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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1957
Page
5
Farrand outlines methods to prevent unauthorized cutting by farmers. He advises leaving seed trees to aid natural reseeding in woodlots with desirable species like larch and white pine, and using nursery seedlings for bare fields with eight foot spacing and thinning after about 15 years to yield pulpwood and reduce costs.
USDA scientists at Beltsville show that a high calcium and low zinc diet causes parakeratosis in pigs. Increasing zinc to 44 to 80 ppm prevented or cured the disease, with improved appetite and rapid weight gain observed within a week. The study tested zinc and calcium levels across six pig groups.
A Lancaster County farm calendar lists 4H and club meetings from Monday to Friday at various farms and schools. Notable speakers include Joseph McCurdy Penn State extension engineer and Max M. Smith County Agent. Membership remains open for the Boots and Saddles Pony Club.
The Crop Reporting Board reports total potential layers on farms at the start of the year reached 371 million, up three percent from 1956. About 91 percent are in laying flocks, with the remainder pullets not yet of laying age.
The Crop Reporting Board says the early lamb crop in principal producing states is about one percent below 1956. California and Texas led the decline as breeding ewe numbers on January 1 were down six and eleven percent respectively, driving most of the drop.
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