Hess Bros. Egg Firm Announce
Plans for New Operations, Building
A completely new operation,
from a newly designed egg car
ton to an extensive *nerchandis
ing program, is being instigated
'by Hess Bros Farms Inc,
Ephrala
Most extensive m the moderni
zation program will be the con-
WELL. IN VARIED
ENVIRONMENTS
Rank ol nationally sold
chicks In 1956-S7 tests
Unit on income over feed coit
«cc%pt m N. Y. C. end Miu+wfi.)
M| ttrf. M*. R.Y C. Tmi M* flm.
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K-137
Strain A
Strmut I
sfr«frt C
Sifmtn D
JftWfrt E
Jfreiit F
S#r«m G
m ftKompief*.
fAver.se of 2 tnlnee.
tincmmoavor food and chick costs.
K-137 entries ranked FIRST
IN NET INCOME among all
nationally sold chicks entered
in three or more of the above
tests. The average net income
from Kimberchiks was 56t
higher than the average of all
entries. Such consistent, prof
itable performance in a wide
Variety of environmentsjshould
encourage you to order K-137
Kimberchiks this season.
Longenecker’s
Hatchery
1110 South Market
Elizabethtown, Pa.
unloads by
automatically... from side or rear
No other forage box offers more—yet this Gehl
Forage Box costs less than semi-automatic wagons.
And now Gehl has added new optional features
including: 40-inch conveyor extension for filling
even the tallest bunks; a reversing apron for rear
unloading. The Gehl Forage
Box is really automatic— I
unloads by itself while / j
driver sits and watches. It T
can be truck-mounted too! Hi
Comes ready-built or as a
kit of metal parts with free y<>u
building plans. Ask us about : Ge/l/fj , ower pr/c .
the low Gehl price!
Conestoga Farm Service
Park Ave. Quarryville, Pa
struction of a new 10,000 square
loot plant and office, now under
construction on Route *222 just
west of Reamstown
The plant is designed to con
form to the requirements of the
Pennsylvania Egg Certification
program The president of the
corporation, Earl Hess, R 1
Ephrata, has been in consulta
tion with the state Bureau of
Markets in a effort to see that
the new plant, moie than con
forms with all existing regula
tions and will be adequate for
future needs and expansion
TO BE INCLUDED m the new
plant will be modern grading
and handling machinery Some
of the machiner> will be the first
ever used in a commeicial in
stallation
It is expected that the volume
of the company will bo increased
bv 50 per cent when the instal
lation is complete
The 'Hess Bros firm was start
ed 37 years ago by Eh Hess of
Ephrata It wa purchased m 1955
by Earl and Paul Hess
THE NEW . BUILDING, cost
ing $60,000, is expected to be
completed in August There will
be 8,000 feet of floor space in
the plant and 2,000 square feet
of office space It will be com
pletely air conditioned
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The firm now does a volume of
about 150,000 dozen eggs a week
in supplying retailers in eastern
Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey, Maryland and the District
of Columbia Sales are to chains
and independents
19.0
An open house will be held
upon the completion of the new
building
R. M. Brubaker
Salunga, Pa
itself
1
HESS BROS. FARMS Inc., Ephrata, moves ment just out of the experimental stage
into this new $60,000 building in August. Production is expected to be increased
Located on Route 222 just west of Reams- 50 per cent ,
town, the building will house new equip-
Federal Crop Insurance Showing
Popularity; Corn, Barley Added
Moi’e than a hundred new fed
eral crop insurance policies have
been taken out this year by Lan
caster County farmers, according
to Elias J Frey, Rawhnsville
local agent
These are in addition to the
more than a thousand policies
which are in continuous effect
Four basic crops are covered
by federal insurance this year
For the first time corn and win
ter barley have been added to
the list
Wheal and tobacco have been
covered for many years
Drouth and frost damage
claims from tobacco farmers are
expected to total about $47,000
The first 133 claims have paid
$33,832 and there were about
55 more claims to be processed
COVERAGE FOR TOBACCO
for the 1957 crop would general
ly cease as of May 31, 1958 This
year the crop was slow in curing
and m some cases farmers were
not finished with stripping oper
ations until late
The state office says that it
any farmer anticipates a loss
and the crop will not be sold by
May 31, the insured faimei
should notify agents in the Lan
caster Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation office
By doing this, an extension of
coverage will be provided with
out additional cost
Only Lancaster, Chester and
Lebanon County tanners are eli
gible for federal insurance The
program is operated by the US
Department oi Agriculture on a
no-profit basis to the farmer
FOR THE TOBACCO farmer
the cost of coveiage against all
the hazards ot nature, including
insects and plant disease, is $6 45
an acre for the 1958 crop year
There is no enrollment fee and
the premium is determined attei*-
the crop is set or planted Farm
ers are permitted to emoll until
the end of this month
The cost foi wheat is $1 55 an
High Drying
T emperatnres
Damage Corn
Farmers and elevator operators
who damage com by letting it
loach too high a temperature dur
ing artificial drying may find
they cannot sell to the industrial
market, the U S Department of
Agriculture says
When corn is overheated dur
mg drying it becomes unlit foi
industrial and iood processing 11
the grain reaches a tempciatuie
above HO degrees Fahrenheit, it
is considerably i educed in value
foi starch production Commei
cial processors also tmd it diffi
cult to remove the germ portion
of the kernels, and corn-oil pro
duction and quality arc lowered
Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 23, 1958—13
acre, barley about $llO an acre,
and corn $1 85 an acre
This year under the new share
cropper policy, a landlord is
permitted to insure for his share
croppers as well as his own in
terest Otherwise the insured can
cover only that part of the crop
which is actually his own share
oi interest
Corn has been put under ciop
insurance coverage for the first}
time this year and barley planted
for gram will be added foi fall
coverage This means that if the
farmer so desires, he can now
insure his four basic crops to
bacco, corn, wheat and barley
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DILLER & CLARK
is your headquarters for
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Completely automatic operation
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Poultry and Egg
Market Reports
The USDA announced last
wck that new and improved poul
liy and egg maiket news services
al Chicago, Atlanta, and Jackson,
Miss , will start May 1 to reflect
current trends in marketing pat
terns of these commodities
The service will include volume
price' reports on egg trading
which will he issued for the frst
time by Fedeial State market
news offices at Jackson and Atlan
ta and, at Chicago, the first re
porting on a volume-price basis
will be made of terminal market
trading in ready to cook poultry
LANCASTER FARMING
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Phone STterling 6-2132
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