Enrollment limits hit Penn State as 6500 rejected
Dr Milton S Eisenhower told FFA week attendees at State College that about 6500 of roughly 10 000 freshman applicant requests will be turned down next fall. The York Lancaster County District FFA Softball Team won its third straight trophy, and John D Stoner 19 was named regional vice president for a 10 county area. He farms with his father near Lampeter and has a long FFA record including Holstein cattle and a 4H background.
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State University of Pennsylvania
Milton S. Eisenhower
State
Future Farmers of America
State College
York Lancaster County
FFA
John D Stoner
John H Stoner
Lancaster
Stoner
Lampeter
Strasburg-Lampeter
Stoners
John
Hampshire
Robert Book
Yorkshire
George W Myers
Hubbard Farms
Holstein 4H
4H Electric Club
Holstein Quartet
Catalina Four
Garden Spot
Chap
Sixth grader helps family during strawberry season
A Lancaster Farming caption notes a sixth grader happily helping her parents during strawberry season, capturing a moment of family labor and rural life.
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Lancaster Farming
Acreage Reserve Soil Bank Plan Gets Underway
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson announces participation requirements for the 1956 Acreage Reserve Program under Public Law 540. County ASC committees will administer the plan and will publish local details when signed farm agreements become available at the county office. The 1956 rates apply only to this year as a special program to meet legislative time limits.
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Harrisburg
Soil Bank Act
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft
Soil Bank
Peas Yield 1.5 Tons In Whiteford Harvest
Alaskan sugar peas are yielding a ton and a half per acre on farms in western Lancaster County Whiteford Packing Co of Whiteford Md contracted by the Whiteford Md according to W Edgar Merryman field representative Cutting started Saturday and work is in full swing at hullets throughout the southern end of the county Merryman says the crop quality is excellent.
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Lancaster
Whiteford Packing Co
Whiteford
W Edgar Merrymian
Merryman
Lancaster County Farm Products Value in 1954 Hits 80 Million
County farmers sold 7 951 farms 80 150 566 in 1954 according to a Census Bureau preliminary report. Crops totaled 22 110 076 with field crops 17 664 288 vegetables 1 986 191 fruits and nuts 657 187 and horticultural specialties 1 802 410. Livestock and products reached 57 995 443 including dairy 16 657 487 poultry 20 381 221 and other livestock 20 956 735. Forest products sold totaled 45 047 and state reports list county values with copies available from the Census Bureau in Washington.
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Lancaster County
Bureau of the Census
US Department of Commerce
Washington
D. C
Crop Outlook Improves Amid Warm to Cold Swing in Lancaster
County Agricultural Agent Max M. Smith reports rapid crop progress after last week's heat. Corn and tomatoes show improvement while first cuttings of hay must be made now to preserve feed value. Moisture has risen to two and a third inches for the month, with scattered showers forecast for Friday and Saturday.
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Lancaster County
Lancaster
Max M. Smith
Baby Broiler Meet At Art's Restaurant June 28
A dinner meeting to promote the new Baby Broiler will be held at Art's Restaurant on Route 72 south of Manheim at 6 30 p m Thursday June 28. Guest speaker will be present, said Paul H Metzler president of Goldfus Hatcheries.
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Art’s
Route 72
Manheim
Paul H. Metzler
Goldfus Hatcheries
Stauffer Farms Hosts Four H Stock Judging Event
About 60 youths and advisors from seven counties judged registered Hampshire Hog Suffolk sheep and Angus cattle at Stauffer Homestead Farms East Earl for a preliminary to the Pennsylvania 4 H Club Week in August. Lancaster Chester Montgomery Franklin Lebanon York Adams counties were represented.
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Pennsylvania
Stauffer Homestead Farms
East Earl
Lancaster
Chester
Montgomery
Franklin
Lebanon
York
Adams
Hampshire
Suffolk
A . C. Groff
Earl S Fisher
John D Arndt
Lancaster County
Max M Smith
Tom King
Penn State U. Livestock Extension
New Holland
Stauffer Farms
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Penn State
John D. Stoner
Fern Yoder
John Yoder
Christiana
Benson
Baby Broiler
Stauffer Homestead
MR. and
Mrs. Groff
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