LANCASTER LABORATORIES, INC.
ANALYTICAL SERVICES DIVISION
Feeds, Flour, Forages, Foods
Dairy Products, Water, Waste Water
Bacteriological, Physical, Chemcial
2425 New Holland Pike
Lancaster, Pa. 17601
Telephone (717)658-9043 or
(717)656-9868
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Forget About Bottom Unloader Problems!
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Proven Dependable Gear
Arm Auger—That's Easy and
CROPSTORE features the fast, proven dependable Laidig bottom un
loader—for discharge of just right amounts of feed with a convenient press
of a button in the handy operating control panel. Near silo wall where com
paction is greatest, the auger end is tapered for increased torque, greater
cutting ability and savings on power. Toward center, larger flighting gives
maximum conveying capacity. Powerful variable speed drive control ad
vances sweep arm as required for most efficient feed cutting and moving to
center discharge hopper.
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Auger sweep arm pivots from center of Sprocket in drive meshes with holes in
floor, driven by powerful precision built self-cleaning drive track in floor, near
bevel gear drive, with all operating parts outer wall. Feed is cut and moved to
easily accessible from service tunnel. center to drop into hopper.
OUTSTANDING FEATURES— GREATER VALUE!
CROPSTORE provides first-in, first-out continuous top filling process
ing for any feeds ... with oxygen controlling breather bags under roof
for maximum, protection of feed quality and nutritional values. Heavy
steel wall panels with glass fused to both sides; all joints specially
sealed. Tough fiberglass roof; rugged reinforcements; choice of unload
ing; full range of sizes—at thrifty prices. Available only through author
ized CROPSTORE dealers.
Weiser FFA-Adult Farmers Honor Many
The Conrad Weiser FFA-Adult
Farmer banquet was held March
8 in the Conrad Weiser High
School cafeteria. Ronald Myer,
FFA president, was the toast
master for the evening. The in
vocation was given by Terry
Gerhart, Chapter chaplain.
An address of welcome was
given by the FFA secretary,
GREEN GLASS COATED STEEL
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday. March 17,1973
David Brubaker. Comments on
the program were given by Dr.
Walter Rohrbach, Superin
tendent
The Honorary FFA Chapter
degree was given to George
Landis, County Editor, Red
Reading Eagle; Kenneth Zinn,
District Game Protector, and
Dallas Wagner, farm manager,
Wernersville State Hospital.
The following awards were
given to outstanding students:
Star Chapter Farmer, Ronald
Mver; Star Chapter
Agribusinessman, Darryl
Hartman; Star Chapter
Greenhand, David Staaby; Soil
and Water Management, Her
mann Manbeck; Agriculture
Mechanics, Eugene Swope;
Public Speaking, Ronald Myer;
Placement in Agriculture
Production, Larry Wanner;
Farm Safety, Douglas Zechman;
Ornamental Horticulture,
Herbert Speck Jr; Crop
Production, Dairy Farming, and
Livestock Farming, George
Manbeck Jr
Silver Medal in the State
Project Book Contest, Harold
Mogel; Silver Medal, Hermann
Manbeck; Bronze Medal, Blake
Brown. Scholarship awards were
presented to an outstanding class
member: senior class, Ronald
Mver, junior class, Glenn Seidel;
sophomore class, Herbert Speck
Jr; freshman class, David
Staaby.
A $5O savings bond was
presented to Harold Mogel by
Robert Schmell, assistant vice
president, National Central
Bank, for his outstanding project
work.
Awards were presented to
adults in the annual corn growing
contest First in the yield contest
was Nelson Troutman with 148
bushels; second, Harold Heck
with 146 bushels; third, Dennis
Sattazahn with 146 bushels, and
Located under feed storage floor—large service tunnel
has doors at both ends for complete ventilation. Safe, dry,
easy maintenance when needed 1 Drop out pans, doors pro
vide access to all working parts.
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fourth. Galen Stauffer with 136
bushels. First in Corn Quality
was Dennis Sattazahn; second,
Edwin Gelsinger, third, Nelson
Troutman; fourth, Harold Heck.
In the Corn Cost Per Bushel
contest, tie for first was Harold
Heck and Nelson Troutman with
64cents per bushel; third, Dennis
Sattazahn with 76 cents per
bushel, and fourth, George
Manbeck with $1 07 per bushel.
George Manbeck Allen Gaul
and Joseph Heck were
recognized for their outstanding
attendance during the 1972 vear
The program was concluded
with comments by Bruce Web
ber. Adult Farmer president and
the showing of a film “The
Bobwhite Quail” presented by
the Pennsylvania Game Com
mission
Computer
Is 'Growing’
Cotton Crop
Computer science is a new
idea that’s currently being
tested in agricultural re
search as a means of lower
ing production costs.
Scientists at Texas A&M
University are beginning
to grow theoretical cotton
plants in computers on a
day-by-day basis, reports the
National Cotton Council
In less than a minute of
computer time, they can test
the effects of a large num
ber of factors on the plant’s
growth. These variable fac
tors include weather, para
sites, cultivation practices,
insecticides, and others The
time required to test these
same variants on a real plot
of cotton would be about 200
days.
Data from the computer
study, it is ’jelieved, can be
used to cal ulate costs and
returns fron different meth
ods of prodi ction and insect
control.
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Sold, Erected and Serviced by
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