B2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 22,1981
P* Jg in the ribbon cutting for the
official opening and dedication of the new John
F. Cope processing plant are, from the left. Pa.
Secretary of Agriculture Penrose Hallowell;
40 million ears of corn dedicated
The dedication ribbon
admist a sea of Silver Treat
sweet corn.
Hallouoell cites
farmer/processor
link at Cope rites
BY DICK ANGLESTEIN
RHEEMS—An important multi
faceted agricultural symbol was
dedicated in the Lancaster County
community of Eheems on Friday,
August 14.
For a number of sweet com
growers m a four-state area, it was
a symbol of a market for some 40
million ears of their product.
For a pioneering Lancaster
County food processing business, it
was a symbol of a “phoenix” rising
out of the ashes of a disastrous fire.
For the family involved in the
business, it was a symbol of the
varied cooperation that permitted
the resumption of making a unique
“Dutch” food product within a
year’s time.
For Rheems and surrounding
area, it was a symbol of the return
to employment for a number of
residents.
For agriculture in general, it
was a symbol of that vital link
between farmers, who grow the
various raw foodstuffs, and the
processing industry, which con
verts it into the finished edible
product for the dinner table.
And it was this latter symbol that
State Sec. of Agriculture Penrose
Hallowell stressed at the
dedication ceremonies for the new
processing plant of John F. Cope,
Mrs, John F. Cope; her son, Thomas L. Cope,
company president, who represents the fourth
generation of the family in the business; and
U.S. Congressman Robert Walker.
While Thomas L. Cope, president, pays tribute to the
cooperative efforts that brought the company back from a
disastrous fire of July a year ago, other family members look
on. From the left, they are John T. Cope, fifth generation in
the family business; Mrs. Thomas Cope; and Mrs. John F.
Cope.
Inc., which turns out that unique,
tasty dish - dried sweet corn -
which no respectable Penn
sylvania Dutch cook would leave
off the menu for any holiday or
other important meal.
Secretary Hollowell said that the
new plant was a symbol of the
growth and progress in the state’s
agriculture-agribusiness economy.
“Our farmers and our food
processors, like the John Cope
Company, do not operate m a
vacuum,” he noted.
“Without a strong farming
sector, many of our food
processors would be unable to
continue m business. By the same
token, if our food manufacturers
weren’t located here, many of our
farmers would be at a competitive
disadvantage.
“This is important to Penn
sylvania consumers as well,
because the relationships between
our farmers and food processors
hold down the costs of food
products by reducing the costs ot
transportation and energy.”
HalloweU explained that the
state’s 62,000 farm families help
support 15,575 food manufacturing
establishments with annual sales
of $9.7 billion. The industry em
ploys 98,000 Pennsylvanians with a
payroll of $1.23 billion, and ac
counts for 30 percent of the total
real value added by all Nor
theastern U.S. food manufac
turers.
The new Cope plant presently
makes about four million pounds of
sweet corn products.
This translates mto about 40
million ears of com which arrive
from late July to the end of
September at the Rheems plant
from about 50 growers scattered
throughout Pennsylvania, New
Jtyy, New York and Maryland.
The plant’s new production line
handles 12 tons of raw sweet com
per hour and is capable of
processing up to 18 tons an hour.
Established in 1900, the Cope
Company is the second largest
com processor in the state.
The company’s famous dried
Farm Business
Purina announces
Lancaster Chow plant
ST. LOUIS, MO. Ralston Purina Company announced today
that it has purchased approximately eight acres of property in
East Hempfield Township in Lancaster County for the purpose
of constructing a new Chow feed manufacturing facility.
The announcement was made by W.M. Jones, group vice
president and director of the company’s Chow division.
According to Jones, “the new facility will employ ap
proximately 15 people and will produce Purina Chow feed
products for livestock and poultry Our new plant will service
independent Purina dealers in the immediate Lancaster area,
including the southeastern portion of Pennsylvania.”
The new production facility will be a multi-million dollar
project with an initial plant capacity of 150,000 tons of Chow
feed products per year. Construction is scheduled to begin
immediately and start-up planned for November 1982.
Ralston Purina Company is a broadly based food and feed
company with sales of 4.9 billion during its last fiscal year. As
the world’s largest producers of commercial feeds for livestock
and poultry, Ralston Purina has over 120 manufacturing plants
in the United State and 11 foreign countries
Ellien joins Dean Witter
LANCASTER Robert Lmdon,
research director, announced that
June Ellien joined the Dean Witter
Reynolds Commodity Division as a
grains analyst recently. Ellien is a
fundamental analyst and will be
concentrating on the wheat and
com markets.
Ellien comes to DWR from Gill &
Duff us, an international trading
group. Prior to Gill & Duffus, she
was with E.F. Hutton. She is a
member of the Chicago
Suggested Readings
Extension offers free home
maintenance publications
NEWARK, Del. Not every
vacation brings ocean breezes or
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summer vacation is a time for
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house.
If this is your time to catch up on
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Service has some free publications
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Extension Publication #132 goes
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Extension Publication #133
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Discoloration of Housepamt
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Extension Publication #135
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sweet com is distributed world
wide. Other products include
frozen corn, popcorn, dried squash
seeds and dried green beans.
Among new products for the
future is sweet corn powder for use
in soups and sauces.
News
Agriculture Economics Club and
the Research Division of the
Futures Industry Association.
Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. is a
member of all major U.S. stock
and Commodity exchanges. The
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Arthur R. Marcus, a member of
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modity Division based in Chicago.
for Extension Publication #136.
The publication explains how to
prepare the surface and how to
select and apply a finish.
The Extension Service offers
many other free publications about
home repair and maintenance,
including several others about
wood.
Wood Decay in Houses How to
Prevent It and Control It, USDA
Bulletin #73, describes causes of
damage and safeguards that may
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building practices to avoid wood
decay.
USDA Bulletin #203, Wood
Siding, explains how to install,
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Painting Inside and Out explains
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One common reason for paint
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methods of correcting the
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Find out what to do about leaky
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Simple Plumbing Repairs for the
Home and Farmstead.
Mildew is an all too common
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To obtain any of these free
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DE19711.