This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1957
Page
1
Farming in Pennsylvania trends toward bigger units and modernized homes with electricity water and telephones. By 1954 most farms had electricity 83 had running water nearly 70 had telephones and 48 had freezers while over half owned television sets. Milk and poultry sales rose despite fewer farms selling them and cropland shifted to high quality roughage and alfalfa.
Laverne Pownall of Quarryville was reelected president of the County Agricultural Council at a Farm Bureau Cooperative meeting last week. Officers elected or reelected include Vice President Charles Cowan of Lancaster, Secretary-Treasurer Lee Brobst of Leola, and Reporter Wayne B. Rentschler of Lampeter. The council praised the county weather bureau office for services rendered in the past year.
Donald Welk, 16, has shown at the Farm Show since age ten and his brother Paul will also participate. They are sons of Mr and Mrs Le Roy Welk of Strasburg.
A German soil scientist, H. J. Stembach, visits Lancaster County farms this week to discuss his ABC compounds for soil conditioning. He explains that organite additives restore texture and waterholding capacity lost from overuse and reduced organic matter, noting soil particles range from one part in a hundred to one ten thousandth of a millimeter. Continued on Page Five.
The Agriculture Department cites stronger consumer demand, expanded farm product exports, the soil bank to cut planted acres, and reduced hog marketing as the main factors behind the 1957 income outlook.
The Lancaster County Poultry Breeders Association schedules a work meeting at 7 30 p m on January 10 at the new poultry center on Route 230 Bypass. The session was called at a recent association meeting and aims to discuss solicitation and construction plans for the new building.
The Pennsylvania Milk Control Commission announces emergency pricing changes breaking from the 1942 seasonal program due to farmer requests. The shift affects milk pricing in multiple stations and aligns with the Federal Marketing Administrator in the Philadelphia Milk Shed. The same period sees a new use tax for trucks over 26,000 pounds, with filing forms available December 3 and deadlines January 31 for July through December vehicle use.
The Pennsylvania Milk Control Commission issued an emergency order stating there will be no seasonal decline in milk for farmers or consumers in the Philadelphia Milk Shed. The order takes effect January 1 and expires February 1, 1957, pending hearings in Philadelphia and suburban Philadelphia the week of January 7. The commission will consider a regular order for the Philadelphia area based on the hearings.
The Lancaster County Tobacco Show will be held today at the Mill Bank tobacco warehouse on North Water Street in Lancaster. Winning bids and exhibits are expected to draw local growers and merchants.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.