12—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 7, 1963 W s * r A BEAR ON THE CORNERSTONE along with the date,‘l773, tells some of the history of this tobacco shed on the Elvin Hershey farm, Lincoln Highway, west of Lancaster. The cornerstone carries no names, but the cornerstone on the barn bears the date 1807 and the names Christian and Elisabetha Bear. The house has a stone with the date 1885 and the names of Benjamin and Anna Bear.'Hershey has lived on the farm since 1934. L. F. Photo • Hershey (Continued from Page 1) dunng December, January, February and March, and sells most of the meat, except the hams, at his market stand The hams are usually sold tresh to be cured 'and sold later by an other market stand owner He jaises about 50 head ot York ‘shiie hogs each year “If we bought hogs to butcher, we would need a special license,” he sa>s Hershey said he keeps busy enough with the farms and maiket, and does not do any custom butchering I could probably have custom butcher ing all the time it I wanted it, he said, but he does not jeel that he has enough time joi that kind of business. DAIRY BL’SIVKSS Xelson H Hershey, the son who lives on a second farm at Columbia K 2, is the dairy heidsman The 110 acre farm jb inn as a partneiship of fa thei and son Last yeai the 33 Holstems in the herd made an average 13 912 pounds ot milk wuth a 3 9 pei cent test and 542 The Most Famous Name In Corn Pfister Associated Growers liltlt/, l**u Phone «2«-«80« SPRAYING Service Dairy Barns Poultry Houses CARBOLA Disinfecting White Paint • Dries White • Disinfects Against Disease , j*, • Kills Plies; 90% less Cobwebs 8 to 10 Mo. DISIXEKCT pffiwfty- 'houses 0 Wi truer Ibh R 4, lane. Maynord^Beiteel Phone 3053-7237 pounds of butterfat, This was an increase of 90 pounds of butterfat over the previous year without the ad dition of a single cow. In fact, Lancaster Automobile Club u mi * PACKAGED IN A COLORFUL HOLIDAY BOX Over 50,000 Members in Lancaster County enjoy these services . » . Ja "r | if u±i y Tood”" fm“mi PERSONAL EMERGENCY , flWn MfIMV nTHPR , ACCIDENT INSURANCE ROAD SERVICE | AND MANY OTHER 3 COAST TO COAST SAIL BOND SERVICE LANCASTER AUTOMOBILE CLUB ftftSmk 111 LBli [ l|| If 15 N. PRINCE ST., LANCASTER Please tend • CHRISTMAS GIFT membership MAPS TRAVEL SERVICE _ LICENSE SERVICE To . This iPEllcOlon 1* U usM ftr New MEMOIRS only % f Address - ■ ■ IVwßjiggsgjfflßir must kesidr in Lancaster county y^MTPSKIg*Uy# j||fjgf INDICATE (X) HOW YOU WANT DELIVERY MADE LEGAL Send flft raclchs direct Q Send *e me D ADVISORY SERVICE , . . „ MONTHLY MAGAZINE _________________ Sender'! Name, .. - ■- Dues $ 7so Ne tnlrenee fee for a »«• Entrance Fee $ 250 Address _ stn residlno with a arasenl . .. ‘ ~ „ a pM, .-i memker. FEH *7JO TOTAL t!0» ] “ \ ‘ ’ *<6* 1 1 air the- cows In the hferSf; raised on the farm. -NO; attributes most of the gali increased grain in the rai but he says,there might been some other factors. Nelson said he had felt several years that the wea link in the dairy program the heifer raising facilities, improve this phase of the ; gram, the Hersheys remoc the barn on -the home pi so that the pens were lar easier to clean, and mpre 1 and airy. The old well was torn a and a new concrete block was constructed at the fi edge of the forebay. T small doors were replaced large rolling doors and a steel I beam eliminated need for several posts in stable. Now the entire can be cleaned with a ma; loader and spreader. Feeding is easier, too, • the long continuous troug! the back side of the pens, placing the partitions in small pens with movable ga- Most of the potatoes and mm and Anna Bear, and thj tes makes it easier to see the the eggs from the- 7,800 lay- year 1885. A tobacco shed oi heifers and keep a check on mg hens go to the market the farm' has a cornetstpaj their health. At present, the trade or to retail stores-in with the figure_of a beat'aaj Hersheys have about 30 head around- Lancaster. - the date 1773 - Hershey "baji of young stock for replace- On the farm where Nelson he' does not now the history ments on the home farm. As lives the 30-acres of-corn, 85 -of the Beajr fanulyr-but he ha| the heifers freshen they will-acres of hay, 20-acfes-of wheat-contracted with,a historian b) be taken to the milking string and five acres of barley, as trace the family and its bacltl on the farm Elvin bought well as the 15 acres of pas- ground. ; from Park Hess about seven ture, provide feed and bedding - Id many ways the farm ij jears ago. for the dairy herd a unique combination of thij Nelson says he believes the The Hersheys raise no tobao best -of the old days and thcj| new method of handling re- co or _ other cash crops. - most modern agricultural pracl placement stock will improve An interesting feature of tiees. „ the dairy program a great the nei\ly remedied barn on '(Continued on Fasce 13) ■ For Christmas , give a niembership in the 365 days of driving pleasure THE IDEAL GIFT EASY TO BUY-SURE TO PLEASE m
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