018-Lancaster Farming Saturday, February 3,1990 MIFFLINTOWN (Juniata Co.) —The mid-winter Harvestore Haylage Bus Tour made, the first stop here Thursday morning at the Scenic Hill Farms of Sheldon and Zane Harshbarger. About 35 far mers left the Lancaster Shopping center after the milking was done to visit three fine farming opera ■ dons that all use haylage as the .main-stay of the dairy ration. The 'two other farms were: Ja-Lene Holsteins owned by Mr. and Mrs. John Ishler and son Todd, Spring Mills, and Ideal Holsteins owned by Jacob Tanis HI, Centre Hall, Richard Enck, Penn Jersey Products sales represents ive, (left), talks with Zane and Sheldon Harshbarger. PUTTOUR MM DOLLARS TO TORK PFA Members Can you answer “YES" to these four important health questions? i. Do you have Blue Cross and Blue Shield / Group Health Protection for you and your family through PFA? W^i x: " r •-.A* ■■ , y*>\ - I* '{ ♦ *' V 3 .< *Um «—t <mtk*wlUS<B rwqulma<»>i. Mid-Winter Haylage Tour Visits Harvestore Owners both in Centre County. “We try to keep the cows hungry but full,” said Sheldon Harshbarger. To have a constant intake of feed, the Harshbargers feed every few hours. Haylage and high mois ture com out of their Harvestore silos make up the bulk of their feeding program. The total pur chased feed for all dairy cows and young stock was only $B,OOO last year. “I can live with that,” Sheldon said. “Profit above feed cost was $15,000 per cow.” no > 4. - •y* Do you have dental hecd& care in 'your health profectionpocAage?, Aeoftfc cxare . Monday icx } Aw«<j 1 <■* * Fanners on group ol (left), The Harshbargers have experi ence with both haylage and com silage and they believe you need to add more protein if you use com silage. “It will cost you more to make milk with com silage,” Shel don said. Maintainance costs have been low too. They have some of the dues. -*h. . n * ' T ;; 1 <’■ leml original chain from 1974 in their Galiath unloader and have aver aged about 10 years per cutting chain on the bottom unloader. “We do a lot of the service ourselves,” Sheldon said. “Even when we - s ' r, *--• bus tour t) irvestore ith Jacob Tanis 111, must get a repair man out to the farm, we have everything as far along as we can so we still don’t need to pay for a lot of extra time. These dairymen like their hayl- (Turn to Pago Dlfl)
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