Poultry chicks and farm items offered for sale and trade
Classified notes list one two and three week old Leghorn pullet chicks from Greider Leghorn Farms in Mt Joy and Logan farm pullets to hatch May and June at Ennett Square PA. Also advertised are Sullivan poultry feeds cost 35 to 70 cents per ton, a 1954 Plymouth convertible for sale, and a garden tractor sale from Lampeter with contact details for local dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greider Leghorn Farms
Mt. Joy
Logan
L. L. Logan
Ennett Square
Classified Advertising Rates For Lancaster Farming
The notice outlines rates for classified ads in Lancaster Farming Quarryville Pa. Keyed ads incur 25 cents extra per word. Repeats for three or more consecutive insertions billed at 4 cents per word each time, with a 80 cent minimum. Deadline is Wednesday morning for that week’s issue. late ads possibly not accepted after 10:00 a.m. Wednesday.
County Sportsmen Shown Color Slides
The April meeting of the Lancaster County Sportsmen Association at the Sportsfarm near Mt. Nebo featured color slides from the 1955 and 1956 Sports Shows. Guests included Miss Sara Jane Uffelman Miss Outdoors of 1956 and David P. Shreiner who attended the 1955 junior conservation camp sponsored by the group.
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Lancaster County Sportsmen’s Association
Sportsfarm
Mt. Nebo
Sara Jane Uffelman
David P. Shreiner
Sportsmen’s Association
Greider Leghorns Lead Pennsylvania Egg Contest
Greider Leghorns placed tenth nationally and first in Lancaster County with a White Leghorn pen at Greider Leghorn Farm Mount Joy. The flock topped Pennsylvania egg laying tests producing 2 039 eggs and 2 171.5 points in six months with February and March stateside lead gains.
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Lancaster County
Greider Leghorn Farm
Mount Joy
Pennsylvania
Treated Oats Seed Unsafe As Stock Feed
State College Pennsylvania warns against feeding oats treated with seed protectants to livestock or poultry. Even small amounts can harm animals, cause decreased egg production or off flavors, and treated seed should be stored, buried, or burned to prevent consumption by livestock or fowl.
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State College
Pat
Pennsylvania Crop Improvement Association
Harald Swartley
Seedling Tests Move to Mexico for Blight Research
Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station reports ongoing seedling testing in Mexico to find blight resistant potato varieties. Since 1952 hundreds of lines have been tested with plans to test over 4,000 in 1956, led by Dr. Wilford Mills. Mexican highlands at elevations up to 11,000 feet provide disease pressure and frost resistance for evaluation.
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Pennsylvania Agriculture Experiment Station
Pennsylvania State University University Park
Pennsylvania
Highlands
Mexico
Wilford R. Mills
Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station
Mills
Leopoldon Servin
Senor Servin
Dr. Mills
Public dividends rise 12 percent in January 1956
Publicly reported dividends reached 809 million dollars in January, up 12 percent from January 1955, the Commerce Department said. The January increase roughly matched the 1955 full year rise of about 12 percent.
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Commerce Department
For Sale Classified Items in Oxford Pennsylvania
Multiple short notices list items for sale including Dorset lambs two bucks one ewe and a 9S piece mahogany dining room suite. Also rugs two milk goats and a sewing machine wanted. Pasture notice offers farm pasture for heifers starting May 15 near Christina RD Pa plus a 25 acre farm with mills and lake on Route 73 Bowmansville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Fred Whitside
Oxford
Kirkwood
Bowmanville
H. F. von Neida
Chicks Flown To Many Foreign Lands by Logan’s Hatchery
Chester County based hatcheryman L L Logan reports shipments of baby chicks to numerous international destinations including Rome Luzerne Bermuda Georgetown British Guiana Trinidad Haiti Mayaguez Azores Caracas and Ecuador. Air travel from Idlewild to Rome F times shows rapid full mortality of just four dead chicks on a Texas bound truck load.
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Chester County
L. L. Logan
Hatcheryman
Kennett Square
Rome
Italy
Luzerne
Switzerland
Hamilton
Bermuda
Georgetown
British Guiana
Trinidad
British West Indies
Port-au-Prince
Haiti
Mayaguez
Puerto Rico
Terceira
Azores
Caracas
Venezuela
Manabi
Ecuador
Belize
British Honduras
South America
Mexico
Caribbean
Idlewild
Logan
United States
Texas
Garrison
Guernsey Cow Sets Milk Production Record in New Hampshire
Peterborough reports Herbert Schiffer of West Chester Pennsylvania owns Herberts Willing Reality a registered Guernsey cow that completed an official production record of 468 pounds of fat and 10 n ees of milk in the AGCC Herd Improvement Registry equaling 4850 quarts of high quality milk.
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Guernsey
Herberts Willing Reality
Herbert Schiffer
West Chester
Penna
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Donegal
Salisbury
F. W. Fisher
jLeacock
Leola
Kor
Plymouth
R. H. Low
Jean Finance
Red Comet Fire Control Systems & Equipment
Mountville
Musse Mt, Joy
Frank K. Denlinger
Lampeter
Ph. Lane
Lancaster Farming
Quarryville, Pa
Hayes Alan Jenkins
U. S
Lancaster
New Holland
Manheim
Ronald Gordley
B. F. Stoltzfus Christiana
KET
Logans
Peterborough, N. H. —A
Girton
Diller & Clark
Sanitary
Intercourse, PA
Kinzer
RD 1
Intercourse
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