D6—Lancaster Firming, Saturday, February 18,1984 BUSINESS NE jgEmkr' 1 . * ’■&s?'***; Mower conditioners from Gehl feature high-speed disc cutting. Gehl reports disc MC’s WEST BEND, Wi. Gehl form everything from high, fluffy Company announces the addition windrows to full-width swaths. of two high-speed disc mower Another feature is the patented conditioners to its line of hay drawbar drive system that cutting machines. maintains perfect alignment while Both conditioners feature a high allowing a high degree of speed disc cutting system that cuts maneuverability. The driving gear the crop quickly without plugging, case is mounted on the drawbar The DC2330 has a 9’5” cutting which attaches to the lower links of width and uses seven oval discs a tractor’s 3-point hitch. The with two knives each. The DC2350 conditioner pivots about its center has a 10’6” cutting width and uses shaft and the pto shaft remains eight triangular shaped discs with fixed. three knives each. In both The DC2330 and DC2350 corn machines, the discs operate at plement Gehl’s line of haymaking 3,000 RPM. equipment that includes swing and The conditioners also have full- fixed frame mower conditioners, width conditioning rolls that disc mowers, round balers, forage reduce crop drying time and harvesters and fingerwheel hay windrow shields that adjust to rakes. Farm Credit News Annual meeting on Mar. 5-6 WEST CHESTER - Stockholders of the Southeast Federal Land Bank Association and Southeast Production Credit Association will conduct their annual joint meeting on Monday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 6. For the convenience of members, the meeting will be held in two sections. The Oxford Fire Hall, Oxford, Chester County, will be the location of the Monday, March 5 meeting with registration scheduled for 6:15 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. The Christopher Dock Mennonite High School in Kulpsville, Mon tgomery County will be the location of the Tuesday, March 6 meeting. The same schedule will apply. The election of two Southeast PCA directors and two Southeast FLBA directors will take place as well as the election of the 1985 Nominating Committees. Kenneth S. Risser, General Manager, will report on the Associations’ operations during the past year. Abbreviated financial reports will be available. Pat Leimbach, a farm wife and newspaper columnist, will be the speaker/entertamer at both meetings. * , f t ‘ The farmer-owned and farmer operated Associations serve agriculture in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties with short-, intermediate- and long-term loans. The Associations currently have over 2,000 members with loans outstanding in excess of 1130,000,000. Stockholders are urged to attend the meeting at the location most convenient for them. PennAg speaker EPHRATA - Alvin E. Oliver, Executive Vice President of the National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA), will speak at the 1984 PennAg Industries Association Convention at the Host Corral, Lancaster. Prior to joining the National, Oliver held an assistant professorship at Michigan State University in 1954. While at M.S.U., he developed the first grain elevator industrial program offered by a major university. • •• ! *IT named BY JACKHUBLEY BLUE BALL - M.H. Eby, the East Coast’s largest manufacturer of livestock trailers and truck bodies, celebrated 46 years of service with the dedication of its new facility on Feb. 10. Located one-quarter-mile east of Blue Ball on Rt. 23, the new 27,000- square-foot building will triple the company’s working area. The expansion, made possible by a loan from the Lancaster Industrial Development Corporation, will permit product modernization and rapid response to customer needs, according to Eby’s Sales and Marketing Manager, Darryl Breniser. Founded in 1938 by Menno H. Eby, Sr., the firm became well known for its quality wooden wagons and cattle bodies. In 1972, Eby’s son, Menno, Jr., purchased the business and, with only four employees, began production of their all-aluminum livestock bodies. The new light-weight and maintenance-free bodies quickly gained acceptance, and the firm’s growth continued, resulting in its present expansion. With its current work force of 30 employees, the company is a dealer for Timpte trailers and parts, and manufacturers its own units for customers as far away as Texas and Georgia. Breniser attributes the com pany’s continued success to its loyal employees, and small size, which permits custom con- IH reports convertible planter CHICAGO, IL. International Harvester has announced availability of the industry’s first planter designed to convert quickly from 30-m. (762 mm) corn rows to high yield 15-in. (381 mm) widths for narrow-row soybeans. The International Early Riser Corn/Soybean Special has eight fixed planting units on 30-m. (762 mm) spacmgs, with five additional units which drop into place for 15- in. (381 mm) soybean rows. Two skip rows for 60-m. 11.5 m) tractor tire spacmgs allow for cultivation or spraying without disturbing planted rows. The 800 Series Early Riser planter is semi-mounted, with a rigid 7 x 7-m. (178 x 178 nun) steel frame toolbar equipped for Cat. II and 111 3-point tractor hitches An optional attachment allows for endwise transport. IH says the switch from one configuration to another takes about 15 minutes. Drop-down planting units for soybeans are staggered for improved trash clearance in minimum- and no-till conditions. The five convertible units are raised and lowered with a movable hand winch, and lock in either the up or down position. Stainless steel eight-row seed drums help make the conversion from corn to soybeans, and vice versa, fast and simple. Each drum delivers four rows when planting corn. For soybean planting, one drum delivers six rows, the other seven. Special 240-hole drums are available for precision planting of high population soybean varieties at speeds up to eight mph (12.8 km/h). Four seed drums, two for each crop, are standard. The eight 30-m. (762 mm) corn row units are individually mounted, parallel linked. A special parallel linkage has been added for the five conversion rows. Seed openers are staggered 14-in. (356 mm; diameter double disks with precision bearings The eight-m. (203 mm) covering disks are in dividually mounted Press wheels are 6 5 x 12 in (165 x 305 mm; standing rib, semi-pneumatic rubber tires Planting depth on the new IH planter is controlled by a gauge wheel system that equalizes row urni weight on both 4 5 x 16-m 1 115 Eby dedicates addition ijr jys to com party's new facilities from Harold King, of Earl King. Inc., contractor. struction and quick response to the providing two-tier cattle transport, specific trailering requirements of ar, d converting in minutes to a each customer. single-floor configuration. Such a Emphasizing their role as a specialized unit can be constructed designer of custom trailers, within 10 days to two weeks, company personnel demonstrated The day’s events included the firm’s first electric deck cattle presentation of the facility’s keys trailer. Responding to a customer to Menno Eby by Harold King of request, the firm equipped their Earl King, Inc., the firm’s con all-aluminum, possum-belly tractor, followed by a luncheon and trailer with a movable deck, tour for the company’s 30 guests. •r New planter from IH quickly converts from 30-inch corn rows to 15-inch soybean rows. x 406 mm) grooved, semi- system Standard Seed Flow II pneumatic rubber gauge wheel monitor warns of low seed level in tires to minimize vertical each of the 15 . hushel (-53 m 3) movement of the row unit. hoppers and teUs th ' J h° B hh a 3 r S n rC T ed when seed has been disrupted and lowered hydraulically with an at any of the row units p electronic automatic alternating Scarlett adds warehouse BALTIMORE, MD. - Scailett Company, the Baltimore-based international seed distribution firm, recently announced the purchase of its newest storage and delivery facility, a modern 12,000 sq. ft. warehouse located in Mif flinburg. According to Scarlett Company General Manager, Eugene Hohl, this acquisition will allow the company to expand its presence throughout the central and western Pennsylvania region as well as open new markets for Scarlett’s complete line of farm seed, bird seed, and lawn and garden Hamilton seminar Thursday LANCASTER Hamilton Bank’s Third Annual Agri- staff members of the Pennsylvania Education Seminar will be held on Farmers’ Association. Thursday at the Lancaster Farm wilson D - McElhinny, chairman and Home Center. and chief executive officer of Highlights of this year’s Hamilton Bank and president of seminar, which begins at 8:30 Hamilton’s parent company, Core a.m., include an economic forecast States Financial Corp., will con by Lou Moore.of Penn State and an vene the seminar. Closing remarks analysis of what’s ahead in farm w ’" b® • made by Hamilton s management practices by several president, Laurence M. Strassner -iss** - --4» products. Built in 1982, the new Scarlett warehouse was previously owned by the Boyd Seed Center and will continue to be operated by three former employees. Raymond Galer, who has over 22 years of experience in the seed business, will be responsible for all warehouse and trucking operations. His wife, Dons, will serve as Office Manager at the Mifflinburg facility. Also joining Scarlett Company is their son, David, who has been appointed to the position of Regional Sales Representative
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