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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1957
Page
10
Travelers Report notes farmers are distressed as corners of the Cornbelt fear late planting because ground preparation is delayed by ongoing rainfall. Wheat lands suffer flood damage and many crop yields are expected to drop due to extreme wet weather.
Dwight Younkin of Penn State explained silage and forage use in a swine feeding program showing sows fed silage before farrowing yield more pigs and lower costs. Home Economics exhibits covered furniture refinishing mental health foods and 4 H Club demos with Lancaster County workers Bonnie Bare Witmer Ginnie Glass Phoebe Griffith and Flaine Gockley. A new John Deere baler model impressed, producing 17 baled units and ejecting them into a cart, paired with a new random stacking system for barns, promising one man haymaking.
Broilers and turkeys show light demand with excess supplies. Large White Rock and Cross birds offered at 23-25 cents, Reds 23-25, under 3 lb Silver Cross 23-24, White Rocks 23, White Crosses 23. Turkeys: Buff and bronze breeders 25, White Holland breeders 20, Toms 17. Total receipts 68,000 lbs on June 4 with Maryland, Delaware shipments. Prices for wholesale lots list 3 lb fryers 23-24, 3 4 lb 23-25, pullets 24-25, hens 17-22, old roosters 10-11, ducks Muscovy 28-29 and Pekin 28-30.
On exhibit were test plots of hay and small grain varieties, chemical test plots for insect and weed control, and fertilizer value plots. Buses shuttled spectators to distant steps. Officials included Arthur T Prasse, H R McCulloch, L H Bull, and John T Fogel who presided as general chairman. A Cumberland County Farm Women Society concert followed, with L H Seltzer directing.
The Agricultural Marketing Service released a second report on the economic impact of trading stamps used by grocers. It surveys consumer attitudes toward saving stamps and redemption merchandise while noting 60 percent of U S shoppers reportedly save stamps.
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