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thought a lactation was
laxative,” she laughs.
She did know, however, what a
healthy animal shoud look like.
And she knew her father’s herd
was looking worse by the day.
“They all had holes in their
sides, so the first thing I did was
take all their horns off, ” she
recounts.
In the beginning, Hope Scott
two longtime Ardrossan Classic daughter, out of the high producing
employees, Richard Fiayhart, left, and Heinz Belleville family, has records to 22,502 pounds
Melke, right, herd manager. With the trio is of milk and 947 pounds of fat as a 7-year-old.
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Ardrossan Ayrshires
relied heavily on the advice ot
iarm manager Dr. E.C. Duebler.
a “I didn’t follow anybody’s
guidance except the Dueblers’, but
I listened to everybody, always.
And still do,” explains Scott.
Within two years after, her
takeover, the herd average
jumped from 6,000 pounds of milk
to 12,000 pounds.
The herd became the first in the
nation to be certified free of
tuberculosis and brucellosis. Until
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then, Scott carried on her father’s
strict disease prevention program.
“My father wouldn’t let any cow
that left the place every come
bade.” She admits she broke the
rule about 10 years ago to show at
the Pennsylvania AJI-Zmerican
The cow that left the fann came
back a grand champion.
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cropping program to avoid erosion
problems.
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Ayrshires receive a mixture of
haylage and corn silage top
dressed with a concentrate ac
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milking. George Ankney, an Ar
drossan employee 16 years, admits
that he’s seen a variety of dairy
operations in his time and that
Scott’r Ayrshires are the best fed
dairy cat+i* he’s encountered.
“They’ve got feed in front of
them all the timo,” Ankney offers.
Perhaps that’s one of the reasons
that Bell Ring, at. Ace’s Sultan
daughter has consistently made
lactation records to more than
30,000 pounds of milk. W:th well
over 200,000 pounds of milk
lifetime, it’s no wonder the 9-year
old cow has become a favorite.
When Scott decided to employ
embryo transplants. Bell Ring was
the likely candidate and produced
a heifer and four bulls.
But possibly, the reason for
Ardrossan’s ongoing 18,000 pounds
herd average has been the result of
Hope Scott’s ambitious drive to be
the best. Now a dedicated student
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of the bovine beast, Scott has
become the official “planner” for
the farm. Assisted by general
manager Chester Billheim, Scott
plans all matings and crop
schedules.
She maintains the Ardrossan
herd through a meticulous series of
herd recordbooks, for calves,
cqws, the herd, and a daily journal.
Monthly,.when the OHIA sheets
arrive, she transfers the official
information onto the cow and herd
records.
In retrospect, Hope Scott admits
she would have liked to “get the
feel of the business” a little sooner.
But regardless if she would have
started 40,50 even 60 years ago, the
ambitious woman probably would
have tackled the challenge with no
less ardor, no firmer a com
mitment.
And the commitment has
spanned generations. Ayrshires
have remained at Ardrossan, says
Scott, because of loyalty to her
father.
. The herd has come along way
from the first nine Ayrshire cows.
And all because Helen Hope
Montgomery Scott accepted a
challenge, one which she did not
plan. But she knows now it was the
proper decision.
“Father would be pleased.”.
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