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VOL. 12 NO. 16
DR. JOSEPH HARRINGTON, Penn State research agronomist, right, reviews
some of the data he presented to Lancaster County potato growers Tuesday for as
sociate. counity_ agent Arnold G.. Lueck,- center, and PSU experimental faran superin
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Preliminary Potato Data Presented
To Lancaster County Producers
Research agronomist Dr Jo
seph HaningtOn from Penn
State University reported to
Lancaster County potato grow
eis, assembled Tuesday at the
Lancaster Farm Credit Build
ing. on results of last year’s tri
als on the Noah Kreider faim
near Manheim
The trials, which featured 42
well-known varieties and exper
imental seedlings, had produc
ed some real meaningful data,
Harrington said. He cautioned
the groweis against attaching
too much importance to one
year trials, but said the results
Crossbred Tops County Swine Assn-
Spring Carcass Show; Cuts 45.6%
Topping this week’s Spring!
Carcass Show was a 202-pound
Hampshire-Yorkshire crossbred
barrow, Lancaster County
Swine Producers Association
pi esident John Henkel told
some 300 persons last night at
the association’s annual ban
quet meeting at the Blue Ball
Fire Hall.
The champion hog, entered
by Real Farm, Tipton, Pa., cut
an unusual 45 6 percent of car-
Farm Calendar
March 20-7 30 pm, 4-H County
Council at Lititz Community
Center
-a p.m, Elm-Penryn 4-H Com
munity Club at Penryn Fire
Hall
March 21-7:30 pm , Ephrata
Fdrm Electricity Class, “Care
and maintenance of electric
motors,” at Ephrata H S.
-7:30 p.m, Drumore 4-H
Community Club organizes at
Chestnut Level Church House
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werefull of “good information”
Hainngton described this re
seaich as the “most extensive
potato protect ever conducted
in Pennsylvania” Eight early,
13 mid-season, and 21 late vari
eties, were tested Each variety
was repeated four times in the
trials, and each fertilizer form
ulation six times.
There were two and one-half
acres devoted to this study on
the Kreider farm These were
divided into two plots, with
about half the acreage on each
side of a bisecting road Pota
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;cass weight in ham and loin
The animal had a loineye of
6 2 square inches and an un
usually low backfat of 0 8 inch
es, Henkel reported
The reserve title went to a
; 218-pound Henkel and Joe Lit
tle, Willow Glen Yorkshire en
try, with a ham-loin percent
age of 43 6. a loineye measure
ment of 6 0 square inches, and
1 3 inches of backfat
EVALUATION
CONTEST WINNERS
A ham from the grand cham
pion hog went to top scoring
judge in the on-foot evalua
tion contest, John Strawbridge
of Stewartstown. Placing close
behind the winner was Leon L
Arnold of Lebanon Arnold was
presented with a loin from the
champion
According to Henkel, 47 peo
ple submitted judging cards
with their estimates of length,
backfat, loineye, and ham-loin
percentage for each competing
hog at the stockyard Monday
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 18, 1967
Plomiing-Meeting Set
For Dist. Daity Show
A joint meeting of all 4-H
dairy club, leaders and exten
sion agents of the southeast re
gion will be held next Wed
nesday, associate county agent
Victor Plastow announced this
week
The meeting will begin at
10.30 a m at the Meadow Hills
Dining House, located on New
Danville Pike, Plastow said,
and will be concerned with
planmng the next Distuct Dairy
Show.
The group will be the lunch
eon-. guests of the Atlantic
Breeders Cooperative.
MRS. BETTY WEAVER tends the f our rows of graded eggs, placing dozen
cantons on top of each twelve eggs. It may he noted the eggs are upside down on the
machine. As they pass over the end of the cartoning equipment, they are settled
gently into the carton cups and turned upright on the lower belt, which is not visi
ble m this picture. L. F. Photo
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Success Of 35-Year-Old
Firm Based On Marketing
Farm-Fresh Local Eggs
by Don Timmons
Thirty-five years ago a new
business was born in Lancaster
County. It began with a retail
egg route, a second-hand truck,
and the need to find a new way
to make a living as the Great
Depression tightened its hold
on the lard
Today that business, operat
ing as E Roy Trout & Son,
Inc, emplo\ s 15 people five
in egg processing, five truck
drivers, and five in office and
management
Started by E Roy Trout in
1932, it is still owned and op
erated by he and his family
When farmers started bringing
in their eggs back in those
early days, the retail route rap
idly gave way to a wholesale
egg business Local eggs .were
cased, weighed, and hauled.to
-Philadelphia. Trout’s daughter,
Helen, started in the business
by trucking in fanners’ eggs
She now works in the office
About 1950, a collision with
an outfield "wall ended a prom
ising professional baseball ca
reer with the Cleveland Indi
ans for young Bob Trout and
he entered the family business
BUSINESS GROWS
As the volume of eggs han
dled increased, so did Trouts’
equipment An old, 8-12 case
per hour grader that saw duty
about 1956 was replaced with a
larger model, which was also
later replaced In December of
last year, a major plant change
was completed
The old facilities, consisting
52 Per Year
of two loading docks and a
40’x40’ shed, were remodeled
and a 50’x70’ building was add
ed The addition, which houses
the refrigerator and 35-case per
hour egg grading and packing
equipment, was built into a
steep hillside. At the back of
the new facilities only about
two of the 11 concrete blocks
of the wall can be seen above
the ground
It is expected that this in
the-ground location of the egg
room will permit a higher lev
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Allied Acquires
Some Wirthmore
Retail Outlets
It was announced this week*
that'Allied Mills, JnL is acquir-
I'mg certain retail operatidh'sTor* ■
nterly owned by Wirthmore
Feeds Three of the acquired
properties are in New York
and two in Pennsylvania
At a joint meeting Monday
at Scranton. Robert Emmons,
vice president of Wirthmore,
and J E Streetman, vice pres
ident of Allied, completed the
details oi the arrangement
The former Wirthmore sales
personnel are being retained by
Allied, a representative stated.
According to Allied Mills’
management, this acquisition is
expected to strengthen the
firm’s competitive position.
Allied’s Wayne Feeds and
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