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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1957
Page
7
Maryland farmers are urged to improve sorting grading and packing to fetch higher tobacco prices. Dealers have profited from poor handling by repacking and regrading for higher marks. The article questions whether quality will raise prices given current buyer silence and a market favoring bulk.
The Agricultural Marketing Service predicts US farm output will drop in 1957 for the first time since 1950, with crop production about seven percent below 1956 and the smallest since 1951. Wheat corn rice tobacco dry beans peas and sweet potatoes are below 1956, while livestock modestly falls and eggs and milk remain strong or rise. Prices for meat animals stay firm, hog prices fall seasonally, and egg production may dip as chick placements slow.
A 1907 Long Island meteor crash spurred dramatic seas and fish wash ashore amid property damage with no fatalities. The piece recalls a 50 year-old U.S. roads debate, European healing superstitions, and a string of midwestern farm holiday protests spreading from Iowa to Minnesota. It also notes a 1932 Lancaster County Farmers Protectors picnic featuring speeches on tax reduction and local leaders.
A devotional on Jonathan and David highlighting how true friendship endures despite rivalry for power and alienation by family. It argues that Jonathan supports David even when he could be king, proving friendship requires integrity when success eclipses a friend.
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