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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1957
Page
10
Associate County Agent Harry S. Sloate notes applying a light fertilizer after flowering benefits shrubs. Small plants receive about a half handful of 5-10-5 or 5-10-10 spread on soil and lightly raked, then watered well. Larger shrubs receive more, but once established the plant may not need fertilizer.
USDA report shows ready-to-cook poultry demand steady and supplies sufficient. Grade A and US Grade A 2-3 lb chickens traded at 32 to 35 cents per lb with most at 33-34. Hens priced steady, supplies ample, receipts May 21 include Maryland 89,000 lb, Delaware 97,000 lb, Virginia 31,000 lb, Georgia 19,000 lb, North Carolina 22,000 lb, South Carolina 23,000 lb.
Mid May marks the start of mosquito activity and control measures. County Agent Harry S. Sloate urges eliminating standing water as the key tactic to prevent breeding. Remove water in cans tires troughs barrels and buckets and treat depressions. A thin oil film on water kills wrigglers. repeat every seven to ten days through summer.
Peeples Ohio hosts the 1957 World’s Conservation Exposition and World Plowing Contests September 17 to 20 with competitors from about 15 nations vying for the Golden Plow trophy. The award honors plowmanship, using an 18th century Norfolk walking plow as a model, and the winner gains a year with the trophy plus a miniature replica. The inscription Pax Arva Colat, Let Peace Cultivate the Fields, is carved on the cup.
Iowa State College reports mechanization reduces pheasant nesting success in hayfields from 20 percent to seven percent. Fall pheasant numbers decline from about 210 birds per section in 1940 to 100 in 1954 on a 1 500 acre study area.
Smith is chosen to represent the state in national contests as part of a record of 19 state contest wins and 15 during 4 H Club Week. He helped form the Red Rose DHIA the Lancaster County Poultry Assn the Lancaster County Swine Producers Assn and the Chester Lancaster County Producers Cooperative Exchange and is a noted livestock judge across the state. Dr Johnson joined Penn State from Ohio State University and the University of Wisconsin and has built a large film and slide archive while serving in agricultural publicity roles. This marks the second straight year a Pennsylvania Extension worker earned USDA Superior Service Award with prior recipients Verna Criss and William Greenawalt.
During the week of April 21 27 farm worker numbers fell by 299 000 compared with the comparable week in 1956 The Crop Reporting Board notes a usual seasonal rise of about 1 million workers from late March to late April this year The total number of persons working on farms that week is not shown in the excerpt.
The report states 7 455 000 total workers with 5 945 000 family workers and 1 510 000 hired hands. The figures detail employment by worker type and imply a structured labor distribution.
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