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SHELTON--MASON COUNTY JOURNAIJ--Publishei] in "Chrtstmasfown, U.fJ.A.", Shelton, Washin
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CURIOUS COW---There was standing room only for the cows as :i
they were waiting to get milked in the rear of the milking parlor
at Stan Johnson's Dairy last week when this Journal photograph i ~ i
was snapped. Johnson milks his 200 Holsteins twice daily at his i i
. farm in Skokomish Valley. ~ ..~ ....
at the Stan Johnson Dai|-y in loins the automatic milker with a bulk storaae * * * * DAIRY FARM LAYOUT---Stan John~3n took this the center-rear is located Johnson's "old" rest sl~ed
. Uows are mdkecl" twine -each ;fa__nk ..n _hi ............ e n~* ,.nnm where th~ mi'u :=-~,,=~. ..... . resting and being milked.. , cm )ties. I the tank's contents into picture of his dairy farm layout from atop his new and at the far right, his two "old" silos. The
,,~Ced "hands', of the automatt c coo ed There itt s ~ cked un once a da- ~,,, a miI~ The cows are fed m Johnson's ] a milk taJ~k truck which stops at 65-foot high air-tight silo (he was the only one Mason County dawy farmer has added a 150-stall
= s milking parlor A nine linetank t'~uck and taken to the ~lairvz "~ "" "kitchen" where an automatic I the farm once daily. The tanker brave enough to climb up there). At the left isindividual rest shed which he calls his "cow motel"
H - " ,~ ~ , , , "" feeder transports the feed from a I then takes the milk to the dairy Johnson's "kitchen" or feeder shed. The milking (not shown) to the left of his "kitchen" as well as
i I NTON Drive" program sponsored by the and corn are grown His farm, wagon and puts it in front of the where it. is homogenized pasteur- parlor at the Johnson Dairy in Skokomish Valley'is a new glass-lined steel silo from which point John-
e~lcv .... I ......... " . ...... " .... animals I ized and bottled for consumer use. shown in front center with the cows assemblin son took this photo.
-, -,~.ani- ullion uil L;ompany ot L;alilorni~ the Iirst on tile lezc wiLn a DlUe " . . , g
1~ ~r ~ ..... [ ............ , . The cows get UP from their rest ] Usually about a day elapses from behind the parlor as milking time drew near. I
~t ,- o,,~ nan- I anu the wasnington wairy r'rod- I silo, is 3no mira west of the George areas to feed'"rob'abl- six or seven I the time of the cow's milking to * * * ':'
, ry of the rood- I ucts Commission. The o d t h e r I Adams Hatcitery on the Skoko- times a day ''~ JohnsOn said 'Stan[ the time that' the product is de- with with the regular open silo. tire while attempting to cut do~xm I
the Stan chores was ta H nt r refer t h~s n z t shed a a hve~ed o~ put on the market, ,lon ~an e costs and maintain
~:,east [' ' '.: l e u e Brothers Imish Valley Road. Johnson ex- ' "s o ~" ew "es • " s I' ~" " Its capacity is about 250 tons of. g " g :' ~" "' I .
' ~ ~nelton in Dairy Farm, which held its open plained that his fa~m's capacity "cow motel." The "motel" is madel Johnson said. "haylage" which is roughage dried peak efficiency in anindustry ] ~
- . I house June 12-13. I will be 300 milking cows and up of 150 individual housing stalls j IN THE .PARLOR Johnson alsoto a 40 per cent moisture content I where product prices ht~vc re- [ IJ~ . ,
=~ 3n's farm will I TO REMAIN a comnetitnr in I"once with 300 head it will beconstrucLed individually "so thet keeps individual health, breeding or 450 tons of shelled corn. Rcgu: I mained nearly the same for many I
ubh , eats while o eratm costs
, te p c this [ the nresent day ~onornv~ ~h ...... about a 24-hour-a-day oneration." co~s won't bother each" other." I and production records for each lar roughage has about an 80 per Y "," p ' g ,, -have [ ~ II|||:~=-~||||l~j~l[|l|ll
I~ aYv~rOna noon I has greatly exp"an¢ted h"isoper'at~on [ Johnson says he ires- tried to Twice each day the cows stand [ cow. In order to produce enough cent moisture content, while, that I !net.eased with the rest or tne [ ~ . .
s ~-*~ veen the [ i~ recent years. Nine years ago at I "develot) the whole farm around in line at the milking parlor. A/miu~, cows must have a calf once : storeu in the new mm m umea ana i e~u~,o-ty. ~ .... I ~ '
a~ o~serval ~ , a eai he said f 1 Ill Jt£ ap eals ~naL~om moo to
tl~. _.7' "aceI age 21 Stun started with 20 cows t optimum efficiency' with the ob- pipe line ~ams from each auto-[ Y ", ". !'controlled to cut that tgu '.e ,,. P .... :" . I tl~
uv~tms m on r ~ r, half because cows eat mote ~ryet Y~ mu t sucn a mmpm ptoc(ss
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