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Grain sifts down between the three screens in Roy Herr’s seed cleaning
machine. -This process, along with airlifting the grain, removes the impurities
from the seed wheat.
Its got everything
[Continued from Page 87]
the amount of seed
dispensed into each bag. The
switching device is syn
chronized with the weight, so
that the amount of seed in
each bag remains constant.
He also added an ob
servation window to check
the quality of the grain after
it has been cleaned,
elevated, and weighed - just
before it is ready to be
treated with liquid
chemicals for seedbome
diseases and fungi.
Another fascinating ap
pendage on the cleaner is the
auxiliary elevating auger
which can be arranged to
convey grain into the hopper
from gravity bin wagons,
dump trucks, and trailers.
After 28 years, Herr has a
long standing “route”
established. In the Spring, he
has a short season in central
Pennsylvania, specifically
Mifflin, Huntingdon, and
Centre Counties. At that
time he processes Spring
oats.
Then, in July, when it’s
time to process wheat and
barley, the Fall seeds, he
operates in parts of Lan
caster, southern York, as
well as Mifflin and Centre
Counties.
“I began going to central
Pennsylvania to keep
operating when tobacco
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cutting and other harvesting
is going on in here,” he said
while on the job at the home
of a Lancaster County
customer.
“When I go outside the
county,” explains the ar
culate, good natured man, “I
set up a base and work from
there.”
Primarily, he works for
farmers who “appreciate
the value of planting home
grown seeds,” as he puts it,
but on occasion, he works for
mills, as well.
Usually, by mid-October,
he is finished with seed
cleaning and goes back to
work as a sheet metal
fabricator-fitter.
“Part of the year I work
for myself, and part of the
year I work for somebody'
else,” he says with the pride
of a man who independently
enjoys a “hobby” as a job in
a unique type of set up.
“Oh,” he sighs with a
good-natured and wise ring
of humor in his voice, “I
have no illusion of becoming
a rich man in the seed
cleaning business.”
Hesitating for a second, he
continues, “There is a
certain amount of
satisfaction, though, in
working with these families
generation after generation.
I’ll go into a place and
have the youngest farmer
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says with a contented smile.
“And, then they usually
ask, ‘What do you have
that’s new this year?’”
For Roy H. Herr, that
makes the job worthwhile.
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