6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 8, 1962
ALL SIX BOYS IN THE Aaron Click family share in the egg chores. At far
left is John, 13 years old, who gathers most of the eggs from the cages. At far
end of the washer is Samuel, 16, who does the feeding and helps with gathering
and washing of the eggs. Taking the eggs from the washer is Marvin, 10, who
does most of the washing assisted by Kenneth, 7, at the far right in the front
row. With Kenneth, who took time out from his chores to pose for the photo
grapher are four-year-old Merle who will soon be five, and Elvin, who is three.
Merle and Elvin help gather the eggs, L. F. Photo
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“And we can handle it all
right if we all keep our
health.”
It is easy to see that the
“we” is not mst a figure of
speech when chore time comes
Samuel begins the feeding
with a motoi-dmen, self-un
loading feed cart which takes
bulk feed from the 13 ton bin
■fiy gravity and puts it m the
troughs in Iront of tne cages
with no lifting or pouring by
the operator
As Samuel begins feeding,
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John and Marvin begin gath
ering the eggs on plastic case
fillers on four wheeled carts.
Feeding takes only about a
half hour and Samuel helps
John finish witi the gather
ing while Mai nn and Kenneth
begin putting the eggo through
the automatic washer. Some
times Meile helps with the
egg gathering, and e\en three
year old Elvm hitches a ride
rn the cart and picks eggs off
the front of the cages. And ho
knows they hav° to he packed
with the little end down.
Before you know A, the
eggs are sanitized and ready
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to go into the humidified and
air conditioned cooling room,
where they will be put ,nto
the pie-conditicned cases. The
cooling room, which is 22x20
feet, easily holds th 3 produc
tion for half a week until
they are picked up by the
dealer’s truck.
The egg room, containing
the washer and a work table is
30x30 teet. Another room con
tains the wat°r s>slem in
cluding hot water tank, the
heating system, lest room and
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In the chicken house itself, hours each day coming on at
environment is rigidly control- 4 am. so that most of tha
led. There are ho windows for eggs are laid, before-the mom.
light or ventilation. Over 160 (continued on .page 7)
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