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Newspaper
New Holland Clarion
Location
New Holland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1950
Page
5
J. K. Thornton head of the agriculture committee says the Farm and Home Week program at Pennsylvania State College is ready for crowds for June 27 28 and 29. Officials expect thousands daily as planning wraps up.
Special buses transport visitors over the college 3000 acre farms and to points of interest including orchards livestock farms and forest plantings. All three sections of the School extension resident instruction and research staffs aid in building exhibits act as guides and provide other features for the occasion with cooperation from the School of Home economics.
Heavy culling and flock reductions in Pennsylvania flocks during May still yielded a May record of 318 million eggs. The average layer count reached 17.616 million, beating the prior May high and hinting at a 1950 all time regional record. Prices to farmers fell sharply from 80.2 to 34.8 cents a dozen in May.
Economics and the USDA Pasture Research Laboratory permit expansion of interests with demonstrations movies and inspection trips for homemakers. A visiting editors and newspapermen team and radio staff get on site recording rooms while state tours use campus dormitory housing. Juvenile movies and play yard provided with refreshment booths managed by student magazine staff.
Prices for feed and eggs show May favoring producers only modestly as a dozen eggs cost more feed than in prior months. Live chicken prices slip slightly from April while turkey prices rise by one cent per pound. All prices fall from a year earlier though feed costs rise and average Pennsylvania farm flock layers produce slightly more.
The swim lake at Indiantown Gap military reservation reopened to the public last Saturday for the summer season ending Labor Day. Major General Frank A. Weber announced the seven acre pool will be open 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. daily. He estimated about a half million people used the facility last summer.
The May lay rate fell to under 18 eggs per layer, the lowest since 1945, yet the number of layers was enough to establish a new monthly record.
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