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Annville
B.H.M. FARM
EQUIPMENT
RD #l. Box 611, Rt. 934
717-867-2211
Bangor
BANGOR IMPLEMENT
6 Flicksville Rd
215-588-5922
Bloomsburg
BLOOMSBURG FARM
EQUIPMENT
307 Edgar Ave.
717-784-5217
Chambersburg
CHAMBERSBURG
FARM SERVICE
975 S. Main St.
717-264-3533
Cresson/Altoona
HINES EQUIPMENT
Cresson - 814-886-4183
Altoona - 814-742-8171
Easton
GEO. V. SEIPLE &
SON, INC.
RD #2 Van Buren Rd.
215-258-7146
Everett
MORRIS
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
P.O. Box 307, Rt. 26N
814-652-6101
Hughesville
FARNSWORTH FARM
SUPPLY INC.
103 Cemetery St
717-584-2106
Klmgerstown
STANLEY’S FARM
SERVICE
RD «1, Box 46,
Off Rt. 125
717-648-2088
Lynnport
KERMIT K. KISTLER INC.
Rt. 143, 99 King Hwy.
215-298-2011
Martinsburg
WINELAND FARM
EQUIPMENT
RD»2, Box 141-2,
Rt. 164 E
814-793-2109
New Holland
ABC GROFF, INC.
110 S. Railroad Ave
717-354-4191
New Ringgold
ECKROTH BROS.
FARM EQUIPMENT
RD #2. Rt. 443, Box 24A
717-943-2131
FOAM MARKER
Somerset
SUMMIT
MACHINERY, INC.
PO Box 325, Rt. 281 N
814-445-2528
Towanda
SPE INC.
RD #l, Box 157
717-265-4440
Tunkhannock
BARTON SUPPLY
Route 92
717-836-4011
MARYLAND
Line boro
WERTZ FARM
EQUIPMENT
4132 East Main
410-374-2672
NEW JERSEY
Washington
FRANK RYMON &
SON, INC.
RD #3, Box 355,
Rt. 31 South
908-689-1464
Shiloh
ROBERT G. HAMPTON
Rt. 49, PO Box 109
609-451-9520
(Contlnuad from Pag* A 32)
“It’s a shame there aren’t more breeders,” he
said. ‘The Brown Swiss really has a lot of poten
tial. All we need to do is get more work done on
them and build up the interest.”
Right now, he said he has an Excellent cow on
dry lot for six months and she’s dragging the herd
average down. She’s been open for about 400
days. But he won’t cull her because her type and
past lactations were so good. She is too valuable
to Mase for genetics aha the future of the breed to
cull for strictly reproductive problems.
Mase said he doesn’t dislike Holsteins, he just
likes Brown Swiss more. He started with two
calves 20 years ago as his 4-H project. They were
gifts from his older sister, from a dam she had
purchased for less than $lOO as a calf.
One prize calf, a 2-month-old, sold for more
than $4,000 at a Brown Swiss Association Mid-
Atlantic Calf Sale. It was the great
granddaughter of his 4-H project calf that can be
traced to a herd owned by William Daubert of
Pine Grove.
“The cows are all fed the same,” Mase said.
“There’s no color difference as far as when it
comes to feeding them. I feed according to milk
Ardrossan
Ayrshire
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
VILLANOVA (Delaware Co.) “I know
this herd very, very well,” said Helen Hope
Montgomery Scott, owner of Ardrossan Farm. “1
know and name every cow. I’m in the bam every
day."
A combination of good record keeping and
watching the day-by-day production records of
cows contribute to herd improvement. And (hose
factors were the ingredients in the honors fos
tered on the Ardrossan Ayrshire Farm, which
was recognized as top managed Ayrshire herd,
according to the Pennsylvania DHIA.
Ardrossan was founded in 1910 when Col.
Robert L. Montgomery, Helen’s father, came to
Philadelphia from Scotland. The herd prefix
came from the town of Ardrossan, Scodand. At
the dmc, Montgomery brought over nine cows
and one bull.
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production.
“1 feed a total TMR and then topdress strictly
on production,” he said. “I don’t see color when I
go down the bam feeding cows. I look at milked
weight”
The production from his cows is not from a
magic formula. Mase said genetics, luck, and
care combine to create high-producing animals.
Sire selection is varied as to source, he said.
“With Brown Swiss, it’s a wide open bail field.
There’s really no set stud there. So, I have to go
with selection with the Swiss. Wc even gel some
(semen) privately from some other breeders.”
Gary Mas? farms with wife Patty, son Garrett,
daughter Lisa, and son Anthony.
“DHIA helps me with my culling. I used
DHIA for culling and for feeding; for fine tuning
my ration as far as feeding individual cows. And
it helps with the Brown Swiss, to (have records
to) market
“Probably the biggest reason I go with DHIA,
rather than buying my own meter myself to find
out what (a cow is) milking,” he said. “You have
to keep records on registered stock to merchan
dise breeding stock, and occassionally use
records.”
Farm Top
Manager
The farm milks 120 all-registered Ayrshires
from tiestall to pipeline, and manages another
180 head of replacement stock. Averages are a
little more than 20,300 pounds of milk, accord
ing to Scott They raise their own alfalfa and
grass hay, but purchase the grain. A TMR is used
on the cattle.
Ardrossan, under general manager Chester
Billheim. farms about 500 acres, and other 250
acres are in woodland. Herd manager is Heinz
Mielke. There arc a total of another five full and
part-time herdsmen.
The farm’s seedstock has been built up gradu
ally, according to Scott. Since the farm’s concep
tion, they have purchased no dams and use sever
al bulls oii the farm.
But “taking an active part” in the operation
and management of the farm, according to the
owner, and keeping good records are keys to suc
cessful herd management.
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