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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1956
Page
7
John J. Hess II announces the opening of his feed mill at New Providence along Route 222. The facility offers complete grinding and mixing equipment to support growing business and better serve area farmers.
A new series of Poultry Husbandry scholarships at Pennsylvania State University provides $600 annually to four incoming or already enrolled students. Prof E W Callenbach of poultry husbandry said official application forms are available for qualifying students.
A mixed classified listing features items for sale including machinery parts such as a 30 gallon hydraulic pump and egg grader, woodland building lots for sale north of Hopeland, Paule County Pa, and a 1954 Plymouth convertible priced at 1350. Also included are ads for raising small animals, poultry feed, and a Feeds product booster from Salisbury’s. Names include Aaron S Zimmerman Jay D Muller Keeney Bros Farm R. H. Low and F W Fisher Peacock Leola.
Classified ad rates outline costs for Box numbers in Lancaster Farming. Ads run three or more times without changes cost four cents per word per insertion with a minimum charge. send copy to the Classified Advertising Dept Quarryville PA. Deadline is Wednesday morning for each weekly issue.
A new FCDA leaflet titled RFD Rural Family Defense distributes a five point plan for rural civil defense. It urges farmers to protect families, preserve production, market outputs, shelter evacuees, and train with civil defense units. Copies cost five cents from US Government Printing Office.
Nor ris Chandler of Nu- Car Carriers in Chester Pa received the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association Driver of the Month Award at a Spring Haven Country Club luncheon near Media. He drove over 350 000 miles in seven years without a chargeable accident and helped avert a possible fatal bus crash near Trenton New Jersey.
Carson F Mertz urges preemptive fire safety for farms advising a ready supply of water and portable pumps, approved extinguishers near barns and storage tanks, garden hoses, ladders, and a pump sprayer or wet burlap for field fires.
State agricultural officials report midweek rain hindered field work in Pennsylvania, but crops and pastures show good growth. Harvesting of wheat begins in southern counties, early potatoes market, red cherries for canning and freezing underway, tomatoes sizing, and sweet corn tasseling observed as conditions improve after wet weather.
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