BY LAURA ENGLAND
LANCASTER York County
dairyman Joseph Stump usually
isn’t surprised when one of his
registered Holstein cows sells for
$2,000. But offer him $15,000 - and
through a private sale, at that -
and his surprise turns to im
mediate joy.
Stump and his wife, Glendora,
owners of Stump-Acres Farm, of
York RlO, recently sold one of their
top three-year-old cows for a
“surprising” $15,000. Surprising it
was, Stump said, because buyers
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Freese, of
Glee Hi Holsteins in Oxford, came
to Stump-Acres to look over
another Holstein, but bought
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smmt -es . .Pi -as a _ year-old, recently brought $15,000
through private sale for her owners Joseph and Glendora Stump, Rio York.
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Private sale results in $15,000 Holstein
Stump-Acres Jet Star Pace JetGo
instead.
Stump, who’s been farming for
35 years and selling cattle for 20,
said he had not thought about
selling his homebred JetGo, but
“when they offered $15,000 for her,
I thought, why not?”
JetGo, who classified very good
at 85 points, was sired by Keystone
Elevation Camaro. Stump pur
chased Camaro at six months of
age from Don Seipt of Keystone
Farm, Easton. Camaro is
currently under lease at Select
Sires. Jet Go’s dam is Stump-Acres
MyJet King Jet Star, who classified
excellent at 90 points.
As a three-year-old, JetGo
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produced 30,956 pounds of milk and
1,396 pounds of fat at a 4.4 percent
test. She is the ninth generation of
the ADA Pontiac Countess cow
family which holds a nearly per
fect record of 4.0 or higher percent
butterfat. The only flaw comes
from the third generation dam,
Countess Pontiac Lauxmont, who
had two records under 4.0 percent -
- 3.8 and 3.9 percent.
Jet Go’s granddam, Stump-Acres
Jet Bright MyJet, had two tests
over 5.0 percent butterfat. Another
family member, Ada Regal
Lucifer Myrtle, was recognized in
1962 as the first cow in York County
to achieve a lactation fat record
over 1,000 pounds. This she did as a
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four-year-old with 22,988 pounds of
milk at a 4.6 percent fat test.
JetGo is just one of the 380 plus
head of cattle that Stump has sold
over the past five years. He first
began merchandizing cattle 20
years ago with the selling of bulls
for stud service. He then began
selling calves, heifers and cows.
Farm Calendar
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6:45 p.m., Annville-Cleona High
School cafeteria.
Woodland management workshop,
7 p.m., Hibernia County Park,
Chester County.
Cumberland DHIA Workshop, 8
p.m., Big Spring Senior High,
Newville.
Wayne County Dairy Day, 9:30
a.m.-3:15 p.m., Veterans
Memorial Armory.
Pesticide Update Training,
Cumberland County Extension,
Carlisle.
Harford County, Md. Holstein
Banquet, 7 p.m., Emory United
Methodist Church, Street, Md.
Friday, March 16
4-H Auction, 6 p.m., York 4-H
Center.
Lamb grading workshop,
Greencastle, continues
tomorrow.
N.J. Holstein Assn. Dairy Herd
Management Seminar, 7:30
p.m., Floyd Schwab farm, Rt.
514, mile east of Ringoes.
Saturday, March 17
Pa. Ayrshire Breeders Assn.,
Embers, Carlisle.
Small Farms Livestock Con-
ference, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Mercer
County Extension Center.
Berks County Guernsey Breeders
Assn, annual meeting, 11 a.m.,
Shartlesville Grange Hall.
Bradford County New Jersey
Farm Tour, 10 a.m.
Pa. Brown Swiss Assn. SE Canton
#4, 11:30 a.m., Cloister
Restaurant, Ephrata.
Stump-Acres now has breeding
stock in 12 states, plus Puerto Rico.
Named a Master Farmer and the
Outstanding Young Farmer over
30 in 1981, Stump took over the
family’s dairy herd when he was 16
and his father had died. The
current herd totals 250 cattle,
including calves, heifers, cows and
bulls.
Now is
the Time
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is important to wait until the soil is
dried out sufficiently before taking
this heavy equipment over the
fields. When the soil is worked too
wet, it becomes hard and forms
clods. This type of soil structure
will not give you the best yields.
Don’t be in too big a hurry, slow
down and let the weather catch up
to you.
To Prune
Fruit Trees
Whether you have a few or
several hundred fruit trees, or
chard pruning need not be delayed
until spring. It may be started in
colder weather. But it is a good
practice to work on the hardiest
trees first.
Early pruning can involve some
problems from winter injury, but
in many cases an early start will
be necessary to complete pruning
of large orchards before spring. By
confining early work to the older,
hardier trees, fruit growers can
keep injury to a minimum.
Apple and pear trees are the
hardiest of the fruits, with plums
and sour cherries next in order.
Because peach and sweet cherries
are most tender, delay their
pruning, particularly the younger
trees, until later in March.