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Hillandale Farms was founded in 1958 by Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania resident Orland Bethel. [1] It has a corporate office in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, a distribution center in Plum, Pennsylvania, and egg producing locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Connecticut. [1] In 2010, Hillandale was partially responsible for a salmonella outbreak. [2]
Potamkin was born and raised in a Jewish family in Philadelphia, the son of a fish and chicken dealer. [1] [2] He graduated from Germantown High School.[2]Due to financial difficulties brought on by the Great Depression, he dropped out of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and began selling chickens. [1]
Two kinds of poultry were generally offered: broilers or "spring chickens", young male chickens, a byproduct of the egg industry, which were sold when still young and tender (generally under 3 pounds live weight); and "fowls" or "stewing hens", also a byproduct of the egg industry, which were old hens past their prime for laying. [16]
The hatch house is a two-story limestone building measuring 31 feet wide by 36 feet deep. The trout hatchery opened in 1871. [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. [1] Dykeman Park is a 50-acre municipal park that includes Dykeman's Spring.
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PFBC officials and a group of volunteers spent Monday morning in an Erie County nursery water netting steelhead to be used for spawning in a hatchery.
Foster Farms was established in 1939 by Max and Verda Foster. They began by investing $1,000 into a farm in Modesto, California, on which they raised turkeys.The back porch was Max's office and the first hatchery was built next to their bedroom so the eggs could get constant care. [2]
A farmstead in Perry Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.. Agriculture is a major industry in the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [1] As of the most recent United States Census of Agriculture conducted in 2017, there were 53,157 farms in Pennsylvania, covering an area of 7,278,668 acres (2,945,572 hectares) with an average size of 137 acres (55 hectares) per farm. [2]