Family And Farming
(Continued from Pag* AM) pool and a meeting with a possible should borrow in small amounts
The Maryland Hdlstein Asso- speaker. that we can pay back in a reason
ciation has a covered dish picnic If Charles lager was to give any able amount of time, not over a
planned for Sunday, June 26 at advice to fellow farmers it would long period, and watch the interest
Maple Lawn Farm beginning at 11 be to go slowly. “Some people get rate. 1 always sec things as grow
a.m. and the public is invited, into the business and borrow too ing slowly, a little bit at a time.
They will have a tour of the facili- much money. It can cause prob- That is what we have always done
lies and the cattle, games, an open lems when you go in too big. We here. We sold a group of heifers to
George N. Gross
Everett
Sollenbcrgers Equipment
Gettysburg
Yingling's Implement
Honesdale.
Marshal] Machinery
Klingerstown
Stanleys Farm Service
Lebanon
Umbergcrs of Fontana
Mahaffey
Hutton Farm Equipment
Mercer
Ralph W. Kyle
Oakland Mills
Peoples Sales & Service
Quakertown
C. J. Wonsidler Brothers
Quarryville
A L Herr & Brother
Somerset
Lincoln Supply §c Equipment
Tunkhannock
Ace Jurists
he cows are fed with a portable TMR mixer.
Star shaped core optimizes RFV.
With the new 4800
Series Round Balers,
you'll be baling hay
earlier.
You'll put more
high-protein leaves
in the bale for higher
relative feed value
(RFV). And, the star
shaped core allows
the bale to breath,
optimizing RFV at
feeding time, too.
arles and Judy lager.
build our milking parlor in 1965, Brazil to update the milking par
then we sold a group of heifers to lor.” Currently the lagers are
building a 100-cow free-stall bam
and a manure pit Rather than haul
away the dirt they are using it to
construct a 50 by 500-foot auto
mated pole bam for the turkeys.
Indicating her son Mark feeding
a calf nearby, Judy lager smiles.
“It always feels good to raise a
calf up and have it do well.” Fami
ly and farming are synonymous at
Maple Lawn Farm.
Best of all, the new
4800 Round Balers are
easy to use.
Select the best size for
your operation: 700,900,
or 2000 pounds. Then
ask to see one at your
White-New Idea dealer or
call 1 800 767-3221.
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Manure Handling
(Continued from Page A3O)
For immediate field application the manure
may be loaded directly into a manure spreader
from a gutter cleaner discharge or push off lip,
or loaded with a front end loader.
More liquid manure may be pumped from a
collection channel, sump, or small tank that
holds a day or two manure accumulation.
If manure is to be pumped into a liquid
spreader, wastewater from the milking center
is usually included to make agitation and
pumping easier. Manure can be conveyed to a
storage located at the barn by the gutter clean
er, tractor scraper, large piston pump, centri
fugal pump, gravity flow pipe or gravity flow
channel. Manure can be transported to satel
lite storages located away from the barn by
trucks. large spreaders or pipelines.
Manure storage systems may be located at
the bam or near the cropland that will receive
the* manure.
If manure must be transported long dis
tances. it is often more effective to provide
satellite storages near the cropland. This
allows the manure to be hauled to the storage
during low labor periods and makes for more
efficient spreading. Liquid manure, especial
ly if solids have been removed, can be
pumped long distances to satellite storages.
The storage must be compatible with the
form of manure is removed from the bam.
Heavily bedded manure can be easily stacked
in three sided bunker type storages or on
simple hard surfaced or packed gravel pads.
Storages should be designed to prevent clean
water from running into them and to direct
any leachate or runoff water from the storage
away from streams to vegetative filter areas or
holding ponds.
Liquid manure can be stored in properly
designed concrete or steel tanks, concrete or
membrane lined in ground storages and in
some cases earth storages. It is critical that
storages be located and constructed to assure
that manure will not seep through storage
walls or bottom to ground or surface water.
Consult the USDA Soil Conservation Ser
vice or a qualified soils engineer regarding
location and design of in ground manure stor-
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