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
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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'
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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
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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
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Six Factories To
Flake ’5BB Tubers
For New Product
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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
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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
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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
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