York
YORK York County Holstein
Association will hold its annual
spring barn meeting at Smysers'
Richlawn farm on Tuesday
beginning at 12:30 p.m.
Program plans for the meeting
include a presentation on dry cow
management, with the opportunity
to view the Smyser’s recently
constructed dry cow and maternity
facility.
The Smyser farm, operated by
Richard, Robert and Rodney
Smyser, is located west of York on
the East Berlin Road (Route 234).
Last year, the Richlawn herd
topped the county’s DHIA
production list with a herd average
on 68 head of 21,485 milk and 792
fat, and won top protein production
honors with 690 pounds. In
dividuals in the herd also won 305-
day milk and fat record awards.
Richard Smyser began dairying
on the century farm in 1947, and his
two sons comprise the fifth
generation of family farmers.
County Holstein club members
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Holstein Assn, plans meeting & bus trip
and all interested dairymen are
invited to attend the annual barn
meeting.
Holstein club trip committee
chairmen have announced plans
for the club to organize a spring
bus trip to visit several top
registered Holstein h° , -ds in the
BRATTLE BORO, Vt. -
Thomas G. Dum, Jr., a native of
Pennsylvania, has been named by
the Holstein Association to serve
as field consultant to dairy
breeders in western Pennsylvania
and northern West Virginia.
Prior to his new position, Dum
was a herd classifier for the
national Association.
Consultant Dum will assist
dairymen with on-the-farm
corrective mating programs, sire
development, cattle mer
chandising and many of the other
Association services available to
herd owners.
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Dates of the bus trip are April 10
through 12, with overnight stops at
Niagara Falls, on the United States
side, and at Toronto. Tentative
plans include possible stops at such
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down payment per person required
• u, ' r ' reservations are made.
Raised on the family dairy farm,
Dum started his own Holstein herd
in 1952, progressing from a grade
herd to an all-registered herd in
1965, when he went on official test,
classified the animals and began to
show in local, state and Penn
sylvania All-American shows,
Dum has been a member of the
West Perry Young Farmers
Association, the Pennsylvania
Holstein Association, and elected
as delegate to national Holstein
conventions.
He has been a director of the
county Holstein club and the DHIA
board. His community work has
INC.
Reservations may be made, with
downpayment, at the barn
meeting, or be sending to Thomas
Boyer, 110 Biesecker Road, York,
17404. More details on the bus trip
will be available following the barn
meeting program. J.B.
included promotion of the Perry
County Princess sale.
Dum and his wife Nellie are
parents of five children and reside
at Elliottsburg. Contact him
through the Holstein Association
area office in Harrisburg at 717-
657-8800.
Sidders gets
Holstein post
BRATTLE BORO, Vt. - Tommy
L. Sidders, a new part-time
Holstein Association herd
classifier, has finished his field
training and has joined the per
manent field staff serving dairy
breeders in the Eastern regional
states.
Sidders will work out of the
Harrisburg, national Association
office, classifying Holstein herds in
states as far north as New England
and as far south as Virginia.
Holstein classifiers provide
functional type evaluation services
for herd owners, a program that
requires scoring individual
animals against the ideal cow of
the breed.
Classification information can
be used as a herd management
improvement tool, as well as
providing information for mer
chandising cattle.
Sidders has received intensive
technical training in the linear
method of measuring type traits of
Holstein animals, a system im
plemented by the Association in
1983.
The Ohio native has owned and
bred registered Holsteins and
participated in most aspects of the
dairy industry in the last 18 years.
Sidders and his wife Jane have
two children, Emily and Lucas. He
can be reached through the
Holstein Association area office in
Harrisburg at 717-657-8800.
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