Extension Homemakers Week Planned At Penn State Campus
Extension Homemakers Week runs June 17 to 20 at Penn State University Park with Miss Ruth Kimble announcing a varied three day program. Speakers include Ins Davenport Dr Harry Overstreet Mrs Dexter G Arnold and Martha Mc Donald. Activities feature music tours chicken barbecue vespers and a banquet.
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Extension Homemakers
Pennsylvania State University
University Park
Ruth Kimble
Extension Home
Lancaster County
Ins Davenport
Farm and Ranch
Nashville
University
Hort“Woods
Hetzel Union
PP and L to Build 330000 kW Steam Plant on Brunner’s Island
PP and L announced plans for a new 330000 kilowatt steam power plant on Brunners Island 15 miles below Harrisburg. Construction will begin after 1958 with a 766 acre site, a 2 million kilowatt potential, and 1200000 ton annual coal usage. The project, costing about 24 million this year, includes extending a 220600 volt line to South Akron and adding a 150000 KVA substation. The site is not for atomic generation. PP and L will utilize atomic energy commission work when economically sound.
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Brunners Island
Harrisburg
Charles E Oakes
Pennsylvania Power and Light Co
Pp&l
Martin’s Creek
Akron
PP & L
Atomic Energy Commission
Calf Trio at Barn Attributed to One Cow
Roy Steffy inspects three newborn calves in the barn and finds they all belong to a single cow rather than three cows. The discovery highlights an unusual birth event on the farm.
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Roy Steffy
Manheim
Rainy 1956 Boosted State Vegetable Profits
The 1956 wet season boosted crop yields with 29.69 inches of rain from April to October, 6.17 inches above normal. Totals show a 42 percent rise in total tonnage and a $5 million gain in farm income from 12 fresh market vegetables and nine processing crops, processing values up 54 percent to $11.3 million and fresh market at $10.8 million.
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State Department of Agriculture
Regis
February Dairy Price Support Purchases Report
February purchases totaled 10,061,996 pounds butter 13, 34,623 pounds cheddar cheese and 29,051,962 pounds nonfat dry milk. Compared with February 1956 butter 13,279,237 cheese 11,988,264 and nonfat dry milk 53,672,842. Five major processing crops tomato sweet corn lima beans snap beans peas totaled 275,000 tons with 1955 drought limiting to 153,006 tons. Tomatoes accounted for 6.9 million dollars, about twice the value of the poor 1955 crop. 1956 canning tomatoes yield tied 9.2 tons per acre, a record. Sweet corn processing averaged 3.4 tons per acre, up 43 percent.
Japanese Marketing Team Tours Lancaster Stock Yard Visit
An eight member livestock marketing and meat processing study team from Japan toured the Lancaster Stock Yards and Christ Kunzler Packing Co in Lancaster on Tuesday. The visit, arranged with the International Cooperation Administration and Penn State University, included Melvin G Rohrer farm in Lititz and focused on small scale family farming practices and dairy cattle in Japan.
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Lancaster
Japan
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Brunner’s
Steffy
Pennsylvania State University Agronomy Department
Thomas Y. Arai
Eddie Mixutani
Japan Productivity Center
Masso Kamio
Livestock Bureau
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Tadakazu
Goto
Ossaka
Jokichi Higuchi
Tokyo Shibaura Livestock Viscera Cooperative Assn
Kentaro Nagao
Meat Commercial Cooperative Assn
Yoshinori Okoso
Tokushima Ham Co., Ltd
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