Egg Quality Focused Cooling Room Demonstrated by Melhorn
Mount Joy poultryman John Melhorn, a former Producers Cooperative Exchange leader, demonstrates a 5,000 hen laying operation with an egg cooling room. The system maintains 55-60 degrees and 75 percent humidity, using fans, air ducts, and humidifiers to protect egg quality and allow rapid packing for shipment.
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Melhorn
Mount Joy
Producers Cooperative Exchange
Contest
Poultry Marketing Co-Op
Ines
John Melhorn
Jounty Poultryman
Egg quality rises after Melhorn's three year cooling program
Weather notes predict warm temperatures and scattered showers with storms later. Melhorn explains his insulated cooling room with concrete back walls and cork ceiling, plus humidifier and water pan, improving egg quality to AA from A and stabilizing profits despite market pressures.
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Melhorn’s
Melhorn
Poultry Cutbacks Continue Across U S Broiler Chicks
The USDA reports May pullet chick placements for broiler replacement at 3 007 million head, 17 percent below May 1958. For January–May 1950 placements reached 104 percent of 1958 figures. Week ending June 13 broiler chick placements totaled 344 million, up one percent from last week but seven percent below 1958.
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USDA
U. S
UV. St. Broiler
Top Red Rose DHIA Cow Sets May 1959 BF Record
B Lucy a six year old registered Holstein from George A Rutt Stevens RD 1 completed the May 1959 DHIA 305 day lactation with 17006 pounds milk and 735 pounds butterfat on a 43 test The second high lactation was by Joan owned by J Mowery Frey Jr Lancaster RD 7 18139 pounds milk 648 pounds butterfat 36 test in 305 days The top monthly BF average for May belonged to Mrs Mary B Stoltzfus Morgantown among a 35 cow herd average.
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J. Mowery Frey, Jr
Lancaster RD 7
Mary B. Stoltzfus
Morgantown
Hiram S Aungst
E-town
David H. Breckbill
Lancaster RD
Aungst
Breckbill
Edwin N. Kurtz
Albert R. Fry
J. M. Frey, Jr
Geo. Butt
Chas. C. Tindall
J. Richard Keller
Field Day Set For Maule Farm
A 9 30 a m field day at Richard Maule’s Quarryville farm is sponsored by the County Extension Service with talks by state and USDA specialists on farm pond management fish stocking reproduction balance and algae control.
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Maule Farm
Richard Maule
Quarryville RD 2
Quarryville
Kirkwood Road
School House
First Farm
County Extension Service
State
USDA
Robert Wingard
Jas. Otis
The
U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service
Wash
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