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Kicharo, . ley and Robert Smyser undispu. .ierd favorite and
high producer, Richlawn Triune Dixie Darcy. More individual care for cows such as this
30,000 pound producer was the impetus for constructing the dry barn.
20,600 milk and 760 fat. Type is not herd include one Very Good and the stalls. In the early 1960’5, a
neglected, and last year’s B.A.A. three scored Good Plus, > one more drastic remodeling saw the
was 103. classifying 83 as a heifer. crosswise stalls converted to
Combining both milk and type is
the current high producer and
queen, at the moment, of the dry
cow facility. Richlawn Triune
Dixie Darcy is EX-93-3E and
topped the herd last year with her
365-day lactation of over 30,000
milk and 1,000 fat.
Although ET attempts on this
prized home-bred have been un
successful, Darcy will calve
naturally in late summer after just
having been turned out into the dry
cow barn. Her four daughters
already milking in the Smyser
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Lewisburg PA 17837 Coalport PA 16627 Annville, PA 17003
PH 717 524 0568 PH 814 672 5751 PH 717-838-3753
cow housing
Better care of cows such as these
has always interested the Smyser
dairymen. Richard, who helped
milk a dozen head of mixed grades
here as a boy, returned to take
over the home farm in 1946. He and
his wife, Marie, brought their herd
of 28 from his grandfather’s farm
near Shiloh, where they had been
dairying for six years.
The bam only had one cement
floored stall when they moved
home, used for milking. Richard’s
initial remodeling put cement
under two of the crosswise rows of
Full lnsulation, Roll or Board
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PHIC BUILDERS
435 King Street
Pottstown PA 19464
PH 215 ■’•’3 4070
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lengthwise rows for 30 head, with
the cows faced out and a milking
alleyway down the center.
When Robert and Rodney, the
fifth generation on the farm, came
mto the partnership m 1971, size
was more than doubled, to 66 head,
with an addition built to the back of
the ground level of the old bam.
Also installed was the innovative
manure handling system, with
wastes run from the gutter into a 6
x 12 x 8 pit, then moved by
hydraulic pump to a storage up on
the hill behind the bam.
$6,434°°*
W R MOODY
CONTRACTOR
113 Walnut Lane
West Newton PA 15089
PH 412-872 6804
Even that’s been modified beddin 8 material and solid
recently, with the addition of a manure, mixing it with milkhouse
Flyght chopper pump, wluch chops
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204 Hoover Road
Newcastle PA 16101
PH 412 924 2698
CLIFFORD E BOLiINGER
ASSOCIATES
RD 4, Box 197
Denver, PA 17517
PH 215-267 6046
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 1,1985-A2l
Wastes, both manure and milkhouse water, are mixed in a
receiving pit and pumped to a wooden-fenced, in-ground pit
on the hill above the barn. To empty the storage, the Smysers
need only back in their spreader to this gravity unloading
mechanism.
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