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CHESTER STOLTZFUS
Sales Representative
Route 2 Watsontown, PA 17777
717-649-5321
TOU’VE HEARD
THE TALK.
There’s a better way to dry gram. It’s called
CHILLCURING ™ because it means CURING
without heat. Here’s what the talk is all
about.
THE GRAIN
Every kernel of gram is alive when it comes out of the field
It is a seed, able to grow because it has the ability to take on
moisture. Likewise, ft can be kept in a state of preservation by
'removing the moisture already m it
But by heating the grain to dry it, the seed life is destroyed
By removing heat and moisture from the gram, it becomes
dormant, and stays alive Then it can ripen to full weight,
losing only water while keeping valuable protein, starches
and sugar.
THE SYSTEM
' It’s simple. Gram goes from the field right to the bin With
the unique AIRFRAME" and AIRFLOOR" the gram rests on a
solid bed that allows maximum ventilation.
Clean dry air is the best curing medium for the gram.
GRAINLAMPS" provide electric sunshine, cleaning and
drying the air beneath the floor, before it passes through the
gram.
Fans force air under the floor Rising through the gram, this
dry outside air carries away moisture and heat.
At tbe peak of the bin a jumbo 40" turbine, the
WHIRLCOOLER™, puts nature to work for you. Wind and
rising air keeps it turning, venting the system naturally.
A special HARVESTAT" Control System monitors the -
curing process. A simple setting controls the GRAINLAMPS"
to make use of free, natural air.
Ephrata Twp. considering
farmland preservation
EPHRATA Assistance
in forming the first
agricultural preservation
districts in Lancaster
County formally was ex
tended to Ephrata Township
officials Monday by the
newly organized
Agricultural Preservation
Board.
The offer of help was made
at a meeting of the Ephrata
Township Planning Com
mission by Amos H. Funk,
chairman of the county
board.
The commission said it
would “take the matter
under consideration and
work with it.”
General support for the
agricultural preservation
concept was expressed at the
session by members of the
township’s board of
supervisors and several
attending farmers whose
land would be located in the
Montgomery sheepman 9 s clinic'
SOUDERTON - The
Montgomery County Ex
tension Service invites all
new and potential sheep
producers to.participate'in a
sheep mini-clinic to be held
on Saturday, May 10, 9:00 ,
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the
Souderton area.
The clinic is aimed at
those persons relatively new
to the sheep industry.
Six basic management
skills will be taught, in
cluding taking temperature
of the sheep, handling,
proper use of dose syringe in
worming, determining age
2. has been tried and proven in 17 states on
over 3000 farms. The research is in: CHILLCURING’" WORKS!
3. The CHILLCURING™ system uses only the electricity to
powei fans andjights, using about IV2 KW hrs. per bushel.
Compare that cost to other systems that use increasingly
expensive fuels to get disappointing results.
4. The gram go4s from the field to the bin and stays there till
you need it. Save time and money at harvest with the one step
HARVESTALL CHILLCURING™ and storage system.
5. If you’re in the market for grain storage, you owe it to
yourself to look further into HARVESTALL GRAIN
CHILLCURING™.
Check With Us For Our Early Season Discounts
proposed district.
“It’s important that we get
started in Ephrata Township
with farmland preservation
as a demonstration project,”
Funk said.
“Other farmers can then
look to Ephrata Township. I
believe that a lot of fears of
people won’t materialize.
“I hope and pray that
Ephrata Township will give
us a chance to try it. ”
Funk further explained
that the role of the county
board would be to make
suggestions and share in
formation, but the planning
commission and supervisors
would have the final word.
He suggested that the next
step for the township might
be the scheduling of a public
hearing on agricultural
preservation.
The county would be
willing to bear the cost of
holding such a hearing and
fV, o sending of certified
of the animals, in
tramuscular injections and
making air instant halter for
emergency handling. These
management skills will be
taught to enable shepherds
to be competent in per
forming approved sheep
management practices.
Each skill will be explained,
followed by a laboratory
session allowing each
participant to practice the.,
skill.
An evaluator from Penn
State University will be on
hand to score each person
and enable them to receive a
Advanced Ag Products
RD 2 Box 174 Elverson, Pa. 19520
215-286-9118
THE FACTS
l.You can’t beat Nature. HARVESTALL GRAIN
CHILLCURING" uses the same elements that ripen and
preserve gram if left to itself: free flowing air and infra red rays
(sunshine).
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 26,1980—D1l
letters to property owners in
the proposed preservation
district, according to Funk.
Of particular concern,
Funk said, is the future of
farming in “fringe areas,”
located near residential
developments.
“There are 29 miles of
fringe areas in Ephrata
Township,” he said.
“The question is how these
farm owners can be
protected from the com
plaints of neighbors.”
Funk explained that the
agricultural preservation
program would provide that
the county make payment to
property owners who agree
to 25-year deed restrictions
to keep their land in far
ming.
The payment would either
be a percentage of the
agricultural valuation of the
land or a flat amount per
acre.
certificate dependent
their newly-learned skills.
Enrollment will be limited
and advance registration is
required. Contact County
Agent Nancy M. Kadwill at
215/277-0574 or write to 400
Markley Street, Norristown,
19401 and leave youi name,
address, phone number and
a brief background or plans
of yoiur involvement with
sheep.
Those persons enrolled
will receive details on
location and equipment to
bring.
The example he cited was
five percent of a 100-acre
farm valued at $400,000, or a
payment of $20,000.
After the 25-year
agreement, the deed
restriction , would be
reopened for possible
change.
Such a program would
require that the township’s
zoning ordinance be
strengthened to preserve
farmland and protect far
ming.
The township’s present
zoning ordinance permits
single-family house
development on lots of 60,000
square feet in agricultural
zones.
Under the county
preservation program,
development would be
restricted to a quarter-acre
lot for every 25 acres of
farmland. Thus, four lots
could be developed on 100
acres. Such development
could be limited to members
of the farm family or em
ployees.
Among farmers ex
pressing approval for far
mland preservation were
Llqyd Sensenig and Ivan
Martin.
“If you’d contact farmers
m Ephrata Township, more
than what you’d expect
would be in favor of it,”
Sensenig said.
“It goes against the grain
to sell for development,”
Martin said.
“This is top-notch land and
should be kept for farming.”
Approval was also given
by township supervisors
Earl Hagy, chairman, and
Aaron Z. Stauffer, who
serves as both vice chair
man of the township board
and the county preservation
board.—DA