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Holstein Club Tours Bedford County
BERLIN The Somerset
County Holstein Club recently
toured three farms in Bedford
County. Included on the tour were
Singing Brook Farm of Imler,
Burkett Fall of East Freedom and
Fidelity Holsteins of Martinsburg.
First stop for the 41 Holstein club
members on the tour was Singing
Members of the Somerset Holstein Club gather in Steve Hoover’s Barn. The Bedford
County Farm was one of three stops included on the tour.
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Brook Farm, home of the Obie
Snider Family. Mike Fisher,
assistant herdsman, conducted the
tour. Obie farms 1,200 acres with
his son Bruce. Their herd averages
18,000 pounds of milk on 150
registered Holsteins. The herd
BAA stands at 105.8 with 22 Ex
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classified at 94 points and a second
at 95 points.
A rotary milking parlor and a
ram manure system are used on
the farm.
Burkett Fall Farms, home of the
David Burkett Family, is home to
80 Holsteins maintaining a rolling
herd average of 20,000 pounds of
milk and 720 pounds of fat. The
BAA stands at 105.6. Burketts also
raise a herd of red and white
Holsteins and polled cattle.
Burkett Falls takes its name from
a small water fall behind the barn.
The tour ended on a damp note at
the Steve Hoover Farm, Fidelity
Holsteins. Hoover recently
remodeled his conventional tie-
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 4,1986-A25
stall barn. His 44-head herd moved fat. Some sires used in the herd
into the new facilities the day prior include Arlinda Rotate, Pawnee
to the club’s visit. This herd Farm Arlinda Chief, Enhancer,
features many high indexing Tradition and Bell.
young cows and averages 21,600
pounds of milk and 782 pounds of
Shorthorn Assoc . To Hold Sale
FREDERICK, Md. - The
Maryland Shorthorn Association
will hold a calf sale on Saturday,
Oct. 11, beginning at 7 p.m., at the
Frederick Fairgrounds.
Twenty head of purebred and
crossbred Shorthorn steers have
been selected to give 4-H and FFA
members a central location for
chosing their project animals.
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Donald and Cheryl Glessner of
Berlin chaired the tour.
Holly .Hill Farms, Leroy and
Kristina Harper, Bruce Bennett,
George W. Bowman and Harry J.
Duffey, HI. Other consignors in
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Fisher of Virginia, and James W.
Fogal of Tuscarora Shorthorns in
Pennsylvania.
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