; Raymond & Marlin
Getz, Myerstown, 51 head, 18,688
milk, 716 fat; Marvin K. Meyer &
Sons, R 2 AnnviUe, 89 head, 18,345
milk, 714 fat; Roy E. Nolt, R 1
Richland, 49 head, 18,243 milk, 705
fat; and Willow Maple Farm.
The dairy producers elected
three new directors to serve 2-year
terms on the county DHIA board.
They are Dale Hoover, Gary Lentz,
and David Brandt. These men are
replacing Harold Bollinger, Robert
Lentz, and Ken Sellers, whose
terms expired.
Penn State’s Steve Spencer
reminded the producers to watch
their somatic cell counts and to use
the new testing program which
gives them a month-to-month
status report on each cow. He
pointed out when somatic cell
Bollingers top Lebanon DHIA
in milk production for Bth year
counts increase, production
conversely decreases.
Some of the ways to combat the
pathogens causing high cell counts
include teat dipping and an
tibiotics. Spencer recommended
farmers work with their
veterinarians to determine which
antibiotic is specific for the in
fective organism by using the
sensitivity test.
A normal udder has a somatic
cell count of less than 200,000. The
white cell level in milk can be
tested by several methods the
California mastitis test, which can
identify a particular quarter in
fection; and the Wisconsin mastitis
test, which screen tests the milk
from the bulk tank; and a few
others.
Spencer explained each cow
that’s tested receives a code from
1-9, with 9 representing the most
severe infection. He pointed out the
daily milk production difference
between a cow that tests in Group 1
and a cow that tests in Group 2 is 5
pounds of milk per day.
"You have to search out those
cows with high counts and reduce
those counts for efficient
production," advised Spencer.
“There’s no way a cow can
produce up to her inherited
capability, otherwise.”
Spencer cleared up some old
“dairy farmer’s tales” about high
counts being related to lactation
and age. The dairy specialist cited
experiments which separated
infected cows from non-mfected
cows. The results of the studies
showed non-mfected cows did not
change their somatic cell counts
either as their lactation progressed
or as they got older.
State director Harold Bollinger
reported to the dairy producers
that on a statewide level, the
number of farmers who are having
their milk tested for protein has
increased from 192 members in
July to the present 231 members.
In Lebanon County, 139 herds
completed the DHIA year, all
exceeding an average production
of 400 pounds butterfat. Since
DHlA’s start m the county m 1929,
the number of cows increased from
382 to the present 8,651. Production
averages also went from 9,061
pounds milk to 15,855; fat jumped
from an average of 335 pounds to
today’s average of 593 pounds.
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Federal Order No. 4
Middle Atlantic Marketing Area
Base milk price up two pennies
Middle Atlantic Order Market
Administrator Joseph D. Shine
recently announced an October
1981 base milk price of $14.01 per
hundredweight and an excess ot
milk price ot $12.47.
The October weighted average
price was $14.01 and the buttertat
differential tor the month was 17.3
cents. The base milk price was up
two cents from September, while
the weighted average price in
creased three cents.
The October base milk price was
29 cents higher than last year. The
advertising withholding rate,
which is deducted from the base
and excess milk prices but not the
weighted average price, was 13
cents a hundredweight and the
amount withheld totaled
$631,615.92. The gross value of
producer milk during October was
$67.6 million compared to $64 9
million a year ago
Shine said that producei milk
receipts totaled 465 9 million
Lebanon County dairy producers honored milk; Donald Bollinger, high herd for milk;
for their top DHIA records on Tuesday evening Kenneth Sellers, high herd for fat: and Norman
include: from left, Dale Hostetter, high record' Kline, highest percentage increase in yearly
cow for fat; Luke Patches, high record cow for herd average.
Those dairymen whose herds made over 700 Donald Bollinger, Roy Nolt, Raymond Getz,
pounds fat in their 305-day record were: from Kenneth Sellers, and Kenneth Mase.
left, Bill Bennetch, Jim Meyer, Dale Hostetter,
pounds during October, a drop of
0.2 percent trom September, on a
daily basis, but up 11.0 million
pounds or 2.4 percent from a year
ago.
During the first ten'months ot
this year, producer milk receipts
were up b. 3 percent, on a daily
basis, or almost 300 million
pounds. Class 1 producer milk
totaled 250.0 million pounds and
accounted for 51.04 percent ot total
receipts.
A year ago Class 1 producer milk
totaled 262.3 million pounds and
represented 55.31 percent of total
milk receipts. Base milk ac
counted tor 91.78 percent ot total
October production compared to
90.92 percent last year. There were
7,098 producers supplying pool
handle! s in October.
This was 147 less than in Sep
tember and a decline ot 399 from
June. A year ago there were 7,362
producers. The average daily
delivery per pioducer was 2,208
pounds tor the month, an inci ease
ot 40 pounds trom September and
130 pounds oi 6 3 percent higher
than the October 1000 average. The
average butterfat test ot producer
milk increased trom 3.57 percent in
September to 3.72 in October.
Middle Atlantic order pool
handlers reported Class 1 m-area
milk disposition ot 210.0 million
pounds during October, a drop ot
3.6 percent trom a year earlier,
after adjustment to eliminate
variation due to calendar com
position.
December Class 1 price up 6 cents
Shine also announced a Class 1
milk price of $16.30 per hun
dredweight tor December 1981.
This price is up six cents from the
November price and is ten cents
above the December 1980 Class 1
price.
Order No. .4 prices are an
nounced tor milk testing 3.5 per
cent buttertat t.o.b. plants located
within 55 miles ot Philadelphia,
PA and also within 75 miles from
the neaier ot Washington, DC or
Baltimore, MD. i’here is also a b
cent direct-delivery ditterential
applicable to producer milk
i eceived at plants located within 55
miles ot Philadelphia.
Shine announced a Class 11 milk
price ot $12.50 per hundredweight
tor October 1981 and a butterfat
ditterential ot 17.3 cents for the
month. The Class 11 milk price is
up six cents from the previous
month while the buttertat dit
terential is up two-tenths of a cent.
These class prices are based on
the October 1981 Minnesota-
Wisconsm manufacturing milk
price ot $12.02 per hundredweight
adjusted to a 3.6 percent butterfat
content.
The USDA reported that the
wholesale price ot Grade A butter
at Chicago for October was $1.5067
per pound and the nontat dry milk
price was $.9359 per pound, t.o.b.
plants in the Chicago area.
NATIONAL OUTLOOK
Sterile milk plants
are pupping up
According to W.F. Johnstone,
Exension Ag Economist, ultra
high temperature pasteurized milk
is posed tor take-otl during the
coming yeai. Starting with juice
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