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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1955
Page
5
USDA market report from Lancaster Pa covers livestock week to week. Cattle supply small with steers and heifers uneven. cows higher on canners and cutters. bulls and stockers mixed. Veal, hogs, and lambs show varied but mostly steady to weak trends. notable declines in vealers and some hog prices from last week.
Louisville reader recounts a recruiting poster pull that led Cap John S. Bromley from the Navy to Marine Corps service, a postwar Air Force stint in Japan, and a Korea assignment. Now at Fort Knox he tests wrecked aircraft after rebuilds.
Prices sank to seasonal lows in the December 15 1955 poultry auction at the Lancaster Poultry Exchange Rohrerstown PA with bids from buyers including Walter B Lehman S E Davis Grimes and Hauer. Sixty one lots were listed with many selling at 18 19 percent while one lot of 200 heavy fowl brought 28 cents.
Lancaster County Farm Equipment Dealers held their Christmas gathering at Hostetter's Dining Room Mount Joy with 160 members guests and family. Roy Brubaker presided with Leroy Wenger as program chair while music included a brass quartet and Mrs Roy Brubaker assisted. Dr Ernest E Muller Mennonite Central Committee Akron lectured on The Greatest Christmas Ever Known.
Philadelphia market shows steady to firm prices with mixed demand for turkeys ducks and fowl. Large white rock and cannonette varieties command 30 to 39 cents while broilers reach 23 to 27 cents per pound and hens 19 to 28 cents for heavy types. Receipts total around 25 800 pounds for Delaware and 14 600 pounds for Virginia with 7 500 pounds unspecified.
At a Christmas dinner in Lime Springs Farm Rohrerstown Mrs C H Reinhold was installed as president of Farm Women's Society No 10. Delegates named for the Jan 9 Harrisburg state convention include the new president and Mrs Wayne Brubaker with alternates Mrs Harry Shuman and Mrs Edward Bowser. Other officers installed were first vice president Mrs Elam Buckwalter second vice president Mrs Clif C Shoemaker recording secretary Mrs John Habecker corresponding secretary Mrs Henry Hershey and treasurer Miss Eliza Esbenshade. A $40 total was donated to charity, $10 to each of United Community Campaign Water Street Rescue Mission Salvation Army and the Lancaster County Tuberculosis Society.
Mrs Ludwina Bunkie of Columbia Ohio regains sight after eye surgery performed weeks ago. She had been blind for 23 years and now sees her husband and eight children, tracing a path from prior medical trauma and accidents that affected her vision.
Tuesday sales at the Lancaster Poultry Exchange moved lower with an average of 19 cents per bird. Purchases ranged from 17 to 19 percent bids on eight lots totaling 22 350 birds, while four lots of 8050 birds sold at 18 to 19 percent. Multiple sellers and growers, including Paul F. Miller and Kenneth McCracken, reported White Cross and Indian River Cross birds with few bids on Vantress varieties.
Glenn B. Huntzberger urges readers in Elizabethtown to send $1.00 for a one year subscription to the Voice of Lancaster Farms. The editor notes the offer continues but may be withdrawn at any time, urging prompt action.
John W. Hoover praises Lancaster Farming and endorses a one dollar yearly subscription for Mullersville enclosed copies received.
Message from John J. Shank inviting readers to enjoy Lan caster farming and encloses one dollar for a charter subscription.
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