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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1957
Page
2
The signed agreements cover 1 707 321 acres of corn 1 798 614 acres of cotton 95 135 acres of rice 40 502 acres of tobacco and 11 610 396 acres of wheat including winter wheat activity reported by LANCASTER FARMING Classifieds Acts Pay.
This notice explains advance order discounts for Babcock products. It notes many customers place orders up to a year ahead to secure these discount benefits and invites requests for free literature and prices from Manheim, Pennsylvania.
Members of Society of Farm Women 17 will guest Farm Women 4 at the March 30 meeting in the Rohrerstown School. A State Police film on county safety and school safety was shown. Plans include a food sale at the John Musser farm sale and sewing cancer dressings at the Frank Nolt home. Eighty two attended, with Mrs. John Musser presiding.
Fred S. Glaes of Reading, director of the American Rose Society, addressed the Elizabethtown Rose Society on growing and exhibiting roses. Attendees included members and friends. Bus trips are being arranged to the Philadelphia Flower Show on March 26 and the New York Flower Show March 30 and 31.
Augie Ring of the National Live Stock and Meat Board says homemakers drive meat purchases and industry shifts to frozen meats, self service markets, boneless cuts, and convenient options. He notes growth of self service markets and trimmed cuts, plus a demand for dependable quality and ready-to-prepare products.
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture announced farm show prize and sale proceeds will be mailed this week. The largest check is 1 733.63 to Glenn Foreman of Manheim for his grand champion 4 H Angus steer. A total of 45 761.69 will be sent to 113 youths who sold steers and lambs at the 1957 Farm Show.
Preliminary plans for the 1957 Extension Homemakers Week were approved by the program planning committee led by Ruth Kimmel. The event runs June 17 to 20 on the Penn State campus with a three day program of varied interests and activities. Committee members include Mrs. Robert Nolt RJ Lancaster Mrs. Richard Meade Havertown Mrs. Robert Crissey Central City Mrs. Edward Turnbull Clards Summit Pauline Fetter Herndon and Mrs Harold Streator Corsica. County extension home economists on the panel are Mrs. Martha Chapman Wayne County Jane Ifft Indiana County Ruth Mangus Delaware County and Vivian Peterson Mercer County.
Japan imported 291.5 million pounds of wool in 1956 up from 205.4 million in 1955, a 42 percent gain. Most of the increase came from Australia and the higher imports are cited as a major factor strengthening the wool market in recent months.
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