That pic takes me back to the early 80's when I worked for what we used to know as a "mixed" farm. We could tie 27 cows (one summer we milked 38) had 4o sows farrow to finish and a herd of 25 or so beef cows. We did about 400 ac of crops. The tie stall barn had been "modernized" in the 60's with concrete mangers and gutter with stable cleaner. When I first started there we milked with 4 Surge units and a "Bucketeer" than took the milk from the stable to the milk house. In 1982 we put in a pipeline and ran 3 Surge Mini Orbits. The pipeline sure saved a lot of time previously taken up by cleaning buckets. When the cows were tied for the winter I would start first thing by feeding a bit of hay then a cartload of cornsilage, Another cart with home made "chop" (ground ear corn, mixed grain, mineral) then a top dress of soybean meal. Even though the owner did most of the milking I monitored production from our milk yield testing which we did every month or so. After feeding the cows I would go into the other part of the barn, feed clean sows. fill feeders scrape out the feeder barn and feed calves. After breakfast I would feed a cartload of haylage to the milk cows and more dry hay. Then jump in the truck or on an open tractor with the grinder mixer if need be and head up to the "other"farm and pitch silage out of the silo for the cows and young cattle there. Then you would head back to the home farm to work in the farrowing area of the hog barn (cutting teeth, needeling piglets, weaning etc)til noon. After dinner would be time to grind feed for either cattle or hogs....there was ALWAYS a tractor hooked to the MixAll! Then to make it interesting, every spring we would tap about 500 maple trees. Sorry to go on so long but the image of the tie stall barn stirred up some memories.
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