The Hershey Press 1914-07-23

              Will Be One of the Finest Printing
Plants in ,the United States and
a Model of Modern. Concrete.
Second Largest Build-
. ing. in Hershey l
The busiest place in Hershey is at
the southwest corner of Chocolate
and Park Avenues where John Wick-er
sham has a large force of men
rushing work on the new home of the
Hershey Press. Ground was Broken
only a few days ago but already the
temporary structures are completed;
the skeletons of the plans are part-ly
up and the grading is. being rush-ed.
Mr. Wiekersham expects to put
the Press in its new quarters before
Christmas.
This new building for the Hershey
Printing Company is planned to be
the finest of its . kind in the United
States. The Printing Company is
much cramped in its present quarters
and the frame building now in use on
the north side of the railroad is -whol-ly
inadequate for its larger purposes.
While giving it a new habitation Mr.
Hershey has, looked into the future';
so the • Hershey Printery' will rank
among the foremost in the world. -
Hershey Press Building
is Now Well Under Way
On the i block there will be two
great buildings with a united front of
324 feet, which, with the exception of
the Factory, will be the largest struc-ture
in Hershey.. Work is now being
pushed on the first .building fronting
Chocolate Avenue. It will be 88 by
149 feet. It will have three stories
in front and four stories in the rear.
At first there will be room for some
of the other Hershey utilities but the
Hershey Press and the printing inter-ests
will occupy the main floors. The
second building which will be a con-tinuation
of the first will be 71 by
175 ' feet.and will extend to the rail-road.
The location is right in the
centre of things and the traffi c facili-ties
are ideal, so that the printery
will have the right ' conditions to
handle its material and finished pro-ducts.
The buildings will be handsome;
they will be of reinforced skeleton
construction with brick exterior'walis
and cast stone trimmed. Mr. C.
Emlen Urban, of Lancaster, is the
architect, and Mr. Wiekersham is the
builder. - : The Hershey Printing Com-pany
has the reputation of turning
out some of the best printing in the
country. With its new facilities it
will not only vastly increase its out-put
but will steadily improve the
quality.
Dr. Lewis in Hershe y
Three Hundred Greet Washington
Party Candidates
Dr. William Draper Lewis, Wash-ington
Party Candidate for Governor,
and Dr. John R. Kreider, candidate
for Congress from this District, and
other Washington party men . had a
cordial reception from about three
hundred at Hershey yesterday, Wed-nesday.
The visitors left Harrisburg
early in the morning and made a
circle of towns and villages, meeting
about twelve hundred persons and ar-riving
at Hershey shortly after noon.
Dr. Lewis spoke from the front of
the Men's Club and discussed the is-sues
of the campaign. His remarks
worq applauded. Afterward the can-didates
shook hands and mingled with
the crowd. They had thoir dinner at
the Hershey Cafe and loft by automo-bile
shortly after 2 o'clock for Bach-mansville,
where they wore duo at
2.30. Their afternoon trip took
them through Dopdato, Hockarsvillo,
Hummolstown, Highspiro and Royal-ton
and the day 's work ended in a
public meeting at night in Middle-town.
'
The schedules called for five coun-ties
in four days this week mid this
mount rapid movement and hard
work, hut the candidates s,eomqd to
bo standing the pace very well. The
He whey people were disappointed
that Mr, Plnchot was not present,
Ilia mother Is very ill and for the
timo ho Is out of tho campaign,
of 8,000 Acres of Hershey Farms
What Was Seen in an All-Day Tour
OVER FIFTY OLD PROPERTIES COMBINED INTO MODERN
.FARMING PROPOSITIONS. PROGRESSIVE ' METHODS '
IN AGRICULTURE AND DAIRYING. LETTING
IN THE AIR AND LIGHT.
Trust Company Building. Here we
have farms directed and managed
from solid mahogany desks, but it
must be borne, in mind that this whole
farm project is on as high lines as
any great industrial or financial en-terprise—
and when you get this fact
into- your consciousness you begin to
understand that Hershey farming
means ,as much as the best and that
it is winning its success because it
has made its own standards. * Mr.
Snavely's 6,000 acres are divided into
25 sections,. each section' having an
acreage of from 200 to 250. The head
farmer or foreman is. paid a salary
and is provided with a modern house
and certain stated privileges, all suf-ficiently
attractive .to obtain a superi-or
class of men. This „ foreman is
held • responsible for his farm. He
has all the machinery and. help he
needs. There is a fine, spirit of com-petition
among the farmers and their
men, and thus we find an unusual ef-ficiency
on all Hershey farms.
Dairies, Silos and Crops
The same thing of course is found
in the 22 dairies which are managed
separately from the farming operar
tions. Here is system in every de-tail—
daily reports of each ' cow's
yield, immediate attention to . illness,
accuracy in feed portions and so on.
There is a special veterinarian. The
day of our trip only one in the fifteen
hundred animals was reported ill, and
that case was not serious. Over 35
farm properties have been remodeled
and 15 rhore are being remodeled.
Six more dairies will be installed in
the coming year. On the farms there
are 1,500 acres in corn, 1,200 in wheat,
700 in oats, 200 , in alfalfa, .800 in
When .the present site of Hershey
was Acquired the purchase consisted
of twelve hundred acres of if arm land.
Six hundred acres were taken for the
factory and town site; one hundred
and fifty acres were devoted to the
park and the rest were kept for farm-ing
purposes. Frornl the beginning
Mr. Hershey had in mind a model in-dustrial
city in the midst of a. great
agricultural system, arid . so from
year to year-this plan has been pur-sued
until more than fifty farms have
been consolidated and the acreage
has been increased beyond eight
thousand. All this has been done in
ten years. The start on the farm
proposition was made in 190fl with
one dairy of 35 cows and 20 head of
young stock. Today the fifty-odd
farms are organized into 25 sections
with a foreman at the head of each
section and in the twenty-two dair-ies
and calf barns are eight hundred
high-grade cows and seven hundred
heifers and calves, mainly Hblsteins
but including notable herds of Swiss
and Ayeshires. There are nearly
two hundred mules and many horses,
soithat the live.stock will soon reach
a total of 2,000. All this represents
an investment of more than a million
dollars.
Farms in Three Counties
So, here we have one of the most
extensive agricultural operations in
the world, but its main interest is not
in its size as much as in its spirit
and quality. Few people—even few
of the Hershey residents—realize how
very big and fine it is. Most have
the idea that it is one large section , of
land divided up, whereas it is a series
of farm propositions dotting eight
townships in three great agricultural
counties and winding in intervals
along the picturesque meadows of the
Swatara. And the crowning signific-ance
of the whole scheme is that
every proposition is an educational
centre for its surrounding country.
Telling farmers how to do things
better is good gospel and useful
preaching, But to do tho things bet-ter
and thus erect object lessons so
that all may learn by seeing is tho
kind of enlightened practice that lifts
the level of proirross and profit.
meadow and permanent grass for
grazing young stock and the balance
is in clover and timothy for hay. This
year over 5,000 tons of hay will be
taken from all the farms. The milk
yield reaches 500,000 pounds a month.
With one or two exceptions all the
22 dairy farms have two silos each.
Ten new silos will be added to the
present equipment.
Hero obviously is a world of inter-est
with temptations to dwell on one
of many special phases, but we are
after a general survey of the field
and thus we would bettor look first at
the farming, then at tho dairying and
hist but not least at tho men, thoir
environments and thoir methods.
A Trip Worth While
Under the , guidance of P. B, Snavo-ly,
who. began, with, tho first farm ten
years ago . and who has grown up
young with all tho subsequent in-crease,
the writer spent a day and
traveled many miles to soo those
properties. , This ride took us from
Horshey through Union Deposit,
through Sandboach , through Bast
Hanover , miles Into Lebanon county,
to Grnntvillo , whore dinner was
served , through West Hunovor,
through Shollsvillo , through Hnnovor-dalo
, through Union Deposit , 'through
Hockorsvlllo , around tho circuit of
•' Building Up the Soil
Horshoy Farm 1 is made up of
Nissj oy farm, 110 acres; Erb farm,
7(5 acres; Swarte farm, 10 acres;
Gingrich farm , 40 acres, and Wagner
farm , lfi acres. There aro four old
farms in Horshoy Farm 2 and two in
Horahoy farm 3, while I-Iershoy farm
11 is tho former William Erb farm
Thus you understand that tho present
Horshoy farms range from original
areas to now combinations of two,
thrao, four or five old farms. Now
each of those presented its own pe-culiar
problems and tho big work
has been to raise tho quality of each
and everyone to a high general nvor-tho
Horshoy family farms and thou
back to Horshoy. If you will take
tho map and trace this route you will
got a faint idea of what it moans to
swing along this wonderful chain of
farm enterprise!), but at host that is
only crude; it cannot include tho
many Ineursloiifl into the various
properties or tho visits wo mado to
the flokli} and the barns and dairies.
It was a tri p of constant surprise and
Increasing deli ght , for hero was
found in advanced form and use prac-tically
everything wo have boon read-ing
about progressive farmiiifr and
dairying,
ago. In this Mr. Hoi-shay's policy
lms boon liberality Itself, Ho has
not hesitated to spend on tho soil tho
original prlco of the farm. Of course
that has not boon necessary in many
cases, but it is ' the purpose to make
the farm pay an a ' business and tho
way to, do this is to increase Its fer-tility
until it yields a good profit,
When Mr. Hoi-slioy (niyH an old farm
an d turn s it over to Mr, Suavel y its
soil is usually sour and there aro
many woods, First it; is cleaned up
and made to look,respectable , Mu ch
lime 1h used to correct tho acidity and
to discourage the woods. Use it dis-creetly
and in rotation and alwayn on
ploughed ground , 'says Mr. Suavely.
How I ha Farms are Managed
It scorns a pity to halt our tr|p to
bother with statistics, but it will holp
to a bettor understanding of tho mat-tor.
Tho 8,000 ncros aro in two di-visions—
one of about 2,000 acres in
15 farms lying south and southeast;
of Horflhoy under tho mnna,gomont) of
Mr, .Tamos M. Millard and tho othor
of over '(1,000 acres under Mr. Suave-ly,
and all under tho supervision of
Mr. W, II, Loblclchor. Tho head of-fi
ce of tho Farms If) in tho Horshoy
Everywhere is System
Then thoro must bo plant food to
un pply tho humus—clovers, cowpoas
or watches. Tho farm should bo well
stocked , so us to got a supply of
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i i • , 'n '
stable manure. On the -Hershey
farms not an atom of this manure
goes to waste. It is taken prompt-ly
to the fields and the .special con-crete
retainers. : and sprinklers and
carts for this work are models for
all farmers. Then fertilizer is used
liberally. . On these farms the popu-lar
blend is1 2-8-5; 2 of nitrogen, 8 of
phosphorus and 5 of potassium. The
phosphorus is for the grain. All this
is gradual. It takes time to rebuild
worn-out soil, four to six years . as a
rule, even with the best methods. On
the Hershey farms they plough deep
and cultivate assiduously. The fields
are ' kept cleaner than many lawns.
The farming .is intensive.' All the
land is used, except of "'."course the
woods and even they are cleared up
and made attractive. The process of
cultivation goes by fixed rule. On
the old sod corn is planted and the
first harvest is well matured before
it is gathered. The second year the
corn crop is for ensilage and it is
harvested closely and the Afield is
ploughed down in the fall .for wheat.
Then after a year of wheat there are
two years of grass for hay. Thus: 2
years of corn, 1 year of wheat and 2
years of grass. On every farm there
is a field .of 25 or 30 acres in alfalfa.
For green feeding there is rye early
in the . year followed by drilling of
from one and a half to two bushels of
corn per acre. Thus touching the
main points we see the utilization of
every bit of soil and soil food and a
persistent following of crop system.
Already this has raised the produc-tivity
of the Hershey farms from 30
to 100 per cent and if Mr. Hershey
should ever wish to quit the chocolate
business he could retire to his farms
and ^prosper on their increasing re-turns.
New Gospel of Air and Light
But the improvement goes much
further than the soil. New fences
are built and the old bank barn and
other buildings are promptly modern-ized.
The main idea of the old bank
barn was to shut out all the air and
light. The , Hershey idea is to let in
all the air and light. So there is a
great tearing down of walls and the
making of many windows. We saw
several in the various stages of
change and they looked as if Jthey
had been shot at with those new four-teen
inch guns of the navy, for they
were full of new holes. Wo shall
borrow Mr. Snavely's words to tell
what happens when the Hershey idea
strikes the old bank barn: "On all
farms bought by Mr. Hershey we
found the bank bam and wo made
our first improvement on it. Wo ex-cavated
the basements to 10 feet, set
out tho front walls to tho edge, did
away with tho 'fore-bay, ' placed
plenty of windows on tho throe sides
and large . openings on the fourth
side, swung all windows from the top
so as to got air from above, and on
all sides of tho barn placed foul air
tubes 24 inches in diameter, thus
getting a splendid draft no matter
from what direction tho wind comes,"
Unique Attractions in Dairies
Wo wont into , more than a dozen
of those barns , and in everyone of
them the air was as sweet and.pure
as out of doors. No wonder Horshoy
farming pays I No wonder that out
of 1,500 livestock only one was re-ported
nili ngl
In dairying the high note of ofucl-oncy
has boon struck in throe places
in particular. The Round Barn hold-ing
100 cows which is Just boyond
Horshoy Park Is unique. Every ap-pointment
of the cow stalls is tho
host; that monoy and ingenuity could
provide . Trolleys tako tho immure to
concrete holders and special vehicles
distribute it promptly on , tho land.
Tlio silo that forms; the middle of tho
barn is ono of , tho largest in exist-ence—
It holds !)50 tons of ensilage,
Just about finished is tho now dairy
which in add ition to its other uses
will servo bottled milk to visitors. It
will bo a popular stopping point for
automoblliHts, Tho second place is
the modal dairy on tho south of Hor-nhoy.
Hero is tho herd of Swiss
cows, big nnlmalH with o»\rs of a
shade of pink that a woman would
glvo a fortune to possess, A most
intoroHtlnp : plaeo, thi s. And third
an d most entertaining of 1 all is tho
calf barn, Hero truly is fascination
mid when a woman hooh it nho uses
up all hoi* (lours and darlings and
aiitos and sweets before sho is thoro
a half hour, and you cannot blame
her. Think, of the most beautiful
calf in the world multiplied by one
hundred having each its own bucket
and nurse; its own feed; its own crib
in white enamel ; its own. cork floor;
its own clean straw bed; its own
group of mother cows for its special
milk—well, you must see it to get
even a taste of the novelty and. "de-light
of it all. There could be noth-ing
"prettier except a row of clean
pink babies—all blondes.
Much time could be devoted to the
experimental farm near the Indus-trial
' School—a farm of 20 acres on
which there are 20 cows—a cow to an
acre. Here fine forward work is be-ing
done.
Men Interested in Their Work
We are rushing to the end of our
space without having told a tenth of
what we saw—how carefully the milk
was handled, how - clean everything
was kept, how scientifically the whole
equipment is arranged in every
dairy and on every farm, and we have
not said a word about .the model pig-gery.
Why even the pigs are clean
and if that isn't superlative, what
could be ? Nor have we told about
the horses—fine, blooded stock—or
many items that belong to an honest
narrative. But after all the chief
impression of the day was the cheer-ful
enthusiastic spirit of the men who
do the work on the Hershey farms.
From Mr. Snavely and Mr. Millard
to the hired man in the fields there
was genial cooperation . , and each
farm had its boast and its pride. They
are a fine, healthy lot of men and we
had the good fortune to be invited
within some of the homes , of the
farmers and the dairymen. Here the
Hershey idea was expressed in model
residences with all the conveniences
and here the smiling housewives had
nothing but shining cleanliness. There
were buxom children with sunshine in
their cheeks. Around the homes were
flowers and vegetables and chickens.
On every side were evidences of the
happy life.
And we swung rhome through the
lowlands of the Swatara and saw the
peaceful meadows which Mr. Snavely
has cleaned up for the cows until they
look like parks for human pleasure
seekers. So it happens that all
through this stretch of country you
behold the Hershey idea at Work and
already there is an uplift in methods
and values, showing the iforce of its
influence and its practical benefits,
Stock Compan y Next Week
Opening Play Will lie "Country
Sweethearts," Fine Specialties
Tho Loie Francis Stock Company
comes .to tho Park Monday, evening,
July 27th. It lias just closed a suc-cessful
stay nt Ocean City, whore tho
sconic productions were unusual. Mr,
Coleman carries Chas, B. Nicholas,
tho Keith Sconic Artist who has done
the work for tho past Ave yours for
tho Orphoum Stock Company in
Philadelphia * Miss Francis, who
heads tho company, was tho firs t load-ing
lady over advertised in motion
pictures. . Sho has appeared in Broad-way
successes. Sho is surrounded by
a company of players that have al-ways
boon identified with high class
plays. An added attraction is tho
nulla euni'tot , "Those Four Boys from
liarmonyhuid" whoso good singing
and comedy win favor.
Tho opening play, "Country Sweet-hearts,"
is a rural drama. It proved
very successful upon Its first pre-sentation
in Ocean City. The sec-ond
offering ' will bo "Arsenic," a
poison mystery drama. It hrlngfi out
tho strength of the whole company.
Between the nuts will ho first-rata
special Huh,
Program of Dedication
For New Lutheran Church
Church is Now Occupied But Formal
Dedication Will Begin Next Sun-day
and Will be Attended by
Some of the Prominent
Lutheran Divines
The first service in the church build-ing
of Holy Trinity Lutheran congre-gation
was held last Sunday morning.
Pastor Krapf preached from the text,
Isaiah 57:15 on the theme, "Our Glori-ous
God Offers us a Graciqus Assur-ance."
In his application, he stated that the .
place of beauty and art and symbol-ism
in the church building and service
was not only to serve as an; expres-sion
of our conception of God's
worthiness of our devotion, but also
to minister to and serve in interpret-ing
his gracious purposes of dwel-ling
among men and of giving them
new and fuller life.
The Bible School met in the after-noon
at 1.30 o'clock. Services in the .
new building were announced for next
Sunday at 1.30, and at the
^
twilight
hour, 6.45 J. m. . ' ";>'
The Dedication services will he held
on Sunday, August 2 and on Tuesday, .
Thursday and Friday nights of the
week following and will close with a
Bible School Vesper service. Sunday,
August 9th. On the morning of
August 2nd, a Pre-Dedication service
will be held, while the Dedication ser- .
vice proper, with sermon by the Rev.
Dr. T. E. Schmant,' of Lebanon, will
take place at 3.00 p. m. The' themes
of the Festival: Vesper services on '
Sunday, Tuesday, and Friday will be
respectively, "The Church . and the
Faith," "The Church and her Wor-ship,"
and "The Church and . Her La-bors
of Love." The- Festival Vesper
on Friday, August 7th will commem-orate
the fourth ( anniversary of. the
organization of the congregation.
Among those, in addition to the Rey.
Dr. Schmant, who have promised, to
address the congregation at these ser- "¦
vices, are the pastors H. B. Richard of
Lebanon, H, K. Lantz of Shiremans-"-
town, G. W. Genszler of Columbia, re-spectively
president, secretary arid
treasurer of the Lancaster Confer-ence,
C. K. Fegley, field missionary
and organizer of the. congregation in
Hershey; and the Hon. G. H. Moyer,
of Palmyra, a memberof the commit-tee
that organized the Bible School of
Holy Trinity Church, and Mr. W. M.
Mearig, of New Holland, chairman
of the committee on Laymen's Work
in the Lancaster Conference.
With its opportunity to perform a
larger measure of ; service for, the
community, the congregation again
extends its welcome to its services.
Hersk y Zoo's New Lion
Minnie is Two Years Old and a Beau-tiful
Animal From Africa
When the Press .staff arrived for
the day's work Saturday morning the
sun was rising on the office portico.
At least it looked like that but a clos-er
view showed that it was Frantz
Zinner's smile. Instantly and joyous-ly
he said:
"Minnie is here."
"Minnie who? And from whore?"
"Minnie—isn't that enough ?—from
Africa?"
And then he strode across some of
Harry Haverstick 's best grass and
called , "Come," and tho staff follow-ed
obediently. To them was vouch-safed
the honor of welcoming Minnie
to Horshoy. Frant/, has been very
quiot about the whole matter, Ho
has boon looking for tho right kind of
lion for a long time and has boon
hugging his ambition close in his
breast, So when ho found what ho
wanted ho said nothing. Ho wanted
to bo sure—to have tho lion in tho
Horshoy Zoo before ho talked about
it.
So Minnie arrived In a groat spe-cial
box much reinforced so that she
would not spill out. Frantz lost no>
time in getting her into a beautiful
now cage and from tho start ho and
Minnie were friends.
Sho is a ^iandsomo animal with tho
peculiar marks that belong to tho "
young lioness, Her color is fine , uni-form
and tawny, Sho Is as graceful
us a debutante. Thoro is fine power
iih well «H fascinating agility, in her
movements and hor faco is, remark-ably
attractive She has vary , largo
oyos that seem to have soul in them
In spite of tho reputation of hor
spades. In hor homo in Africa Min-nie
's momi would bo antolopos , ze-bras,
buffaloes, giraffes, pigs and
other moats, hut hero sho will not
have so much variety, but thoro will ,
ho plenty of It, mostly beef,
Mlnnla will continue to grow until
she Is two yours older , that is; until
she is i four. Front/, hopofl to add
more liqris during that timo, including
males.
"Then will como tho cubsf" ho said.
"Not long ago I gavo you an office
cot—a vary pretty ' kitten—and you
loslj hor. Aft er awhile I give you
another ofllca cat, a Ilttl o Hon. You
will not lose it, yes?"
The Round Barn near Hershey is one of the many interesting points on the Hershey farms. It accommodates a hundred high-grade Holsteins and
its silo holding 350.tons is one of the largest in the world. In the illustration is the new model dairy where milk will be served to automobilists.
Thoro was koan competition for tho
contract to build tho now Hoi-shey
trolley road that will extend from tho
Industrial School to Kll/.ahothtpwn
and some of tho boot contractors in
tho country triad for It, Tho suc-cessful
party was tlio King, Kvnns ,
Riloy Company of Pottsvillfl. Tho
lino Is to ho completed on or hoforo
April 1, 1015, II; will bo ono of tho
finest pieces of road construction In
tho United States,
Trolley Contract Awarded
Dr. F. (1. Wirt and ¦ H. I. Millar
claim to bo the champion frag hun-ters
In this section of tho county,
Slncu tho opening of tho frojr season
thoy have succeeded In capturing 58
big" fr ogs. '
Good Frog Hunting Louis wort , a popular Horflhoy
farmer rosldinir on farm No. 0, re-ports
that ha has tho finest 'Hold of
1 corn In this vicinity, On Monday In
company with several other neigh-bors
ho wont ovor his flold containing
14 acres and found that tho stalks on
an average 'measured from 8 to' 10 <
foot, ,
Who Can Beat This?