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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1965
Page
16
Crop and Livestock Round-Up notes total potato production in Pennsylvania projected at 7.2 million hundredweight based on October 1 conditions, a 3 percent rise from the prior forecast and potentially 6 percent above 1964. National production also higher than earlier estimates, signaling stronger yields nationwide.
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service reports 44,000 cattle and calves on feed for slaughter on October 1 1965 down 14 percent from a year earlier and 4 percent below July 1 levels. Marketings of fed cattle in the July to September quarter totaled 33,000, a 3 percent decline from the prior year.
Production of egg and broiler-type chicks in Pennsylvania fell 26 percent from January to September 1965 compared with 1964. On October 1 1965 there were 7 359 000 cattle on feed in 32 states up 7 percent from 1964, with shifts across weight groups and notable increases in heifers.
The colorful Pittsburgh figure known as Double X Orton wore a stove pipe hat and buffalo coat while peddling his own Reliable AX Cough Drops on street corners. After a sheriff election defeat he claimed supporters had given him the nickname and slogan Double X.
The Benjamin Franklin Bridge completed in 1926 was designed by architect Paul Cret, a Philadelphia native. At completion it stood as the longest bridge in the United States and remains a landmark of engineering history.
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