New Mushroom Research Center Opens At State University
The State University unveils a $63 000 mushroom research center at the 1959 Short Course. Researcher R Kneebone reports the new facility offers precise environmental control, with room temperatures stable within three fourths of a degree and adjacent rooms differing by 180 and 50 degrees. State growers supply over half the nation’s mushrooms.
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Cent
1A State University
R Kneebone
Uit
Wool yield climbs after drought hit 1950s output
Pennsylvania official reports rising wool production with the 1958 clip at about 241 million pounds the strongest since 1947 as droughts waned. Stocks of sheep and lambs on farms rose four percent to the highest since 1948 and ewe lambs up eight percent.
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Earl L Groff
Strasburg
Pennsylvania Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Groft
Ewe
Farm Calendar July 28-30 with 4-H events
July 28 7 30 pm Manor 4-H Stehman's Church. July 28 4-H Field Day Rain Date. July 29 9 00 am Lancaster County Poultry Tour to York County assemble at Gladfelter Paper Co Spring Grove. July 30 Holstein Breeder's Field Day 10 am Henry Kettering farm Lititz. August 4 County 4-H Council picnic 7 pm.
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Manor
Stehman’s Church
Lancaster County
York County
Gladfelter Paper Co
Spring Grove
York
Henry Kettering
Lititz
Higher Profits Shown by Meat Packers in 1958
In 1958 the American meat packing industry set a wholesale sales record of 13 205 million, up eight percent from 1957, with industry profits rising to 982 million, four percent above the 1957 total. The Financial facts report notes reduced operating costs and a net worth around 1 500 million, up five percent from 1957.
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American Meat Insitute
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US Dept of Wealth Public Health Service
Cliff Lehman
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Harvestore
Purdue University
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Harvestore Sales & Service
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