D36—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 4,1983 City family makes it (Continued trom Page D 35) extension’s “Nutritional School’’. “It’s very worthwhile”, Dave states, adding that they remain in close touch with the extension personnel for daily advice. When viewing this well-kept and neatly painted dairy operation, it would be hard to believe that they were refused a small expansion loan from majonng ag lenders because of their inexperience, abundant assets and un conventional beginnings. But with a calving interval under 12 months, milking animals averaging 43 pounds on their last test and the family devotion to their new lifestyle, the Reusing are quieting the skeptical neighbors. “We figured that not knowing about crops and not knowing about cows, that we would devote our time to what gives us the income - the cows.” New Hope Farm is completely a family operation Reusing and his daughter, Lisa, handle the milking chores, although Lisa and her mother give “Dad” Sunday morning to “sleep in”. Feeding is handled by Donna and youngest, The Tools of Farming „ Until the middle 1800's, hay was moved by pitchfork. The first stationary hay press was introduced in 1849, requiring 3 men to move the unwieldy bales it produced. In 1938, a Lancaster County farmer built the first self tying, automatic pick-up baler from a 1928 Chevrolet car and a World War I era Fordson tractor. Today, with an automated baler, one man can produce 150 tons of baled & hay per day, more than produced by 3 men in 3 weeks prior to the turn of the century. ‘JO -V $3 '* Since 7896, Old Guard insurance agents have been providing insurance coverage to the farmer and his property designed k to free him from the worry of the unexpected. Old Guard MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY A part of farming since 1896 2929 Lititz Pike • PO Box 3010 • Lancaster. PA 17604 • Phone (717) 569-5361 SAVE 40% on New Replacement Belts For Farm Machines • Bale Thrower Belts *52.00 • Grove-Gehl-Int.-S.U Wagon Box Belts *9B to *l2O Also Available: Bean Picker Belts & Big Round Baler Belts Any flat belt can be custom made for your farm machinery (cleats installed). Belts shipped same day by UPS. For more Information, write: ObbOebd Rt. 16, Chaffee, New York Phone Collect: 716-496-6025 Amy, has charge of the chickens. Since the installation of the new pipeline, a Westfaha-Visotron with sensors to indicate the decrease in milk flow. Reusing states that milking is much more uniform between family members. ‘ ‘After working with the pipeline, you wonder how you did without it”. Reusing adds. Records and bookkeeping is taken care of by Donna, but the whole family participates in the daily observations and marking down of heats, calvings, breedings, etc. “The best thing we ever did was to hang a calendar on the wall to write down heats”, Reusing states. Away from the urban sprawl, the Reusings appreciate the way farm life becomes so family oriented. They also have come to value the fact that people on farms help each other when they need it. 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