RALPH E PATTERSON, right, of Penn sylvania State University, pinpoints Her shey on the map as the site of the 16th National Plowing Contests and Conserva tion Exposition Herb Plambeck, farm edi- More Milk, Fewer ms January is estimated at 9,800 Eggs, In January , million pounds, up one per cent Milk production on farms dur- fiom January 1957 and 14 per If you have a feeding problem . . . tell us. 43 years of continuous service to our Full line Eshelman Dairy & Poultry Feeds Profit roved lan ★ Coal ★ Hardware & Tools ★ Fertilizer ★ Farm Seeds ★ Spray Materials OUR REPEAT BUSINESS IS A SURE SIGN OF SATISFACTION WEST WILLOW FARMERS ASSOCIATION WEST WILLOW FAMOUS FOR DELIVERY IN MINUTES many customers. W. W. F. POULTRY & DAIRY. FEEDS ★ Lime Ph. Lane. EX 4-5019 tor of radio and television stations WHO, Des Moines, lowa, and founder of the na*- tional event, was in Harrisburg Friday to discuss Pennsylvania’s plans for the two day program. cent above the 1947-56 average loi the month This, the Crop Re porting Board figures, is enough to provide 183 pounds of milk daily to each person in the U S , compared" with 1 84 pounds in Jan uary 1957 and the aveiage ol 1 79 pounds for the month Egg pioduction in Jnuary, at 5 - 251 million, was Nine per cent less than in January 1957, with some decreases occurring in all regions No need to gamble on profits . . . start your chicks on the toad to lifetime payoff with Eastern States Pacemaker. Here’s why: • Lower feed cost per pullet housed • Better health, vigor and livability • Immunity to cocddiosis safely developed • Proved for higher laying house profits Your answer to lifetime payoff from chicks is Ac Pacemaker start. 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EASTERN STATES FARMERS' EXCHANGE S*rvm« m»re than 100,000 Farmed with local Dutrf fcrtian on 4 Service in ■ Uwnand Narrfieailem Commuoinae Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 7, 1958—13 Pennlewis Hybrid Sweet Corn to Be Marketed in 1959 The summer of 1959 will find on Ihe market a new hybrid sweet com designed especially for home gardeners Developed by the Agn fiiltuial Experiment Station at the Pennsylvania State Univer “ly the new FI hybrid sweet < orn has lust been released to seed pioduceis The corn is named Pennlewis, honoring the late M T Lewis \egetable bleeding researcher Vm first noted the quality of this sweet corn Pennlewis, a \ cllow sweet corn, 1?s been tested unclei the pedi giee number S 5234 for five years at more than 60 locations in the Lmted States and Canada It ma tints in the late Carmelcross seas on about foui days before Golden Ci oss Bantam It has excellent re s dance to bacteiial wilt and le gists dry weather "Pennlewis is a high quahtv home garden sweet corn to be c.iten fiesh, fiozen, or canned” ' r.s Di B L Pollack Penn State lesearcher who completed the v oik on the new hybrid “It holds peak quality for two oi three days alter maturity,” he adds “Pennlewis is also designed for toad side markets where disto rt'd s lecognize and appieciate high quality sweet com,” ho states Most stalks of Pennlewis pro duce two ears, Dr Pollack points om The ears are well tapered at the tip, are seven and one-half to cght inches long, and average 12 to 14 rows of kernels The plants glow rapidly, having stalks about 5 to five and one-half feet tall, with stiong root systems. Dr Pollack says he has a small supply of Pennlewis seed on hand m his office, 106 Tyson Building, University Park Home gardcneis may write to him directly for seed The seed will be given out on a “Fust come, first served” basis Farm Calendar Maich 10 JeiscyAyshue 4-H Club 7 30 p m at SPABC, Lancaster. Dairy Management meeting 7 30 p m at Ag Room, New Oc toiara High School Atglcn March 11 Elizabethtown - Donegal 4-H Club—7 30 p m at Washington School, Florin Southern Ti actor Club 7 30 p m at Cope & Wea\eis, Willow Street Interstate Milk Procluceis meeting 7 p m at Leola Fire Hall Maich 12 Daily Management meeting 7 30 p m at Wagontown Grange Hall, Wagontown 4-H Guernsey Club 730 pm at Ag Room, Solanco High School Quarry ville March 13 Drumore Flowci Club 1 30 p m at the home ot Mrs HoWaid Mjlin, Chem Hill Ornamental shiiib pinning demonstration Noithein Ti actor Club 7 30 p m at R M Biubakei’s Sa ilings March 14 Boots & Saddles Pon> Club —. 7 30 p m at the home of Elmer Buckwalter, R 1 Stevens Pesticide use meeting for cus tom operators 930 a m at Art’s Diner, Route 72 near Man heim Washington Boro Tomato Growers Cooperative 7 30 p m. Robert Fletcher vegetable spe cialist and B L Pollack, research specialist, will discuss eaily tomato production and varieties lesistant to cracking Dau> Production meeting —. 730 p m at London Butam Township Bldg , Kembleville. March 15 Senior Extension B’an^ile^ — 7 p m at Hostetters March 17 - J Dinner meeting Lancaster County Soil Conservation Dis trict 6 30 p m at Hostetter’s, Mt Joy March 18 Poultry meeting on grading and marketing of eggs 730 p m at Fan view School, on the Elizabethtown - Mastersonville Road Lloyd M. BURKHOLDER ♦ Chick Hatchery J ® 1 | Red 01 White V’*'’" Vantress Cross White Leghorns | V RB Red Cl oss U S Approi ed Pullormn Clean v Call RE 3-0613 R D I—Ephrata, Pa. 1 Mi NF of Cla> on Steiens Rd
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