A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 11, 2000
EVERETT NEWSWANGER
Editor
PARKSBURG (Chester Co.)
- Comradery, beautiful cows,
contrasting management styles
and operational goals, and did I
mention comradery?
This summary gives both the
subjective and objective sides of
the Chester County Holstein
tour Tuesday. We left the
Samuel Stoltzfus farm at about
8:10 a.m., a little late because the
bus motor spewed antifreeze
water all over the farm driveway
and the driver couldn’t decide if
it was serious or what. But fi
nally bus officials concluded it
was only an over-fill of water
and nothing serious. And we
had no further trouble with the
Five-year-old Jason Cooper helps his parents, Scott and
April Cooper, show the tour group their Excellent Mena
cow. Mena is milking as an 11 -year-old, after starting at 1 -
iiy. She has a total of seven finished lactations to
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were right.
First stop was at the Horace
Hiendel Farm in York County
where the huge new dairy com
plex houses 200 cows in a tie
stall barn that gives the
impression when you walk in
that you have cows as far as the
eye can see. Fancy Brown Swiss
cows line both sides of the barn
as you enter. They also have a
few Jerseys, but mostly Regis
tered Holsteins that include
Bellwood, Formation Celcius,
and Patron. An evaporating
cooling system helps maintain
cow comfort and their 25,7001 b.
herd average.
Of special interest was the
new farm store and small pro-
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Lady’s Manor AB Star Sara EX-92 greets the Chester County
clothes. Sara is the dam of the Sascha bull that was also seen
rently leased by ABS.
cessing plant where they will
open next week to sell locally the
milk from the Brown Swiss
cows. The tour made an extra
stop just to see the nearly com
pleted retail operation. In addi
tion, Hiendel Farm feeds out
1,000 steers per year.
At the Edwin Johnson farm at
Airville, they have six cow fami
lies that have top production
and type. Under their Hicko
rymea prefix they have been
breeding polled Holsteins for
more than 30 years. Of special
interest on the brochure of the
farm is Hickorymea Leader
GYP P 2E with a lifetime of
122,480 m 4486 f 3997 p. Nine
polled bulls are currently or
soon will be available from U.S.
studs from Hickorymea cow
Chester Holstein Club Tour Visits York,
families. This down-to-earth
farm herd is noted for beautiful
uddered cows.
At Scott and April Cooper’s
farm they milk 73 cows that av
erage 3x 28,850 m 1,022 f 917 p.
The farm of 120 acres was pur
chased in 1967 by Scott’s par
ents. In December 1998 Scott
and April purchased the farm.
After developing groups of reg
istered Holsteins from My
Lady’s Manor, Fultonway, and
Pep-L-Lea, the current herd has
31 cows over 30,000 m with 11
cows over 40,000 m. Eleven cows
have lifetime milk totals of
100,000 and 5 are over 200,000 m
lifetime. Classification is BAA
105.7 with 1 EX and 28VG.
They have received the Holstein
Association’s PBR award for the
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pealing Holsteins.
My Lady Manor Farm, home
of many well-known Maryland
State and National show
winners was the next stop. Beau
tiful 94 point cows along with
grand champion younger cows,
made an especially impressive
stop for the Chester County
breeders. Housed in a freestall
environment these cows look
wonderful even in their work
clothes.
The first animal to greet the
tour group (of course he was in a
strong enclosure) was the huge
Lady’s Manor Sascha bull who
is currently leased by ABS and
housed at My Lady’s Manor.
Sascha is out of Lady’s Manor
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