—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 11,1978
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Chester-Del. Co. farm tour to be Nov. 18-19
NOTTINGHAM - The
Chester Delaware County
Fanners’ Association will
hold their annual Farm-City
Weekend on November 18
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on
November 19 from 1 p.m. to 4
p.m.
Every November, farm
families who are members
of the Association open their
businesses to help promote
better understanding bet
ween the farmer and con
sumer. Twenty-one farms in
Chester County are open this
year, making this the largest
and most varied tour of local
agriculture available.
Orchards, dairies, poultry
operations and greenhouses
are among the more familiar
sights included in this year’s
open bouse, but one can also
see purebred Arabian
horses, an exotic cactus
collection, mushrooms
growing in trays, tomatoes
being raised without soil,
and 8,000,000 worms under
one roof.
Hosts for this year’s
Farm-City Weekend are:
Charles Gable, who farms
200 acres, mostly com and
alfalfa. He also has 100 head
of registered Ayrshire in a
conventional tie-stall bam
and a free-stall heifer bam.
Meadowoode Farms, run
by Frank and Robert
Stoltzfus, is 370 acres of
mostly com with a few acres
of grain and hay. They finish
2.000 hogs a year and 35
steers a year, and raise
30.000 pullets. They also own
a gram dryer and do custom
combining and drying.
Batchelor’s Flowers is a
retail florist operation; with
nine greenhouses growing
plants for the holidays.
Hydroponic Systems, Inc.
is where one can see the new
method of growing food. A
beautiful tomato crop is
being grown in liquid fer-
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tilizer. There is no soil, peat
moss, sand or stone. Seeds
planted on July 3, 1978 are
four feet tall and loaded with
tomatoes. There should be a
continuous crop until June of
1979. This method causes
tomatoes to grow fast, in
great volume, and to grow
for more than 12 months.
My-T-Hi Farm, owned
by S. Horace Mowrer and
family, is a sixth generation
dairy farm with 125
Holsteins and 120
replacement heifers. Cows
are milked in tie stall barn
with pipeline milkers and fed
with electric feed carts and
bunk feeder. There are also
650 acres of com, hay and
small grain on this farm.
Bill and Janna Cracas,
have a poultry farm with
14,000 laying hens in
automated cage system and
an in-line grading system to
prepare eggs for market.
Eggs are sold retail and
wholesale at farm and
marketed through
Producers Pride
Cooperative. Collecting
tunes are 9 to 10:30 a.m. and
3 to 5 p.m.
Nussex Farms, West
Chester is an orchard and
retail market; with 160 fruit
trees, including apple,
peach, plum, cherry. They
produce 50,000 gallons of
cider annually. A full line of
vegetables are grown and
baked goods are available.
Alta-Vista Farm, owned
by Harry Bickel, is a modem
250 acre dairy farm with free
stalls and 60 cows. Crops
include com, hay and small
grains.
Far Out Cactus
Greenhouse features the
largest collection of cactus
on East Coast, and 1500
varieties can be viewed in a
typical greenhouse
operation from seed growing
to retail sales.
This 16’ x 8’ grain
trailer is designed to
haul grain. The body
has 40” sides, and a
grain door in the rear.
Modern Mushroom
Farms, Inc. is lLl\i largest
and most modern mushroom
growing plant m the East.
Visitors can view every
phase of mushroom growing.
Pratt’s Greenhouse
consists of eight greenhouses
covering 27,500 square feet;
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four of the greenhouses are
double plastic, air inflated to
conserve fuel. Sale and
delivery of potted plants is
made to retailers within a 25
mile radius. The carnation
range was convened to
poinsettias, cyclamen,
gloxinia, reiger begonia,
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kalanchoe, ferns, foliage and
hanging plants
Wilkinson Farms has 300
cows milked on an eight stall
Boumatic carousel parlor,
housed m two 170 feet by 50
feet free stall barns.
Feeding is done by mixer
wagon. Silage, haylage and
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packaged or frozen silage.
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high- moisture com are
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small grain, 500 acres of hay,
and 400 acres soybeans.
Milking starts at 2 p.m. and
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