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L. Gearhart In Hollldaysburg, Blair Co. Shel-Dor Farm maintains 55 head of
registered Holstein, in addition to 55 head of young stock. The farm uses a tie
stall and dumping station at 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. The Dairy of Distinction farm “is
nice when people drive by," said Sheldon. “We let the kids walk up to cows
and ask questions about the farm. The visitors are cooperative.” The diversi
fied farm also raises vegetables, registered Suffolk sheep, chickens, and turk
eys which “gives kids a great variety of animals to look at, other than cows,"
said Sheldon. Sheldon’s son Thomas, 32, and daughter-in-law Sherry, 32, and
their kids Thomas, Jr., Shelly, Jordan, and Sara help with the farm. Also, Shel
don’s daughters Jane, 39 and Mary, 36 also help. “There’re only four dairy
farms in the Hollldaysburg school district, and it’s a big district!” said
Sheldon.
Roger and Pamela Stock operate this 150-acre Fair Valley Farm in Martins
burg, Blair Co. They have 10 registered Holstein and the remainder grade,
milking 80 cows with 80 replacement heifers and calves. The Stocks use a free
stall with milking pipeline at 5:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Herd average Is about 17,000
pounds and they use a TMR provided by Martinsburg Milling. They rent the
farm and have purchased the cows and equipment, with son Roger, 14 and
daughter Tracey, 13. Pamela said they also raise about 200 feeder hogs which
they sell on the open market.
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Byler milks 54 cows and maintains 10 replacement heifers. Milking Is 5 a.m.
and 4 p.m. from a double-3 milking parlor. The first five months show a herd
average of 20,548 pounds. The farm, In the family for 32 years, is operated by
Byler and wife Debra with sons BenJl, 12 and Aaron, 8. James Byler said he
uses a “poor man’s TMR,” mixing the grain and corn silage and haylage,
which a conveyor moves into the feeder. The milking parlor, which speeds up
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