A34—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 21,1981 BY DEBBIE KOONTZ MOUNT JOY “It’s times like these you really find out what friends are all about. This is stuff that makes a grown man cry,” Harold Brubaker remarked in reference to the turnout of a Snyder farm for chicken house cleaning. This and three other loaders had the house clean by noon r ISN’T IT TIME I YOU HAD A DE LAVAL I PIPELINE MILKER? l* 7? 4 I | Saves time, trouble, bucket £ scrubbing The whole system P cleans m place De Laval Soft felouch Milker units get all the All the convenience of | pipeline milking at a price you 5 can afford Call us today VACUUM PUMPS CHOOSE THE RIGHT MODEL FOR YOUR DAIRY... MODEL NO. 78 5 HP produces 56 CFM 7Vz HP & 10 HP motors can be used (or more CFM We Sels and Install Parlors and Pipelines ■ Trained Installation and Service Personnel oVI ■ Planning Service ■ Competitve Price t sOV ■ Hundreds of Satisfied Users ■ Route Truck to Supply Your Needs J.B. ZIMMERMAN I & SONS West of Blue Ball. PA on Rt. 23 r; PH: 717-354-4955 I' Ask For Ralph Stoltzfus Z RADIO DISPATCHED TRUCKS MODEL NO. 76 2 HP produces 27 CFM 3 HP produces 36 CFM Some friends will do almost anything chicken house cleaning for Glenn Snyder who lost an arm in a farm related accident in late February. “We wanted to get together and see what we could do to help Glenn. This was the result,” he added looking at the busy friends and SUPER 1 FLO-VU™ CLAW* High Capacity Mllkar Claw >< • Larger Volume | • Larger milk inlets and outlets^ • Improved automatic shut-off > • Wider nipple spread * • Improved air valve design • Larger air nipples :< • Improved thread design • New rubber bumper • Manual lock feature v • Clear visibility */z Mile South of Rising Sun, Md. 21911 ,1 PH: 301-658-6923 H "-" r CECIL DAIRY SERVICE RD1.Rt.274 You know you’ve got a friend when he’ll exactly what these friends of Glenn Snyder did clean your chicken house for you. And that’s last Wednesday. neighbors who gathered to clean ant j no t m y jjf e j> ve had so many “The other night 1 had visitor 7 \ the 40,000-layer chicken house. friends tell me they just can’t from people I never even mef Fifteen men with the use of 10 believe it happened to me of all before. The man had been in a spreaders and 4 loaders cleaned people, because I’m so careful similar accident and had lost his the house completely by lunch w henlwork. hand. He said he just wanted to time. *T ve been picking corn with that make it easier for me by showing The neighbors, composed of tractor for ten years and nothing me you can still do everything you beef, dairy and poultry farmers jj as ever happened,’’ he said used to do,’’Snyder said were joined by friends of the shaking his head. ‘lt just seems But the questions ended there Snyder family from other areas jt should happen this way. I because over 15 hungry friends and too One farmer, Lloyd Keller, tiopg to be able to talk to other neighbors came into the house for brought his tractor and spreader fanners about it so they’ll learn to lunch to talk and laugh with Snyder from the Lititz area to help. be careful too.” and to tell him how things were Snyder runs his poultry Snyder’s accident occured one progressing in his chicken house, operation with the help of his wife, Friday when he was hauling son Nathan and daughter Kristine manure After stepping off the f —-i j The Snyders raise 70 steers and 250 tractor to make an adjustment, he I nm»n» nr e—-A I hogs in addition to the 40,000 s hpped on the drawbar 2 j layers. “The power take off caught my f ' I “Everybody s been so land and an( j threw my back against ) . % | they re all so wonderful to help me the tractor,” he said. I j like this. I really have great And then with a smile he added, f r £c-^jeV-^^i' 1 | friends and neighbors, he “j’ Ve received 306 cards in three j ' “ 4 I remarked. weeks. I’m just so grateful for my x to i About his accident Snyder said, f nen ds; just like the ones that are I your needs! ' ‘I was just lucky it was my arm working out here today. One-pass seedbed alien SAVE FUEL • SAVE TIME • SAVE CHEMICALS HAMILTON EQUIPMENT, INC. WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS 567 South Reading Road, Ephrata, Pennsylvania 17522 Phone (717) 733-7951 Exit 54 on Interstate 81, Raphine, Virginia 24472 Phone (804) 377-2628 Glencoe* Sofl Finisher’ PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL DEALER OR
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