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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1956
Page
11
USDA economists project 1975 needs 210 million Americans to feed and clothe, a 25 percent rise from 1955. Livestock outputs must jump about 45 percent with cattle up 50 percent hogs 40 percent and sheep 25 percent. Cropland expansion is limited, so gains rely on higher yields and efficiency.
In Washington a discussion considered increasing the use of animal by products while excluding animal fats. Attendees included leather executives, shoe makers, research agencies, tanners laboratories, cattle producers, and packers. The talk reflected an old saying about hog by products and contemplated future developments in hog utilization.
One of the era's largest potato shipments of 1906 left Maine using 2,000 railroad cars to move tubers to the coast. They loaded boats to sail to Galveston Texas with water transport cheaper than rail. Potatoes packed in sacks of 11 pecks each for shipment.
Consular reports from 1906 show Russian wheat yields averaging six to eight bushels per acre in many districts, with some areas producing only four to five bushels. The text notes frugality in farm life, including the careful arrangement of wood piles as a sign of thrift.
The 1906 crop of water cress at Cameron cress farm on Donegal Creek in Lancaster County was estimated to reach 300 barrels, a record yield there. By Nov 15, 260 barrels had been shipped to New York markets. Nearby, a 50 year old contract for the county’s first all concrete barn was announced, with W. W. Heese’s farm slated for a slate roof barn with thick walls and concrete partitions. A theft occurred at Mailton Hunsberger’s Lancaster farm, and a large herd of cattle roamed Arizona’s Pinal basin, with 3,000 head owned by 20 men and free to wander from the border to the Canadian line.
Dr. Theodore B. Appel urged continued operation of five milk stations in Pennsylvania mining areas. Without fresh donations within three weeks the program will shut, as field nurses provide a pint daily to about 900 children at Avella Bernice Kinlock Renton and Coverdale, costing roughly $60 daily.
A psychologist advises starting with the child’s life interests to address behavior. If he sets fires or harms animals, consult another psychologist from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture per Common- **mnd** Times-Dispatch.
A 1956 sermon contrasts worldly calm with the peace Jesus offers. Faith must rest on God in Christ, not mere belief or indifference. true peace comes from turning to the Infinite God and trusting Jesus as the path to a heart that rests in purpose.
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