Valley Wide Farm tops Centre County DHIA
The Centre County Dairy Herd Improvement Association
held their annual meeting on December 8, 1983, at the Logan
Grange Hall, Pleasant Gap Russell C Seward, County Agent
reported that several County dairymen were honored as
follows
A plaque for the 800 pound highest herd went to Valley
Wide Farm, Spring Mills, RD 2 The herd of 78 cows and
21,400 pounds of milk and 848 pounds fat and 663 pounds
protein
Other high herds are
Richard Trmca
Joseph Hartle 73
Richard & James Graham 102
Jay Houser
L Thomas Musser
Evan & Ricky Homan
Stringers Sand Ridge 66
JesseS Mary Burkholder 43
Glenn & Robin Gorrell 42
Josh Ishler 66
Bruce Ulmer 57
James Houtz 52
Danile& William Boob 72
55 17,976
75 18 753
99 19,031
denotes 3 times a day milking
Paul Vonada
Pond Dale Farms
Rodney Reese
Other awards given are as follows
A trophy for the highest increase in production went to Paul
Vonada, Howard, R D 2 for the +2,796 pounds of milk and
+ 116 pounds of fat
Valley Wide Farm, Spring Mills, R D 2 received a trophy for
Cow No 50 tor high butterfat with 25,639 pounds of milk and
1 247 pounds of fat
Richard & James Graham, Port Matilda, received a trophy
tor Cow No 168 for high milk with 35,857 pounds of milk and
1 175 pounds of fat
A plaque for the highest lifetime production went to Jay
Houser, Spring Mills, RD2, for a cow named Betty who had
258,036 pounds of milk and 9,202 pounds of fat
The award presented to the herd with the lowest Somatic
Cell Count (SCC) average for the year went to Stringers Sand
Ridge, Bellefonte R D 2, for an annual average SCC of 87 000
A new award this year was presented to the cow with the
highest protein went to Joe Hartle, Jr, Bellefonte, RD 4, for a
cow named Ultimat who had 28,345 pounds of milk, 1,130
pounds of fat, and 959 pounds of protein
CROWN AfiRITANKS
812
799
791 '
772
772
766
757
743
718 *
717
714
714
709 '
704
703
702
20,857
21,494
21,935
21,330
18,930
20,820
18,977
21,298
18,315
18,864
19,769
19,160
18,478
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CENTRE COUNTY DHIA
November, 1983
The high herd in the Centre County DHIA for November
was Valley Wide Farm, Spring Mills, R D 2 The Valley Wide
herd of 78 cows had a rolling herd average of 21,705 pounds
of milk and 849 pounds of butteifat with 87 8 percent days in
milk
OWNER
Richard Trmca
Joseph Hartle Jr
Richard & James Graham
L Thomas Musser
Stringers Sand Ridge
Jay Houser
Evan & Ricky Homan
Jesse & Mary Burkholder
Paul Hartle
James Houtz
Pond Dale Farms
Paul Vonada
John Ishler
Glenn S Robin Gorrell
Daniel S William Boob
Bruce Ulmer
James & Susan Howes
Rodney Reese
Reesebrook Farms
Thomas & Sherry Craig
Thomas Boldin
George & Ron Zimmerman 34
Dave SCeclia Houser 53
Franklin Rossman 53
Carl Gates 40
Germ Feltenberger 58 85 9 17 694
' denotes 3 times a day milking
During the month there were 102 herds with 5,605 cows
processed in the D H I A program, according to Russell C
Seward County Agent Production ranged from a high of 58 5
pounds of milk, testing 3 8 percent fat, to a low of 14 5 pounds
of milk, testing 3 6 percent fat
In the owner-sampler program there were 19 herds with
757 cows being processed The herds ranged from a high of
51 6 pounds of milk, testing 3 9 percent fat, to a low of 26 1
pounds of milk, testing 4 0 percent fat
The ten high individual cow actual production records in
D H 1 A produced on a two times a day milking in 305 days or
less (unless otherwise indicated) were in the following herds
-Ik Crown Rotational Molded Products, Inc.
P.O. Box 577, Marked Tree, AR 72365, (501) 358-3400
<2? A CROWN INDUSTRIES COMPANY
LOS.
MILK
no. sows
COWS IN MILK
20,966
86 4
21,327
86 3
21,321
19,152
87 0
88 0
103
46
19,147
21,233
20 767
21 000
19,512
19,203
18,990
18,030
18,717
18,449
18,393
19,321
86 6
87 7
89 5
18,375
18,917
17 820
19 340
86 3
88 8
85 3
87 3
49
99
118
59
18 228
86 9
18,027
17,866
18,792
17,374
90 7
86 7
84 5
84 9
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, January 14,1984—P15
OWNER
Paul Hartle 25,357 4 0
Franklin Rossman 27,953 3 5
Valley Wide Farm 23,057 4 2
Jay Houser 23,968 4 1
Jay Houser 20,539 4 7
Richard& James Graham 21,885 4 3
Richard Trmca 19,533 4 8
Valley Wide Farm 25,329 3 7
Richard Trmca 24,161 3 9
RichardS James Graham 22,967 4 0
* denotes 3 times a day milking
The high goat for the month was
Sinking Springs Farm
Robert Hough
Wm Dagostm
Pecora Bros
D & D Moyer
Cows finishing their lactation period over 700 lbs butterfat
and/or protein
Hillside Farms Inc
3316 RH
409 33 RH
Wm Dagostm & Son
12
Pecora Bros
59 1426
Carl E Troxell
75
64
Robert Hough
Delor36 RH 4 7
Irene3o RH 4 3
Mary 43 RH 4 0
Clara4o RH 4 2
Pear 134 RH 3 4
Lynn 24 RH 3 0
Derwood & Dennis Moyer
Judy RH 6 8
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IRS.
MR*
LUZERNE DHIA
November Report
RH 53 6 87 3 17408
R&GrH 111 6 83 9 17893
R&GrH 158 1 88,0 18004
R&GrH 58 1 85 3 16297
22477
17819
810 305
6 4 296
21116
305
24027
305
21399
18313
305
285
21807
19142
21643
18854
20173
15836
291
281
305
286
296
257
18829
305
652
634
629
605
826
721
831
854
769
743
934
814
929
807
700
728
706