D22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12,1981
Retired Lane. DHIA supervisor shares two decades
BY SALLY BAIK
Staff Correspondent
QUARRYVILLE
Robert J. Brmton first tested milk
for the Dairy Herd Improvement
Association, herds were smaller,
milk was shir in cans, roads
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Now that his daily routine doesn't find him on the road or in
the barn, Brinton finds time to relax and catch up on the odd
jobs around his home near Quarryviile.
were not paved and the samples
were run on the farm.
Twenty-one years later, Bnnton
has retired. During those two
decades Brinton experienced
many changes in the work which
was a large part of his life.
When
Brinton, 227 Circle Drive,
Quarry vilie, has lived in Lancaster
County nearly all of his life and at
one time owned two farms. He had
to leave dairying because of back
trouble and chose being a DHIA
supervisor, something which kept
him close to the life he knew and
loved. He also kept one herd of
about 60 cows which he recently
visor hard at work at a desk and even though producers, he still finds plenty of paper worl
Lancaster's Robert Brinton retired in October piling up.
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Brinton first took over the circuit
on which Curtin Akers had worked
when Akers left to become a dairy
farmer. Brinton recalls, ‘‘l didn’t
know what to expect, but it worked
out all right. I enjoyed doing it.
When we first tested, we kept the
books and ran the samples."
Brinton also remembers that,
since many testers were single,
they also boarded with the families
for whom they tested.
The testing program was
eventually changed so that the
actual running of samples was
done at the supervisors home,
cutting into the time the tester
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