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From a hatchery in Belgium, Renaat Hatcheries, Lititz. Mr. Deßyke, on the left,
Deßyke, 22, came to Lancaster County re- compares an egg with three of his hosts,
cently and made a whirlwind tour as a Mr. Chambers, Mr. Metzler, and Mr.
guest of Ames-In-Cross, arid the Goldfus Diehm. (Lancaster Farming Photo).
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Renaat Deßyke, 22-year-old Belgian,
here looks over one of the broilers on the
farm of Roy K. Moseman, R 3 Lancaster.
With him, from left to right, 'are; Paul
Metzler, president of Goldfus Hatcheries, -
Lititz, host on the county tour; Mr. Mose
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By ERNEST J. NEILL
Broilers In Belgium are priced
on the percentage of American
blood they carry, a Lancaster
County visitor, Renaat Deßycke
told a small group of poultry
businessmen taking him on a
tour of the county Thursday last
week.
Hence the “all-American” bird
is worth far more market-wise
‘than the quarter, half or three
quarter cross on markets of Bel
gium. There are some pure lines
in Belgian poultry, but the pre
ference today is for the crosses,
hybirds such as produced by Re
naat and his family.
Father’ Disappeared in War„
There’s quite a story behind
the youthful businessman, now
only 22, today an lowa visitor
and student in the practical poul
try field. His father started the
THOROUGHLY Co- in Belgium
in 1920. During the war he dis
appeared, and the fate of the in
cubator manufacturing - broiler
producing business fell upon five
brothers.
One of the five, Renaat told on
his visit to one of several Lan
caster County farms, forsook the
poultry field for electrical en
gineering Hubert, 32, manages
the .business Norbert, second old
est, imports eggs and incubators,
Robert has a hatchery in France,
and Willy has turned to the elec
trical field-
. Renaat, who arrived on the
Queen Maiy in New York City
only two days before his Lancas
ter County visit, has charge of
the. hatchery works and commer
cial chick sales- Production is
based on supply and .demand, and
the usual output of the family
factory is two incubators a week
“'But where is your farm’”
Renaat asked his host, E. H.
Diehm, president of Goldfus
Hatcheries, Inc., Lititz, £oon aft
er touring the hatchery. In
Belgium, it’s customary for the
hatchery to carry quite a few
chicks on hand after hatching,
depending upon the demand from
customers
Weekly Reports Filed,
—Weekly reports will be filed
by 4 Renaat during his .stay in the
United States, “six to eight
months, maybe more ” Hence jus
brothers m Belgium will learn
ithe latest methods as developed
and used in the United States.
Everything here is on a much
larger scale agriculturally, the
European visitor told the group.
Not only in broilers, but in farm
equipment. He saw general farm
ing in Lancaster County as well
as hatchery operations, clear
through the poultry business,
from the'egg to the chick to the
table, or again to the egg
“Some farms have 200 to 300
chickens, and on some of the
bigger farms the may have—as
many as 3,000 to 4,000 at the
most,” Renaat told Lancaster
Farming of his home country.
But over there, the average farm
is four acres. On those four acres
one will find diversified, inten
sive farming Perhaps a tractor,
usually not. As a rule there are
horses, always a garden, always
crops- Yields per acre are much
higher than in this nation, due
to the close husbandry the typi
cal Belgian farmer provides his
soil.
Influence of THOROUGHLY
Co extends farther than the con
fines of Belgium Sales are made
into France, Italy and Switzer
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Lancaster Farming, Friday, January 13, 1956—9
Business Field Wide
Belgian Incubator
kes Tour of County
land from the plant near Gravere,
some 40 miles from Brussels.
It was pretty much a whirl
wind tour for the young busmen
man. At the Goldfus Hatchery hh
was joined by President Paul
H. Metzler; Earl H. Diehm, saleB
representative of Goldfus; I 'Chuck
Simmons, eastern sales represen
tative for Ames In-Cross, which <
the Deßycke Brothers will in
troduce to Europe, G- A- Cham
bers, manager of_.Gov Leader’s
Willow Brook Hatcheries at Do
ver, Pa.
Originally introduced to Penn
sylvania by Willow Brook, the
Ames In-Cross has shown hardi
ness and prolific white egg lay
ing qualities which make the bird
a favorite in many states. And so
developed the interest in Bel
gium.
Plans are underway for the
Deßyckes to distribute the new
breed in 26 hatcheries of France,
Belgium and Holland- Renaat’s
tour will take him to the produc
tion level, in the vicinity of lowa
State Colege at Ames, to the
Ames In-Cross farms near Ro
land, lowa
Visits Processing Plant
Three brands of chickens
hatched by Goldfus at Lititz were
shown Renaat, Meatpackers,
Ames In-Cross and Mount Hope
Leghorns. Second stop on the
tour was at the Grimes and Haur
Processing Plant near Fredericks
burg, where 25,000 birds_ can be
handled per day His hosts took
him to the Graybill Miller Farm
at Penryn, where a commercial
broiler farm is in operation, then
to the Elmer Hess Farm" R 2
Lititz, to see general farming
tobacco, corn and steers On the
Hefes Farm is one of the first
Ames In-Cross flocks in Lancas
ter County-
Three-story broiler houses on
the Roy Mosemann Farm, just
off Flory’s Mill Road west of
Lancaster, left Renaat a bit
speechless From there, TlWBhosts
took him to the David E_Hulya?d
home, R 1 New Holland, for j
typical Amish dinner.
Following his Lancaster Coun
ty tour, Renaat visited the Lead
er Willow Brook Hatchery, then
on to Des Moines wheie he will
study hybrid chick breeding the
next six months.
Farms in Belgium "produce
poultry mostly for home con
sumption, and commercial chick
feeds are produced there as well
as m this country
Five Thousand Hatched Weekly
There are 25 hatcheries in Bel
gium, and one of several operat
ed by the Deßycke family carries
2.000 birds on the farm, and the
hatchery has a carrying capacity
of 50,000 eggs.
thousand eggs are hatched
each week during four months
of the year to give THOROUGH
LY an annual output of some
100.000 chicks a year
Renaat paid his own expenses
to the States after hurrying
up the most recent hatch so be
could make the tup but will
go on salary during his stay with
Ames In-Cross-
Throughout, he was highly im
pressed by the hospitality, the
Pennsylvania Dutch food, the
magnificence of Lancaster Coun
ty Farms.
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