16—Lancaster Farming. Friday, April 13, 1957 Poultry Assn. Producers Banquet Reported as Completely Sold Out The $25 a plate Poultry Bo osters banquet scheduled for Wednesday night at Hostetter’s in Mt. Joy is a complete selWut, it was announced at a meeting of the ticket sales committee at the Poultry Center Monday night Only 150 (tickets were offered by the Poultry Assn, because of the limited space available at Hostetter’s Each ticket admits two persons Come In... Bring a Sharp P on any new FARMALL TRACTOR POWER Put to Better Use with New Fast-Hitch with Traction-Control afid Exdu sive PILOT-GUIDE ... you get extra traction weight automatically. POWER Put to Better Use with New Power-Spaced Wheels! Adjust rear wheel spac ing in seconds . . . change jobs quickly. POWER Put to Better Use with New Increased Horsepower! Power efficiency as you’ve never known it to make every job faster. easier. POWER Put to Better Use with Dozens of Famous IH Features—Torque " Amplifier, Completely Independent Pto, Hydra- Touch, Power Steering. Ask for a FREE DEMONSTRATION on Your Own Farm M<TCKNATI«H*I HAtvmc* This banquet is the follow-up to a $lOO a plate banquet held last month. The dinner a. month ago was primarily for represent atives of the allied fields of poul try This one is primarily for poultry producers Slated to speak is Harold Kla hold, president of the Northeast ern Poultry Producers Council A finaricial report on the con struction of the Center will be given by Martin Miller, associa tion treasurer. jf| Kauffman Bros. Mountville D. M. Kurtz Morgantown D. L. Diem & Sons Lititz Cope & Weaver Willow Street Quarryville-Wakefield Hay Meetings Attended by 88 Farmers (Continued from page 1) which will prqyc economical over a length of time. The cost is about $2,000 a wagon for this type installation. Elam Longehecker, R 1 Man heim, sumed up the purpose of the meeting when he said, “For years you fellows have been tell ing us to make' better hay, but you never told us how. I used the barn drier last year and ’think that is the best thing that has come out for a long time ’’ advance in price, and at 19.5 cents per pound were the highest since August 1956. After holding steady Messick Farm Equip. Elizabethtown J. Paul Nolt Gap C. E. Wiley & Son for two months, egg prices drop ped (o 36 cents per dozen. This is the lovyest price received for eggs since June 1950. Turkey prices were unchanged from mid-Febru ary. Effects of poor harvesting wea ther last year are still in evi dence, the Department said. Low quality grains were unsteady, and hay dropped 80 cents from mid- February. Reports from the March survey indicate that much of the remaining hay is of pool quality, and some corn, still high in moisture content, is showing J. B. Hostetter & Son Mt. Joy C. B. Hoober Intercourse McCormick Farm Equip. Store Ephrata v * V ' Potato Stocks. * Hit 7 Year Low • In Pennsylvania HARfIISBURG Stocks of po tatoes on hand in Pennsylvania are the lowest in seven years, commercial growers plan to cut back their 1957 potato plantings to the smalest in history, and to-* bacco growers plan no change from last year’s acreaget the State Department of Agriculture an nounced Monday. Stocks of all: potatoes held by Keystone State growers and deal ers On March 1 were estimated at 1.100.000 hundiedweight or about half the 2,180,000 on hand March 1 last year Potatoes on hand were the lowest of record dating back,'l to 1950 Disappearance during February is estimated at 1,300,000 hundredweight compared with 1,- 310.000 last year In early March potatoes moved in vglume from those sections with stocks remaining on March 1. Stocks still on hand include po tatoes for table stock, feed for livestock, seed for the 1,957 crop and amounts to be used for feed, seed and household use on farms *1 where grown. Reports, from farmers indicate a. decrease of 1,000 acres (two per cent) is planned for potatoes in Pennsylvania from the 52,000 acres planted in 1956. If these in tensions are fulfilled, this would be the'smallest planted acreage of record. The average planted acreage for the 10-year (1946-55) pgriod is 83,000 acres. Farm Calendar TODAY Eastern - States Membership meetings —.7:45 p. m. at Bare ville Fire Hall. Speakfer will be Ossie Mills, E.S.C. spray and dust service. SATURDAY Farm Women's Society 9 —> Hostess will be Mrs. Helen Eshle nian, Safe Harbor. Co-hostesses are Mrs. Margaret Hagn and Mrs. Ellen Fink. Pomona Grange No. 71—8 p m. at Kirkwood. Colerain Grange will be host. -MONDAY Swine committee meeting 8 p. m. at Farm Bureau Coopera tive, Dillerville Road, Lancaster. Lincoln Community 4-H Club— ( 7 30 p. m. at Ward Bottled Gas: Co., fSphrata. TUESDAY Manheim Young Farmers Assn, 8 p. m. at Manheim Township. High School. Speaker will be Fred Hughs, farm management specia list. i . Guernsey Breeders Assn, tout l 7:30 a. m., CTC car barn, Lan caster. Southeast District DHIA. test ers conference —Artificial Breed ing Cooperative, Lancaster. Ban quet at 6:30 p. m. at Kauffman’s, East Petersburg. Drumore Community 4-H Club 7.30 p. m. at Drumore School. Eastern States Membership meeting 7:45 p. m. at’ Stras burg Fire Hall. Speaker will be Addison Clark, assistant ~to the ■general - manager 'of ’Easferri. , States. WEDNESDAY Farm and Home. Planning group 8 p. m. at Farxp Bureau Cooperative meeting roomj- Dil lerville Road, Lancaster. ■ New Holland 4-H Baby Beef and Lamb Club 7:30 p. tn, at New Holland P.P. & L. building. Speaker will be James WOlge muth of the power company. 1 Hempfield Community-' 4-H <■ Club 7:30 p. m. at Farmdale School. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY - Sheep shearing school in York County. No cost. Persons desiting to attend should write t>r ■ -con tact County Agent Max Smith at the extension office in Lancaster. -THURSDAY Eastern Slates* Membership meeting 7:45 at Gap Fire Kail. t Speakers • will be Hugh Mac Wi lliam of the seed service and Ossie Mills of the spray and dusting service. SATURDAY, APRIL 20 i Farm Women’s Society 3 atf Fetter’s School in Clay Township,) Hostess will be Mrs. Harold Fry. |
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