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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1957
Page
12
An opinion piece from Glenwood Iowa urges readers to assess both their car’s condition and personal limits before driving. It warns that neglecting these checks can endanger lives and emphasizes responsible habits behind the wheel.
Inherited tendencies cause some White Leghorn strains to have blow-outs in egg production. If fat from corn worsens this, pullets attract others and decline. Breeding can reduce this, as shown by Babcock Poultry Farm which avoids specs and debeaking and reports birds that lay fast, large eggs, with no blow-outs. Local rep Russell Mease, Route 4 Manheim, Pa. MO 5-4705.
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson announced a budget amendment for the Soil Bank Program sent to Congress by the President. The revised projections cut 1958 expenditures to 1.0 billion from 1.254 billion and 1957 to 452 million from 1.229 billion while noting slower participation in the Conservation Reserve Program and changes in payment timing.
Lennox sod quotes an anti government remark defining a socialist bureaucrat as one who has nothing himself and is willing to share it with everyone else. The comment targets officials seen as overreaching and self sacrificing for public welfare.
The Agriculture Department reports 87,430 farm ponds were built in 1956, a record high. Soil Conservation Service notes 425,521 ponds with SCS help over six years, totaling 803,000 with assistance. ponds aid water storage, fire protection, irrigation, wildlife, and recreation across the nation.
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