A2O-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 9, 1988
Lancaster Holstein Breeders
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Stonesifcr showed several out- they saw. Including the cute little
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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
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