Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, February 09, 1963, Image 7

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    • 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
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EBY'S MILL, bu.
Tomorrow's Poultry
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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.
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