VOL. 15 NO. 20
Lancaster County Poultry Association
members are shown at a recent meeting
at the Farm and Home Center with the
large pendant the county won for its egg
display at the Farm Show in Harrisburg.
The Poultry Association has been dis
cussing possible display of the award in
county restaurants this summer along
Mass. Egg Farmers to Visit Here
Lewis Buggies, regional poul
try specialist from Worcester,
Mass, will *nng thiee cailoads
of poultryraen from Massachus
etts to visit Lancaster County
ooultry operations April 15
Jay Irwin, associate county
agent, said the visitors will “ob
seive the different types of poul
try housing in Lancaster Coun
ty ” They will see a sloping wne
flooi and caged operations, in
cluding one new automatic an
drying and cleaning system
liwm noted that Penn State
refeiled Buggies to Lancaster
County, which is “the top poul
tiy county in Pennsylvania with
70 National Ayrshire Convention Here
The annual National eonven
tion of the Ayrstue Bieedeis As-
sociation will be held in Lan-
castei CWr 4pnl 14 15 and
16 '' ' ’
Headquailer* will be the How-
aid Johnso; Motor Lodge and
Guernsey Sales Pavilion
Hi«hSht- vnP be tour of foui
Ajishne® iZrms in Chestei Co
beginning at 9 a.m. Wednesday,
with other promotion of the county’s large
egg business.
The five association members are,
left Allen Graybill. vice president, Melvin
Gehman, treasurer; John Jacob Ober
holtzer, secretary; Harold Esbenshade,
publicity committee chairman, and Lonn
Weigard, president.
three million layeis and 12 mil
lion broilers and about $3l mil
lion in gi oss value of pi oduct ”
The schedule, beginning at 8
a m , calls for visits to the follow
ing county farms
Claude Hess Egg Ranch, Eliza
bethtown RD3, 66,000 caged lay
ers vnth hand gathered in thiee'
houses and one house with mech
anical gathenng and deep pit
The faim has an egg piocessing
plant
livm Mussel, Mount Joy RDI,
16,000 layers, sloping wne flooi,
hand gathenng, manufactuies his
own feed, has egg piocessing and
egg oreakmg plant
Apnl 15, and banquet at 6 pm
and giand national Ayishne sale
730 p m Thuisda> at the Pa-
vilion
Dean Gordon Cairns. Umvei-
sitv of Maiyland College of Agn-
cuitiue. will speak on “Ajishi.e
Leadership in the Seventies'” at
12 15 p m Wednesday
Joe Taylor, Pennsylvania State
Umvei sity, will be toastmaster at
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 11, 1970
Victor Weavei, Inc, New Hol
land, processing plant, processes
65.000 dozen eggs pei day, breaks
10.000 dozen eggs pei day foi
sale in liquid form, and diesses
65.000 bi oilers per day
Started in 1937 as a one man
operation, Weaver now employes
875 pei sons All eggs are purch
ased locally, within 35 miles
Cloisteidale Farm, RD4,
managed by Glenn Heir 270,000
layeis in nine houses ot 30,000
buds each, completely automat
ed, caged and deep pit One
house has been converted to Dr.
Biessler’s automatic diymg and
cleaning system
the annual banquet, at which the
Fiench Tiophy awaid will be
givenfoi high held production of
milk and fat in the U S and the
Distinguished Seivice awaid will
go to the peison who contnbut-
ed most to the association
Victor Plastow, associate coun-
tv agent, noted that it’s not often
that a paiticular area can claim
a nationl meeting of one of the
Group Sets 8
Scholarships
The Lancaster County Faim
and Home Foundation this week
announced its annual scholai
ships to high school seniois cle
suing to fuither then educations
in the fields of agncultuie and
home economics
Interested youth aie uiged to
contact then Semoi Guidance
Counselor for details and an ap
plication blank Foims must be
f Ol warded to the foundation by
May 5
Eight scholai ships of $4OO each
aie available to help defiay tin
tion, fees or room and boaid ex
penses at any acci edited college
oi university
Award by the foundation boai d
ot duectois will be based 50 pei
cent on financial need, 30 pei
cent on scholastic achievement
Open House Set
For Modern Barn
Open house will be held at the
laige new dany barn of the Tu
ple G faim at Stevens RDI fiom
1 to 3 30 p m Tuesday, April 14
Victor Plastow of the county
agent’s office said the new bam
mcoipoiates many modem fea
tuies which may be of inteiest
to othei county dauymen
The Ti iple G, with 270 cows, is
one of the hugest dairy opeia
tions in the county Thiee bi oth
ei s, Aithur, Donald and Itvih
Gi ay bill, built the new bam to
pool their sepaiate dany opera
tions
Roger Grout, Penn State agn
cultuial engineer, will be on
hand to answer questions con
cerning the bain layout A con
tractor also will be present
Plastow said a big featuie of
the barn is that the faimei can
“duve down thiough with feed
ing equipment” and it requires
‘•no boots” to tour the structuie
He described it as “completely
enclosed free stall housing foi
270 head” He said the set-up
makes caie and show of cattle
easiei.
There is no augei feeding Cat
tle aie fed from a chuck wagon
with an automatic dispensing sys
tem Plastow said this avoids the
bieedei associations
Milton Biubakei a Lititz Aji
sin re f aimer. whohasasssten
planning the national convention
released the Wednesday torn
schedule of Chestei County
farms The tour begins with
Conebella. operated by Mi and
Mrs Charles H. Gable, Elverson
The approximately 8o head
farm has received its 12th Con
$2.00 Per Year
and 20 pei cent on leadeiship
ability
Each application must include
the application fonn, a transcript
ol high school scholastic records,
and a statement fiom the guid
ance counselor oi high school
puncipal legal ding scholastic
activities, leadeiship ability and
chaiacter
Finalists will be invited for a
peisonal mteiview befoie the
Foundation Scholai ship Commit
tee
The eight scholai snips are
made from the earnings of an
n revocable tiust fund set up by
the late Elmei L Esbenshade,
one ot the foundeis of the Lan
caster County Faim and Home
Foundation
veiy costly installation charge
for the auger system
The faun is located near the
Rheemstown-Denvei intersection
of Route 222 Motonsts tiaveling
noith on Route 222 should turn
left at the traffic light at Rheems
town about 11 miles north of
Ephiata and the faim is the first
one aftei turning left, Plastow
said
Farm Calendar
Saturday, April 11
10 00 am —Eastein National An
tiques Show, State Farm
Show Building Harnsburg
1 30 p m—Faim Women Soda*
ties 2 and 9, annual banquet,
Abe Groff Faim, Pinkerton
Road, Mount Joy
Sunday, April 12
4-H Teen Leader Conferenca
Weekend, Hershey
Monday, April 13
4 H Capitol Days
Tuesday, April 14
4-H Capitol Days
9 00 am -215 pm —Youth In
stitute on Cooperative Busi
ness, Farm and Home Center
9 30 - 11 30 am— Reupholstery
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cov s aveia 523 pounds
41 P e -veie isl 4 601
of fat The It avei is
milk and 56d fat Se% ei al two
yeai olds made
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The Aidrossan Fai
managed by Mis Edgar Scott
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