ClS—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 8,1980
Lancaster Farming goes to press
(Continued from Page Cl 7)
without stopping in with Lan
caster Fanning’s publisher and
owner Robert Campbell,
celebrating the 25th birthday of
the paper. He has been assisted
for 18% years by Joan G, Young,
his executive secretary.
Now, after seven full days, the
paper is bundled and tied, the
news and ads have gone to press,
and Lancaster Farming’s ready
for delivery to mailboxes
throughout the USA. —SM
It takes eleven 1000-pound rolls of paper to
print each section of the paper every week for our
38,000 subscribers.
Hot off the press the pages of the paper are
cut and folded automatically in the printing
operation.
The mountainous task of publishing Lancaster Farming takes the teamwork
and dedication of 45 full-time and part-time employees.
After each section of the paper is inserted
between the folds of the front section, the papers
are handled and tied according to zip code.
Mailbags containing copies of the paper
traveling to most distant subscribers in Alaska
and Hawaii, are taken to the Lancaster Post Office
by 3:30 on Friday afternoon. The last, most local
copies are mailed by 9 p.m. on Friday.
d years ago
More profit from
manure than milk
At a time wherr milk is selling for a
blend price of around $9 hun
dredweight, Richard Hoppes, a
Berks County dairyman, is getting
$27 a hundred for the liquid manure
from his 60 cow herd Manure
production from Hoppes’ herd totals
70,000 pounds per month, a figure
which includes waste water from the
milk house, the parlor and a little
ram.
The cows produce about as much
manure as they do milk, which means
Hoppes is getting three times as
much money for his herd’s manure
production as for their milk. Bottled
for sale, “Nature’s Own Deodorized
Liquid Cow Manure” retails for $2.89
a gallon It’s a topsy turvy world, and
Hoppes and his brother Roy, a
partner in the franchise, expect to
profit handsomely from their liquid
manure br mess.
“I wouldn’t sell my franchise now
for a million dollars,” Richard
Hoppes told Lancaster Farming this
week. The franchise he holds is a
lifetime contract for all the cow
manure m Pennsylvania sold under
the Nature’s Own label The Hoppes
brothers bought the franchise m
1973 from R.J. Briggs, Woodbury,
Tennessee. 1
10 years ago
Farm and Home Center
debt down to $128,000
The debt on the Lancaster County
Farm and Home Center is down to
$128,000. This announcment was
made Thursday night at the Foun
dation's annual banquet and
business meeting held in the Farm
and Home Center.
Although the financial statement
prepared for the meeting stated the
debt to be $140,000 as the close of
1969, treasurer George Lewis said
the recent antique sale plus con
tributions and extra building
operation funds had made possible
the further reduction of debt to the
present stated figure
15 years ago
Study shows investment
and gross sales needed
for certain farm profit
As a farmer, how much of an in
vestment must you have to expect a
net return of $2,500’ Of 3,500? Of
$4,500? Of $5,500? A recently
reported USDA study showed that
net income and investment varied
considerably wth type, size and
location of farm operations For
example, farms with returns of
$5,500 required captial investments
ranging from $28,270 for a North
Carolina tobacco farm to $353,120
for a beef ranch in Oaklahoma More
than half of all farms earning $5,500
had capital investments of more than
$75,000, with eight of these ex
ceeding $lOO,OOO
The objective of the study was to
determine the kinds and amounts of
resources required on different types
of farms in different farming regions
to enable farm operators to earn