New & Used Silos New & Used Extensions Tear down & Rebuild Gunite silo relining & repairs Replastering, roofs, permanent pipe & distributors Oxygen Limiting Silos above and below ground manure storage Jamesway Unloaders Barn Equipment Write or Call DETWEILER SILOS Rd280x267-D Newville, PA 17241 Phone: 717-532-3039 717-776-7533 717-776-3288 U.S. ALCOHOL FUEL SYS. FREE SEMINAR ON ALCOHOL STILLS 4<r" ' UTILIZE YOUR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS OWN A FARM PRODUCTION UNIT! Produce from 50 to 1000 gallons of ALCOHOL per day for less than 60' per gal. Run tractors, trucks, autos and even heat your house, shop, barn, etc. FOR TIME AND LOCATION OF SEMINAR IN YOUR AREA CALL TODAY 717-848-4600 OR MAIL COUPON TO: U.S. Alcohol Fuel Sys. P.O. Box 423, York, PA 17405 EXCLUSIVE DEALERSHIP AVAILABLE ' f IN SOME AREAS Delaware names SEAFORD, Dei. This The expansion into a hog year, Delaware s All- tarm came about in 196 b American Pork Producer is when new buildings were Dennard R Hill added. The new buildings Dennard is partner with included a remodeled his parents and brother on chicken house tor tarrowing, the family tarm near a nursery, and two finishing Seatord, Delaware The houses A new tarrowing tarm, which once produced house and nursery was built mostly soybeans, wheat, and in 1977, and a boar barn and a tew hogs, is now a top teeding house was added in producing hog operation. 1978 ALFALFA'S and CLOVER'S Available for Spring Seeding ALFALFA • WL 311 - Consistent winner of alfalfa growing contests - Pa. Grassland Council • APOLLO - Lime coated, excellent disease resistance • SARANAC AR - Excellent disease resistance • ARC CLOVER • ARLINGTON • MEDIUM RED • PENNSCOTT • ALSIKE ★ FREE INNOCULATION * REIST SEED COMPANY Finest Quality Seeds (Since 1925) Mount Joy, PA Ph: (717) 653-4121 * , fi * Name I ■ Address , City | Phone i Fuel Use Yearly - Diesel Gas “ 5 7 j. ,? =4- ’*■ l»- v fl* ;. - **£ T *Ck’^ ?* „ ** 'i •* * v i X£ r-«W f **' f ■ 1 \ - * 1. r > i r * A ~'"«v ~ .State Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 24,1981—C23 pork all-American At present, the operation consists of 200 sows, and is tarrowing 14 sows every two weeks with 9.5 pigs weaned per sow at five weeks of age The pigs are sold at the graded sale in Felton, Delaware at 45 to 55 pound weights. Yorkshires, Spots, and Landrace are raised and sold to commercial breeders. Dennard and Elaine Hill live with then children, Chris and Steve, on a farm adjoining the parent tarm Here they raise 288,000 Cornish hens per year. DennardL has been, a member of the Delaware Pork Producers for 10 years and currently serves as treasurer. He is a member of the State 4-H Livestock Advisory Committee and the Delaware Council of Farmer Cooperatives. He is also a leader of a local 4-H club and of a county 4-H livestock club, and a member of the Sussex County 4-H Leaders Association. Elaine is president of the Delaware Porkettes, a member of the Farm-Home advisory board of the local coop, a local and county 4-H leader and secretary of the York County to run com clinic YORK A commodity trading specialist will be one of the featured speakers at the annual York County Com Clinic, set for Wednesday, January 28, at the 4-H Center at Bair Keith Moens, a representative of the Chicago Board of Trade, is scheduled to speak to the county’s corn growers during both the morning and afternoon sessions of the day-long program. “Prin ciples of Hedging,” will be a highlight of the pre-lunch program, while Moens will brief grain growers on “Futures in Corn Marketing” during the af ternoon session Corn growers will also area, which will open to hear about a new type of visitors at 9:30 am The lime test from Penn Slate morning program is soil fertility specialist Doug schedule to begin at 10 a m Beegle Luncheon is available by Willis McClellan, weed reservation through the specialist, will tackle the exhibiting agri-businesses problems of week in- and the York County ex festations in corn ground and tensi on service. f STOLTZFUS MEAT MARKET RETAIL MEAT MARKET OUR OWN CORN FED BEEF • FRESH CUT BEEF & PORK • FRESH EGGS RIGHT FROM THE FARM * OUR OWN COUNTRY CURED HAMS, BACON AND SWEET BOLOGNA Orders Taken For Beef Sides Wrapped And Ready For Your Freezer Attention Farmers: We Do Custom Beef Slaughtering PH: 768-7166 Directions: 1 block east of Intercourse on Rt. 772 Reg. Hours: Thurs. 9-5; Fri. 9-8; Sat. 8-5 County Leaders Association. Their daughter Chris raises seven goats, four ponies, and a donkey as 4-H projects Son Steve raises hogs and was recently recognized as a National 4-H winner for this project. Local presentation of Dennard’s award was made Tuesday at the annual banquet of the Delaware Pork Producers Association. He will receive a special plaque from the National Pork Producers Council when the American Pork Congress meets in St. Louis in March. According to University of Delaware extension livestock specialist Dick Fowler, about 40 states now participate in the All- American pork producer program. Winners are selected on the basis of production ef ficiency, leadership in their local swine industry, par ticipation in civic activities and general overall ex cellence in farming Nominees must be under 40 and must have made an outstanding contribution to the pork industry in their state tarm management specialist, Roland Freund, has tips on how to reduce some production costs. A problem of increasing concern to all farmers who use pesticides will be the subject of Don Lott, in spector for the state Department of Agriculture. Lott will speak on approved methods of pesticide con tainer disposal. Presentations to wmner c in the county’s five-acre corn contest will be awarded during the afternoon program Approximately 25 agri business representatives have signed up for the clinic’s commercial exhibit
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