Chester-DeL farm tour
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can be viewed from ob
servation deck.
Wilkinson Farms Unit 2 is
operated by Robert Mc-
Couch, and his 65 Holstein
cows milked in a double four
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★ Injectors are mounted on the heavy duty A frame hitch of the
spreader or vacuum tank.
★ The spreader tank model features a high volume impeller pump,
PTO driven, that moves manure through the 6” valve and manifold
to the 4” hoses and through the injector tubes.
★ All this is mounted on the front where you can see what you are
doing and leaves the back mounted slinger undisturbed for
spreading on top of the ground when necessary.
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herringbone parlor. Cows
are housed in free stalls. A
magnetic feeder is used with
feed stored in trench silos.
The total mix ration is fed
with Auggie wagon. The
farm also has calves.
Fickes Silo Company Inc.
k P.0.80x?
Newville, PA 17241
Phone-717-776-3129
Trailers well worth their cost
State
AVAILABLE IN 2 or 4 SHANK MODELS
F. ERNEST SNOOK
pheasants m cages,
chickens, sheep and pigs.
Amyr Farms owned by Dr.
Richard Stoneback and
family, has 35 Arabian
horses and foals, as well as
some dairy goats.
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SOIL INJECTORS
FEEDING SYSTEMS
Pep-L-Lea Holstems,
owned by Bob and Jane
Pepple, is a dairy farm with
75 registered Holstein cows
and 75 heifers and calves.
There is a free stall and
milking parlor set up. Baby
calves are raised in in
dividual hutches.
White Horse Grain is
owned and operated by
Robert Hood and Richard
Breckbill. It has a 200,000
bushel storage capacity, anil
grain drying system can dry
1500 bushels per hour. There
are 5 elevators here, the
largest being 140 feet. They
also handle seed, fertilizer
and chemicals. A liquid
fertilizer plant is now being
built. .
Lemheney’s Butcher Shop,
Inc. has U.S. inspected
slaughtering for wholesale,
retail and industrial use. It
also does custom
slaughtering for home
freezers.
Landis’ Cackel-Berry Egg
Farm has a fully automated
chicken house with 45,000
chickens. One can see
automatic egg gathering
beginning at 2 p.m. each
day.
Maple-Down Farm is a
Dairy farm owned and
operated by Donald
Hostetter and family. They
milk 130 head of registered
Holstein cows with 120 head
of young stock. The barn has
three bull pens, housing a
bull weighing 2500 pounds.
The farm also includes 140
acres com and 80 acres hay.
Worm Run Farms, Inc.,
run by Dave Dorn, are
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 11,1978
distributors for North
American Bait Farms, the
largest worm company in
the United States. They
have 80 beds of worms, each
bed with 100,000 worms.
Beds are fed and watered
daily.
Brochures with a map
locating each farm are
available by contacting the
Chester County Extension
Soybean
grant approved
ST. LOUIS, Mo. - A Purdue
University study that may
allow scientists to increase
the amount of either protein
or oil in soybeans has been
selected for a three-year
research grant by the
American Soybean
Association Foundation.
Three researchers will
determine the factors that
regulate how oil and protein
are formed in soybeans.
With this information, plant
breeders can better
manipulate plants
genetically to produce either
more protein or more oil in
soybean varieties.
The Purdue project will be
funded $44,562 over the next
three years. It is one of four
proposals funded by the
Foundation this year.
On the average, soybean
seeds are 40 per cent protein
and 20 per cent oil. There is
an inverse relationship
between the amount of oil
and protem within the
soybean. Little research has
been done yet to understand
why these levels are formed,
or the chain of chemical
processes that are involved.
Four lines of soybeans, two
with high protein and low oil
content and two with low
protem and high oil content
will be used to determine the
composition of the soybean.
This will also allow the
researchers to determine the
key biochemical steps in
volved in seed development.
Findings of this study and
others will allow plant
breeders to quickly identify
the, .plant strains that
produce either higher
amounts of protem or oil and
WEDNESDAY IS
DAIRY
CT DAY
AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC.
New Holland, PA
If you need 1 cow or a truck load, we have
from 100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your
price Mostly fresh and close springing Hols
tems
Cows from local farmers and our regular ship
pers including Marvin Eshleman, Glenn c ite,
Kelly Bowser, Bill Lang, Blaine Hoffer, Oale
Hostetter, H D. Matz, and Jerry Miller
SALE STARTS - 12:00 SHARP
Also Every Wednesday,
Hay, Straw & Ear Corn Sale -12:00 Noon.
All Dairy Cows & Heifers must be
eligible for Pennsylvania Health Charts.
For arrangements for special sales or herd
dispersals at our barn or on your farm, contact;
Abram Diffenbach, Mgr.
717-354-4341
%A. Norman Kolb «\\\\^
717-397-5538 “
Office, West Chester, at 215-
696-3500; Chester County
Tourist Bureau, West
Chester, 215-431-6365; or
Michael Mowrer, Spring
City Rl, Pa. 19475, 215-940-
4177.
Farm Visit arrows
directing people to the stops
on the tour will be posted in
the vicinity of each farm for
their convenience on
Saturday and Sunday.
research
develop them into new
soybean varieties for the
grower.
In the past six years,
ASARF has supported
nearly one million dollars of
soybean research. The nine
soybean producers who sit
on the Foundation select
research proposals based on
their potential impact on and
benefit to the soybean
producer and industry.
Funds for the grants are
provided by soybean
growers through their state
checkoff programs and by
support from private cor
poration.
Broilers up
HARRISBURG
Placements of broiler chicks
in Pennsylvania during the
week ending October 28 were
11 per cent above the cor
responding week a year ago,
according to the Penn
sylvania Crop Reporting
Service.
The placements were
2,083,000, about the same as
the previous week. Average
placements during the past
nine weeks were 13 per cent
above a year earlier.
Broiler placements in the
key 21 poultry-producing
states were 67,316,000, three
per cent below the previous
week but ten per cent more
than the same week a year
ago. Average placements in
the 21 states during the past
nine weeks were six per cent
above a year ago.
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