WE UKED THE
IDEA OF HAVING
FLAMELESS HEAT,
THAT IS WHY
WE SWITCHED
TO MODERN
ELECTRIC HEAT
Heat without flame. That’s the re
assuring electric way to heat that has
encouraged many families to convert
from their old furnace-fired system.
And when they do, they find they
also like the cleanliness, the quiet
comfort, the economy.
Make a clean break with the past.
Convert now to flameless electric
heat. Call your Reddy Kilowatt
Recommended Electric Home Heat
ing Dealer listed in the Yellow
Pages under “Heating.”
JUST ONE OF THE REASONS
10,000 PP&L
CUSTOMER FAMILIES
HAVE MODERNIZED WITH
FLAMELESS ELECTRIC HEAT
AND 21,000
HAVE BOUGHT NEW -
ELECTRICALLY HEATED HOMES
PENNSYLVANIA POWER & LIGHT
COMPANY
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 20,1968
USD A, Canada Ag. Department
Cooperate On Egg Research
Researchers in the United
States and Canada Departments
of Agriculture have joined
forces to find the most reliable
and efficient way to tell a
tough-shell egg from a fragile
one.
Fragile eggshells cost pro
ducers, packers, and maiketers
in the U.S. an estimated 50 mil
lion dozen broken eggs yearly
at huge dollar losses Canada
has a problem of similar pro
poi tions.
Before breakage can be re
duced, a means must be found
to tell tough-shell eggs from
fragile eggs so that allowances
can be made m handling, mar
keting, and machine design
Agucultural engineers and
PP&L Has 48th
Annual Meeting
Nearly 400 shareowners of
the Pennsylvania Power &
Light Company filled the Lyte
Auditorium on the Millersville
State College campus Monday
for the Company’s 48th annual
meeting.
The shareowners heard PP&L
President Jack K Busby de
scribe the wide-ranging econo
mic pressures being felt on the
Company’s operations and the
need and plans for recapturing
an earnings growth rate to at
tract capital required to support
a $5OO million construction pro
§iam through the current five
year period.
“Our responsibility, as for the
•industry as a whole, is to pro
vide ample, low-cost and reliable
electric service,” Mr. Busby
said “The question before to
day’s meeting is ‘How aie we
piogressing’’ ”
Good Growth
“On the whole, we have the
fact that our growth is good,
kilowatt-hour sales are up and,
m tact, aie exceeding expecta
tions m recent years Actually,
we recently have been growing
faster than the national late
and expect to continue this
pace For 1968, taking into ac
count recent employment and
industrial and general business
poultry scientists in USDA’s
Agricultural Research Service
and Canadian researches are
comparing the effectiveness of a
new backscatter gage and older
methods for measuring eggshell
strength.
The beta backscatter gage,
developed cooperatively by
USDA and the U S Atomic En
ergy Commission, measures
eggshell strength by firing
haimless beta energy at an egg
and counting the energy that
bounces back A high count
means the shell is strong, a low
count means it is fragile. The
older method determines egg
shell strength basically by the
egg’s ability to withstand force.
Oveiall, the beta backscatter
gage appears superior It has
the definite advantages of being
quick and nondestructive.
The reseaichers pursue their
studies at USDA’s Agricultural
Research Center, Beltsville,
Md, and at the Canada Experi
mental Farm, Ottawa, with
periodic meetings for joint
studies and discussion. Working
coopeiatively on the common
pioblem, the researchers use
personnel and equipment more
efficiently.
activity, we expect something
of the order of a 10 per cent
sales growth ”
Revenues likewise have been
good with a 6 6 per cent gain m
1967 and expectations for better
in 1968, Mr. Busby said “We
are looking for revenue in
creases in the lange of 6 per
cent growth rate annually into
1972 which will mean a $265-
milhon-a-year business then, as
compared with $l9O million to
day. Our cunent progiess,” he
said, “is a direct product of a
new and more favorable posi
tion for the Company in the
eneigy market, laigely because
of late reductions now saving
customers $l5 million a year ”
Mr Busby said no rate i educ
tions weie made in 1967 nor are
fuither late ieductions now be
ing planned in view of the cur
rent pressuies of inflation on
manpower costs, materials and
equipment prices, higher inter
est rates and increased taxes
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