Golden Glow Of Guernsey Milk
(Continued from Pago A«) “TTie bulb are out of the top
The tilbble acres are wonted cows of the herd. Excellent cows
under contract to Richard Schloss- with good records,” said Yaplc.
berg, who sells all the crops on the Much of the breeding comes from
cash market AI bulb from various service
In fact the Lbter herd purchases agencies, but the farm keeps a bull
all the grain and some of the hay. * n the yard.
Owner of the herd, John E. DuP
ont has tasked the manager with
developing a herd only out of qual
ity animab.
6 Excellent cows
“We have six Excellent cows,
and have 14 offspring from them,”
which will be integrated into the
milking herd, according to Yaple.
According to Hamilton, the herd,
on DHIA, averages 13,000 lbs at
4.6 f, 3.5 p.
The herd was built up from
Excellent cows purchased mainly
at the Pennsylvania State Conven
tion Sale, held in Bedford this year,
according to Hamilton. “And we
bought a fair load of cattle from
Wisconsin Guernseys, naturally,”
he said. “We just buy at the better
sales and just keep breeding to the
top AT bulls.”
flto id Ham. jn, the herd, on , averages 13,000 lbs at 4.6 f, 3.5 p.
Here, the herd is moved from the paddocks to the milking barn.
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“We sold the main herd,” said
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he said.
Hamilton said the herd is slowly
increasing in size. They purchase
quality animals at the better sales,
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get big,” he said. “We just want
quality.”
And obtaining quality animals is
almost as difficult as obtaining
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some good hay this year,” he said.
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Hamilton said the hay “was
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We have six Excellent cows, and have 14 offspring from
them,” said Bill Yaple, Llseter Farm herdsman. The cow on
the far left has been milking 80 pounds a month In a three
month average. The one beside it, according to Yaple, has
been predicted at two years old to milk about 18.000
pounds.
to the cows out in a large open
paddock.
Worked with herd
Yaple and Hamilton have
always worked with a Guernsey
herd. Both grew up on Guernsey
farms Hamilton on his family’s
farm in York County and Yaple in
Columbia County.
Hamilton said that, after high
school, he went to New York to
work on the McDonald Farm
Guernsey herd, what he considers
“the best Guernsey herd in the
United States at that time,” he
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said. After many years, the owner
passed away, and the entire opera
tion, according to Hamilton, was
willed to Cornell University.
Hamilton said he “couldn’t
handle seeing the animals that 1
had raised being used for experi
mental purposes. So that’s when I
got out of there.”
At one time, the McDonald
Farm managed 600 head of Guern
seys. The university sold the place,
later on, to McDonald family
members, who ran it for a while
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