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PARK 255 PLANE TREE DRIVE LANCASTER, PA 17603 (717)393-5807 Route 30 West At The Centerville Exit continues i<> ruinate ovei Uie farming coanuumi.,, as it does over the general economy, bringing Uie mental and emotional stress levels of farm families to sometimes threatening levels. What keeps farm families going through tough years is an un swerving faith in God, an in credible determination to hang on 'till better times and that flashing ray of sunshine that periodically pushes away the economic clouds of gloom and doom. Sometimes the sun shines at midnight. Sue was a first-calf heifer, a powerful front-end daughter of Elevation, one of the Holstein breed’s top sires. Last year this time, she’d dropped a dead calf, five weeks ahead of schedule. Her lack of udder development at the early calving told us She wasn’t going to do a thing tor us ai the milk pail. But nearly a week after that unfortunate premature birth, Sue began bagging, up into milk flow. Miraculously, she not only developed a respectable, well attached udder, but eventually finished her several months milking well above normal heifer production. Confirmation that she was bred back, though, brought with it a warning; the strapping big heifer's birth canal was too small to possibly ever permit normal birth, and the premature dead calf had dbu been Mother Nature’s Way ot solvmg the problem. Her chances of carrying a calf full term were questionable, and even if she did, a Ceasarean delivery was a good probability. With birth surgery comes increased problems - tor any cow. We began holding our collective breaths several weeks ago as Sue passed the tive-week-til-due period. Four weeks, three weeks, two weeks. Still nothing. And, by golly, examinations hinted that Sue’s reproductive structure was "loosening up.” With less than a week to go, Sue’s time came. It was just after midnight as we scattered fresh bedding for the delivery last weekend. A halt hour later, a tired Sue collapsed to the floor of the pen and rolled on her side. We continued pressure r " ,M A ".t the calf, hoping that if we could just get that head cleared of the birth canal, the tup structure ot the calf would not lock on that of the cow, and the gamble with nature would be won. AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTOR IJtrac FfiNAL DRIVE PARTS inn-imi AVwyl ) IBJafSia State Line Machine Inc. *OO OWENSBY DRIVE, WILMINGTON, DEL. 19810 (302)478-0285 (CONCORD PK. ft PENNA. DEL. STATELINE) Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 27,1982—843 Slowly, a shining, wet, black with a white-'V marked face of the calf came into view. One final exhilarated tug delivered a large, very alive heifer calf into the world. But one fear yet remained, that the delivery might have left Sue with damaged nerves, as oc casionally happens, causing partial paralysis to the cow. With a few minutes rest, and a bit of coaxing, Sue slowly rose to her teet, to lick clean her newborn, accompanied by the beautiful sound of motherly grunts of pride and concern. In response, the infant heifer tried to raise a wobbly, still wet head. Outside, the night was chilly, dark, silent, but inside that pen, a feeling of sunshine glowed brightly on that miracle of birth. And we were again reminded, through good tunes and bad, why we so proudly answer to the name "farmer.” UNDERCARRIAGE REBUILDING Complete undercarriage rebuilding of crawler tractors, cranes & shovels. TRACK PRESS SERVICE Pins 4 bushings turned for all sue tractors from the smallest to the HD-41 GROUSER BARS for loaders 4 dozers DISMANTLING FOR USED PARTS Crawler tractors including Caterpillar, Allis- Chalmers. International Terex 4 John Deere NEW UNDERCARRIAGE AND FINAL DRIVE PARTS CUTTING EDGES AND BUCKET TEETH Call for Inventory ft Price Lists
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