A2O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 9, 1988 Lancaster Holstein Breeders (Continued from Page A 1) buttcrfat. The Ross Smith family gave a lot of credit for their high buttcrfat test to 62% moisture hay lagc preserved in bags and cot tonseed in a total mixed ration. The Smiths have found that the more haylagc they feed the more milk and test they produce. And high records on individual cows are made right with the rest of the herd that’s milked in a double-6 parlor. The Smiths also show a lot of type since their herd has a BAA of 104.5 with 16 excellent and 50 very good cows. Mr. and Mrs. Marlin Hoff, New Windsor, greeted the lour on their Coldsprings Farm where 1800 acres on several farms provide g jp . nfly iy. Manor Farm where silage Is a mainstay of the feeding program. t pfi BUTLER RURAL BUILDER BUTLER MFG. CO. | Attn. P.E. Hess * P.O. Box 337, Oxford, PA 19363 ASK ABOUT OUR NEW DEALER PROGRAM FOR 1988 □ All Wood Buildings □ All Steel Buildings Name Address County. (Include area code) feed for 400 registered Holslcins with an average of 20,000 lbs. of milk and 740 lbs. of buttcrfat. A feed mill right on the farm pro duces a total mixed ration of hayl age, corn silage, roasted beans, chopped hay and grains for the cows. Hoff showed many of the cows on two farms to the tour group. He knows each of his 400 cows indivi dually, and doesn’t think a farmer should have cows if he doesn’t know them. A new Califomia-style flat bam was of interest to the group. This new system allows closer contact with individual cows as they are milked. At Coldsprings they breed all of their heifers to their young L*'% YOU SELECT - WE BUILD RURAL BUILDINGS END USE - STEEL %■ ■ WALLACE SALES CO. MATTSON ENTERPRISES 1 PO Box 667 NAZARETH BUILDING TRI-COUNTY 1605 Ml Holly Road ■ Blairslown, NJ 07825 SYSTEMS, INC. AGRI-SYSTEMS Burlington, NJ 08016 PH 201-362-9227 3367 Gun Club Rd RD #l. Box 55 p H- 609-386-1603 ALINE SUPPLY are ’ h :«,lS2s 4 NJ „“ 085 PHIC BUILDERS RD #2 Box 289 PH 215-837-7700 PH: 609-467-3174 435 Klng g, reet Ml Pleasant Mills, PA 17853 Pottstown, PA 19464 PH- 717-539-2500 PH 215-323-4070 FOUR COUNTIES CONTRACTOR. INC. RD., Box 816 Coalport, PA 16627 PH. 814-672-5751 J CITY AND SUBURBAN | • BUILDERS, INC. * 4 Banbury Lane ■ Pittsburgh, PA 15202 ■ PH 412-766-6202 *LF I State bulls and then keep the bulls around until they are proven. Hoff said he could not tell any differ ence between the offspring of his own young bulls and those in AI. Hoff likes cows that have deep cow families. “Numbers are some thing, but not enough,” Hoff said, “Use what you know is good.” Coldspring Farms have deep pedi greed cow families that have numerous offsprings in different AI studs. After you drive in the winding lane past the farm pond with geese and ducks, you arrive at Peace and Plenty Farm, Union Bridge, owned by Maryland Slate Holstein Presi dent, Joe Swartzbeck and family. The lour group saw a green house attached to the side of the bam and a farm office full of trophies and news clippings about the family’s accomplishments with Holsteins. And they saw the cows. The herd has a BAA of 106.5 with 13 excel lent and 45 very good cows. Pro duction is over 20,000 lbs. of milk and 730 lbs. of butterfat. At Jim Slonesifcr Family Farm at Ardcl the Holstein group saw a farm that has been honored for its conservation practices. A 130,000 gal. concrete storage facility retains all milk house and liquid waste. The meadow stream is piped and covered with stones. Only drinking fountains are left open to allow the cows in the pas ture access to drinking water. A Virginia-stylc bam houses-the heifers and the calf hutches were made in (you guessed it) Lancaster County. In fact Amish carpenters were building an addition to the bam at the time of the tour visit. RURAL BUILDER • Grain or Crop Storage • Open Fronts • Storage/Shop/Garage FARMER BOY AG INC. 410 E. Lincoln Ava Myerstown, PA 17067 PH' 717-866-7565 r^w I •\ 3 • Machine Storage/Shop C & M SALES INC. RD *l. Box 76A Honesdale, PA 18431 PH 717-253-1612 View Farm on the Lancaster County Holstein Tour to Mary land last week. Andrea went along with her dad John Bru baker because she had the day off from school. Stonesifcr showed several out- they saw. Including the cute little standing cows from his Holstein three-week-old Jersey calf that herd. In addition, another herd of a was bom prematurely. And they different breed, that should not be enjoyed all the farms and facilities named on a Holstein tour, greeted that were open to them by their the tour bus at the meadow gate, friends across the Mason-Dixon The pretty Jerseys (oops) caused a Line. Within the hour of their arri lot of good-natured banter includ- V al back at the Farm and Home ing a suggestion that the tour com- Center, any guilt of mind that they mittee of Greg Landis, Dick Mel- should have stayed home and linger and John Howard be worked like their neighbors was reported to State Holstein Secret- likely gone. The new ideas ary Bill Nichol. received and the new friends that But it was obvious that these were made eliminated any such dairymen enjoyed all the cows that thoughts. • Horse-Large Barns &/Or Arenas • Utility (Warehouse/Storage) • Store Building (Retail/Wholesale) GOMPF CONSTRUCTION ANCHOR BUILDING CO., INC. SYSTEMS 1841 Jerry's Road P(0 750 Street, MD 21154 Deale . MD 20751 PH 301-692-5350 PH 301-867-7233 STEEL RURAL LA
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