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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1958
Page
1
After a week of sun and warmth the bulk of recent snow melted with minimal flood risk or crop damage. runoff slowed, roads opened, and milk transport resumed as dairies and drivers cleared channels, though some dumping occurred in the south. The county notes one of its largest snows occurred in April.
The Lancaster Swine Producers Association sale saw 30 gilts average $108 with a top $150 for an April gilt from George Cogley’s Leacock Yorkshire Farm. Falls boars averaged $55.83, Berkshire gilts topped at $115 paid by Masonic Homes, Elizabethtown, and Chester White gilts peaked at $1250 from Clyde S Mumma. Duroc Jersey prices reached $137.50, with W. S. Dreubelbis and Clarence D. Heller among bidders in Virginville and Wilow Street.
An eastern soil and water conservation research center is sought by the Pennsylvania Association of Soil Conservation District Directors. The group aims to study better matching of conservation designs to northeastern soils and climates and plans to urge federal funding at a Minneapolis meeting.
State Department of Agriculture reports Pennsylvania livestock value up by more than 34 million dollars to 337,092,000 this year, while numbers fall 5.3 percent from 2,838,000 head in 1957 to 2,677,000. Dairy and beef cattle drop three percent to 1,858,000. hogs 15 percent to 513,000. sheep three percent to 254,000. chickens seven percent to 21,881,000. horses and mules at 52,000, down from 58,000. notes cycles influence meat and milk outputs.
Herbert Plambeck of Des Moines outlines Hershey Pennsylvania as the site for the 16th National Plowing Contest and Conservation Exposition on Aug 21 and 22. He praises thorough planning by the Pennsylvania committee led by Leland Bull and notes anticipated entry interest from Maine and Georgia with entrants from about 16 states.
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