—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 4,1978 20 Cull COWS provide their s $ -v v< Tom Tice, the 22-year-old co-owner of Host Acres Farms Quality Meats, is the head boner is the butchering operation. Donna Wolfe, in the foreground, is a trimmer of the primal cuts. P. E. Hess, Butler Mfg. Co. i CALL YOUR LOCAL AGRI-BUILDER FOR MORE DETAILS & P Box 337, Oxford, PA 19363 ' - 1 Dealer Inquiries Invited in any of the following Counties Cumberland, Adams, York, Lancaster, Jefferson, Indiana, Armstrong, Clarion, Butler, Mercer, Lawrence, Beaver, Venango Naim Address County AGRI-BUI LDER Slate. The dream of 2 Leb Co, farm boys comes true By JOANNE SPAHR LEBANON - For two aspiring country boys from Lebanon County, the stars have been in the right positions during the past two years. Like independent satellites, they traveled in different spheres for most of their lives - one a dairyman, and the other a butcher. Then, one day their paths chose to cross, and both saw the possibility for the fulfillment of a united dream. Today, nearly two years later, that dream has long since materialized and is alive and prosperous. Krall Hostetter, Lebanon, and Tom Tice, Newman stown, own and operate Host 'Acres Farms Quality Meats, a butcher shop in the village of Reistville. Seventy-five per cent of their trade is in boneless beef, which goes for hamburger, bologna, or hot dogs. Two years ago neither Tice, 22, or Hostetter, 31, could have envisioned the shop as it is today. At that time Tice was employed as a boner by a Berks r County butcher and Hostefter was operating his own 117 acre, 75-cow dairy farm near Lebanon as well as working part tune in a butcher shop. C&M SALES INC rdji Honesdale, Pa. 18431 Phone 717-253-1612 | A. E. ENGEL, INC. KNOXVILLE I P.0.80x 216 CONSTRUCTION I Marlton, N.J. 08053 Knoxville, Pa. 16928 I Phone 609-983-4404 Phone 814-326-4188 Although both had aspirations of running their own slaughtering operation, neither had the capital or the experience to do it alone. “Then, one Thursday, Tom walked into the butcher shop where I worked and said, ‘Why don’t we get together and buy this place,’ and we got a loan and did just that,” states Hostetter. That’s when the adventure began. Originally purchased with freezer orders in mind, the shop was soon heading toward difficulty in that marketing area because of competition by other established, well known shops in the vicinity. To alleviate the slow trade, the new co-owners were faced with changing their operation Jo market a dif ferent type of product. The question at that time was, “What can we produce that few others in the area do?” The answer for Host Acres was boneless beef. “We originally didn’t know that so much boneless beef was consumed in Lebanon County,” say the owners, “But we thought with the livestock markets in this area, why should the packers the cows, ship KAFFERLIN SALES & SERVICE R.O. §2 Union City, Pa. 16438 Phone 814-438-3180 at js Quality Meats, Myerstown, works on the Kill floor as well as in the capacity of chief livestock buyer for the business. ORVILLE MACK P.O. Box 47 Nazareth, Pa. 18064 Phone 215-759-1331 ALMAUER W.R. MOODY, P.O. Box 78 CONTRACTOR Cambra, Pa. 18611 113 Walnut Lane Phone 717-864-3135 West Newton. Pa. 15089 Phone 412-872-6804 -vl ' ' - V-X* 4 LEROY E. MYERS. INC. O.A. NEWTON Route #l, Box 163 & SON CO. Clear Spring, Md 21722 Bndgeville, Delaware 19933 Phone 301-582-1552 phone 302-337-8211 MVe] ’ ' # ROYER’S FARM SERVICE R.D. #1 I 17889 Ptane 717-837-3201 them out : and then br for the boh can’t somel area, do it?’ However, challenge chers had began by . various bol burger firm once they h their bonele to find an primal cut rolls, stri] steaks, the seaned roun “Through were able tc all the par noted Ho markets avenues for offal, panci bile. Once then were estab really got d They first I two cows eventuually that they n* for two day they are fe< for slaughti week. T operation ii spected. At estimates tl D.E.SM Mifflinto'wr Phone 71;
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