Festival Features Swiss Origin Of Pa.
SCHAEFFERSTOWN (Leba
non Co.) Schaefferstown’s
annual Folk Festival and Antique
and Classic Tractor Show July
16-18 at the Alexander Schaeffer
Farm will center on the discovery
of the Swiss origin of the Pennsyl
vania bam.
Professor Robert F. Ensminger,
after IS years of research, has
recently published his book,
entitled ‘The Pennsylvania Bam.”
Ensminger will be the main speak
er and will also show slides of the
European prototype of Pennsylva
nia bams, including the precise
area in Switzerland where they are
located.
The Forebay Bank Bam became
the favorite of Pennsylvania far
mers and spread west through the
Farm Belt to become the American
bam. It became so popular that a
number of bottom bams were
raised one story to convert them to
bank bams.
The Pennsylvania Dutch log
house’s use and origin will be dis
cussed by Robert Bucher. He will
present a review of European liter
ature relating to the origins of Pen
nsylvania houses and will explain
why our European immigrants did
not build their houses and bams
together as a single unit
Schaefferstown’s third annual
Farmall will be the feature tractors at this year’s Antique
and Classic Tractor Show at the Alexander Schaeffer Farm.
antique and classic Tractor Show parade is scheduled, and tractor
will be held Friday, July 16 and pulls commence at 1 p.m. Awards
Saturday, July 17 starting at 9 a.m. will be presented beginning at 4
each day. On Friday, tractor con- p.m.
tests feature teeter-totter, slow
race, and crank up. At noon, a para
de will be held, followed by more
contests from 1 p.m.-S p.itf. 'and
tractor pulls from 6 p.m.-9 p.m.
On Saturday, mote tractor con
tests are scheduled, including
teeter-totter, slow race, and crank
up until 11:30 a.m. At noon, a
Barn
Other activities include cooking
demonstrations of Dutch foods,
tasting, and recipes. Other attrac
tions are house tours, baking in the
1771 bake oven, sheep to shawl,
sawmill, crafts, sausage sandwi
ches, the Dutch kitchen, and rasp
berry shrub.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 10, 1993-A23
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has been reported to help control
the incidence of subclinical hypo
calcemia, clinical milk fever and
droopy cow syndrome (defined as
cows not cleaning in a timely man
ner and not eating and milking as
well as they should in early
lactation).
Dr. David Becde, from the Uni
versity of Florida, spoke to the
Texas Nutrition Council recently
regarding DCAD. He reported that
even well-managed herds, with
cows in proper body condition and
relatively low incidences of clini
cal milk fevers and ketosis pro
duced an additional SOO to 1,000
pounds of milk in the follow lacta
tion when anionic salts were fed.
Becde also reported that there
was an improvement in fertility as
measured by pregnancy rate at 200
days postpartum and days open.
Feeding DCAD rations during
the dry period is not for all herds.
If you want to use a dry cow
ration that has been balanced using
the DCAD concept follow all the
following guidelines.
•Work with a competent
nutritionist.
GENERAL HAULING
•Produce ‘Poultry
•Hay ‘Straw ‘Lumber
•Equipment ‘Misc. items
(Hauling to equipment auctions weekly,
Hauling to Root’s Auction every lues..
Green Dragon every Fri., Leola
Produce Auction daily.)
(717) 569-7270
Lancaster Co.
Snyder County
Produce Outlet
Rt. It & 15 Port Trevorton, PA.
Open 6 days a week
Wholesaling Maryland and Delaware
sweet com, tomatoes, lopes and melons,
fresh right from the farm. Also full line of
local produce in season.
Selling produce
for 50+ farmers In the area.
(717) 374-0284
Dry Cows
•Analyze all feeds for Na, K, S,
and Cl, in addition to the standard
analysis.
•Select forages low in K (This
may necessitate buying or raising
forages specifically for the dry
cows.).
•Monitor all feed intakes. This
make the use of pasture systems
for the close-up group difficult to
use.
•Monitor palalability problems
after the addition of the anionic
salts as they are low in palalability.
•Use a TMR for best results.
•Continue balancing for other
nutrients.
•Keep total non-protein nitro
gen at less than .25 percent of total
crude protein and keep degradable
intake protein below 70 percent
•Typically feed DCAD rations
for three to four weeks prepartum.
•Be aware that DCAD is not 100
percent effective.
•Proceed with caution.
Failure to follow these guide
lines, particularly in regards to
farm specific ration formulation
and intake monitoring, can do
more harm than good. Proceed
only under the guidance of a
nutritionist
Dry cow managment is critical
to the long term success of you
operation. Develop a plan (0 moni
tor body condition, dry cow treat
all quarters of all cows, .group
cows, feed to develop rumen ihus
culature, introduce lactation ration
ingredients to close-up dry cows,
and consider the use of DCAD in
formulating the dry cow ration if
you can follow the guidelines.
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WOOD SHAVINGS
bagged - dust free
Vi or full trailer loads
Call Bob or Charlie
1 (800) 433-7431
Mid-West
Wood Shavings
BOX 513
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio 44222