Non compliance price supports offered for 1958 corn
Secretary Benson announced that price support will be available for the 1958 crop corn not produced under acreage allotments in designated commercial areas. The national average support will be 1.06 dollars per bushel, with two levels for compliant and non compliant production and a review by the Commodity Credit Corporation Advisory Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson
Commodity Credit Corporation Advisory Board
Benson
Cresswell to Retire from State Agriculture Post
Donald M Cresswell, 67, longtime public relations official in Pennsylvania, will retire October 3 after 32 years with the State Department of Agriculture. He has headed the Government Information Division since 1943. James H Smith and Robert E Best named to handle department public information on an acting basis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald M Cresswell
State Department of Agriculture
Cresswell
Government
Public Information
Pennsylvania
State Department of Public Instruction
Wlliam L Henning
Commonwealth
Better Poultry Health Exhibit Promises Diagnostic Demos
Penn State will highlight «Better Poultry Health» at the NEPPCO Poultry Industry Exposition October 7 8 and 9 in Harrisburg. The exhibit mimics a laboratory with macroscopes virus cultures and an automatic slide projector to show poultry disease causes and diagnosis methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penn State University
Neppco
Farm Show
Harrisburg
State Poultry Diagnostic Laboratories
State Bureau of Animal Industry
School of Veterinary Medicine
University of Pennsylvania Veterinarians
Robert F Gentry
Penn State
P H Saitz
Bureau of Animal Industry
George Sperling
School of
Soil Conservation Conference Highlights Turnpike Cost Debate
At the annual District Directors conference in Sunbury the group urged Pennsylvania to fund soil conservation, noting state spending over 20 years has fallen short of the cost of one mile of the Turnpike. Speakers promoted PL 566 watershed projects and local SCD signups, with Elmer Sensenig praising district operator support and free service benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sunbury
United States
William Richards
National Association of Soil Conservation District
Ruichards
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
State Soil Conservation Commission
Pennsylvania Turnpike
State Commission
Ivan McKeever
Soil Conservation Service
Harrisburg
Lancaster County
Elmer Sensenig
New Holland
Soil Conservation District
Sensenig
Stone Valley
Northumberland County
William L Henning
State Conservation Commission
Henning
Hershey
Commonwealth
Schuylkill County Conservation District
Pottsville
Pennsylvania
County Showmen Enter Penn Nat's Competition
Thirty nine junior showmen by Tuesday filed entries of beef cattle for the Pennsylvania National Livestock Exposition. Show chairman William L Medford announced entries closed at midnight October 1. Listed exhibitors include Lancaster County Elizabethtown crews and Manheim references with breeds Angus Hereford Shorthorn in Dauphin York Cumberland Berks counties among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wiliam L Medford
Lancaster County
Angus Betty Jane Hess
Lorraine Hackman
Gary Kreiner
Elizabethtown
Dennis Langrey
Conestoga
John J Good
Wilbur Hosler
Marline Cassel
Glen Foreman
Manheim
Larry G Falco
Millersville
Darvin
Bruce Boyd
Tom Newburn
James Kile
Darlene Gates
James Gates
Hershey
Mary
Earl Dehmey
Middletown
Eugene Sweigart
Halifax
York County
Angus Carmine Queensberry
Stewartstown
Hereford
James Queenberry
Wayne E Paup
Hellam
Cumberland County
Angus Barbara Carole Brindle
Jay Fough
Mechanicsburg
Guernsey Gold Star Sire Majesty Wins Breed Award
SPAB co op Sire Majesty bred by Barclay K. Douglas South Arlington Vermont now owned by Southeastern Pennsylvania Artificial Breeding Co op Lancaster. Majesty has 14 tested daughters 33 records 11313 pounds milk 643 fat 305 2x ME and 17 classified daughters 835 Desirable. Majesty s dam Pointon Maxims May 1956 Tarbell trophy winner. Sire Foremost Royal 14th 21 tested daughters 48 records 11396 milk 545 fat. Black Hole Hollow Farms to receive certificate. Gold Star program honors superior sires dams breeders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peterborough
American Guernsey Cattle Club
Guernsey
B.H.H. Valor’s Majesty
Barclay K
Douglas
South Arlington
Vermont
Southeastern
Majesty
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Donald M. Cressweil
SCD
Penn
Spab Co-op
Poiiton Maxim
Ing
Royal
Black Hole Hollow Farms
R D
Stewart
AGCO
Faim
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