—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 23, 1965
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GOVERNOR WILLIAM W. SCRAN TON has proclaimed the week of Novem
ber 19-25, 1965, as FARM-CITY WEEK in Pennsylvania. Seated with the Gover
nor is Jack R. Grey, chairman of the executive committee for 1965. Standing,
left to right, are: Theodore E Brookhouser, secretary; Walter L. Cain, program
chairman, and Charles B. Slaton, public relations and publicity chairman.
Fluid Manure Handling
Meeting Held In Area
Seventj-fhe farm equipment
dealers, distributors, educa
tors, and agricultural special
ists got a concentrated look
at fluid manure handling
equipment and concepts re
cently.
Occasion for the two-day
gathering was the first of a
senes of sales meetings be
ing held by Sahlstrom Manu
facturing Company, Swedish
developer of fluid manure
homogenators and spreaders.
Nbls Johan Sahlstrom, Skov
de, Sweden, inventor of the
fluid concept for handling
farm manures was one of the
speakers at the function and
told the colorful story of his
early experiments m Sweden
in heating 20 communal
homes with methane gas from
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L H. Brubaker
350 Strasburg Pike, Lane.
R. D. 3, Lititz
Phone Lancaster 397 5179
Strasburg 687-6002
Lititz 626-7766
faun nianuies His subsequent
ledirection of development
w ork led to the Sahlstrom
homogenator and fluid manure
spieader
-Nationally recognized .Michi
gan State fluid manure spe
cialist, Dr Robert Maddex,
also spoke Donald Ace and
Lairy Click of Pennsyhama
State University joined Mad
dex and covered the subject
of state aspects of fluid ma
nure application
Participants were taken by
bus to visit the Mason Dixon
Dany farm at Gettysburg,
the Prank Hershey farm at
Eden and the Melnn Stoltz
fus farm at Paradise to see
fluid manure systems in actu
al farm use.
Liberty lives through the
newspaper, where the power
of the people is supreme.
’ His aim is to help you get great re
turns from every acre To accom
plish this he carries an unusual li
brary of crop information. His
‘ know-how” will answer your ques
tions on fertilization, planting and
crop management Ask the Hoffman
Seed Man nearest you -
Frank Bucher, Rothsville, 626-6504
Lester Erb, Elizabethtown, 367-7112
Jason Mellinger, Strasburg, 687-6546
Jonathan Shirk, Bareville, 656-9302
D. Wayne Sweigart, Elizabethtown,
367 2280
Edgar Umble, Gap, 442-4525
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FARM SEEDS
A. H. HOFFMAN SEEDS* INC.
Landisvilla (Lancaster County), Pa.
Corn Chopper Burns
On Longenecker Farm
A corn chopper on an are*
farm, valued at $2,000, was
damaged by fire Oct 14 The
blaze was believed caused by
a short circuit in the wiring.
The fire occurred on the
Ray bongenecker farm. Lititz
R. 2, where, some months ago,
fire destroyed several farm
buildings The equipment,
owned by Isaac Geib, Man
heim E. 3, was parked about 35
feet from a new tobacco ahed
but the building was not
damaged.
Responding to the aJarm,
about 8 30 p.m . was the Lit
itz Fire 00. with two engines.
Firemen said Geib had been
using the chopper until about
7 pm. when he parked It in
the barnyard. He estimated
damage at $4OO.
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Pennsylvania Flying Fanners...
Several "(Tils" tram the
EaVtern Pennsylvania 99's
rapt at the L. L. Logan Air
port. Kennett Square, Pa.,‘last
Saturday, under the direction
of Mr*. Jerry Roberts, alr
marklng chairman, for the
purpose of marking the han
gar roof of the L. L. Logan
Airport to Identify the air
port with marking* plainly
visible from the air. The !)9’s
is a woman' pilot’s organiza
tion started by the late Ame
lia Earhart.
Marking such airports is a
project of the 99’s and is
available to owners of air
ports and private farm strips.
The -owner furnishes the namt
and materials The 99‘s do
the layout and painting to
conform to standards prescrib
A. B. C. Groff, Inc. Alan Beyer
New Holland 354-8001 Christiana LY 3-5687
M. S. Yeorsley & Sons Landis Bros. Inc.
West Chester 696-2990 Lancaster 393-3906
Shofzberger's H - !5 - Newcomer & S«l.
Elm 685-2141 Mt ‘ Joy 653-3361
Wenger Implement Co.
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ed by the Pennsylvania Aero
nautics Commission,
The project Is to ’ promote
air safety and to help *uido
pilot* in event of •aihtre oC
radio navigational equipment.
The 99'a will assist with co
operating farm airstrip own
ers. The Pennsylvania Aero
nautics Commission highly
recommends this identification
as does the Federal Aviation
Agency which is officially no
tified of each such marking.
On an average day, 1,520
American homes, 14 schools,
200 farms, 5 hospitals sndl
nursing homes, S churches,
135 industrial plants, and 120
stores are struck bv fire, saya
the U. S. Department of Ag
riculture.