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The two-day Pa. Maple Tour
began Friday morning from the
Corrian Hotel in Corry where most
of the members stayed. Three
busloads first toured the Northrup
Egg Farm, near Corry. A
relatively large poultry operation
in this area, Gaylord Northrup said
their 25,000 hens lay 2000 dozen
eggs per day, averaging less than 1
per hen.
Gaylord and Dennis Northrup
operate the egg farm with the aid
of their parents and families. They
purchase day-old chicks and raise
them, debeaking at one week to
prevent harmful pecking and feed
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And view latest in syrup operations
chicks are purchased. At that time,
the hens which have decreased egg
production, at 13 mos., are sold
through PFA to companies for
soups, sandwiches, etc.
The general comment watching
the counting, washing, drying,
candling (checking for cracks and
bloodiness), and packaging
almost all of this done by machines
was over the size of the
operation. Even those living
nearby had failed to realize the
large scale of the farm. Among
those touring with the maple
producers was Fulvia Nicoli an
exchange student from Italy. She
was fascinated by her first visit to
an egg farm.
The second stop was to the
Phillip Northrup maple sugar
house, near Spartansburg. Phillip
and son Randy operate a dairy
farm along with their sugar house.
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This Spring, egg farmers Gaylord
and Dennis, went into the maple
business with their brother to
purchase new equipment; namely
a reverse osmosis machine (EO).
It cost $17,000 but has cut fuel costs
and boiling time in half.
Bill Coombs, the U.S. distributor
of R.O.’s for Memtak from
Wilmington, Vt. explained its
purpose. “It basically acts as a
filter. It takes water out of the sap
more efficiently than boiling by
reducing the energy needed.”
When asked if this was a new
addition to maple production he
explained that although ex
perimenting was done in the 60’s
there was no wide use of it until a
few years ago. “Energy costs were
low then and technology fairly
new. Now, with energy costs in
creasing and with electronic im
provements, we’ve found a place
for these machines. ’ ’
Although these RO’s are a large
initial investment they not only cut
costs and labor but also enable the
producer to more readily regulate
the color and flavor of the syrup.
Next on the agenda was the Troy
Firth center evaporator on Rt. 77
near Spartansburg. According to
Troy and Co. Agent Joe Beard this
is the largest operation of its kind
in the state. In 1983 Firth made
2300 gallons of syrup, about 60% of
his normal crop.
Firth has taps all over NW Pa.,
including 6000 taps on one block
(country block). This year he
completed his tapping in three
days time. He credits the short
tapping time to being ready.
“Everything is ready for it-it has
to be”, he added. He uses all
plastic tubing saying he has no use
for buckets.
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Firth devotes the whole year to
his operation. Although he can’t be
working directly with maple
products year round he’s always
readying his equipment by
cleaning, repairing and ren
novating. Then its tune to cut wood
for fuel and get the tubing run in
the Fall before it gets too cold.
Troy Firth is the sole owner of the
business and employs six to eight
people during the busiest time and
others as he needs help.
Lunch was served at Firth’s by
the Sparta Firemen Ladies
Auxiliary. Following lunch the tour
continued to Troyer’s Potato Chip
Factory in Waterford. This is the
manufacturing plant for Troyer’s
snacks which are distributed
throughout Pa. and N.Y. The tour
concluded Friday with a visit to the
Corry Fish Hatchery.
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visit Paschke Mum Farm and then
shop at the Millcreek Mall, one of
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included Larry Young's Fruit
Market and Cider Press; Penn
Shore Winery; Keystone
Processing Plant; lunch at Pano’s
smorgasbord: and three sugar
houses - Owen Johnson’s, Greg
Walberg’s and Charles Bush’s.
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