v i v 2Qd i (<■ r-automated her brother of Hershey land. »for packing. I lule and being [y brother buys le birds, and he ills, but I’m or the day-to is.” shey layer i’t a one-of-a- kind building, but it is new open house held the other enough and interesting week. At the open house, enough so that it drew Hershcy explained some of several hundred people to an the systems that went into building. “The whole thing cost about $3.25 for each bird,” ho said. “We’ve got the birds nine to a cage. Negative pressure ven tilation keeps the climate always the same. We have alarm systems rigged up to let us know if the current goes off or if the heat goes haywire, or if the water pressure drops. The alarms go off in the chicken house, and they’re also hooked up to a neighbor’s telephone.” ■s Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Feb. 8.1975 • * Checking the water meters is one way Norma Frey keeps tabs on the 50,000 chickens in her care. If problems show up here, Norma sees that they’re taken care of. wW M M , 4 * «r • Stretching almost to a vanishing point, Norma Frey’s 50,000 charges produce as many as 40,000 eggs a day. And Norma runs the operation all by herself. 19 t **' « • m 4 , W I* ,
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