6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. July 22, 1961 LIFTING OF EGGS AS WELL AS FEED is done with machinery in this laying house. As eggs are gathered from the cages, they are put onto egg case fillers and carried to the washer by cart. After going through the washer, the fillers are put on the skids in the foreground and moved by hand truck to the air condit.oned egg room to be cased Michael High, in the background puts the eggs into the machine, while his older brother, Leon, takes them out of the washer and puts them on the skid. —L. F. Photo Q Poultry House (From page 5) quality high. The clean eggs are taken into the air conditioned egg room where they are put in to egg cases to wait for the dealer’s truck which makes a pick up twice each week. After the eggs are put into the fillers at the front of the cages, they are never hand led again individually. The 30-egg filler, being plactic goes through the washer and into the case along with the eggs Manure disposal in caged layer houses has been one of the major problems of this type of operation In the High layer house, manure is removed from under the cag es by a series of moving pad dles A conveyor at the end of the house the drop pings out and into a cistern beside the building. In the pit, the manure is mixed with enough water to become a liquid. An agitator in the pit keeps the mixture stirred up until time to pump it out to be spread on the fields for fertilizer. So successful has the op- FARM BETTER WITH A MARIETT/ PL unaffected bv 1 . . conosive silage f acids • FARM BETTER \ FARM EASIER t FARM FOR PROFIT " with the new ‘ Harvest King Silo. Ct’s $0 easy to own , . . get complete details nowl*** ♦ Jtcfr T M Union . c „ jA , } (•rbltlc Coi|iorttlcn m | l . riririfllt)^ LANDIS BROS. MANHEIM PIKE LANCASTER EX 3-3906 eration been thus far, High is p 1 aiming to construct an other wing of the same size alongside the first. The egg room as well as the manure pit will serve for both hous es- (Turn to Page 7) ■ Number 1 of a Series From HORNCO FEEDS..... improvements to serve business farmers! MORE ACCURATE THAN The electronic panel board of the new Homco mill can mix feeds more accurate than any human being. Today, modem feeds contain many expensive and necessary in gredients. When the business farmer buys modern feeds he should get these expen- sive and necessary ingredients accurately mixed. FEEDS D.E.HORN&CO.,Inc. york.pa. Phone 2-786? ; -gal* 1 • County Agent (From page 1) 400,000 at the end of World War II to 1,300,000 at the present time. His office which employs six full time agricultural agents and a like number of home demon stration agents handled a to tal of ,3,200 calls during the month of June “We recent y added a sum mer assistant to answer the phone and advise home own ers on lawn and garden prob lems, and he hardly ever gets out of the office.” Campbell said “Our attitude has been this, Our first responsibility is to the farmer, but we will not turn down requests from the suburban rerident.” Camp bell said. He. pointed out that farmers in his county are a minority group, and growing smaller percentage-wise ev ery year. Public relations with the rural-non-farm pub lic is important in retaining a favorable budget for exten sion work To illustrate how farming in Nassau County has dwmd led, Campbell said there are only 300 cows and no poult ry in the county. Potato acreage has dropped from 15,000 acres 15 years ago to about 700 acres this year Canning vegetables are down ANY MAN!! from 25,000 acres in .the brings a problem to u" post war era to 1,200 to 1,-, must; to recdJ 400 this year. the problem if he sees jj “We are going 'to have to Saio. and recommend train office girls to recognize ment.” symptoms and answer re- Suburbia in becoming quests, and our work will be important every year, more and more with the farmer and the farm J lawn and garden center ser- had better make the best' vicemen When one of them it, Campbell believes ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■•■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ l.,,, ■ 1941— 20th Anniversary— l96l {SUMMER SALES I PROMOTION : Now-Blgger Than Eve?! | SAVE-Special Anniversary Prices S MANY-MANY SPECIALS S i 5 WnMNATIBNM * MOinu •anmniiißPinnnHiHa>wnnaßa»a r 'ns«ii l Paul Kleindenst operates the electronic panel board at the new Hornco mill. ' “Service Makes The Difference” WHEN YOU BUY FROM THE HORNCO MAN WITH THE HORNCO PLAN! See Us Today! Charles INTERCOURSE Quality control ingredients tape . .. where every ingredient is recorded and checked' before Hornco feeds are delivered. Hooker B. PH. SO 8-350] tn
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