fr—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 3, 1966
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HIGH AS AN ELEPHANT’S EYE is the sorg
hum in this corn-sorghum silage planting on the' Plain
& Fancy Egg Ranch. Showing the comparative man
plant height of the 12-foot sorghum is firm vice presi
ent Claude Hess.
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“Dad says it's like baling
money, so he got the best!' 1
Get big capacity and top quality
with an Allis-Chalmers 303 Hay Baler!
The 303’s wide 60' pickup handles light or heavy
windrows —cleans the field! Twin-feed rakes move
hay ■evenly into the baling chamber, comb out wads,
to form tight, square bales. Grooves are formed on
the bale to minimize twine or wire slippage. See the
303 and the complete line of A-C tools for haying!
L. H. Brubaker
Lititz, Pa.
Chet Long
Akron, Pa.
Grumelli Farm Service
Quarryville, Pa.
Allen H. Matz Farm Equipment
''WPS
N. G. Myers & Son
Rheems, Pa.
Nissley Farm Service
Washington Roro, Pa.
L. H. Brubaker
Lancaster, Pa.
New Holland
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HOUSE NUMBER 2 under construction. When completed, this second of four
scheduled buildings, will hold 15,000 cage layers. Pullets for this house are being
grown now, for a December housing date. , JL,. F. Photo
• Egg Ranch
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between cage rows are am
ple to permit manual feeding
and egg collecting. The cor
poration has no plans for au
tomating those two fundamen
tal operations.
The use of an over-sized,
Pockman feed trough permits
onee-a-day feeding. This is
done with a gasoline-propelled
feed cart. Claude Hess added
that less feed wastage is ex
pected because of the construc
tion of the large trough.
Manure collects directly in
pits, eight-inches deep by six
feet wide. Drive-in doors at
either end of the building will
allow a tractor to enter, and
L. F. Photo
manure will be scraped from
both ends of the pits to a cen
itrally-located auger which will
transport it to a manure
spreader outside the house
This will 'be done reg
ularly, Claude Hess said, al
though the pit depth would be
sufficient to hold several
months’ manure when weath
er or time interfered with the
cleaning schedule.
Although we’ve had quite a
few days in August carrying
temperatures into the mid-90’s,
it has never reached 90 de
grees inside 'the cage house,
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