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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1956
Page
7
The National Live Stock and Meat Board reports 1955 pork per capita consumption at 66 pounds, up 11 percent from 1954 but below the 1947–49 average. Beef remains preferred at 81 pounds. Retail pork prices are at their lowest since 1950 as producers, processors, and retailers push leaner cuts to boost demand and lift the market.
The USDA forecasts the nation's food supply in 1956 to be about the same size as 1955 and retail prices to be similar. Per person expenditures may rise slightly due to higher consumption and continued shifts to processed foods and marketing services. Beef pork fluid milk and chicken consumption likely up. veal lamb and mutton may decline.
The General Services Administration reports vast federal property including 384,916 buildings valued at 145 billion and 22 billion square feet of floor space. It covers 408 million acres valued at 2.4 billion with $15.6 billion in structures and facilities. The Pentagon spans 34 acres and 11,777 domestic installations cost 325 billion, with holdings rising 22 billion in 18 months.
The article traces how breeding science, once focused on human heredity, now guides livestock and crop improvement. It emphasizes selection and development of proper breeding stock as the path to meat type hogs milkers beef producers and broilers and notes the farm level adoption spreading across plants as well.
50 years ago this week J D Herr of the State Department of Agriculture announced a proven treatment to destroy the San Jose scale after testing on 26 sprayed trees in Lancaster. A tenant farmer on Mrs Wise’s farm was arrested for stealing six cows and a calf, with cattle recovered near Wrightsville. A New Salem farmer, A M Gladfelter, was critically injured in a threshing accident. The period notes farmers bearing the 1931 price decline and Farm Board funding debates, plus C Dosin’s poultry talk and Poultry Bureau results led by Ben W Jacobs with a white Leghorn pullet that laid 327 eggs.
Readers are invited to write brief signed letters on Lancaster farming and current events. Names may be withheld upon request.
A reader letter from Adams County Iowa laments drought droughty conditions and low prices. The writer describes hauling water and giving away livestock, criticizes Secretary Benson for inaction and calls for factory jobs to aid farmers. The note ties local hardship to the See It Now Farm Problem program.
The 71st Congress adjourned March 4 1931 after passing a record ten billion dollar peace-time appropriation. The funds target relief from the nation’s business decline drought and agricultural distress with GOP leaders noting the mood.
A devotional meditation contrasts urban fragility with rural roots. It notes how cities shape culture, fashion, religion, and commerce, warning against mass society and commercialized faith as Easter approaches. The piece cites Palm Sunday crowds, Davy Crockett era contrasts, and warns Mass Man may miss divine visitation.
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