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Lancaster Farming

Location

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Feb 10, 1973

Page

5

Program Helps Mothers Choose Safe Preschool Toys

Lancaster County Extension Office announces a February 22 1973 program at Grand View Heights United Methodist Church to help mothers of preschoolers select or make appropriate toys. Sessions cover toy buying making feeding clothes decorating a child’s room and behavior patterns with mini sessions on Creative Toys Buy or Sew for Tot Decorating a Child's Room and Feeding Little Folks. A nursery is available for morning attendees and registration costs 25 cents with two sessions chosen.

Joan Lucas Extension Home Lancaster County Grand View Heights Community United Methodist Church Pleasure Road Lancaster Arcadia Road

Pennsylvania sheep and lamb inventory declines in January report

Pennsylvania held 144000 sheep and lambs on January 1, down four percent from a year earlier, valued at 2952000 dollars. The count includes 20000 ewe lambs 8000 wether lambs 108000 ewes and 8000 rams and wethers. The state ranked 24th in sheep numbers with a lambing rate around 98 percent based on 1972 breeding ewes producing 111000 market lambs.

Harrisburg Commonwealth Crop Reporting Service Pennsylvania

Farm and Home Foundation Forms New Board Members

Lancaster County Farm and Home Foundation expanded its board at the annual banquet held last Thursday at the Farm and Home Center. Four new directors were named Abner Housekendt Mark Millersville Dorothy Johnson Quarryville R2 Jay E Landis Lancaster R6 Ruth Phillipp Forney Rd Lancaster. Reelected directors were William L Counts Quarryville R2 J Everett Kreider Quarryville R1 and Larry H Skromme Landis Valley Rd Lancaster. Melvin R Stoltzfus served as toastmaster and Enos B Heisey of Agway Inc Syracuse NY presented World Wide Agriculture.

Farm and Home Foundation Lancaster County Farm and Home Foundation Farm and Home Center Abner Housekendt Millersville Dorothy Johnson Quarryville Jay E Landis Lancaster Ruth Phillipp Forney Rd William L Counts J Everett Kreider Larry H. Skromme Landis Valley Rd Melvin R. Stoltzfus Enos B Heisey Agway, Inc Syracuse N.Y

Sheep farm inventory declines in year 5 percent

Inventory for an estimated 161,480 sheep farms stands at 17,726,000 head, a 5 percent decline for the year. The 1972 lamb crop was 12,537,000, down 3 percent, while new crop lambs on hand January 1 totaled 1,218,000, up 2 percent from 1972.

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