2S—Lancaster Farmti Dequay Lauchmann, left, and Dr. Glenn new facility which incorporates the mesh Dressier discuss the advantages of plastic floors, in addition to many other mesh flooring for broiler-breeder techniques which grew out of Dr. operations. Lauchman just built a brand Bressler’s research at Penn State. Broiler Egg House Opens (Continued From Page 1; can be picked up by anyone, outside the pens. Roll-away nests, also designed by Dressier, deliver eggs outside the pens, too,for easier gathering. Mesh floors had been one of Bressler’s research topics for a number of years, but he started with wire mesh instead of plastic. “The wire floors worked with Leghorns,” Dressier said, “but we had foot problems when we put heavy breeders on those floors. Mostly it was the cockerels who were getting sore feet. Plastic mesh gives more HMf V« CORN VORIS VIGOR-PROVEN V-2662 125 Day Maturity Very Dependable, Large Ears, Heat & Leaf Disease Resistant, Deep Kernel V 2642 119 day maturity A Champion. Short-stalked, upright leaf, with a really high yield and potential. Moderately high population V 2592 'lB day maturity By demand. A special hybrid for the East, large-eared, excellent stalk, and fast drying. V 2552 11 3 day maturity This is a high population hybrid. Pour on the fertilizer, early tasseling and silking a high yielder. V 2442 -102 day maturity The big yielder. Tough to beat anywhere. Indiana reports over 200 bushels yield. Early plant hybrid. V 2332 - 94 day maturity Tremendous yield potential. Early. Fast drying. High yielder. Picks and shells beautifully. CONTACT REIST SEED CO. Mt.Joy.Pa. Phone 653-4121 [SINCE 1925] Saturday, November 17,1973 fi support, and we seem to have licked the foot problem.” Ventilation is another im portant feature of the new house. A draft-free air flow is main tained by a positive pressure ventilation system using fans at both ends of the building to draw fresh air into the building as it is needed, or to circulate the old air. Beneath the mesh floors, two banks of circulating fans keep air moving over the droppings to dry them out and to cut odor pro blems. Lauchmann expects to have to clean out these pits about once a year. '' > '« Lauchmann’s labor requirements for his new house will be significantly lower than they’d have been had he built a more conventional sturcture. Watering and feeding are both automatic, and all the eggs roll to the sides of the pens. The bulk of the daily chores will be handled by Laucbmann’s wife ' and children, and it’s expected they’ll spend anywhere from five to eight man hours daily in the house. Production costs are expected to run about $1 per dozen eggs, again according to Bressler. This FOR BETTER MANURE HANDLING International 3200 Compact Loader USED HAY EQUIPMENT N.H. 1469 Haybine N.H. 469 Haybine N.H. 461 Haybine N.H. 36 Flail Chopper I.H. Model 8 Flail Chopper N.H. 67 Baler N.H. 1010 Bale Wagon Allis Chalmers Hay Crusher N.H. 404 Crusher N.H. 275 Baler w-Thrower MESSICK FARM EQUIPMENT INC. HI 2750 N. Market cost isn't expected to vary a great deal from that in conventional houses, but the producer will be able to get more hatching eggs, because he’ll have more birds in a given area and he’ll have no soiled floor eggs going to waste. "Anyway,’’ Bressler pointed out, Aerial Ladder Equipped FARM PAINTING We Spray it on and Brush It In! FOR FREE ESTIMATES CALL COLLECT 717-393-6530 OR WRITE HENRY K. FISHER 2322 Old Phila. Pike Lancaster, Pa. 1760? tMUI OK Iff BE A JUMP AHEAP OF THE "(f WET SPRINC WEATHER by Plowing down P & K Mixtures this FALL Top-dress Alfalfa with CHICKWEED CONTROL FERTILIZER MIXTURES. SOIL TESTING FARM & GARDEN SEEDS WEED KILLERS INSECTICIDES IRON SULFATE FOR PIN OAK TREES Special Terms available on Fall Plow-down LANCASTER BONE FERTILIZER COMPANY. INC. Quarryville, Pa. Oxford. Pa. 786-7348 932-8323 Waiver of Finance on Haying Equipment Ph. 367-1319 John Kreider Home 367-6039 * ‘feed costs and the cost of birds are normally borne by the con tractor in this kind of operation. The contractee, like Mr. Lauch mann, wants to raise as many birds as he can, and this house lets him grow more birds for his building dollar.” New H nd Model 790 Spreader USED SPREADERS N.H. 475 Spreader N.H. 355 Tank Spreader New Idea Flail Spreader USED TRACTORS 2010 J o hn Deere 77 Oliver Diesel W.C. Al|js Chalmers Farmall H Massey Harris Pony w-Cult. & Plow TRUCKS 1952 Dodge 12 Ft. Bed 1962 Scout 4 wheel drive Elizabethtown, Pa.
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