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VOL. 12 NO. 3
FIRST STOP FOR EGGS ON THE LIQUID ROUTE is at this 20-case-per
hour capacity egg breaking machine. Weaver employee Martha Rieff, shown oper
' siting the -machine, - cheeks the eggs as-they pass by on an endless belt If she spots
one of undesifable quality, j>jie: trips that particular cup and rejects the contents.
-The-, other?cups cor.tihue tpvfcpre-deterrnined (tripping .point and' the eggs, collected
in'a container. -- - . " , J ‘ * " -- - L. F. Photo
County Poultry Association Names
John H. Hess President For 1967
Ait a recent .meeting of the
board, of directors of the Lan
caster County Poultiy Associ
ation, held in the Lancaster
Farm Credit Building, John H
Hesfe of New Holland R 2 was
elected to head the association
in the coming year He suc
ceeds Paul Heistand, Mauetta
Rl.
Hess, a relative new-comer
to the association, is well
known. to most county poultiy
rnen He was elected to the
board of directors at the poul
tiy association’s annual ban
quet in November He has been
associated with the New Hol
land Supply Company, New
Holland continuously since
1953, except for a brief period
spent with the Eastern States
store at New Holland Hess is
presently treasurer of New
Holland' Supply, and manages
the company's sales
Born and raised in Millers
ville, die has resided in New
Farm Calendar
December 20 2pm & 7
pm,. Tobacco Meeting at Ag
wiay Warehouse, New Hol
land; subject, “Discussion of
Handling 1968 Crop”.
—7.30 p.m, Gaiden Spot
Young-Adult Faimer Class—
‘TtSum Engines—Part I”,
principles of opei ation. mam
teniance, economics, at Gar
den Spot High School
December 21 10 a.m to 3
pjm., Penn State University
Farm Income Tax program,
at Met-Eddson Bldg, Heading.
December 22 7:30 p.m., Eph
mta Adult Farmer Class,
“'Bragation—Water Daws”,
at- -Ephrata High School.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 17, 1966
Holland for the past 26 years
The Hess’ have three childien,
one taking graduate wo’k at
West Virginia University, Mor
gantown, W Va , a daughter at
Eastern Mennonite College at
Harrisonburg, Virginia, and a
second son a student at Gar
den Spot Junior High School
Other officers elected by the
directors were secretary, John
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Producers Co-Op
Earnings Up 4.9?
Somewhat less than 20 per
cent of a planned attendance
of 160 stockholders of the Pro
ducers Cooperative Exchange
braved the county’s fhst ma
jor snowfall Tuesday night to
attend the Co-op’s annual meet
ing, held at Hostettei’s in
Mount Joy.
General manager K M Bon
ders reported the Exchange’s
dollar volume at $4,692,438, up
49 percent over Last year Al
though the actual quantity of
eggs handled was down 16 per
cent, at 9 2 million dozen, Bon
ders said that for each dollar
of sales, egg pioducers re
ceived 83 6 cents This repre
sented an increase of more
than 2Vi cents over last year’s
returns to the producer, he
added. Producers aveiaged
37.01 cents per dozen, an in
crease of eight cents over last
year’s average.
In discussing the loss of
egg volume, Boudens pointed
out that this followed two
years of steady gain in eggs
handled —> 16 percent in
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4-H Veal Production
Program Is Launched
Members of 4-H dairy clubs
in Lancaster County weie in
formed last week that a new
4-H veal pioduotion progiam
would be offered if enough
joangsters in the county indi
cated interest According to
associate county agent Victoi
Plastow, this new club would
not be limited to dairy club
members, anyone between the
ages of nine and nineteen will
be eligible
The only nearby county that
now has such a progiam in
opeiaticn is Lebanon, but it
is hoped that, as the piogram
develops, other counties will
get interested and district
roundups will be held
“Veal production has a good
profit potential, and is a prac
tical youth project on many
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SWCD To Study
Long Range Plan
The Lancaster County Soil
& Water Conservation District
directci s and cooperating agen
cies, received copies of county
lesouice data assembled by
Soil Conservation Service In
distubuting this material, work
unit conservationist Oival Bass
told the directors they would
find it useful in developing
long lange conservation goals
foi Lancaster Counity He
showed them examples of such
goals that had been published
by other Districts
Bass also suggested to the
directors that an effective
method of keeping their list
of landowners up-to-date
would be to get regular re
ports on all county land
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Local Egg & Poultry Firm
Operates Liquid Egg Plant
by Don Timmons
Fiozen liquid eggs will have
a definite place in egg mar
keting in the near future
That’s the opinion of the man
agement at Victor F Weaver,
Inc., New Holland egg and
poultry firm
In talking iccently with Ben
Burkholder, plant manager,
and John Kennel, manager of
company services, we learned
that, although a breaking op
eration fits well into the total
egg handling and marketing
program at Weaver’s, it must
be managed very differently
than other phases of the busi
ness
In addition to the invest
ment in special breaking and
pasteurizing equipment, the op
eration required building a
separate room, 30’x50’, adja
cent to the shell egg facilities
A positive pressure is main
tained in the breaking room to
help keep foreign material
from entering as company pen
so an el enter and leave fhe
loom
An egg packing firm such as
Weaver’s can use this liquid
egg outlet to upgiade the qual
ity of its shell egg packs, Burk
holder said He explained that
while the quality demanded
T. M. Malm, Lancaster-York Area
Vo-Ag Director To Retire Dec, 31
December 31st will mark the
end of the year 1866 It will
also mark the end of a career
in agriculture and education
that spanned 41 years, when
area vocation
al agriculture director Thomas
M Malm retires.
Malm, a native of Media,
Delaware County, came to
York County in 1934 as a vo
cational agriculture teacher at
the old Dillsburg High School
Three years later he was ap
pointed county director for ag
ricultural education
It was not until' that
the Lancaster and York aieas
were combined under Malm’s
direction Before that, Lancas
ter County vocational agricul
ture activities had been associ
ated with those of Chester
County
Since Malin’s administra
tion began in 1937, schools
Temperatures for the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected to
average below the normal
range of 39 to 25 degrees.
Little day-to-day change is
expected.
Precipitation is not expect
ed to exceed V* -inch, occur
ring as showers about Mon
day or Tuesday.
$2 Per Year
for cartoned eggs limits the
use of eggs with poor shell
quality and eggs from older
hens, a breaking plant can ab
sorb eggs of this nature prof
itably, Ninety percent of Wea
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17 County Herds
Exceed 600 Lbs.
Butterfat
Lancaster County dairy herds
emolled in the Red Rose Dairy
Herd Impiovement Associa
tion program completed anoth
er good testing year, associa
tion adviser Victor Plastow an
nounced recently
Seventeen herds have com
pleted butterfat production rec
ords exceeding 690 pounds,
Plastow said, adding that no
specific figures would be re
leased, until the association’s
annual banquet meeting That
affair isrplannecl. for noon, Jan
uary 17, at the Dutch Town &
Country Inn, Vintage
This year’s number of high
fat producers beats last year’s
total by one But the county
herd average of 485 pounds
was one pound below last
year’s average
under his supervision have
turned out what may be
twice as many recognized
outstanding boys as any com
parable area in the state.
Since 1937, these include: 35
American Farmer Degree re
cipients; 588 Keystone De
gree winners; 31 state and
two national FFA officers; 23
State or Regional Star Farm
ers; and 20 boys who com
peted in national FFA con
tests.
Malm is quick to add that
this impressive record is due
to the fine efforts of the voca
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Thomas M. Malin