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-THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1901
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Dairy Production Has
Shown Growth Here
BY JAY JORDAN
News Editor
It is hard to mistake a
chicken house. They are ev
erywhere in Forsyth County.
The contribution of the poul
try industry to Forsyth
County is hard to miss.
The dairy industry, all six
local producers, makes a
substantial if not as notice
able contribution, too. In
1980, Forsyth County dairies
produced about 1.4 million
gallons of milk. They milked
around 700 cows twice a day
and at one of the larger dai
ries averaged 46 pounds, or a
bit over five gallons per cow
per day. Some cows pro
duced 75 or 80 pounds a day.
There was dairying from
the earliest days of Forsyth
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CHOWING DOWN WHILE WAITING TO BE MILKED
...the Holtclaw Brothers’ herd feeds
County, in the sense that just
about everybody kept and
milked a cow. Commercial
dairying, that is selling sur
plus milk to folks without
cows of their own, was
started in Forsyth County in
1930 by a fellow named Tom
Pirkle. He had three cows on
two acres and sold milk to
families and through a
drugstore in Cumming.
The dairy industry grew
slowly in Forsyth County.
Pirkle had no competition
until Berrien Brown began
milking six head and Ed
Norrell began with three.
The Norrell dairy is still in
business and is the oldest in
the county.
Only six or seven families
were involved in selling milk
until about 1947. In that year,
L.T. HOLTZCLAW WATCHES MILK
...fill the glass jug
Just 20 years ago, there
were almost two million
families milking cows on
farms throughout the United
States. Today there are
200,000. Many economists
are concerned that we may
be approaching a time of
milk shortages that could
again make us dangerously
dependent on foreign pro
ducers for our needs.
June Dairy Month is a nat
ural time to pause and re
the dairy business began to
take off. In the next eight
years, 15 new dairymen
started in business. But of
the 24 dairymen who started
between 1930 and 1976, only
five were in business that
year. Tom Pirkle had
dropped out in 1944.
Since then, the local dairy
business has been growing.
In 1976, there were 490 head
of dairy cattle. Now, there
are about 700. Only 20 years
ago, milk cows averaged 28
or 30 pounds of milk a day.
Now, the average is around
46 at one local dairy.
A modem dairy is a high
technology operation. The
days of a three-legged stool
and a milk bucket are gone,
although that unique aroma
that only 200 cows in close
fleet on the significant
contributions to our health
and economy made by our
nation’s dairy farm families.
Now, more than ever,
Americans should appre
ciate “homemade” prod
ucts.
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confines can produce is still
unmistakeably present.
The Holtzdaw Brothers’
Dairy is one of the larger in
the county, milking about 250
head twice a day. It has been
in busines nearly 10 years
and runs altogether about 1,-
000 head of cattle on 1,200
owned and rented acres.
Part of the land is pasture
and the rest is used to grow
feed.
The milking herd shows up
at the milk bam at 4 a.m.
and 3 p.m. They are crea
tures of habit and the slig
hest break in their routine -
a change from one type of
silage to another, for in
stance will cause milk
production to drop.
The cows munch at the
trough while waiting their
turn to be milked. In
batches, they are herded into
a waiting area and have
their undersides hosed off by
sprinklers. The water comes
from a large underground
tank, which keeps it at a
nearly constant tempera
ture.
From there, the cows go in
batches of eight to the milk
ing room. It is all stainless
steel and glass. Very sani
tary, very hospital-like.
The milkers fit cups to the
cows’ udders that simulate a
nursing calf. The milk col
lects in large glass jugs and
then is pumped to a central
stainless steel storage tank.
A truck empties it daily.
Milking the whole
herd takes about three
hours.
The past few years haven’t
been good for fanners, and
right now the cost of feed is
hurting, said County Exten
sion Director Walter
Rucker. But for local dairy
farmers R.R. Bennett, the
Holtzdaw Brothers, Mrs.
Roy Holtzdaw, Mrs. Ed Nor
rell, Charles Robbs and
Holly Valley Farms the
picture is not quite so bad.
Explained Rucker, “It’s one
of the brighter pictures in
the farm situation in today’s
economy.”
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