Wool growers urged to file payments under national wool program
Lancaster County leaders urge wool growers who marketed between April 1, 1958 and March 31, 1959 to file payment applications by April 30. The payment rate aims to raise the national average price to 62 cents per pound, with higher prices yielding larger payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landis G Becker
Lancaster County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
4 Day
National Wool Program
United States Department of Agriculture
State Spring Farming On Schedule In Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports spring farming and planting in most parts of the Commonwealth is on schedule. The Crop Reporting Service notes farmers advanced spring plowing and sowing oats and early crops as soil moisture remained adequate and weekly temperatures ran five to seven degrees above normal through the past two weeks.
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Harrisburg
Commonwealth
State Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania Crosp
Grange Master Urges Plan For Producer Financed Farm Program
Herschel D. Newsom, national Grange master, urged a producer financed farm program at Penn State University. He said it would provide equitable income and cut wheat and dairy supports for taxpayers by up to 600 dollars yearly. He condemned fixed price supports as inequitable and costly.
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University Park
Herschel D. Newsom
Washington
National Grange
Penn State University
Labor and industry seek added control over markets
A speaker argues for broader worker and industry power to regulate goods by preventing shortages, managing inventories, and setting orderly prices, citing successful examples in wool and sugar as comparable programs.
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Lancaster
ASC
James S Nicholson
Munex
Pennsylvania Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Earl Groff
Strasburg
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Nicholson
Mount Hope
Johnson
Hatchery
Phrata
Grange Master
Mr Newsom
Hahn
Barre
Apris
Engineering Equipment CO
North 6Th Street
Snavely
New Holland
Harrisburg, PA
Nissley
BORO
D. M. Stoltzfus & Son, Inc Asphalt Paving & Crushed Stone
Quarryville, Pa
Quarryville
Sterling
Performan
Penn Square
South Queen Street
Main Bank
S. Queen Street
Swan
Vine & S
Queen
Stoner
S. W. Corner
Vine
Queen Sts
Contig National Bank
Center Square
Millersville Branch
George
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporal
Atlantic States Gas CO
Pba
Landisville
Twincakes
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