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Modern Efficiency
In Operations Told
By BUI Force
Mull Tribune Suit Writer
Since the war Jackson county's dairy Industry has shown
phenomenal growth, increasing in both numbers of stock and
acreage devoted to production of feed for dairy cattle. Dairying
iiuw me second largesi agricultural enterprise in the county,
surpassed in amount of income only by the horticultural business.
Dairymen here earned $2,900,000 in 194916 per cent of the
loiai agricultural income.
But expansion would mean little to the county's farm economy
unless accompanied by sound business practices and agricultural
know-how. In this respect, local dairymen have shown consider
able diversity in what they feel is the most efficient and economi
cal i.vpe 01 pnysical plant and management program.
i Drici lour 01 lour dairies,
rogarded as the best local exenv
plifications of four different
schools of thought on dairy barn
set-ups, revealed mechanization
so advanced as to make the city
dweller's eyes pop. While meth
ods and equipment in the four
dairies differed, all were de
signed for maximum production
with the least amount of effort
and they all exhibited the same
, constant preoccupation with sani
"tary standards.
Four Visited
The four dairies visited were,
Victor Birdseye's ranch on the
central r'oint-Jacksonville hign
way, Rene Espourteille's Far
Hills ranch near Shady Cove,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bohling's
Junad dairy near Eagle Point
and Roscoe Robert's Roxanna
dairy on Spring street in Med
ford. The four can be considered
representative of what is best
in the county's nearly 1,000
dairies.
At his farm, Victor Birdseye
has evolved what he believes to
be the optimum size and arrange
ment to handle his milking herd
of 53 Jerseys. His "milking par
lor" is of conventional design
20 stanchions, 10 on each side
of the building, are built on one
level and have cleaning gutters
running the full length of the
room.
Milked In Shifts
Cows enter the Birdseye barn
in "shifts" with ten being milked
at one time, and then let out
while the machines are moved
to the other string of 10. Birds-'
eye is said to be one of very
few dairyment anywhere who
has his herd so perfectly trained
that each cow enters and leaves
the barn in precisely the same
order each day and goes directly
to her own stanchion. While
stanchion and string-broke herds
may be common in small opera
tions, they are considered un
usal and highly efficient in large
dairies.
Birdseye's methods require
two men for each milking, and
milking time averages one hour
and 45 minutes. He cites several
advantages of his set-up: There
is never an idle machine; there
are only a lew cows in the room
at a time so that cleaning is a
small problem, and there is no
lost motion and no congestion,
Average Hiah
He feeds only grain in the
milking barn; the cows get their
hay and silage in the feed barn.
Birdseye feeds 60 per cent grass
silage and 40 per cent hay, and
his herd's butterfat production
last year averaged 389 pounds,
against a state average of 286
pounds.
One outstanding feature of the
Birdseye ranch is the impeccable
cleanliness. Daily scraping of the
concrete paved yards is a part
of each day's chores. No ac
cumlalion of manure is allowed
and it is spread on the fields
at the time it is gathered. Only
the recent bad weather has in
terrupted the regularity of the
operation.
At the well-named Far Hills
ranch in the picturesque moun
tains above Shady Cove, Mr.
and Mrs. Rene Espourteille have
installed an elaborate dairying
operation that is called the ulti
mate in dairy barns fitted with
De Laval equipment. At present
they are milking a registered
herd of 41 Holsteins in a concrete
"milking parlor" with six ele
vated tubular steel stanchions.
They are milked three times
daily in an effort to boost pro
duction, and Ranch Manager
Bill Leekey says the job takes
one operator about three and
half minutes per cow.
He likes the Far Hills set-up
because he says it is well adapt
ed to the needs of a registered
herd. Daily production is quickly
and accurately recorded at the
time the cow is milked. Milk
passes directly from the De Laval
milkers into large glass jars sus
pended from scales. It can be
inspected for any possible flaws
or impurities betore n is pumpea
into the DiDe lines to the milk
room. Just about the only man
ual operation required in the
Espourteille barn is putting the
lids on the milk cans after the
milk has passed over the cool
ing coils, through automatically
operated spigots, and into the
cans.
Unique Barn
Junad dairy on the Rogue
above Eagle Point is owned by
Fred Bohling and his actress
wife June Story. Their unique
dairv barn is of corrugated
quonset construction and features
eight stancnions set on a guuei
less concrete floor. Gutters were
eliminated to improve the foot
ing for the cows and manure is
hosed directly off the smooth
pavement. De Laval equipment
is used here also.
it talfpic one operator two hours
to milk 30 Holsteins at Junad,
and with the addition of an
extra man on the morning shift
the time is cut to an hour and a
half.
Said Compact
Hallmark of the Roxinna
dairy in Medford's eastern out
skirts is compactness combined
with streamlined efficiency. Mr.
and Mrs. Roscoe Roberts have
installed Surge equipment wnn
four steel stanchions raised aooui
hroo feet above the level of
the operator's gangway that runs
the length of the "milking par
lor." Stanchion layout is rough
ly similar to that of the angle
parking of cars on a city street.
In other words, each stanchion
angles in toward the operator
to provide maximum conven
ience. Planned jointly by Roberts
and the Surge people. Roxanna
is a 42-cow capacity dairy com
plete on seven acres of subur
ban DroDertv. Milking parlor
milk room, feed room, and an
apartment for a manager are
compactly arranged under one
roof.
It takes Roberts and his wife
about an hour and a half to
milk from 28 to 30 head of cows
with their arrangement. Their
herd is made up of Holsteins,
Brown Swiss. Guernseys, and
Jersevs. Unlike Birdseye. who
produces his own feed, Roberts
Medford
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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1950
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FAR HILLS MILKING PARLOR Rene Espourteille's registered Holstein herd Is con
fronted with this imposing array of machinery three times daily. Six stanchions are elevated
above the operator's gangway for the sake of convenience in operating the De Laval milkers.
At the time this picture was taken noon milking had just been completed and the glass jars that
receive and weigh the milk from the milking machines here contain disinfectant and the operator
is washing the room and equipment to a state of hospital-like cleanliness. Natives of France, the
Espourteilles are developing a model dairy in the Shady Cove area.
Farmer-Veterans OK
Conservation Plan
Members of the Veterans
Agriculture association this week
voted unanimously In favor of
the proposed Jackson county
soil conservation district, when
they met to observe the first an
niversary of the group's forma
tion. The meeting was held at
the association headquarters at
White City.
Plans are under way to com
pile and publish a list of mem
bers in all areas of southern
Oregon so that Interested veteran-farmers
may contact them for
information. Veterans of World
War II who are actively engaged
in agriculture are eligible for
membership. 4
New officers presided at the
meeting for the first time, and
committees were named to map
out a program for 1950 which
will be "even bigger and more
successful" than 1949, officers
said.
The evening was closed with
the serving of refreshments.
Boise. Ida., Feb. 3 (U.R) The
Columbia basin inter-agency
committee will hold its nexl
meeting at Salem, Ore., next
Wednesday. State Reclamation
Engineer Mark R. Kiul said.
sj t oir v. .
makes no effort to grow feed on
his small acreage but his near
ness to feed dealers in town
does much to offset any added
expense.
Size Said Advantage
In 1948 Roberts was oper
ating a 74-acre dairy with about
the same size herd he has now
and he cited production figures
that may show the advantages
of compactness in a dairy operation.
Last year, at Roxanna. Rob
ert's herd produced 248,060
pounds of milk for an average
of 8,268 per cow. On a farm 10
times as large, a similar herd
produced 234.854 pounds of milk.
Comparable butterfat production
was 10,331 pounds at Roxanna
and 10,006 at the larger dairy.
His butterfat average last year
was 334.47 pounds per cow. Rob
ert's operation could be dupli
cated on less than an acre, he
said.
Outside the milking parlors
the same efficiency and attention
to detail prevails and the pro
fessional skill that is required
to run a dairy becomes more
and more evident.
Use "Loafing Pens"
A practice called "pen sta
blng" in the east takes the form
of "loafing pens" here. On the
Birdseye ranch a huge roofed
area is available to the herd day
and night for iust what the name
implies loafing. The other
dairies have variations of the
same facility. Here the cows arc
free to eat to their heart s con
tent and to rest in knee deep
straw. It is cleaned only once in
manv months but new layers of
straw are added from time to
time. Birdseye says the decom
posing straw helps to provide a
bedding area of constant warmlh.
Electric heaters in water tanks
are another innovation of par
ticular importance this time ol
year. The apparatus keeps the
tanks free of ice and just warm
enough to encourage ample
drinking. County Agent Earlc
Jossy emphasized that top milk
production is lirectly contingent
on the amount of water a cow
can be induced to drink. Birds
eye stocks his water tank with
gold fish to help maintain clean
liness.
Assistant Ready
A specialist in animal hus
handrv and dairying, Joss
stands ready to assist and advise
dairvmcn at any time, and his
office is a kind of clearing house
for ideas, projects, and proBiemt
affecting the industry here. Hi
makes available complete plans
furnished by the extension serv
ice, for scientifically designed
dairy barns, and newcomers to
the field would be well advisor'
to consult with him before they
begin to learn the intricacies ol
a milking machine. It is onl
throuch planning and skill that
Jackson county's dairy industry ;
can continue to grow sounaij
and at its present pace.
Volunteer Firemen
Save Chief's House
Warrenton. Ore.. Feb. 4 (U.R
Fire Chief Larry Lenhard today
had only the highest praise for
his volunteer firefightrcs. The.'
saved his house from burnin;
down.
A torch a workman was usim
to thaw frozen pipes at Chief
Lcnhard's home ignited oil es
caping from a broken fuel line.
The fire spread to the founda
tion of the house.
But firemen jumped to the
task and saved their chief's
house from all but a little smoke
damage.
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CONVENTIONAL BUT BRISKLY EFFICIENT This 20-stanchion milking room on the
Victor Birdseye dairy is typical of the "tried and true" design, that enables, two operators to
milk more than 50 cows with a minimum of time and trouble. Scientifically organized and
operated, the Birdseye farm on the Central Point-Jacksonville highway is considered one of the
valley's model dairies and is also a thriving business. The owner is shown here. A graduate of
Oregon State college, his work is also his profession.
Weid-
ncr, who arrived here from Port
land Wednesday, said Saturday
tiiat a meeting of all volunteer
firemen In Medford will be held
at the fire station at 7:30 p.m.
Monday.
In addition to volunteers,
Chief Wcidner said, all residents
of Medford who are interested in
becoming volunteer firemen are
invited to attend the discussions
of volunteer organizations and
problems.
Wcidner. who is on "loan" to
the city from the Portland fire
department, is senior captain, as
sistant instructor and drill mas
ter witli the Portland depart
ment. His experience also in
cludes work with volunteers, and
he is drill master with the Mult
nomah volunteer department.
The acting chief, whose stay
here as a consultant will be for
approximately four months, is
living in the fire hall. His fam
ily, including his wife and three
sons, is remaining in Portland
while he is here.
Unidentified Submarine
Probably U. S. Vessel
San Francisco, Feb. 4 (U.F)
An unidentified sub marine,
twice seen off the northern Cal
ifornia coast during the past
week, probably was a U. S. navy
vessel making test runs, a 12th
naval district spokesman laid to
day. American submarines fre
quently make test runs off the
coast after being repaired at
Mare Island navy yard, tht
spokesman said.
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machines through the pipe line shown at the top of the picture
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From there the milk runs over the series of coils that are cooled
by water and direct-expansion freon to a constant 36 degrees.
Four milk cans are filled simultaneously from this apparatus
which stops the flow automatically when the cans arc full. An
operator is then required to place a lid on the cans and lug then
a few feet into a walk-in cooler.
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