BREAKING GROUND FOR 500,000 layer operation Ray W. Sheaffer,
president of L. M. Sheaffer and Cloisterdale Farms, Inc., shown sinking shovel
into ground to launch Lancaster County’s largest egg producing installation. From
left, Tom Smith, sales representative; Jane Smith, poultry science major at Penn
State University; Sheaffer; and E. J. Bowser, general manager of Cloisterdale
Farms, Inc.
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P. O. Box 1233, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Phone 717-394-9204
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 16, 1966
Cloisterdale Farms, Inc. Launches
Vi-Million Hen Operation In County
L. M. Sheaffer, Cloisterdale
Farms, Inc., of Ephrata, re
cently broke ground one mile
north of Ephrata for a one
half million layer operation,
according to Ray W. Sheaffer,
president of the firm.
The facility will include
candling and packaging equip
ment, and will feature a con
tinuous flow of eggs from the
nest into the carton, Sheaffer
said, adding that the new unit
will be one of the most up-to
date, completely automated
egg producing farms in the
country. Pioduction is slated
to begin in November with
plans to complete the project
by fall, 1967.
This farm will supplement a
nearby Cloisterdale Farms
unit which presently houses
100,000 layers, and has an ul
timate capacity of 150,000.
L M. Sheaffer, established in
1900, is one of the oldest and
largest egg marketing firms in
the country, and, Sheaffer
stated, with the combined pro
duction of these two farms
Hi-Lo-Matic
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will be one of the largest egg
producers The firm plans to
continue purchasing eggs from
large independent local pro
ducers, the president said. He
stiessed the prime advantage
of the company’s large instal-
lation will be to supply con
sumeis in the Noitheast with
day-old eggs
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equipment also is planned.
The always-popular wagon
touis will be held in the morn
ing, and while the plowing
contest is going on in the af
ternoon Several of the demon
strations will be repeated in
the afternoon session for those
who missed them the first
time around
Other exhibits allied with
the theme of conservation will
be presented by cooperating
agencies, such as SCS, State
Game Commission; Production
Credit; and ASCS.
PLOWING CONTEST
The feature of the afternoon
will be the annual county
plowing contest, starting at 1
pm, which will be held on
the neighbonng Isaac Geib
faim Seven contestants have
aheady been signed up and
several more aie “thinking it
over ” Leading the list of con
testants is last year’s cham
pion Marvin Zimmeiman of
East Earl Rl, also fiom Easr
Earl, Loien Zimmerman, John
Campbell, Sr, New Holland,
Ivan Yost, Narvon R 2; Ron
ald Kline, Lititz R 3; Everett
Kreider, Quarryville Rl; and
Jay Rohrer, Manheim R 2
Plowing entrants will be
limited to the first ten who
sign up by Saturday, July 23.
While the judges are flgui
ing out placings in the plow
ing contest, a pig chase is
planned for the youngstei-s
This event was won last year
by Eugene Bollinger, Denver
R 2, in the “unofficial record”
time of I V2 minutes.
It is hoped that the Lancas
ter County Dairy Princess, Ca
rol Ann Hess of Strasburg Rl,
and several other celebrities
will be on hand to greet the
ciowd at this annual County
conservation event
• 4-H Queens
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The eventful field day began
at 2 pm, with a swimming
paity at the adjacent Biook
side Pool The mam portion of
the evening piogiam opened
with the queen contest, fol
lowed by installation of the
1966 County Council
The featured speaker at a
vespers seivice was the Rev.
Eugene Roop, summer pastor
at the West Green Tiee
Church of the Brethren, Eliza
bethtown He spoke on “You
Have Decisions to Make ”
Each of the 59 contestants
repiesented individual 4-H
Clubs in the county, with one
representative chosen for both
the junior division, ages nine
to thirteen and senior divi
sion, fourteen to nineteen
Other Senior Queen finalists
and then clubs were Maigaiet
Grube, What’s Cookin’ Club,
Shirley ■ Myer, Garden Spot
Sewing Club, Lucy Heir, Penn
Manor Clashing Thimbles, and
Maiy Samples, Little Britain
Sewettes.
Four other junior finalisti
were Judy Sweigart, Lincoln
Sewing Club, Peggy Buckwal
ter, Lititz-Manheim Club; Nan
cy Weber, Boots and Saddle
Light Horse and Pony Club,
and Cynthia Balmer, Lititz-
Manheim. Sewing Club.
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