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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1956
Page
7
In Chicago Stock Yards farmer Bernard Crofton thanked Secretary of Agriculture Benson for efforts to help farmers. The talk covered improving hog prices and narrowing the pork price spread, while the White House declined price supports for hogs and promised no clear production controls.
The USDA reports rabbits fed juices from diseased plants develop antisera against Potato X, tobacco mosaic, and cucumber mosaic. In Lincoln Nebraska a living bank of rabbits has purified preparations. Vaccination evokes antibody production without disease, offering potential plant virus protection.
A World War I song echoes as farm youth migrate to cities after service. Between 1949 and 1954 an average 198000 farm youths were drafted yearly, but only 84000 returned to farming, prompting sociologists and agricultural experts to note rising farmer obligations and labor shortages as younger generations leave farms.
The Chicago Daily Drovers Journal jokes that the Internal Revenue Bureau aims to ease tax burdens with advice and guidance possibly handling the tedious cash removal. The piece satirically notes officials grease the skids to the poorhouse, offer unsolicited help, and invite a roundtrip from burden to relief as springtime tax tasks loom.
Readership from Lancaster Farming readers in Kennett Square and West Chester commend the paper for excellent photo coverage of the Pennsylvania Flying Farmers meeting at Harrisburg and its news on operations and shipments. They thank the editor for mailing lists and timely farm stories benefiting farmers and their families.
A Lancaster County week in review notes snow from Luzerne County with 16 inches officially at Scranton and 19 inches elsewhere. Foxes raid Berks farms as cold snaps bite. Yeksa Sunbeam Guernsey cow yields 14 920 pounds milk at Wisconsin station, could make 984 pounds butter yearly. discuss cotton and corn yields per acre in 1906, Colorado apples worth 500 dollars per acre in 1905, and a Des Moines critic on draft-horse advertising at state fairs.
A Lancaster area recap recalls a horse with a long body and short wind, a farmer’s quip about the horse’s coat, and Governor Pinchot promising 20 000 miles of improved township roads to lift farmers from mud. Reports note wheat markets, dairy deliveries, and Prince Edward seed potatoes selling for 175 per bushel.
While Mr and Mrs Joseph Mondelli attended a picnic in Fair Lawn New Jersey someone littered their car with paper money totaling 297 dollars The Mondellis who live in Midland Park turned the debris over to police for investigation.
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