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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1963
Page
1
The Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service reports a nearly 3 percent decline in state egg production for the first half of 1963 from the same period in 1962, while U.S. output fell 1 percent. The drop aligns with a 69 egg-per-capita consumption decline since 1951 and reflects fewer layers on farms.
Aug 12 8:00 am vocational agriculture livestock judging at Millarden Farms Annville 6:30 pm Masterettes 4 H Club banquet Kauffman Park Manheim 8:30 pm Soil Conservation District meeting Lancaster Court House Plowing Contest Water Shed Survey Aug 13 State 4 H Day Penn State Aug 15 7:30 pm Manheim Young Farmers meeting Manheim Central High School Feeding Dairy Cows State Plowing contest Joseph Hooker Farm Bernville R D 2 Aug 17 Beekeepers Association meeting Penn State 10:00 am County Swine Producers field day Richard Maule Quarryville RR D 2 7:00 pm Lancaster County Pannona Grange Picnic
Manheim FFA reports from a six week western tour. John Wagner notes visits to Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico Memorial Park in HiPaso andJaurez Mexico. July 6 to 8 include travel to El Paso, church services and a pulb fight in Jaurez.
Pennsylvania farmers saw prices received in mid July about the same as a year ago. Milk prices rose 25 cents per hundredweight and egg prices gained one cent per dozen. Hog prices reached 18 dollars per cwt while corn climbed two cents to 1.41 per bushel. The price index stood at 221 percent of the 1910 14 base, up from 212 a month earlier.
Clarence Weaver son of George M. Weaver of New Holland seeks 150 bushels per acre in a high population corn test at Garden Spot High School. The field has 20 416 plants per acre on 38 inch rows with 7 inch stalk spacing and includes pest and soil management records. Two state plowing champions will be named August 15 in the 1963 Pennsylvania Plowing Contest at Bernville continuing after coverage of Berks preliminaries.
Lincoln Community 4 H Club met July 29 with President Jerry Snader presiding. Next meeting set for August 20 at Walters Park with guests from New Holland Baby Beef Club. Members reported on Oklahoma trip activities. Dorothy Fry presented a show and tell on flower arranging.
The forecast calls for five days of temperatures two to six degrees below normal with nights around 64 and afternoons near 84. Saturday stays near normal then cools Sunday and Monday, warming again Wednesday. Light precipitation totaling .01 to .02 inch expected as showers or thundershowers Saturday and possible rain Tuesday.
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