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6 On the Farm Supplement of The Canadian Statesman and Newcastle Independent, Wednesday, March 20, 1991 / S' Don't Miss Out On PURINA CHICK DAYS X Place your Chick orders today! Call Welcome Feeds (formerly Vanstone's) 116 St. W., Bowmanville 635-8777 Family Works Togethe Neither snow nor freezing freezing rain, nor even a sudden power failure could keep the Stapleton family from completing completing the morning's chores at their farms near Newton- ville. We, visited the farm on Monday, March 4, expecting to capture a typical day on a family farm. But, due to weather conditions, conditions, the day wasn't exactly exactly typical. Nevertheless, the events provided a good illustration of how a iarm family copes with the unexpected. unexpected. With close to 100 dairy cows in their herd, there is plenty of work to do. A typical winter's work day starts early, before the the first milking at six a.m. And it doesn't end until the 4:30 p.m. milking, clean-up and feeding is over. Once the milking is completed, completed, the other animals need to be fed. These include the dry cows, the calves and the veàl calves. There are also chickens and turkeys. Even though the farm is basically basically a dairy operation, the chickens and turkeys pro-, vide a change in menus. One of the chores that was done in the dark on Monday were the feedings. All the dairy cows were fed in the dark, but not the calves located in the outside hutches by the dry cows' bam near Glenn Stapleton's home. Glenn and Marvin transported transported many three-litre bottles bottles in the family truck. The calves were eagerly awaiting their milk and grain and greeted their owners with shy glances in anticipation of their meal. The little gaffers were fed their morning rations of milk and grains consisting of oats, protein pellets ana corn around 8 a.m. The calves are fed twice a day. On that morning they were munching their food and sucking back their milk before before the cows were fed. Glenn never uses chemicals chemicals and, since the family installed installed calf hutches at the farm, they never have to use medicines, he said. The hutches have only one opening which is shel tered. The floor is spread with hay for warmth and E ' 'ction from, the ground. bottles have their own special holes and grain is placed placed on a small shelf at the opening. The calves have to eat their rations in a hurry or else they will find that thev are sharing their meal with all sorts of birds looking for hand-outs. Marvin Stapleton puts about one-half of an ounce of milk into a sample bottle. The bottle will be filled the next morning, during the second half of the herd's milk test. The samples are shipped by courier to a laboratory for testing afterwards. The results of the test will help in improving the milk production of the family's dairy herd. Warren attaches the milking machine to this cow, after having already washed the udder with a disinfectant. disinfectant. HIGH TENSILE FENCE ^ERTS COMPARED WITH PAGE WIRE FARM FENCE HIGH TENSILE FARM FENCE IS: • LESS EXPENSIVE •STRONGER • LONGER LASTING • EASILY ELECTRIFIED IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE US, ASK YOUR NEIGHBOURS Here are some of the people and places in this area that have used HIGH TENSILE fencing: Henry Heerschop - Newtonville David Kellogg - Welcome Julius Schmegner- Bowmanville Bob Eagleson - Bailieboro Orono Fairgrounds Dale Ibbotson - Port Hope Jim Ferguson - Newtonville Canadian National Exhibition Bob Frame - Millbrook Town of Newcastle Ross Brown - Newtonville Ministry of Transportation (Hwy. 400) Municipality of Cavan Millbrook Fairgrounds Frank Maulson - Bailieboro NZL Farms - Millbrook CALL US TODAY FORA FREE ESTIMATE OR PRICE LIST 416-786-2200 3455 Stewart Rd., Newtonville