A2O-Lancasler Fanning, Sa.,da y , ft Md> HolStcifl ASSOCiatiOH
Scholarship winners, left to right, David Hill, Johanna
Remsburg, and Charles Erhardt.
Junior Record Book winners, left to right, front row, Mark
lager, Robert Sigler, Darren Wolf and Amy lager. Back row,
April Hall, Kelly Myers, Kelli Savage.
Junior Production Award donors, left to right, Doug
Ling, Marlin Hoff, Carl Bender, Jeff Myers, Thomas
Remsburg, and Joseph Schwartzbeck.
Retiring board members receive certificates of apprecia
tion from President Marlin Martin.
Highest individuals In Holstelns at Maryland dairy judg
ing contest at the Maryland State Fair, left to right, Amy
Brown, Mark lager, and Kristin Myers.
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172,702 ECM, Peace & Plenty
Farm Trophy.
David Grove of Washington
County and Amy lager of Howard
County received awards for first
year record books. Junior Girl
Record Book Winners were Kelli
Savage, Kelly Myers, and April
Hall. Junior Boy Record Book
Winners were Mark lager, Darren
Wolf, and Robert Sigler.
Kelli Savage and Mark lager
will receive a $lOO Patrick Hoff
Memorial Scholarship for placing
first juniors in record book. Senior
Girl Record Book Winners were
Cynthia Fell, Tanya lager, and
Laurie Zimmerman. Senior Boy
Record Book Winners were James
Allen, David Lenhart, and Len
Piepcr. Vivian Stottlemyer was the
recipient of the Overall Trophy of
4-H Club members. Vivian was
part of the Dairy Bowl Team and
selected as one of 12 distinguished
junior Holstein members at the
National Convention contest.
Guest speaker for the evening
was Horace Backus, who recently
published a book on the history of
Dunloggin Farm that had its home
in Howard County.
Backus said, “Why did I write
the book? Because I wanted to
read it” Paul Misner snapped on
the lights for Dunloggin by featur
ing their cattle on the back cover
of the “Holstein World.”
“It was a great herd, but what
Misner did helped put them in
immortality magazine,” said
Backus. Misner proved what he
could do for Joseph Natwick and
Keys To Dairy Success Outlined
EVA MARTIN
Maryland Correspondent
ELLICOTT CITY, Md. Dr.
Raymond Hunter, president and
corporate executive officer of
Masstock Southern Holdings,
Inc., Montezuma, Georgia was the
guest speaker at the Maryland
Holstein Convention held at the
Turf Valley Country Club.
Hunter, a native of Ireland with
a degree in agricultural economics
from Queens University, Belfast,
Northern Ireland, shared his
“Keys to Success in Dairy
Farming.”
Given in order of importance,
he listed management, stockman
ship, nutrition, health and fertility,
genetics and facilities. He believes
that in managing a large-scale
dairy operation, critical factors are
managing people, grouping of
cows, and good equipment.
Hunter explained that at Mas
stock, they have branched out into
specialized areas of management.
There is a foreman for milking, a
foreman for feeding, another for
health, one for fertility, one for
young stock and dry cows, and
another for crops.
Masstock’s Georgia dairy facil
ity consists of three dairy units, a
3,300 cow unit, a 1,450 cow unit,
and a 950 cow unit. These cows
arc grouped on a nutritional basis.
Four rapid-exit herringbone par
lors arc in use at Masstock: a dou
ble 24, double 20, double 19,, and
a double 16.’
Frcestall barns housing these
groups are flushed and the solids
and liquids are separated. The sol
ids are sold for garden compost
ing, while the liquids in the
lagoons are spread on the cropland
for fertilizer or recycled for flush
ing again.
Body condition is an important
part of their nutritional policy.
They like to have their heifers
calve at 24 months of age weigh-
Senior Record Book winners, left to right, front row,
Tanya lager, Cynthia Fell, and Laurie Zimmerman. Back
row, Len Pieper, David Lenhart, and James Allen.
they became a team. wartime September in 1943 to wit-
6ne of their bulls, Dunloggin
Master Stroke, had eight excellent
daughters, 27 or more daughters
with more than 100,000 pounds of
milk. Three daughters were five
limes grand champions at the
Maryland State Fair from 1946 to
1950.
When going to Blue Ribbon
Sales, Natwick would stay at the
Avalon around the comer and do
his bidding by phone.
Along came war years. Labor
became difficult to find and they
couldn’t keep the cattle the way
they wanted to, so they decided to
sell. There was a great crowd that
ing about 1,400 lbs. and at a height 300 acres are double cropped wjth
of 56 inches. After calving,xows- Spdex and about
arid heifers ate kept in a separate- with
group for about two weeks so that ers. Additional cord silage and hay
regular checks can be made to is purchased, some,from Nebras
keep up with uterine health, ka, Kansas, Idaho, and Bermuda.
The next group consists of the
main herd where they are fed a
high density ration. This is also
where heat detection and insemi
nation is done. “At approximately
120 to 130 days, the cows are
either moved into a pregnant
group or, more often, a bull is
turned into that group,” Hunter
said. “At that stage of the lacta
tion, it is more important for us to
get a cow pregnant than to worry
about the quality of the calf that
she is going to produce.”
Masstock operates a crop farm
of 1,750 acres, of which about
1,300 is com and alfalfa. About
Horace Backus was evening banquet speaker at the Md.
Holstein Convention.
ness a sale far beyond its time.
Two hundred fourteen head of
cattle averaged $l,BOO this was
$6OO more than the average of any
previous sale. By the next dav thp
Associated Press wires carried the
sale results all over the United
States. They were also featured in
“Life” magazine.
Backus asked those who were in
the audience who attended the sale
of Dunloggin in 1943 to stand.
Three acknowledged that they
were there. Dunloggin lives on
today in the pedigrees of many
Holsteins.
With facilities at the bottom of
the list, Hunter said, “Forget abet^ 1
facilities until you havc.-'tjvery
thing else in ordejL Gsjsrig ydur
stockmanship andfifeeding right
today is what is'going to make
money in the shortterm.”'
Hunter suggested that proper
planning of facilities is of utmost
importance because of their long
term use and investment. Some
factors to consider are design for
comfort; labor efficiency; ease of
movement for animals, machin
ery, and people; and cost
„ effectiveness.