16—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 11,1965
Nation’s Market Bureau Directors
To Visit Weaver’s Poultry Plant
And Other Sites
The poultry and egg proces
sing -plant of Victor F. Weav
er Inc.. New Holland, may
become the most inspected
plant in the nation this month.
Sl.ite Secretary of Agriculture
L H Bull noted
It will be one of the places
visited September 20 by the
members of the National As
sociation of Marketing Offi
cials. who will tour Lancaster
County before they hold- their
annual convention in the Ben
Fi anklin Hotel. Philadelphia.
As dnectors of th° bureaus
of maikets in each of the fif
ty states, the NAMO mem
beis also have the icsponsi
bility of directing the regu-
Irtoiy sei vices in poultry and
e-gs ami other fresh foods
They are in chaige of gov
ejnment poultry and egg in
spector As such, they aie
in effect the chief inspector
oi each state
The Victoi F Weaver, Inc,
p ant is now one of the larg
est and most modem opeia
uons of its kind in Pennsyl
vania The company piocesses
aoout 300 000 broileis and 7,-
000 cases of eggs each week
foi the wholesale markets in
most of the majoi cities in
the noitheastein part of the
United States
It also pioduces cut up and
fiozen poultiy parts which
a> e exported to foreign mar
kets and it piocesses fully
cooked products which aie be
coming increasingly popular
with the modern housewife.
Under an agreement be
tween the Pennsylvania and
U S departments of agncul
tuie, poultry products of the
Weavei plant are inspected
by federal inspectors and ear
ly the USDA seal of quality
and grade to foreign countries
and many cities in the east.
Eggs are packed under the
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continue Ebeisole’s Babcock
Leghorn association, plus the
Ghostley Pearl bird, and the
\ antress-Cross broilers
Floyd Weber, a licensed
poultry technician who has
been associated with the
poultry business for the past
fifteen years will toe in
charge of hatching egg pro
duction and toreedei flocks
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Pennsylvania Certified seal
and under the USDA emblem.
The plant is one of 60 in
Pennsylvania participating in
the air sanitation -program,
unique in 'this state. So tight
are the restrictions in some
departments that visitors are
not allowed in the rooms
where the processing is done.
They can observe only
through glass windows or
doors Employes must follow
rigid sanitation standards.
In opening his plant to the
sciutmy of the top inspectors
in the nation, Weaver makes
it possible for visitors to see
poultiy and eggs processed
under the most samt'aiy con
d.tions and strictly according
to the mles and legubtions
governing such operations
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such critical' inspection as
will be made iby these .mar
keting officials.”
Recent improvements' and
expansion of the plant make
it a desirable operation for
the marketing officials to see
as they keep themselves up-to
date on the latest processing
developments.
The marketing officials, led
by Pennsylvania’s director of
the Bureau of Markets, C. W.
Funk, and with Lancaster
County Agent Max Smith as
a guide, twill make quick vis
its to the Landis Valley Farm
Museum, the Bphrata Cloisters
and one or more Lancaster
Farms before they visut the
Weaver plant. They will" top
off their tour of the Red Rose
County with a more lengthy
visit to the New Holland Farm
Machine Company, also in
New Holland
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