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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1958
Page
11
County poultrymen are urged to resist selling broilers privately to buyers who come to the door with money. The piece warns such privatization could weaken the Lancaster Auction market and lower prices, declaring that market health depends on regular auctions and fair competition among buyers.
A Texas mother recalls an 1883 NC resort incident where an Italian released red balloon clusters that lifted a baby girl into the air before a boat crew saved her. Other notes include a 2,610 pound steer cherished by a Fulton County family, a London 1908 International Horse Show sweep, and a musical cow incident in 1908 where a mouth organ caused a cow to emit music as it breathed.
Lancaster Farming announces Alfred C Alspach as publisher and Robert E Best as editor for its weekly farm paper. It notes publication by Octoraro Newspapers in Quarryville, rates at 2 per year or three years for five dollars, with single copies at five cents.
A 1933 diary-style report recalls the Octoraro Farmers Club meeting at Walnut Lane Farm Collamet with brief sessions and a dinner. It also notes a lightning death near Cochranville Roy Coates and a later postal service economy plan cutting nine days pay for most workers. It mentions a Senate highway bridge proposal over the Susquehanna.
The article details safe spraying for corn with drop nozzles to reduce leaf damage and weed spray drift, and promotes sowing cover crops like domestic red clover or field bromegrass at 20 to 25 pounds per acre after last corn cultivation. It also discusses alfalfa harvest timing and Sudan grass grazing precautions, plus a Senate-passed bill allowing borrowing from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to fund toll bridge projects on the Susquehanna at Bainbridge Safe Harbor and Holtwood.
A June 29 1958 voice for God lesson argues that true divine guidance comes through conscience and alignment with Jesus Christ not through loud claims. The Eli Samuel story illustrates how a genuine message hurts conscience and matches God’s revealed law.
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