• Edas Incorporated tractor with a double blade 33 r scrapes manure from under the (Continued from Page 6) C ag*es to a center cutter where mediately and will be ready for a pad<ile system takes it to a the consumer within 4S hours manure spreader outside the from the time they are laid. house. Chores in the six 32 feet x But - whlle efficiency will be 268 feet houses will be nearly the watchword. Uniformity of automatic. Feed will be deliv- product wIU be ,tbe 80al , We ered to the houses in bulk and * want to put out a dozen of eggs a motorized cart fills the tro- that are all alike, Wenger said ughs on the double decker cag- If a housewife breaks two eggs es faster .than a man can walk. m a pan and one has a dar c Fresh water flows in front of 5 oik and tlmother a light yolk, the cages at all times, and tem- she thlnks something is wrong perature and ventilation in the Tbey may both be good eggs, windowless houses is controll- but she thlnks one IS not B °°, d ed by sipc theimostatically con- ~ she miBht no * know whlc . n trolled fans. one - but she thmks one 13 Every six weeks, a small w ron S It pays to buy from Reist | 9 ALFALFAS to choose from I 10 CLOVERS to choose from I INOCULATED BEFORE DELIVERY - FREE | REIST SEED COMPANY I Mount Joy, Pa. ® Eby's Chick-to-Egg Feeding Pregram ' u. ' k & EBY'S MILL, bu. Tomorrow's Poultry [OQLW-Htr f EBY ] pounv e gVESTOCK ifsns. SEE US TODAY ABOUT OUR EARLY ORDER BONUS PLAN LITITZ Phone 626-2106 CLEANING MANURE FROM UNDER the cages at Eggs, Incorporated is me chanized. The small tractor equipped with a double blade pushes the droppings to a gutter in the center of the house where a paddle conveyer takes it to the manure spreader outside. Lights in the window less, fully insulated house keep the caged layers producing clean eggs on a round-the-clock schedule. Here Charles Goodhng sits on the tractor which follows the edges of the pit without steering. The small wheels at the front of the scraper keep the machine on the walkway. If we can put out a umtoim eggs in piefeience to imported pack of high quality, and mar- eggs Wenger said. He believes ket it as a Pennsjlvania egg, the best way to pioduce a uni the consumer is soon going to form pioduct is to keep the en start asking for Pennsylvania tne piogiam under the same START WITH Eby’s Pre-Chick Starter per chick, for high vitamin and antibiotics fortification will save extra chicks to start on the right road to tomorrow’s egg profits. Profits Your Chicks on PRE-CHICK STARTER Start your chicks by feeding lb. o: The extra food power; higher protein; HEMPFIELD MIMS, tnc. EAST PETERSBURG Phone 898-3031 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 9, 1963 L. F. Photo. management plan At present, the only phase ot the piograui not under his dnect conti ol is the pullet i earing piogiam Ha conti acts with tanneis to biood the chicks and glow them to 12 weeks, but attei the laimg un its aie complete be plans to acid blooding and ihick leaiing laulities on anothei section o£ the faim. When this is done, Eggs, Inc will handle the pioduction of high fiualitv eggs all the why floin the hatcheiy .to the letailei’s shell es Wengei be lieies Pennsi liania faimeis can piodnce all the eggs used, by the housewives m the state. Farm Prices Are Lower For Month Pnces lecened hv Common wealth laimeis at mid-lanuaiy lot their agiiculhiial pioducts were down 1 peicent trom a month eailier, but nearly 4 peicent aho\e a jeai ago, ac coidmg to the Pennsyhania Ciop Rcpoitmg Sen ice Primalily lesponsihle lor the aeabonal decline in the price index was a 15 cent per cw r l. drop in wholesale milk puce. Cattle puces and hog pucoa also declined duung Januaiy. Paitiallj oftsetting these low er puces lor the month were highei pnces of all held crops Allalla hay price at $45.00 per ton, was the high est on lecoid and showed a $2 00 mcieasc from December. Potato prices showed a 15 cent per cwt gam oier December, while poultii, and egg puces remained steady. The Indev ot Pi ices Receiy ed, which is a ineasuie ol the tiend and changes ol prices le cenecl by faiineis, was 231 peicent of the 1010-14 100 base This compaied w r ith 233 a month eaihei and 223 a cear eailiei Dm ins the month ended Januaiy It, the Index ol Puces Received by Faimeis over the nation lose neaily 1 iieiceut to 244 percent of its 1910-14 aveiage Geneially bighei puces for vegetables and manges, following freeze damage in nnpoitant producing aieas, vveie pnmaiily lesponsiblo. Seasonally lower pi ices tor wholesale milk and cotton weie jiaitially ollsettmg. The Januaiy mde\ was nearly 1 peicent above a year earlier The Index ol Pi ices Paid by Faimeis foi Commodi ties and Seivices including In terest, Taxes, and Farm Wage Rates lose neatly 1 percent fioni the levised December index of 309 to 311 on Janu ary 15. Tins was a new high. 7
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