THREE GENERATION’S OF SATISFIED -tfwwßl- CUSTOMERS - - THE IVAN ZOOK FAMILY OF ELVERSON - Where High Labor Efficiency - Over 700,000 lbs. Milk Shipped Per Man Per Year Persistent Milk Production • Oct. 1989 Dfll + 20,345 Milk 3.6% 741 PM 3.2% 643 Protein i.K i 1 v A (. ■v < ft* , .j, > / t;.* '.. * * * , Optimum ForageQualityand Intake - 2S IN. of Forsgje Dry Matter Intake Per Cow Ave. Over Pest M Months " PROFITABLE DAIRYING -1989 DHI Income Over Peed Cost - $1,650 Located between Loag’s Comer and Elverson, the 200 acre farm was pur chased in 1952 by Ivan’s father Elam. Elam was a Brown’s customer before the move. Ivan said they have tried other feed companies but always returned to Brown’s because of their competitive prices, quality feeds, and service. Corn, alfalfa, ryelage, wheat, and pasture produced on the fepn generally meet or exceed the dairy herds needs allowing some .cash cropping. Paying Attention To Details Pays Off Brown’s Sales Rep. Gerry Roman reviews Brown’s most xecent forage tests and feeding program with Melvin. Rations are routinely run when forages changed ,A single TMR ration is fed consisting of com silage, haylage/ryelage, H.M. shelled corn, and Brown’s 30 H-M Balancer cus tomized with cooked, beans or cottonseed. Top cows receive a topdress grain mix including com, 30 H-M Balancer and Brown’s new 25% Pro Lac Pellets, a high protein bypass pellet containing Megalac®. Special empha sis is placed on maximum forage dry matter intake which has averaged 25 lbs. of D.M. per cow per day Tor the past year or just under 2 lbs/100 lbs. bodyweight. Melvin attributes hjs excellent herd health and great lacta tion persistency to this philosophy of maximinzing forage intake. ® Megalac a registered trademark of Church*& Dwight, * * * I 1 V, , ISSf.' , ' V-«v The Zook Homestead FAMILY BUSINESSES WORKING TOGETHER At Brown’s we are proud of customers like the Zook’s. Since 1871 the Brown’s family and their fine employees have been helping dairy families produce milk economically and efficiently. if*" * V 1 ~ ,(. V»<»l> IN , F.M. BROWN'S SONS, Inc. MANUFACTURING LIVESTOCK FEEDS SINCEIB7I 49508 f % Melvin, left, became a partner in 1986. His two children Justin and Michael represent the fourth generation on this farm. Ivan, right, is shown with a portion of their fbture dairy herd behind him. Calves are started on Brown’s Calf Starter and Calf Grower. Getting calves off to a healthy fast start is important to Ivan and Melvin. They like the perfor mance of their calves on Brown’s Feeds. When asked which cow is the top cow in the herd, Melvin and Ivan had to check their DHI records. They feel production persistency is more impor tant than peak lactation yield. Two cows that exemplify this are pictured above. CoW #250 (white) is a two year old who peaked at 92 lbs, is still in her mid 80’s and projected at over 21,300 lbs. of milk, 714 of fat and 638 of protein. Cow #l7O (center) is projected as a 5 year old at over 26,500 lbs. of milk and 960 of fat. She has milked over 200 days and each month her pro jected record has increased. Between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31 Ivan and Melvin have shipped 941,000 lbs. of milk. At this rate they will exceed 700,000 lbs. of milk per person, a figure which indicates extremely high labor effi ciency for a herd of 66 cows. r I aEETWOOO, pIw',, SINKtNOSPUNQ,PA ■■(tm 4i .■ w 8». . • * 21*9*4-7664 > . 2MHKW4B67 • ■■•'it, '"(NPA 1-BWM4S-3344 »s* * Lanwtep FawtofljQttufdßv^WvwwbtFlii^W^Alf NO Top Cows n
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