Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, June 20, 1981, Image 11

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    See The Latest and Most Modem Design In
Pork Production Housing and Equipment
Middle Creek Swine Breeders Inc. is a 500 sow
farrow through finish complex. The unit will be
populated with boars and gilts from Dekalb Swine
Breeders Inc. Dekalb, 111. The breeding stock are
known as Foundation Stock. The female offspring will
be selected by Dekalb Swine Breeders and sold to
area swine herds as a terminal cross hybred gilts.
The manager will be Lawry Sayer who grew up on a
hog farm in Maryland. Lawry is presently managing a
1,100 sow farm in Plains, Kansas.
The corporation is made up of local farmers and
businessmen. The men feel they have put together a
unit that can produce a pound of pork more efficiently
than the average producers, which is important if they
are to survive the hog marketing cycles.
The corporation choose to have Leon Hoover
president of Farmer Boy Ag layout and design, the
total unit that will return money on their investment
Leon spent many hours on the drawing board and
THANKS AND CONGRATULATIONS TO
BUILDERS
RD 4 EPHRATA, PA
17522
717-354-4271
MIDDLE CREEK SWINE
Invite You To Their
open
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1981 10:00 a.m. - 7=oo
ABOUT MIDDLE CREEK SWINE BREEDERS:
/W Swine Systems
FARMER BOY m.
SPECIALIZING IN COMPLETE
SWINE SYSTEMS, BUILDINGS,
FARROWING, NURSERY,
FATTENING-OPEN FRONT
OR CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT
457 E. MAIN AVE.
MYERSTOWN. PA 17061
717-866-7565
To Lebanon
trips to local and out of state complexes until he felt
he could put together a package that would be af
fordable, energy efficient, labor saving and able to
turn feed into pork at a cost that the corporation
would prosper.
The complex is very unique. It has new layout and
design in equipment and housing. There are six
farrowing rooms and six nursery rooms with total
woven wire flooring. The computer unit is ventilated
by the most energy efficient and heat saving system
known to date. The manure is continual flow out of the
shallow pits through a separator and then to the
lagoon. The lagoon waste water is treated by Lissco
aerators and then the fluids are recycled through the
.buildings.
The corporate members and the following sponsors
extend their personal invitation to this open house on
June 26,1981. Hope to see you there.
MIDDLE CREEK FROM THE FOLLOWING:
HALLER
ELECTRIC
SPECIALIZING IN
AGRI ELECTRICAL
WORK
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RD2
DENVER, PA
215-267-7610
BREEDERS
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FLORIN FEEDS
COMPLETE
SWINE /gOgfifJ
FEEDING
PROGRAMS
WOLGEMUTH
BROS., ING.
MOUNT JOY, PA
717-653-1451
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 20,1981
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Rt. 897
MIDDLECREEK
SWINE
■REEDERS
INC.
P.M.
To Reading
To Lancaster
The Peoples
Notional Dank
BTH and
CUMBERLAND ST.
LEBANON, PA
717-274-2571
Harold Bucher,
President