B—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, November 20; 1965 / N ' t ~' Z — r EGGS ARE GATHERED continuously at Cloister dale Farms. Performing this daily task above is Shirley Noll. Eggs are collected in filler flats, cooled over night, then cased and trucked to the L. M. Sheaffer plant in Ephrata. They are on their way to the stores within 24 hours after being produced. L. F. Photo A POWERED FEED cart, operated by Tom Harter, shown being used to scrape the dropping boards under the cages This operation is done twice a week and the manure cleaned out of the pits every two weeks The 3-tiered, rows of birds are fed twice daily and the feed is leveled once a day by dragging a chain through the trough It takes about one-half hour per feeding to feed the 15,000 birds in each house. L. F. Photo LATEST TRUCK ADDITION to the L M Sheaff er Co fleet which hauls eggs to restaurants and food markets m New York City and Philadelphia. ■» ■«*. vWhJ'' \- > EDWARD BOWSER, manager of the 90,000-bird Cloisterdale Farms caged layer plant at Lititz R 4, works on'record summaries in his farm office. Boyrser attributes a good share of the farm’s success to careful attention to records, both on the farm and in the office of the L.'- M t Sheaffer Co. L. F. Photo £ Sheaffer ly- Esss packaged by the com- was housed in April,. 1&64. pany are marketed in New Today, the complex of six, York and Philadelphia, most controlled environment hous of these going tp (chain es, each containing 15,009 stores are packaged under caged layers, employs six full pruate labels and delivered time people, a manager, plus right to the store door. some part-time help. The plant consumes 60 tons of teed per -week and puts out over 1000 cases of eggs and 60 tons of manure each week. (Continued from Page 1) marketing, and has expanded its plant facilities at the cen tral Ephiata location. In the mid 1950’s the company be came the first egg packaging plant in the East to install automatic sizing equipment, ■which ultimately led to the complete automated assembly line for washing, candling, sizing, and packaging The two automatic units haie a capacity ot 4 3.000 eggs per houi, and the daily plant ca pacity now stands at 1300 cases per day. At present, many of the eggs handled by Cloisterdale " as aie produced in this area, faim located about three aud Shealfer hopes eventual- miles trom the plant. The ly to get all his supply local-fiist flock of 15.000 birds It has often "been said that the Bast cannot compete with outside aieas in egg produc tion. To get more intoima tiou on the costs and prob lems involved in producing eggs, and to establish a near by supply ot quality eggs for his trade, Ray Sheaffer de cided to get into the pro duction phase ol the busi- Two yeais ago ness, broken on a to shrink How your heating problems and enlarge your honfi One of the big reasons electric heat is becoming so popular is'iiS added space it gives your home. Did you know that you can gefcrftl of your big old-fashioned furnace and the tanks, fuel lines, flues jSttQ even the chimney—and reduce all of that to a compact waH-mquatjp electrip furnace? 1 In fact, with six different types of electric heating systems avS® able, you can make your heating system disappear altogether burying it m the ceiling. Whichever system you choose, is the safe, clean, flameless Iji heat. I Investigate this amazing new way to heat homes.' If remodeling call a Reddy Kilowatt Recommended Electric Hone® Heating Dealer listed in the Yellow Pages under “Heating tractors.” If you’re planning to build, tell your builder you wanfejQi be modem, you want the best, you want electric heat. Electricity--the ¥ Heat According to tarm manager Edwaid Bowser there wasn’t much of anywhere to go for mfoi mation on this type and scale of layer management, so as problems arose they had to be sohed on the spot, otten just by trial and error. After one and a half years’ experience, Bowser felt that this kind of opeiation of- ground 34-acre fered the linn sufficient econ (Continued on Page 9) i: * v"
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