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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1959
Page
1
A report describes hog breeding partnerships where promoters promise high net returns but farmers receive little. Promoters keep half interests, handle sales, and advertise $200 breeding stock prices, yet farmers often get only half slaughter value. The scheme leaves many growers short on gains after feeding and care costs.
The USDA suspends frozen egg purchases after accepting bids for 650 325 lbs of dried whole egg solids, about 65 032 cases of shell eggs. Since June 18, 4 110 000 lbs were bought for 1 001 400 dollars, totaling 9 382 300 spent on 8 321 850 lbs of dried eggs since April 24 in the surplus removal program. Criticism rises as tax dollars support farmers prices while consumer food costs and retail egg prices show mixed outcomes. Some stores used low spirits eggs as loss leaders, but farmer losses mostly benefited middlemen.
The Rose Tour begins Wednesday at 8 30 in the morning with Fred W Linten leading via Randall Drive. It lists participants and stops at Memorial Park in Quarryville with a noon food break and planned ball games. Afternoon stops include Mary Jane Herr Reston Carol Hess Strasburg and Nancy Lands Strasburg.
Extension agents invite growers to tomato field days. Sessions with Dr Carlton Taylor on tomato diseases and K R Slamp on picking grading and handling will run Aug 4 at Herbert Royer farm Lancaster RD 5 and Aug 5 at Henry Shreiner farm Lititz RD2 and J Lester Charles farm Manheim RD1. Sloat notes favorable season but warns picking and marketing care is crucial as tomatoes approach peak harvest.
The West Lampeter Community Fair Inc schedules its Fifth Annual Chicken Barbecue at the Lampeter Community Center Pavilion from 4 to 8 p m Saturday August 8. Tickets are 1 50 for adults and 75 cents for children under 12 with proceeds funding the 1959 Fair Program. Awards and prizes urge young sellers with free tickets for high sales and a top prize of 5 3 2 dollars for the leading performers by 6 p m August 5.
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio voters rejected the federal wheat program, about 3.4 percent in opposition and 14 percent more than the required two thirds. New York and Delaware showed mixed results, while Maryland and Mississippi margins favored continuation. The Wheat Bowl states posted varied but strong support with South Carolina highest at 95.9 percent. Nearly 130 thousand of 199,240 votes came from the eight Wheat Bowl states.
Four farms listed by the Northeastern Hay Drying Association will host an August 5 tour in Dauphin and Lebanon counties. Stops include Hershey Estates Farms with batch and self propelled dryers and hay making equipment, a luncheon at Cocoa Inn, then visits to Mark Hershey’s Lebanon RD 5 farm and Meadow Woods Farm in Lebanon for wagon and batch dryers and dairy herd showcase.
The five year old Register ed Holstein Roaring Maples Lucifer Galaxy became the millionth cow serviced by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Artificial Breeding Cooperative after fifteen years of operation. Bred on Roaring Maples Farm near Lancaster the cow has completed three lactations totaling 30 184 pounds of milk and 1508 pounds of fat. Galaxy now carries a calf sired by SH53 Langdonhurst Ormsby Burke Lad Excellent Gold Medal.
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