IL. 6. NO. 35
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THIS IS A CHICKEN HOUSE The fact that this is a chicken house might be very
ions to some, but to those who know chichens this house looks strange There are no
idows in the house although there are 10,000 producing layers inside. All lights and
dilation are electrically provided and regulated. Chormg m the house is done almost
irelv by machine. Only six hours of labor per day is needed to care for the layers and
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üburbia Makes Demands
>n County Agent's Time
The population explosion is beginning to close in on
extension service. At least that is the impression left by
piesident of the National Association of County Agents
tie visited in the county Thursday afternoon,
lowaid H. Campbell,
inty Agent of Nassau cl fod the example of
mty, New York, accom- 1113 own county where the
iied the Dow Scholarship population has grown from
r of County Agents from (Turn to page 6)
s southern states as they
ireyed farming in the Gar- Dmi i IfrymAn
; Spot The tour included * Will 111 wll
»s at the farms of J. Har-
Frey, Marietta Rl, Clar- Dlan TaIII'
e Keener, Manheim Rl, * ICJI I iwui
! Raymond Witmer, Wil- Wednesday, July 26, has
' S reet Rl. been reserved by the Lan-
County Agents have no cas ter County Poultry Asso
fness visitmg a farmer if c j a ti o n for their annual tour,
problem can be taken The committee has arranged
on t h e Phone. Can *P* for the group to go by bus,
said, but hurried to add, since they feel moving a
course, that is just one i ar g e number of private au-
S °P? man -” tomobiles over major high-
P ell explained that -ways can constitute a traffic
pressure from increasing b azar <j.
as Put so many The schedule calls for two
s ° n *he hme the morning and two afternoon
■ °® lce that stops in Fredericksburg Leta
i no? sslbl f : ? or the exten- an on County area, with a
sonnel to personally chicken barbecue lunch av
blem ° ry person "with a a ii a ble to all poultrymen at
’ the Fredericksburg Lions
Park.
After assembling at the
Lancaster Poultry Center at
8 00 a.m., the group will go
by charter bus to the Whit
moyer Laboratories at My
erstown where they will see
the manufacture of poultry
medicines.
William Myer, farming
four farms -north of Myers
town, will be the host at the
second stop He will show
his 26,000 broilers, 5,500 lay
ers and 4,500 turkeys as Well
as his 90 holstem cows and
50 heifers.
At the Grimes and Hauer
poultry dressing plant the
poultrymen will see a 40,000
per day capacity operation
employing 135 workers.
Much of the cut-up poultry
used in frozen dinners is sup
plied by this plant,
f Oat p\itx a his Bethel Rl farm,
. CALENDAR Raymond Musselman will ex
tvT 2 '’ 1 - FARM SAFETY hibit llis house with capacity
for 13,000 layers He has a
nil 11 " day - judging of home made bulk feed bln
,J* PPA swine pnjects Wlt . h storage room for 40 tons
to” 6 111 ea advisor which supplies his automatic
C; 11 - 4-H Town and feeders ‘ „ ,
e business meets at Plans cab for return to
Lf-aiKaster Shopping the P° ult ry center by 4;30 p
L J"- Litztz Pike to be- m '’ accol ’ding to the* commit
bv u ' °f Lehigh Valiev tee ’ John Longenecker, H.
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H Leaders
tadule Meet-
humorous talk by H.
f (Tick) Hurst, French
tler at McCaskey High
101 'viil be the main fea
°t the annual summer
m S ol the county 4-H
7° 011 the program will
e Poii by Darvm Boyd,
on his recent trip
,e National 4-H Confer
at Washington, D. C
Progiam is scheduled
under way at 8 pm
in the Salunga Com
y Pai k, located be
n ‘"'U'disville and Salun-
K Old Harrisburg
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 22. 1961
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309 Entries
In SPABC Show
With entry deadline still
two days away, a total of 309
head of cattle had been offi
cially entered in the tenth
annual Southeastern Penn
sylvania Artificial Breeders
Show August first and third
Representatives of the Co
operative said Thursday nite
they had verbal entries from
several othr breders and ex
pected about 100 more ani
mpls to be entered before
deadline today.
New facilities including a
permanent, concrete wash
rack and more tent space has
been added this year. More
animals will be accomodated
through the use of two sep
arate judging days as well.
Guernseys, Jersey's and
Brown Swiss will be judged
the first day and Holsteins &
Ayrshires will be placed on
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Providence 4-H
Hears Florists
Twigs, frogs, vases and
flowers equals beauty, mem
bers of the New Providence
4-H were told at their recent
meeting
Mrs. I. Groff and Mrs. A
Getz of the Cloister Flower
Club, Ephrata gave a very
interesting show and tell
demonstration on arranging
flowers in different sized and
shaped vases.
Club members were given
geranium cuttings which they
were asked to try to grow
according to instructions
given by the club leaders,
Miss C. Jane Henry is
porter for the club
Merriam, Melvin Hess, El
wood Earhart, Earle Hershey
and Glenn G Harr.
AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
County Poultry House
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Built Without Windows
Mechanization in the poultry business leaves very little
to chance or to nature it seems. At least one layer house
comp’eted recently in Lancaster county, 'has no windows
for either light or ventilation, but these two necessities of
the birds have not been neglected.
James High, a feed dealer be done in approximately six
at Gordonville Rl, recently man-hours of labor per day.
completed the insulated alu- Furthermore, the operation
minum building and equip- i s uncomplicated. Much o£
ped it with cages for 10,000 the work in feeding, gather
laying hens. While there are mg and processing eggs and
no windows in the building, general chores is handled by
the hens appear happy and 12-year-old Michael High, the
healthy. Their apparent S on of the owner. Assisting
health is verified by the 85% Mike with the chores and ov
plus production being main- erseemg the operation is his
tained in the house. sister, Mrs. Norma Ann Fry-
But lack of windows is not berger.
the only unusual feature of Mike drives down the
the house. As Clay (Skip) aisles between rows ot cages,
Weaver, Purina feed repre- with three birds per cage, on
sentative says, “The heaviest a self propelled feeder which
thing that has to be lifted in has been loaded at a bulk
the house is a doggone egg.” feed bin. An elevator on the
It is true that mechaniza- machine spreads the specially
tion has taken over most of compounded caged layer teed
the heavy chores in the op- in the troughs in front of the
eration So completely mech- cages The ieed and the run
amzed is the system that the nmg water in another trough
care of the 10,000 layers can (Turn to page 5)
Second Annual Soil Conservation
Field Day Program Takes Shape
The perennially popular of the first annual Soil Con
wagon tram tours which servation Field Day last
were such a successful part year will bo on the schedule
again this year.
Local Breeders
Consign Sheep
To State Sale
Three Lancasfer County
sheep breeders are among
the thirty-two breeders from
15 counties who have con
signed 63 rams and 21 ewes
to the 29th annual purebred
ram and ewe exchange sale
sponsored by the Cumber
land Cooperative Wool Grow
ers Saturday afternoon, Aug
ust 5, at the Carlisle Fail-
Grounds, starting at 1 pm.,
EPT. Roy H. Miller, Carlisle,
secretary-treasurer of ■ the
sheepmen, said he will mail
catalogs to all persons re
questing them.
The animals will be grad
ed and sold according to
type and quality as an aid to
buyers in selecting the kind
of animal they need for their
particular flock. The sale is
considered an exchange be
cause buyers are encouraged
to consign rams they buy
this year to next year’s sale
and then purchase a new
sire. In this way they can
continue improving their
flocks at-a minimum of ex
pense.
Rams in the sale include
44 Hampshire, 6 Shropshire,
2 Cheviot, 2 Southdown, 4
Suffolk, 2 Dorset, and three
Corridale. 19 are lambs, 21
yearlings, 15 two-year-olds,
and 8 three-year olds. Of the
22 ewes, 21 are Hampshires,
and 1 Dorset.
Each year the cooperative
sponsors this sale as part o£
its sheep and wool improve
ment program. More than
850 rams have gone through
28 previous sales
re-
The Lancaster County con
signors are Harold W. Bard,
Denver R 2; Green Meadow
Farms, Bareville Rl; and
Henry J Showaltcr, Akron.
$2 Per Yea*
Wagon trains, pulled by
tractor, will be making reg
ular tours of conservation
exhibits and demonstrations
on the Speedwell Forge
Farm near Elm on August
2 from 10 am. until 3 p.m.,
as part of the Lancaster Co
unty Soil Conservation Dist
rict’s program.
Speedwell Forge, the farm
of Gerald Darlington, will be
headquarters for the field,
day program, but exhibits
and demonstrations will be
at various stops on the tour
routes.
Among the demonstrations
on the route will be the
actual construction of a di
version and the marking of
timber trees in a farm wood
lot.
A short speaking program
is scheduled to begin at 1
pm. when members of all
cooperating agencies m the
Soil Conservation District
will be introduced.
Speedwell Forge is locat
ed along Hammer Creek,
between the Lebanon pump
ing station and Elm.
FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday « Wednesday
Temperatures for the
next five days are expect
ed to average near normal
to a few degrees above
the normal range of 66 at
night to 88 in the after
noon. Warm and humid
Saturday and Sunday will
be followed by somewhat
lower temperatures and
humidity Monday & Tues
day. Rising trend again
about Wednesday. Precipi
tation may total over :,/ )in.
as scattered late afternoon
and evening thundershow
ers mainly about Sunday
and again Wednesday.