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This week Lee County Farm Ad viser James T. Somers and Area Adviser Stanley T. Smith are mailing the annual Dairy Herd Improvement Association Report to all Lee County dairymen. During the last testing year those cows on official DHIA test in Lee County averaged 12,459 pounds of milk. The average but terfat production was 465 pounds per cow. The test was 3.7 per cent butterfat. The Ronald Pratt and Collins herd, Dixon, had the highest pro duction with 548 pounds butterfat and 15,339 pounds milk per cow. Other herds producing over 490 pounds butterfat per cow were: Rodney Bollman, 547; Wesley and Larry Herwig, 556; Yngve Jo hansson and Dan Beetz, 532; Ed mund Bushman Sons, 516; Ron ald Dewey Crawford, 515; R. C. Williams, 512; Wm. Ehmen and Schott, 499; Clarence Dippel, 498; Harry Witmer, 498; Dale Biggs and Richard Durkes, 496; and Ray Prindaville, 494. Somers pointed out that eight Lee County herds have been on DHIA test eight years or more. The first year these herds had an average butterfat test of 354 pounds and 10,203 average for milk. The 1966 herd averages of these same eight herds was 470 pounds fat and 12,535 pounds milk or an increase of 116 pounds fat and 2,332 pounds milk. In addition to the official DHIA test the Lee County Dairy Herd Improvement Association offers two other programs. One is the owner-sampler testing program where the farm operator collects his own samples and they are picked up at the farm and tested by the DHIA supervisor. The other program is the Weigh- A-Day-A-Month program. Under this program the farm operator weighs each cows milk once a month. These weights are sent to the University of Illinois and pro duction computed from them by IBM machine. The DHIA is governed by a board of directors. These are: Rodney Bollman, president; Ger ald Miller, vice president; Ronald Dewey, secretary-treasurer; and Dale Biggs, Ronald Pratt, Walter Fassler and Charles Wilkinson, di rectors. Dairymen can find out more about the testing programs by contacting the farm adviser’s of fice, the DHIA supervisor or one of the board members. Milk-O-Meter David Pratt is shown pointing to the Milk-O-Meter used to measure the pounds of milk in those herds that use a pipeline system. The milk is pumped through a glass pipe directly to the bulk cooling tank. David is 11 years old. He is a member of the Eldena Wonder Workers 4-H Club and will have a dairy project this year. David's dad, Ronald, point ed out that a testing program is important for any dairyman, but even more important for those with pipeline systems because it is impossible to deter mine the number of pounds produced except on the day of the month the herd is tested. Recording Milk Weights Archie Severson, county DHIA supervisor, left, is shown recording the milk weights of the cows in the Ronald Pratt and Collins Holstein herd. Ronald Pratt, farm operator, is shown at right. Dr. C. R. Collins is the farm owner. Pratt and Collins have 49 cows in the herd.
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Dixon Evening Telegraph
Dixon, Illinois, US
Sat, Dec 10, 1966
Page 6
Full Page
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