Twenty One Race for Lancaster County Queen of the Furrow
Twenty one young women from Lancaster County enter the county Queen of the Furrow contest at Lyte Auditorium Mullersville State Teachers College. County chairman Amos Funk lists entrants including Amy Sellers Miriam Moyer Lorraine Hess and others. Two county winners advance to Hershey area contest on August 3 with ten finalists advancing to the state contest on August 15. The state winner receives a New York City trip clothing wardrobe and serves as official greeter at the National Plowing Match and Conservation Exposition at Hershey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
Lyte Auditorium
Mullersville State Teachers College
Amos H Funk
Millersville
Hershey
New York City
Egg production on farms climbs in May totals 5.543 billion
Washington reports farm flocks laid 5.543 million eggs during May 1957. Total egg production from January through May 1958 fell three percent compared with the same period last year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Rainfall Spurs Crop Growth and Barley Cutting Nears Here
Rainfall last week boosted crop growth across Pennsylvania but slowed field work with wet ground delaying hay making and cultivation. Cutting of barley should begin in South Central counties this week as corn growth accelerates and yields in wheat hold near record levels. peaches and apples size improve with adequate moisture while strawberries finish harvest in the south and central regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
State Departee of Agriculture
Serice
Philadelphia
Lorenson Transferred From Lancaster AMS to Omaha Dress Meat Reports
Livestock price reporter Dave Lorenson is leaving the Lancaster Office of the Agricultural Marketing Service at Lancaster Union Stock Yards effective today. Mike Snedden of Sioux City Iowa will replace him. Lorenson opened the local market news office on July 1 1955 and will move to Omaha to establish a dressed meat report. He previously worked at AMS offices in Sioux Falls Tulsa Oklahoma Des Moines and he and his wife live in Leola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Sorenson
Agricultural Marketing Service
Lancaster Stockyards
Omaha
Neb
Lancaster
David Lorenson
Lancaster Union Stock Yards
Mike Snedden
Sioux City
Iowa
Sneaden
Oklahoma State University
Sioux Falls
AMS
Sorenson
Omaha Neb
Julsa
Okla
Des Moines
Leola
Conservation Reserve rents may be boosted in 1959
Federal soil bankers plan a 35 percent rate hike to 16 20 an acre in Lancaster County to attract more farm land into the Conservation Reserve with long term 3 to 10 year contracts. The program aims to cut production by idle acres and shift cropland into cover crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
Federal
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sity
Amy Sellers
Miriam Moyer
Manheim
Lorraine Hess
Peach Bottom
Sandra Jean Graeff
Quarryville
Debbie Jeanne Herr
Elizabethtown
Mary Jane Hill
Lititz
Rosemary Andrews
Elizabeth A Brabson
Linda Mumma
Manheun
Lois Demmy
Ephrata
Lorraine Hauer
Joanne E Jackson
Grace Funk
June L Evans
Lois Charles
Oregon Pike
Bonnie Lou Herr
Mulersville
Gladys Langrey
Ruth Ann Carroll
Mary Jane Landis
Mt Joy
Fay Landis
Shirley Housekeeper
Nottingham
Melvin Groff
Kermit Snyder
al Christiana
Dave Lorenson
Nebraska
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