Lancaster
Hard work and dedication
are the key words which
have brought Earl Weaver
from the position of work*
man to the ownership of his
own Red Rose Feed
Dealership near Honey
Brook, Lancaster County.
Weaver, who resides in
Akron with his wife Joan, son
David, and daughter Diane,
began working for Eugene
Spotts of Honey Brook
following high school. At that
time, Spotts had a
blacksmith shop along with
doing some farming, and the
young Weaver did odd jobs
as well as work in the
blacksmith shop.
‘‘Holding the horses was
my job in those days,”
Weaver noted. “I enjoyed
working around and doing a
little of everything."
Along with the blacksmith
shop, Eugene Spotts also
began hiring men to haul
milk and quickly called upon
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Weaver to drive truck.
Weaver accepted the
position and began driving
along with his other owrk.
Some years later, Spotts
began his own feed
dealership when he started
buying feed for his chickens.
The excess was hauled on a
small trailer on the back of
his car and sold to the area
farmers.
Being quite accepted for
his feed business, which
grew considerably, Spotts
became affiliated with the
Red Rose Company in 1960
and expanded to serve the
farmers in the Northern
Chester County area.
Requiring extra help,
Spotts had Earl Weaver join
him in the feed store to help
run the operation and also
drive truck. And since that
time, Weaver has had plenty
of experience in working
with the feed business and
the operations which go
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Earl Weaver (left) recently began a Red Rose
Dealership near Honey Brook in Lancaster County.
Weaver's son David will be working for his father.
along with it.
Recently Eugene Spotts,
who is nearing his 70th birth
day, decided to retire but
wanted to continue with the
business. His choice for the
position went to the man who
had been with him for 31
years, Earl Weaver.
Weaver accepted the idea
and is now taking over
Spotts Red Rose Feed
Dealership. He will be aided
in the task by his son, David
who recently graduated
from Ephrata High School.
Weaver will continue the
store affilation and will be
offering the same products.
“We want people to un
derstand that we will con
tinue much the same,”
Weaver explained.
“We will still have the
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decrease of 6 percent from
1973, while lowfat cottage
cheese at 11 million pounds
was up 5 percent from the
previous year. The total
production of cheese
manufactured m 1974 ex
cluding cottage cheese was
69 million pounds, an in
crease of 94 percent over
1973. Mozzarella production
at 6 million pounds was up 44
percent while other types of
Italian cheese with a
production of 12.5 million
pounds, showed an increase
of 19 percent.
Production of dried,
condensed and evaporated
milk in 1974 and the changes
from 1973 were: condensed
whole unsweetened 33.3
million pounds, down 4
percent. Condensed skim
unsweetened 46 million
pounds, down 28 percent.
Evaporated and condensed
86.1 million pounds, down 3
percent. Non-fat dry for
human food, 16.3 million
pounds, down 14 percent.
During 1974 a total of 2,403
million pounds of milk (on a
whole equivalent basis) was
SATELLITES used in manufacturing, of
Satellites scan the entire which 43 percent was used
Western Hemisphere every 30 for frozen products, 18
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Service for cheese and the remaining
grinding and mixing con
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health products.”
Although his work keeps
him quite busy, Earl Weaver
enjoys “all types of sports”
and especially likes hunting
and fishing.
Weaver’s son , David, who
eventually hopes to become
a partner in the business,
was the ace pitcher for the
Ephrata Baseball team and
according to his father, has a
real talent for tying fishing
flies.
Joan, Earl’s wife, is
employed as a medical
secretary-nurse with a
doctor m Akron. She will also
be taking care of the book
work for the dealership.
The hours for Weaver’s
dealership will remain the
same being Mon - Fri 7:30
a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and on
Saturdays from 7:30 a.m. -
12:00 noon.
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Ice Cream
Production
Pennsylvania manufac
turers produced 65.5 million
gallons of ice cream in 1974 a
decrease of 5 percent from
1973. Seven percent of this
amount was soft frozen ice
cream.
Ice milk production in 1974
was 17.1 million gallons, an
increase of 3 percent over
1973. Milk sherbet
production was 3.2 million
gallons a decrease of 19
percent from 1973.
Production of other frozen
products were 1 million
gallons, a slight decrease
from 1973.
Creamy butter production
at 19.1 million pounds was up
3 percent from 1973.
Creamed cottage cheese at
46.4 million pounds showed a
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14 percent for evaporated
condensed and other milk
products.
U.S. Production of Cheese
At An All Time High
Total cheese production,
excluding cottage cheese
was at a record 2,930 million
pounds, 9 percent above 1973
and double the level IS years
ago. Frozen products was
virtually unchanged from
last year’s record high.
California was the top ice
cream producing state,
followed by Pennsylvania.
Manufactured dairy
products utilized 53 percent
of the U.S. milk production.
Cheese production ac
counted for 39 percent of all
milk used for manufac
turing. This was the second
consecutive year on record
that milk used for cheese
exceeded that used for
butter. Butter accounted for
33 percent of total whole milk
for all products.
Frozen dairy products
used 13.2 billion pounds of
whole milk equivalent, up
almost 1 percent from the
previous year and amounted
to 20 percent of the total used
for all products.
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