Real estate and farm equipment sales listed for January
Sales dates include December 22 for Frank Hurst Jr at Martindale Conestoga Ave and 2 p m. January 9 for William and Paul Martin at Blue Ball with an all day horse tractor and machinery sale starting 9 a m. January 10 for C E Keener one mile north of Lancaster at the Manheim and Harrisburg pikes intersection with 50 tractors and machinery starting 11 a m.
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Frank Hurst, Jr
Martindale
Conestoga Ave
William Z
Paul Z. Martin
Blue Ball
C. E. Keener
Lancaster
Manheim
Harrisburg Pikes
Pennsylvania Farm Show Week Featured Events
Farm Show Week runs January 14 to 18 at the Farm Show Building Harrisburg with the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg and the Poultry Federation Banquet at 6 30 pm on January 15 at the Penn Harris Hotel Harrisburg.
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Farm
Harrisburg
Poultry Federation
Penn Harris
Production Drop Not Reflected In Egg Prices
Harrisburg reports November egg output fell about one percent from a year earlier as 300 million eggs were produced. First eleven months total 3.28 billion eggs, 1.6 percent below 1955. Price trends remained weak with 44 cents a dozen, and live chickens and broilers hit multi year lows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Department of Agriculture
Funeral Held for Arnold M. Groff 46
Funeral services were held Tuesday for Arnold M. Groff a 46 year old Oldsmobile dealer in Southern Lancaster County He died Thursday in his Quarryville office His wife a daughter Diane and two sisters survive Burial was in Quarryville Cemetery.
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Arnold M. Groff
Lancaster County
Reynolds Funeral Home
Quarryville
Groff
Diane
National Yields Rates Announced For 57 Soil Bank
The U S Department of Agriculture released national average yields and per acre payment rates for the 1957 acreage reserve programs on five basic crops. It notes no plans to include peanuts or extra long staple cotton next year and outlines how county and farm rates will be derived for wheat tobacco cotton corn and rice with payment totals near national levels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S&s. Department of Agriculture
Soil Bank
ASC
No Good My Girl Is a Firecracker Drink
A short note describes a girl who is a firecracker drinker with a problem after the fourth, referencing the Jester USNAS at Patuxent River Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.A.S
Patuxent River
Too Much Rain Drops Pennsylvania Milk Output
Pennsylvania dairy farmers faced a November milk drop due to poor quality hay and silage plus heavy summer rains. Production fell one percent from last November to 462 million pounds, with 946000 cows unchanged, especially in western counties hit by heavy rainfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Department of Agriculture
Debt at New High Looms Over Public and Private Sectors
Debts owed by the public and private sectors are rising toward 700 billion by year’s end. Corporate debt tops 197 billion, nonfarm mortgages 109 billion, while farm-related issues include hay spoilage and corn silage problems. Milk production dips as souring pastures and feed shortages affect prices.
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Lancaster Farming
Sals
DR. Salsbury
FW. Fisher
Leacock, Pa
Cope & Weaver Co
Willow Street
McCulloch
Conestoga Farm Service
Quarryville Ph
Marietta Ave
Organic Plant Food Co
Grofftown RD
Ph. Lancaster
NEW High
Chick
Leo
Martin
Coe
Tod Martin’s Hatchery Poultry Farms, Inc
Lancaster, Pa
Lincoln
Thermopane
Universal Milkers
Miller’s Insecticides
Wirthmore
Haverly
Lauder
DeKalb Chix
Marietta
the “County Bank
Stanley M. Musselman
Department
The
Lancaster County National Bank
Ring St
Prince and James Sts
N. Queen St
Federal Degests Insurance Corporation
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