Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1951-08-31
COUNTIANS TOUR
MODEL POWERED
FARMS IN AREA

Nine ottawa cOuntlanS joined a
group of some so newSmen, farm
ers and agricultural experts Tues.
day on an Ohio tour which reveal
ed the nearest thing to push
button" farming in the Sandusky,
Elyria and Lorain areas.
Members of the tour from OF
tawa county included Henry Cow
gill, Ohio Edison manager. Frank
lin Heiserman, electrical engi-
neering department Of the Port
Clinton office; County Commits
missioners, Ed. Tank, Charles Co
yer and Sanke BahnSen. William
Rofkar. Catawba Island, repre-
senting the Rotary Club; Charles
Cover and Sanke Bahnsen, Will
liam Rofkar, Catawba Island, re-
presenting the Rotary Club;
Charles Dewitt, KiWaniS Club re-
preventative and William Krupp.
The tour was arranged in con-
ncction with the observance of
national Farm Elcctrification
Week, marking the virtual corr.
pletion of the job of bringing elec-
tricity to all of the occupied farms
in the nation.
The visitors saw everything in
the way of labor-saving farm elec.
trical equipment from electrical
mixers that deliver milk direct.
lv from cow to can, to an electric
insect sprayer to keep the flies
off BosSy.
First stop on the tour was the
Leland Wright farm near Vickery
in Sandusky County. The Wrights
do both general crop farming and
beef farming. Each year they
market an average of 35 steers,
raising all of the feed required
on the farm. The farm is oper-
ated by Wright and his 19-year-old
son. Robert.
With the limited help available.
the Wrights have done an out
standing job of mechanizing many
of the time consuming jobs around
the farm. Visitors on the tour
were shown hydraulic lift that
lnloadS grain from the wagons
as it is brought in from the fields,
and electrically-operated convey
orS and elevators that hoist the
grain into the storage bins in the
barn.
Leaving the Wright farm, the
tour took the visitors to the farm
of Clayton r. Brod on Hahn Road.
six miles southwest of Vcrmilion
The 104-acrc farm has been in
the Brod family for three genera
tions, and, through modern meth
ods of soil restoration, has in
creased its fertility through the
years.
A dairy farm such as the Brode
lends itself particularly well to an
electrified production line" tech
nique, and the visitors saw an ex
ample of milk factory.
Final stop on the day-long tour
was the farm of G. F. Albright.
about II miles south of Norwalk
Since the recent death of Albright.
the farms operations have been
taken over by his four sons. They
farm total of about 600 acres
of land and maintain sizeablc
dairy herd.
The Albright farm is probably
the most outstanding farm in the
territory for its nearly complete
clectrifcation All of the process
es of unloading feed and prepar-
ing it for feeding are mechanical
with unloaders, conveyorS, hay
and grain dryers and other devi
ces.
While electrification has made
farming a much easier task thar
it ever was before for the WrightS
BrodS and Albrights, that hasn't
been its primary purpose. To
days farmer has to produce more
food for more people, with less
help, than ever before, and some
form of mechanization to accom-
plish this was an absolute ne
| ceSSity.