E26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 4, 1983
Sundays increase their dairying commitment
BY BETH HEMMINGER
Staff Correspondent
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berland County farmer Jack
Sunday believes if you are going to
do it, do it big and do it right.
Sunday recently purchased a
350-acre farm where he built a free
stall barn that will house 150
milking animals.
According to Wenger’s Dairy
where Sunday sells his milk, his
free stall is the newest barn in the
county and probably the only one
for quite some time.
A question that comes to many is
why build such a bam in such
economic times? Well, for Sunday
and his family it was a move they
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really needed to make. At Sun
day’s “old” farm, about five miles
away from the new barn,- the
quarters were too cramped.
Sunday said, “We just grew
beyond our facilities and needed to
expand.”
After selling some land to the
Roadway trucking firm, Sunday
knew he could make the move. He
purchased the farm from his
cousin, who was a hog farmer, so
there was a lot of renovations to
the existing buildings and even
tually the free stall barn was built.
The 150 free stall barn was built
by Agn Inc. located in Ephrata.
The construction began in August
of 1982 and was completed in April
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The new barn features almost all
the comforts of home.
In the milking parlor one man
can operate the double six with the
features of automatic take-off and
a back flush system. The back
flush system is relatively new on
the market, said Sunday, and it is
definitely a good health aid for our
cows. This back flushing system
cleans the milkers and pipes with a
high force of water after each cow
has milked, preventing bacteria
from traveling to other cows.
The Sunday’s installed a 3000
gallon tank in the new bam.
Sunday said in the old bam they
were filling a 2000 gallon tank with
a herd of 95% registered and 5%
grade hoslteins. Now, he said his
son and son-in-law are looking
forward to topping this tank.
Sunday smiled and said, “It is a
never ending evolution.”
In the free stall area, Sunday’s
chose the head lock system. Once
the cows head is through the bars
they can pull a lever at the end of
the row and lock the heads in
place.. Sunday remarked that this
head lock system is really a big
help when you need to treat an
animal. Sunday uses a drive
through feeder. The hay is wheeled
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features of milking system
in on a wagon and fed. This new
bam has a lagoon storage area
which will hold a year’s supply of
manure.
A few special features of the
barn are the wing ventilations.
Sunday stated that this is the
newest ventilation design on the
market for free stall bams. These
wings are on both sides of the barn
and look exactly like a solid wall.
However, these wings are made
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wound out providing cross ven
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Also, the Sunday’s added an
extra wing to the barn where there
are rows of pens for the sick and
pregnant animals. Sunday stated
that this was an addition for
convenience. This area enables
them to treat the animals easily
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