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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1956
Page
7
Harrisburg reports the Game Commission paid $114,407 in bounties for 28,329 predators killed in Pennsylvania during the last fiscal year ending May 31. Claims covered 11,323 gray foxes, 15,915 red foxes, and 1,091 great horned owls.
Classified notices advertise broiler chicks from Arbor Acres and White Rocks with Cornish Crosses. equipment for farming including brooders egg grader pump and saw. woodland building lots near Hopeland Pa. guinea pigs rabbits pigeons and chinchillas breeding sales. a 1954 Plymouth convertible offered for sale. fire control systems gear. Salisbury's nitro feed promotion for poultry turkey and swine with price per ton and dealer contact details.
Advertising rates for Lancaster Farming include 4c per word for consecutive weekly ads with 80 cent minimum. Keyed ads add 25 cents for box numbers. Mail copy to the Classified Advertising Dept at Lancaster Farming, Quarryville PA. Deadline is Wednesday morning. no ads after 10:00 AM.
Washington USDA Secretary Ezra Benson announced national average rates for 1956 Soil Bank Acreage Reserve payments for tobacco and peanuts. Rates vary by tobacco type from 18 to 12 cents per pound, and peanut base rate is 3 cents per pound. Virginia and Valencia peanuts titled for 1956 have zero Acreage Reserve quotas. And farmers must sign with local ASC committees before participating.
The Pine Grove filtration plant will add two settling basins and four filters allowing Chester to draw 30 million gallons daily from the Octoraro Creek, up from 18 million. Albright and Friel of Philadelphia estimate completion by October.
A Washington USDA study from Rockford Illinois shows homemakers favor lighter fluffier white pan breads with 7 percent sucrose and 4 percent milk solids. Across several hundred testers 10 cubic inches per ounce loaf was preferred over 7, with 8 percent milk solids not clearly better than 4 percent.
Pennsylvania farmers plan a six percent drop in total pigs for 1956 with a spring crop of 530000 head and an expected fall crop of 420000 head. The 10 year average litter size and sow farrow data guide the projection, placing the national total around 88 million head, eight percent under 1955.
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