' Ifr-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 16,1968
Researchers Study
Heaters To Warm
Poultrymen generally agree constant 90° F comfort of
that raising turkeys requires the specially ■ controlled infrared
highest degree of management heaters at the Ohio Agricultural
skill of any fowl. Losses among Research and Development Cen
the very young turkeys are ter in Wooster, Ohio.
especially high. They fight and The Ohio State University
peck each other to death; they center is conducting the turkey
crowd to keep warm, only to resetr ch in cooperation with
.mother to death: and they’re the Columbus and Southern
especially susceptible to diseas- o hlo Electrical Company and
es. the Ohio Farm and Home Elec-
„. . ... . trification Council.
Ohio researchers believe in
frared radiant heaters may pro- To provide the young turkeys
vide a partial answer to these with constant comfort, General
problems. This December, a Electric Company has devised
test project will place 1,000 a system combining a 2,000-watt
newly-hatched turkeys under the infrared Calray® heater to
NOW!
Plan Fall Plowing
for 1969 corn be sure fo include:
Phos & Potash Plow down this fall fo
your soil test recom
mendations.
Anhydrous »’* one form of N
_ * # that can be efficient-
Ammonia ■» o PP n«d this f.n «*.
ter soil temps, reach
50° F.
SOIL TEMP. NOW 46°
ALSO:
follow our Alfalfa Program
0-18-36 Can include Boron and Chick
or weed control at your desired
0-26-26 rate of application.
ORGANIC PLANT FOOD CO.
GROFFTOWN RD., NEXT TO WATERWORKS
Ph. 392-4963 or 392-0374
YOUR FULL SERVICE DEALER
Infrared
Turkey Poults
blanket the birds with an even
radiant warmth; a thermistor
sensing unit to detect the
slightest temperature change;
and a solid state control with
control point differential of plus
or minus 2/10 of a degree.
The infrared radiant heater,
designed by GE's Industrial
Heating Department, utilizes a
non • breakable metal-sheathed
tubular heating element with a
nickel-chromium heating coil
imbedded in magnesium oxide
insulation. Uniform heat radia
tion is provided by the 50-inch
tubular element. The housing
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ATTENTION FARMERS...
WHY SHOULD YOU BUY A NEW
CASE FARM TRACTOR NOW?
.25% discount on any New Cose tractor I
on our lot purchased during November.
2. Waiver of Finance Charges until spring.
3. 7% tax investment credit.
4. 20% depreciation allowance on 1968 tax return.
5. Protection from company price increases.
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Box 23, Kinzers, Pa. Phone 442-4186
Salunga
Elizabethtown
i« iniulatfd with on* inch of keep- themselves comfortable as r~t
spun mineral fiber to' reduce loni as temperatures 'are nufiJnSl
lots of heat transmission, tcined above 60 degrees.
To prevent the thermistor GE’a Calray® radiant heaters
heat sensing device from being allow young turkeys to select
broken by the pecking of tur- their own "comfort zone .C' w
keys, it is hermetically sealed in While the temperature directly...,. .
r glass envelope. • under the radiant heater is com
About 280 turkeys in the uni- *tant, the temperature msy de> .'
versity project arc placed under crease as much as four degrees
each Infrared radiant heater, for each foot the turkeys move,
During the first ten days, the * w *y from that heater location,
turkeys are enclosed in a 15- Since the new infrared heatr > , •
foot diameter circle of composl- era require no overhead hood*
tlon hardboard, similar tb Tex- turkeys are In full view at .all. ;
tolite® lined with a reflective times. Heaters can be easily
foil. The heaters are suspended removed for cleaning; and cs'n ,
approximately 30 inches above be raised as the turkeys get.-
the floor. ■ 1 older. There is no match for '
The temperature directly un- electric heating,
der the infrared heaters is in- “If infrared heating proves to -
itially set at 95 degrees, and re- be as efficient as we. expect.”,
duced five degrees each week says Mr. H. K. Crabb, head of
until the turkeys are four rural sales for the Columbus
weeks old. Then, the turkeys and Southern Ohio Electric
give off sufficient body heat to Company,
Stevens Feed Mill, Inc.
Stevens
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