Hess Farm Uses Brains to Rest Brawn Not quite two veais when a salesman foi a faim-type, mixing hammer-mill visited the J Zciglei Hess farm east ol Quairvville, he found a situation ideally ananged for his pioduct lie discussed the auangement with Mi Hess and his co-partnet sons, Hem Hess laim boasts a feed hand The Co? I>s used foi U. m 8 000 hen lavmg flock A Luge shaic ol 't is home grown Ilotein h>s auohei lacet of the* scstem In (he past with 80 to 00 acics oj com m (he field lust bclote hanc-l when coin puces arc highest II -ss tound himself with out coir In 1955 tluough the pm chase of a combination small giams combinc-com pickei-shell ei and a wagon tv po giam drvci, thev started harvesting coin well in advance of the regulai season Thu-- \ea> toi instance Robcit was in the f aid on Sent 16 a lull month anead of the icgulai corn haivest in Lancastci Countv Then thanks to then ultra-mod cm home feed plant the coin was pmcessed and returned via eggs within day- So fai he has hai vested and dried about eight aues with the units tins veai Some ot the eaihei giain was slighth wettei than he piolcis runn’ng as high as 35 pci cent moisUae, but since the middle o! September even thing has op crated smoothly Dumping the shelled coin fiom the picker bin Robeit starts fill mg the box of the dnei and stalls the drung process With each new load ftom the picker the clnei giadualh fills and is left to complete the iob T'-en the dried gram is ang ered fiom the divei into a tiuck and hauled to the feed plant, at the home faim Theie it is dump ed mechanically of course into a ciound level pit elevated into a hm and stalled through the mill The null regulates the flow and mixes as many as fom ingredi ents while completeh gi Hiding 1 200 lbs houily The automatic conti oK can he set to operate for a ccitam length ot time and have built-m safetj fea tiucs to shut off the powei If one m"redient slops flowing into the mill the mill is jammed (al though a magnet protects it from metal going through), a pail breaks or othei unloiseen emer gencies arise In shoit, all the opcratoi has ROBERT USES A shoe el to clean up attei the augui as augui mount atop a c.cosoted post behind the liuck This the clued gram is tianstened to the buck foi hauling to s\stein \uth the hcaw motoi abo\e the post pen nuts the stoi age-nulling site on the “home” faim Note the easv handling of the augui anothei Hess labor sa\ei LF PHOTO v and Robert, and todav the ilxng svstem second to none to do is Mirc giavitj flow bm above the mill is full set the dials, stall the Ivo horse power motoi and walk off The suiprise in stoic loi the mill’s salesman when h° ainved at the Hess faim was the four nn gram Hoi age unit tuU off tne mam drive \va\, complete with dump pit and giauts loed fiom all bins to alleyways be neath the bin floois Henu ins’sts this “perfect” auangement was unintentional Dad bought these bins in a bunch fiom the Quanyville gov eminent bin site We started to set these tom up hcio, and he decided to dig out the hillside and fix it so we could drive in undei them and use sliding tian loois to empty the giam into iur tiuck Thm since the round bm v D tc ittme fauh (lose together, ho built a roof ovei the ccntei sec ion to have storage in between We ah each had the dump-pit and mgpis, so when the null was put in all we had to do was build i divid -d bin over it to hold 'ach batch of feed for mash, set -> mill in, run a few lifts mild a catch bin for the ground nash with a giavitv flow into he allev-way and back the auger ait under it Then mash includes the shelled corn wheat and concentrated uprdement The supplement is purchased in bulk dumped m the p t and angered into the nix bin The final icsult ol this arrange ment is a verj non strenuous astern foi handling all the gram on the farm plus a SlO per ton saving on laving mash ovei com meicial mixes The savings on costs of having mash ground com | mexciallv from homegrown feeds| paid-for the mill the first vear The Hess lamilv still uses shovels, foi cleaning up aftei the augurs and thev find plcntv on (heir faims to keep them busj, but as the mill salesman said, ‘ This set-up is near perfect ” , EARLY-SEASON v.et corn “pours - ’ fiom the pickei spout into Hess’s wagon-type, diesel-fueled giain diver, as Bob Hess beats the 1958 coin picking season by several weeks Corn with moisture content as high as 35 pei cent has been pi ocessed with these units this year and eggs produced v ith it ah eady eaten ' LF PHOTO Meat Imports Up: U.S. Slaughter Off Impoils of meal and meat prod ucts into the U S during the hist si\ months ol 1958 weie more than double those ol the same period a jear eaiher, accoidmg to latest figuios ol the Foieign Agricultmal Service The figuics show that 213 6 million pound of hoof and veal weie impoitcd dm mg the Janu ary June pcnod of 1958 compaicd w ith 76 9 million foi the com parable period ot 1957, 84 8 mil lion pounds ot pork during the 1958 si\ month peuod, compared with 710 million in 1957, 11 1 million pounds ot lamb mutton, and goat compaicd witi 1 5 mil lion and 37 8 million pounds of' t", <. - ; Cv^r 23 pei cant Poik 6,059 mil lion lbs down one per cent, and 453 million lbs were lamb and mutton down fom per cent Poultr.v slaughtei during this past August is lepoited at 547 million pounds, icadv-tocook basis 24 pei cent abo\e August 1957 ■r tv- } V % r Lancaster Farming, Friday, October 10, 1958—1. 1 ] other canned, piepaied, oi pre solved meals weie imported from Jan to June 1958 compared with 3 4 million pounds trom January to June 1957 In conti asl pioduction of icd moat m commoicial US slaugh tei houses totaled 15 806 pounds six pei cent below the same 1957 peuod Ot the total Jan August volume 8,549 pounds were beet down eight per cent Veal 745 million lbs, down from last vear * £ " ! • <•**> *V- ~ { I* > f 4 **l “* Six Factories To Flake ’5BB Tubers For New Product / ! A total ol si\ manufacturers twice the number m production last \eai expect to comer* moic than 4 million bushels of this hill's potato crop into potato flakes a new dchj dialed mashed , potato pioducl developed thiough leseaich In the US Depaitmcnt ol Agiicultuie Thiee new pioccssmg plants foi potato flakes ha\c iccenth begun open at ions 01 aie leach to stall at Bakcisficld C ill! Island Falls Maine and Wa\land, N Y Thice additional plants began pioduction last \cai at Idaho Falls Idaho Haitland Maine Scweial othci lactones for and Ontario Oieg making potato flakes arc under constiuclion in Idaho Michigan and Noifh Dakota Canadian and Euiopean concerns aie aso con sidenng manulactuic of the new pioduct Potato (lake plants aie ah each being built at Munich Geinicm and Gmucnd Austna The piocess loi nuking potato flakes was dc\ eloped b\ James Cording, Ji and lilies J Wil laid Ji , under the dacct'on ot Rodeuck K Eskcw in the laboia toncs ol the Eastern Utilization Research and Development Divi sion ot USDA’s Agiicultural Re search Scivice at Pittsbuigh Pa Public sci vice patents on the piocess aie held be the Secretaiv ot Aguculture, and licenses, to use them m the United States are available without charge To make potato flakes iiesh mashed potatoes aie applied to the suiface of a heated drum wheic are clued in a few sec onds and lemoved in a parch ment-like sheet, which is then broken into flakes and. packaged Bv simply adding hot water or milk to the flakes, plus butter and salt as desred, the consumer can quickh convert them back into flufh mashed potatoes that equal fresh mashed potatoes m taste and textme Research on this process by the ARS Eastern Division has made it possible to produce high quahh flakes fro ma wide vai letj of potatoes giown in diflei ent pails of the country A special low-temperatui 2 pie cooking step permits the use ot many low solids caneties of po tatoes in manutactuiing this pro duct ARS icsearcheis haie re centh found that cooling the po tatoes alt’r piecooking makes the process even moie wideh cdaplablo so that its now pos sible to pioduce excellent potato flakes fiom potatoes with a solids content as low as 17 pei cent The cooling step also icsults in smallei sized flakes which moans a gieatei weight of flakes can he put in each package v Poultry Marketing (Continued lioni pane tw'he) I he selection o] the aw aid win nei shill be the 11 sponsibiliU ol the Poulin and Elv Nation ,■1 r.iuid Pedum al UUison Com mittee * & »*• »*• mod ones! .it the mmial b..nf|iiet The lacmien 1 shall be an hon ol u.e Poulin and Laa National Pond whe io he sh ,11 mene m t ppi opi late plaque and hon oi' to he (ksuaated In PE\B \Uhouah in most instances the "\ ,u d w i'l b ’ ..a' n to m null \ till! >1 nsiauh woitv ei the teim ucipient -hall not i.e intei puled is pieduduia the ehaibil it' ol u aun Uam loi the aw aid Nominations should be loi w,.idl'd to I)i Milo S Swanson PLMJ lechnical \d\isoi\ Com nnttee C hanman Poiilti\ Dep.it nient Um\eisn\ i,l Minnesota St Paul 1 Minnesota ‘r i *•
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