Memorial Plaque Presented at Lancaster Farm Equipment Meet
The Lancaster County Farm Equipment Dealers Association held a Wednesday night Christmas party and Ladies Night at Hostetter's Dining Room Mt Joy featuring the Arthur Young Memorial Plaque presented by Elmer Landis. Dr Caleb Bucher spoke on Christmas observance shaped by many nations. Officers and directors listed include Leroy Wenger C Everett Young Ivan Nolt Roy Brubaker Paul Mount Ben Snavely L B Herr Jr Rankin Wiley and Robert Brubaker.
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Lancaster County Farm Equipment Dealers’ Association
Arthur Young
Hostetter
Mt. Joy
Young
Hinzers
Steam Threshers Association
Farm Equipent Dealers’ Association
Elmer Landis
Lancaster
Caleb Bucher
Brecht School
Bucher
Rufus Bucher
Mechanics Grove
Church of the Brethren
Mabel Brabson
Association
Leroy Wenger
Buck
C. Everett Young
Kinzers
Ivan Nolt
Farmersville
Roy Brubaker
Lititz
Paul Mount
Quarryville
Ben Snavely
New Holand
L. B. Herr, Jr
West Willow
Rankin Wiley
Peach Bottom
Robert Brubaker
Salunga
Pork Purchases Are Discontinued
The USDA announced it made no purchases from offers submitted on pork products in the week ending December 7 and will suspend buyings for the time being. Hog prices have strengthened, and total canned pork purchases since November amount to 6,573,600 pounds, costing about 3.1 million dollars under Section 32 funds.
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Washington
USDA
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Lancaster Poultry Center to Open With Auctions Early January
The Lancaster Poultry Center at Bypass 230 and Roseville Road near Lancaster will open for business and auctions the first week of January. Grading is finishing this week while work continues rapidly, largely via volunteer labor. Ground was broken last July after first earth was turned in February.
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Lancaster Poultry Center
Bypass 230
Roseville Road
Lancaster
First Earth
Lancaster Farming
Eight factors emphasize forage crop use in Lancaster County
Al E. Cooper of Penn State told 55 Garden Spot Farmers at the Crops and Sons Meeting that eight factors are key: soil testing. certified seed and inoculated legumes. good seedbeds. band seeding. diverse grass legume mixtures. timely cutting. regular fertilization. and curing aids for quality roughages. He noted 1955 soil tests show 17 percent need more lime, 53 percent more phosphate, 44 percent more potash, and 52 percent more organic matter, and urged cover crops and longer sod rotation to boost organic matter.
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Lancaster County
al E. Cooper
Pennsylvania State University
Crops and Sons
Lancaster
Cooper
Penn State
West Indies Christmas Tradition Replaces Stockings with Grass
In the West Indies, children place three boxes of grass under their beds on Christmas Eve for the three Wise Men’s camels. By Christmas morning the grass is gone and gifts remain, a local twist on Santa’s visit noted during Lancaster Farming coverage.
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West Indies
Santa
Lancaster Farming
Islands
Hassel to lead Lancaster County Fruit Growers Association
Milton Hassel and RJ Christiana will head the Lancaster County Fruit Growers Association for the coming year after Tuesday night election during the Farm Bureau Cooperative meeting. Harry Breneman Simon R Snyder and Daniel A Brubaker were elected to vice president secretary and treasurer respectively. About 60 people joined a pruning tour led by John Reuf and H S Nolt in Reinholds and Columbia orchards. A January 11 meeting at Elizabethtown will plan the 1957 Farm Show exhibit with six growers and five varieties expected.
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Milton Hassel
RJ Christiana
Lancaster County Fruit Growers Association
Farm Bureau Cooperative
Lancaster
Harry Breneman
Simon R. Snyder
Ephrata
Daniel A. Brubaker
John Reuf
Pennsylvania State University
Jay Brossman
Reinholds
H. S. Nolt
Columbia
Elizabethtown
Extension Club Seeks Fourth Farm Agent for Lancaster County
The Lancaster County Extension Association asks the county commissioners to fund a fourth county agricultural agent in 1957. The plan, backed by Max M. Smith and the staff, would cover about 1200 dollars in travel and 400 in stenographic costs, with salary paid by Penn State Extension.
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Lancaster County
Lancaster County Extension Association
Pennsylvania State University Extension Service
Max M. Smith
Harry S Sloat
Victor M. Plastwo
County Favors Corn Controls Lose Nationally
Lancaster County producers voted 191 to 86 in favor of a new corn control program, but nationally the measure failed by about five and a half percent with 61.2 percent support. Turnout was about 68.5 percent of eligible voters, and county results show strong local adherence to corn base acreages while other crops maintained quotas.
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Lancaster County
Conroy
West Donegal
Mt. Joy Twos
East Donegal
West Hempfield
Rapho
Warwick
Manor
Conestoga
Pequea
Eden
Bart
Salsbury
Strasbury
Paradise
Martie
Providence
Drumore
East Drumore
Fulton
Little Britain
Colerain
County Farmers Association to Meet on Dec. 27
County Farmers Association of Lancaster County plans a Dec 27 meeting at 8 pm in the SPARC Building Lancaster. Walter Warner, County Organization Director, led a recent gathering where the four township committees were formed for the 1957 membership drive. A kickoff dinner is set for Jan 7 with Noah Engle of Connecticut, regional representative for the American Farm Bureau Federations in the 12 northeastern states, as speaker. The formal drive begins in January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County Farmers Association
SPARC
Lancaster
Walter Warner
J. Roy Greider
Isaac Miller
Fred Seldomridge
Harold L. Groff
Wanner
Arthur Hoffman
Noah Engle
Connecticut
Engle
American Farm Bureau
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Sodt
Milton Hassel Heads County Fruit Growers
J. Homer Graybill
Manheim
John Nissley
Joy
Smith
Willis Esbenshade
Eshbenshade Road
Extension Association
County Farmers Association
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