Lane. Holstein Club takes tour
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LANCASTER The Lancaster
County Holstein Club visited
outurtnnriing purebred herds in
Columbia County as part of the
Club’s annual tour, Thursday.
Eighty-three persons participated
in the bus tour. Five farms were
included in the tour this year, each
with a unique attraction.
First stop was Mun-Cre Farms,
owned by Lester Poust. The club
examined Lester’s hard that has a
BAA over 107 With 12 excellent
cows. Lester’s favorite cow, Mun-
Cre Elevation Misty, is the foun
dation cow of the herd with 92
points and 36,604 milk, 4.2 percent
and 1532 fat.
Paul and Wayne Ritter, of Ritter
Ridge are in partnership with their
mother, Hilda. The Ritter brothers
took the tour through their new 96
tie stall bam. The barn’s design is
unusual, with a 15-foot peak
ceiling, that provides improved
ventilation especially during hot
summer months.
Touring farmers were
fascinated with a two-month-old
calf that had been born
prematurely in January. Because
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the calf weighed only 25 pounds at
birth, Mrs. Ritter brought it Into
her bonoe and has nurtured the calf
to a present,'weight of 65 pounds.
She bottle nursed die calf every
two bours to start, keeping the calf
in a child’s playpen. Mrs. Ritter
now grinds up Calf Manna in her
blender and mixes it In the calf a
milk. She said the calf lays next to
the, family dog and is paper
trained.'
Next stop on the tour was Fra-
Jan Holsteins, owned by Frank
Jurbala. The Jurbalas farm on
only ten acres, buying all their feed
from local farmers at harvest
time. Jurbala feeds high moisture
shelled corn three times a day,
baled hay five times a day, and top
dresses'tiie ration with bean meal
and mineral' mix. The ' herd
average is more than 21,600.
The group was then hosted by
Dennis Wolff. See Wolff feature
story for more details of his
operation. The Wolffs own Pen-Col
Fane, a progressive farm that is
actively involved in embryo
transfer and international
marketing of cattle and embryos.
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Wolff presently has 13) heifers
pregnant by ET. The Wolff’s retail
90 percent of their milk through a
store on the farm and another in
Bloomsburg.
• The last farm stop was the Dick
Yule farm. Yule is also working
with ET and exporting embryos.
The group saw Yule’s favorite cow,
a young Pete daughter out of an
Astronaut dam. She is a three
quarters sister to the Ace bull, and
milked 89 pounds per day as a two
year old.
A ham and turkey dinner put on
by the Greenwood United
Methodist Church, completed the
tour, leaving the group very
satisfied with day's events.
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- Three basic ways to
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