VOL. 11 NO. 40
PARTNERS in the Plain & Fancy Egg Ranch Inc., from left, Paul L. Hess,
president; Claude Hess, vice-president and secretary; and John Snader,.treasurer
and general manager, ?hown in front of the partially completed, combination egg
processing plant-office building. When finished, the building will be the center of
the 60.000-bird, cage layer operation. L F. Photo
DHIA Board Acts On 3 Tester
Proposals; Banquet Chairmen Set
Dneotors of the Red Rose
Dairy Herd Improvement As
sociation appioved two tester
pioipwSdis and rejected anoth
er M'C-rday night at their reg
ular quarterly meeting at the
Farm tiedit Office, Lancaster
The thiee proposals were
presented to the board three
County Plowman
Places 2nd In
State Contest
Laaeister County Contour
Plowing Contest Champion
Marvin E. Zimmerman of East
Earl finished in the run
nerup spot for the state title
last Friday in a six-man event
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Marvin E. Zimmerman -
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 3, 1966
weeks earlier at a joint meet
ing of DHIA testeis and di
rectois
The boaid agreed to in
crease the maximum pei herd
milk-o-meter handling charge
from $3 to $4 The individual
charge for the service is left
to each tester’s discretion and
is based on several factors in
cluding distance traveled to
service an individual account
The dnectois also appioved
the tester recommendation
that a joint meeting of test
ers and directors become a reg
ular annual occasion The first
such .meeting was held Au
gust 8.
A third supervisor recom
mendation, that two more
milk-o-meter units be pur
chased, was turned down by
the board. It was feu that
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Farm Calendar
September 6 7 30 p m , Lan
chester Land Owners Assn,
at Paul Z Martin Sales Sta
ble, Blue Ball
September 7 Red Rose Baby
Beef & Lamb Club barbecue
at Penryn Picnic Woods
430 pm, Lancaster Coun
ty Vo-Ag Teachers, at Eph
rata High School
September 9 8 pm, Lan
caster County ASCS Conven
tion at ASCS office, Man
heim Pike, Lancaster.
September 11 12 30 p.m ,
Ephrata Adult Farmer Class
Picnic ait Stevens Firemens’
Field.
TOBACCO TIME IN LANCASTER COUNTY Fifteen-year-old Richard F.
Gruber, left above, and his father, Roy F. Gruber, Elizabethtown R 3, team up to
bring in the tobacco crop this week. Richard is a student in vocational agricul
ture at Manheim Central High School. Below, a wagonload of prime, fresh-cut
tobacco is on its way to the shed for curing at Gruber’s. L. F. Photo
Delivery Of Day-Old Eggs
In Quantity Is Goal Of
Plain & Fancy Egg Ranch
by Don Timmons
With an in/ial investment
approaching half a million dol
lars, 'three Lancaster Coun’i
ans recently launched an egg
pioduction opeiation with an
ultimate goal of 250,000 cage
layers The first stop on their
timetable will be at the 60.-
000-bird level, which they an
ticipate by July, 1967.
The trio, operating as the
Plain & Fancy Egg Ranch
Inc, brings together an as
sortment of talent and expen
ence which should go a long
way toward assuring the firm’s
success The president, Paul L.
Hess, has spent the past 22
years in the egg marketing
business, and with his father,
Eli Hess, founded Hess Broth
ers Eggs, now Hess Brothers
Farms, Inc In March, he sold
his interest in the egg fi m to
become eastern sales manager
for the National Poultiy
Equipment Co, of Renton,
Washington He will guide the
egg marketing plans of the
$2 Per Year
corporation, which are based
on dish ibuting eggs to points
ol sale, and/or cor:umption,
w*‘hm 24 houis of their pro
duction
Vice president Claude Hess
has operated his own environ
ment conti oiled, cage layer
plant near Akron for approxi
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80 ASCS Community
Committeemen Elected
Ballots cast for ASCS com
munity committeemen by 972
of Lancaster County’s more
than 8000 eligible farmer-vot
ers weie tabulated Thursday
at the county Agricultural
Stabilization & Conservation
office The chairman, vice
chaiiman, and regular member
of each of the 16 community
committees will serve as dele
gates to the County ASCS con
vention on Friday, September
9, at 8 pm, at the county o£-
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