816-Lancastar Farming, Saturday, October 7,1989 The Mase family has a wat jrtheii jwnS\ <s. happy with their recent sell of a two-week-old calf for $1,900. Meet The Family Of Li’l Miss Lebanon County BY LOU ANN GOOD LEBANON (Lebanon Co.) “A beautiful cow is a beautiful cow regardless of color,” remarks Gary Mase, then he flashes a mischiev ous grin and adds, “But it is always nice to beat the Holstein’s records.” _ Not that Mase doesn’t like Hols te'ins. He has about 20 of them sprinkled throughout his 60-head herd, but he is quick to admit that his true love is for the docile Brown Swiss. Recently, one of his two-week old calves topped the state sale with a price tag of $1,900. The calf’s dam was Mase’s Meadow Hill King Beatrice, which is an Excellent and boasts a 30,000 pound record. Gary and his wife Patty have more records of which they can brag. The Mase’s have several generations of 30,000 pound milk ing Swiss. One was nominated as an All American senior calf. Three times they topped the Maryland Mid Atlantic calf sale. They have five homebred Excellent cows. “When our first cow hit 30,000 pounds, Mase said, “we thought we had achieved something, and then our second cow hit 30,000 pounds before the first finished lactation—now that was exciting.” Last year, Jessie Improver Lena was high cow in the county for pro tein in overall breeds. "It wasn’t a Gary believes that the combination offai ly.di ~ai to do a good job at all three when following a milking schedule of 12a.. ai. 12 p.m. From left: Patty; Alicia, 5; Agatha the cow; Gary, and Tony, 2. Because he was In school, Garrett, 9; missed the family picture. fluke,” he said. “She’s going to repeat it because she’s doing even better now.” Cows are like family to the Mases. “I’ve cried more than a couple of times when I had to sell them or they died,” Gary admits. “I don’t think of each one alone, but is a cow family and the generation that follows it. I get attached. Sometimes I have a cow that does good for a couple of years and then she slacks off. I’m prone to give icr another chance. Maybe she ‘las calving or feeding problems.” What is the secret of the Mase’s success? Gary credits feeding calves on nursed cows. “I put Sev ern! calves in a pen with one cow, that might have a poor udder but still gives lots of milk, for two months, he explained.” He recently ran an experiment when he had many calves bom at the same time. Some he put in hutches; others with a nursing cow. Within two months the nurs ing calves were four to five inches taller and much heavier than those raised in hutches. “Sure,” Gary admits, “I worry a bit about Johnes, but there’s many ways diseases can be carried and it isn’t really proven that nursing calves get it easier. The calves are bigger and healthier—and that’s what counts in the show ring.” So far, the Mases have not had any trouble with Johnes or with iy are especially other diseases prone to nursing calves. But the threat of disease does influence Mase’s decision in some areas. This year, the Mase’s did not attend the All American Show. “My calves are too valuable to run to shows with the T.B. scare and everything,” Mase said. The decision was difficult for Gary who definitely delights in showing. He said, “Shows are :heap advertisement that gives you :on tacts, puts your name in the oaper and in the breed magazines. I :onsider it routine work that is part if my job so it was really difficult tot going this year.” “He has withdrawal symptoms ivery year he doesn’t show,” Patty said. “It's especially hard on him vhen he knows he has a better one han the one that won.” Gary nods his head and said, Tm a competitor. I like to win.” Gary farms with his dad, Clar ;nce. For the past seven years, 3ary is in charge of the dairy end ind his dad takes care of the field vork on their 70 acres. “You can say I started fanning vith my dad looking over my houlder, but you don’t leant any hing until you make your own nistakes.” Brown Swiss, a rare breed for -ebanon County, captured the (Turn to Pag* B 18) See your nearest I\EW HOLLAND Dealer for Dependable Equipment and Dependable Service: PENNSYLVANIA Annvllle, PA BHM Farm Equipment, Inc. RDI, Rte. 934 717-867-2211 Beavertown, PA B&R Farm Equipment, Inc. RD 1, Box 217 A 717-658-7024 Belleville, PA Ivan J. Zook Farm Equipment Belleville, Pa. 717-935-2948 Canton, PA Hess Farm Equipment 717-673-5148 Carlisle, PA R&W Equipment Co. 35 East Willow Street 717-243-2686 Chambersburg, PA Clugston Implement, Inc. R.D. 1 717-263-4103 Davldaburg, PA George N. Gross, Inc. R.D. 2, Dover, PA 717-292-1673 Elizabethtown, PA Messick Farm Equipment, Inc. 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