Invitation to The Chester County Farmers’ Association extends an invitation to visit with farm families in the county who are holding open house on Saturday, November 18, and Sunday, November 19, from 1 to 4 p.m. The main points of in terest include: Amyr Farms - Owned by Dr. Richard H. Stoneback. 45 purebred Arabian horses, 9 stallions, 16 brood mares with foals plus yearlings; 250 goats, 18 milking, 100 kids, 2 bucks, 40 yearlings. New 140 foot by 80 foot goat barn, 24 box stalls, room for 250 milkers. New 30 stanchion milking parlor. Milkingtime 4 to 6 p.m. Also cows, chickens, ducks, geese and rabbits. Herdsman Steve Donsidine. Location - Scroggy Road and Hayesville Road. R eynolds & Yellot COMPANY INC REISTERSTOWN, MARYLAND 833-1840 Builders Since 1953 / RED ROSE SERVICE MR. FARMER Have You heard about The Red Rose Feed Grain Exchange Programs? EXAMPLE 5-Ton # s Solanco Feed at $ Less 2V2 TONS Farmers Grains at $ Net 5 To Complete The Above Blank Spaces Contact Pete Howard, Ray 8011, WE ALSO OFFER GRAIN STORAGE FOR OUR MANY CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE A SURPLUS OF 1972 CORN CROP. WE OFFER COMPLETE MARKETING PROGRAMS FOR SHELLED CORN, SOYBEANS, ETC. FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION CONTACT ONE OF OUR CONVENTIENTLY LOCATED STORES TODAY. MAIN OFFICE N. Church Street Quarryville, Pa. 786-7361 Chester County Farm-Ctiy Week Open House K-K Ranch 102 acre dairy farm owned and operated by Nathan and Melba King. 30 heifers and 70 milk cows. Milking done in new milking parlor between 3 and 5 p.m. Visitors welcome. Located Route 896 between Russellville and Forestville. Llanduey Farms Owned and operated by Russell and John Hicks. 100 cow dairy farm with free-stall barn, Harvestore silos, conventional milking system. Bottle and sell Certified State approved whole raw milk. Full line of farm machinery. Located two and one-half miles east of West Chester on Paoli Pike (old Route) 202. Lenape Dairy Farms Owned and operated by Dwight Rath. 600 head Registered Holsteins. 350 Pole-type *** Farm Buildings FARM INC. Dick Ibach. New Providence GRAIN ELEVATOR milking cows in free stall barns with milking parlor. All the latest in equipment and building. Located four miles southwest of Media off U.S, Route 1. Turn south on Wawa Road. Batchelor’s Flowers Retail operation, nine greenhouses with growing plants for holiday season. Air conditioning and Co-2 conducted in all houses. Con trolled heat, hot water and steam controlled air circulation. Location - Snowdenville, one mile west of Route 724 at Parkerford. My-T-Hi Farm Owned and operated by S. Horace Mowrer and family Dairy farm with pipeline milker, 100 Holsteins, 80 heifers in free stall- barn. Storage barn, silos, bunk feeders con structed after fire destroyed original barn in December, 1971. Located one-fourth mile west of Route 724 on Bridge Street Buttonwood Farm Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert O Snelling, Sr. 160 Brown Swiss dairy cows housed in comfort stall barns. 70 head of young females and bulls. Visitors welcome to watth pipeline milking after 3:30 pm Located Hollow and French Creek Roads. South of Kimberton - Pughtown Road at Roberts Market. Titus Beam 225 acres, 200 beef cattle, 500 feeder pigs and 30 786-3427 Lancaster Farming. Saturday, November 18 1972 - sheep. Located at junction Route 401 and 82. Lane to farm on 82 Morris and Alvin Zook 150 acres, 40 Ayrshires, 8 horses and mules, horse and colt, 1,400 laying chickens Gehl machinery agency West of Honey Brook on Route 322. Turn right at Agrico Fertilizer Plant. No Pictures. Nottingham Cannery, Growing Division Lovell Chase, Manager Approximately 80,000 square feet of growing area New modern refrigeration and ven tilation systems Located on old US 1 behind Oxford Bowling Alley Mushrooms for sale. Green Valley Farms operated by Wilkinson Farms 200 milk cows, modern bottling plant to supply retail outlet Spray irrigation waste disposal system Located on Pen Green Road between Route 1 and 41 Glen Willow Orchard 45 acres apples, 10 acres peaches, 55 acres crops 11,000 bushel cold storage Modern packing line Located north of Avondale on Glen Willow Road Bernard’s Orchard and Greenhouses 50 acres fruit, mainly apples. 12,000 bushel cold storage Wholesale florist with 20,000 square feet under glass Carnations and snapdragons grown for Washington, D.C market Automatic oil heat and BUCK, PA. 284-4464 Agriculture Must Tell its Own Story The American public holds some misconceptions about the food and fiber industry, and the producers of food and fiber probably have some miscon ceptions about consumers thebe are the remarks of Sherwood O Berg of the Institute of Agriculture, University of Minnesota, in speaking about the need for better communication at the annual meetings of the American Society of Agronomy Berg feels that agriculture can be made understandable through a well-balanced exposition containing all the major com ponents of the food and fiber chain “We must talk about the great productivity of American agriculture, how that produc tivity was reached, and what it has cost us,” he says Berg also feels that the public must get some understanding of the scope and general nature of the food and fiber business from input through production and distribution to the retail store The impact of science, the changes in world and domestic markets, and reorganization of business must all be laid out as well as a consideration of the society and economic im plications of changes in agriculture “But,” Berg says, “com munication involves more than clarifying facts To command public response, agribusiness, and more especially educators in agriculture, must be concerned about proverty, pollution, and nutrition as the people leel these problems This concern must be translated ultimately into public policy ” ventilation Automatic watering and fertilizer application Located on Route 842, two miles east of Umonville sustain top production with the BABCOCK B-300 Keeping production up...costa down. ..is the profit key in poultry operations. And more and more records on commercial flocks of Babcock B-SOO’s... I “The Busl nessman’s Bird".,.show sus tained pioduction of top quality eggs...often with an additional 20 to 30 eggs per bird housed over other strains. Come in... lookatthe records and the B-300 ...“The Businessman’s Bird". BABCOCK FARMS, INC. Telephone (717) 626-8561) 7
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