Tobacco price and acreage trends in 1957 report
The 1956 57 tobacco situation shows lower domestic use of cigar filler and binder tobaccos, with Pennsylvania 41 acreage about the same and Ohio 42 44 may drop around seven to eight percent. Ohio filter growers hold 375 acres in Soil Bank. If 1957 yields match 1952 56, filter production would run near 54 million pounds, about six percent below 1956. Continental filler stocks on Oct 1 1957 may total roughly 125 million pounds, down 1 2 percent from the prior year. The 1957 58 total supply including carryover may reach about 179 pounds three percent.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Poultry Barbeque Nets $1 318 Above Costs
Lancaster County Poultry Association reports a preliminary profit of 1318.02 from its barbeque with total value including equipment rising to 2906.80. A committee to improve next year’s service was formed and plans discussed to expand the cooking contest with gas appliances replacing electric. An update on the poultry tour committee was given with dates and visit sites to follow in a mailed notice to members.
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Lancaster County Poultry Assn
Lew Mortenson
Mortenson
Mortensen
Jay Greider
Walter Aierstuck
Mark Myer
Clara Kopf
World Championship Rodeo to Highlight Pennsylvania Exposition
The 1957 Pennsylvania Livestock Exposition in Harrisburg will feature a world championship rodeo staged at the Farm Show Building November 12 to 16. Producer Tommy Steiner of Austin Texas brings top professionals sanctioned by the Rodeo Cowboys Association. The event marks the first world championship rodeo in the East in over a decade and will include five standard cowboy events with prize money above 15000 dollars. Local audiences can expect celebrity appearances and a Ranch world champion cowgirl event plus notable rodeo stars like Virginia Hadley.
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Harrisburg
Tommy Steiner
Austin
Texaas
Rodeo Cowboys Assn. of America
Parances
Pennsylania
Ranch
Virginia Hadley
Madison Square Garden
Boston Garden
Steiner
Wheat Harvest Gains Momentum In Garden Spot Area
Wheat harvest proceeds with strong test weights and yields this year. A producer hails it as a wheat year to note in the ledger as harvest moves through Nelson Weaver's near Quarryville. The piece also notes top rodeo producers staging indoor events in St Louis Shreveport Montgomery and Evansville with contract signings by John Bloom and Buff L Coleman.
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Nelson Weaver’s
Quarryville
St Louis
Sheveport
Montgomery
Ala
Evansville
Ind
Southwest
John Bloom
Ebensburg
Buff L Coleman
Easton
Time to Embrace Silage and Seed Plans in Lancaster County
County Agricultural Agent M. M. Smith promotes trench silos for affordable silage storage and outlines summer seeding windows for birdfoot trefoil alfalfa red clover and pasture mixtures. He urges soil tests and group farming, highlighting the County Swine Producers Assn., and advises real estate owners to review fire insurance to reflect rising replacement costs.
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Lancaster County
County Swine Producers Assn
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