V0i.21 UqJSTjSQ EPHRATA - Pennfield Farms, - one. of' Penn sylvania’s largest and most modem' egg. processing companies, is celebrating its . 75th anniversary this year. Strolling through the, firm’s bright, - modem, headquar ters building on Scboeneck Road near here, it is hard to imagine the x company as anything but the fast, ef New Holland to host world auction contest [ KANSAS CITY, Mo. - I Academy - Award nominee ■ ■' ' ' 20,000,000 Germans to see. thisyear’s Auctioneer That’s why he’s cdmingfroin Munich, Germany to -New Holland, to fihn the contest. ; Hetiog,al976nominee for v his JBhn “EveryMsn for Hiniadf ' and GodAgainst' By JOANNE SPAHR LANCASTER, Pa. The tobacco beds were lush with dark green, thick stemmed plants that had good root. systems. Things were progressing ahead of schedule and it looked as though there was going to be an overabundance, of the crop. Then, last ; Tuesday, hail hit and the whole story 68,000 eggs packed per hour AU,” will film a 45-minute doanneotaiy for showing. Uterthis fall on German television; -an 30,000,0T0.H&j also hopes to make the film toflevisioo. audiences. . : : Hensog said bißffim of the June 19 championship will be one of- a-, series of documentaries on life in the Tobacco plant situation is tight Crop situation surveyed By DIETER KBIEG ~ Aftte weeks of staffing arid relative obscurity and other crops in the area have shifted into Ugh geqr In their growth patterns. Faded by plenty of sunshine, adequate Serving The- Central •and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 12,1976 Open House this weekend - fleient egg processing giant it is today. , Pennfield Fauns’ almost unbelievable volume of 156 a year is onty slightlyeaaier to com prehend after ooe has seen their two fully automated egg processing machines literally “sucking up” eggs . at the rate of 68,400 per hour. Incredibly, though, all the United States. Other sub ejects win feature politics and industry, as well as the4to 5 hour ' contest'and ‘ ac - (ilimahying festivities at toe Near,Holland Sides Stables, toe., owned by Abe Dif fenbach and Norman Kolb, l3th annual evenL A German band will changed. In a span of a few hours, whole beds were wiped out andfarmers bad to scramble to findplants. The wont area fait was a belt running east from ' Elizabethtown to ML Joy and LandisviDe through to Bird-In-Hand, Intercourse, 'and* Spring Garden. Ac cording to Associate County Agent Arnold G. Lueck, moisture, and hot,weather, , the plants are tinning the - countryside into the typical . summer-time look. But not all is well in die area after a devastating storm ripped through por In this issue Life on the farm 10 ' Homestead Notes SO 'MjrThougris SO : lda%Notdmk 52 , Home on the Range ,53 York’s Dairy Princess 54 v Dairy Princess jaw Pooderings 55 high volume and modem efficiency of Pennfield Farms today canJbe traced back to the almost whimsical fact that around the turn of the century an Ephrata fanner, named. Levi Martin Sheaffer bought a few pigeons ,to raise as pets! (Pennfield Farms was formerly the L. M. Sheaffer Company.) provide entertainment and a complimentary Penn sylvaritoDntdjlimcheoniriil te.serro^'in»j|wctWQn^. 4 producerbccame interested' in the world - championship event ?. Inst,, year vMetihning at,a" Colorado livestock auction market A record number of en trants from toe UJS. and agronomist with the county extension office, this ac counts for less than 10 percent of the total acreage in the county. But, this 10 percent - is' of vital im portance to many fanners because two of the largest commercial growers in the area are located in the vicinity of Intercourse where the devastation was the tions of southeastern Penn sylvania last. - week. Following is a summary of some of the conditiona found in the area. ICwfimed on Page 17] Womens’Calendar 61 Jr. Cooking Edition 62 Dairy feature 64 1976 fair schedule 70 Chester Dairy Princess 72 Crafts feature 76 Public Sales Register 80 Sale Reports 84^ Sheaffer’s “pets’ll multiplied so fast that he couldn’t take care of them all. Soon, he ' began processing his excess squabs and selling them to werf known New York City restaurants like Sherry’s and Dehnooico’s. As the demand for squabs [Coairaed on Pair IS], S r- * ac- v cordingtoGerald D. Nevins, ft champiqwhip coordinator. I Marketing Aasodation, and j . conducted tty at aubddiaiy , conyrimy, livertockMarket Digest,to focusattentkn on the professional rrile of . ICootMd on Pa* 26] " j worst Fortbese men and the ' farmers who depend on them for plants, the supply *Ol be tight until the seedbeds grow back. One of the growers estimated that his crop would take only 10. days to return. He also estimated' that his seed bed production [Continued on Pace 20], S3LOO Per Yea?
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