Projection Committees Give Report; Cite Importance of Papers to Farmers Authority to close the county stnled the report, added that ses agricultural extension office on sions on child guidance, home Saturday mornings during July making, budgeting and family and August wa£ granted by the planning should be added to the executive council of the county programs of son or youth groups agricultural extension association Harry Houser, chairman of the at a meeting Tuesday night committee dealing with part-time This has been the practice for fanning, reviewed the situation several years of the part time farmer and said Tentative plans were made for that these farmers feel the need the annual summer dinner meet- for special help They would like mg of the group crops that can be handled easily Heard at the meeting were re- on -a part time basis ports for the various program pro- THESE FARMERS also are jection committees , „„„„ „ great users of the mass media of REPORTS OF THE youth pro- communication, and more of the glam and urban and sub-urban mass media should be used to needs eommitees pointed up the reach them need for changed programs and “The future trend toward big a' in es toward the urban and n 2 SS ln p oU it ry integration will Sll v Ur f^ n ’ dweller . lessen the need f6r extension .P r °B ram s tailored to personnel at the local level,” t , e l ! le Hoo-farm accor( j in g to David Buckwalter, Th S 0U fi, 6 evelQped chairman of the integration com- The youth program committee m]t tee U f p the " eed for qu « w,ed But this same bigness will ilnm/ gT ,T and SUg ' mean an increased need for re -1" S i ’ ° rg fsearch at the state and national lions and associations should , . hp make qualified persons available as leaders of youth groups BUCKWALTER CALLED for THE VALUE OF mass media a closer working relationship be to the farmer newspapers pn- tween universities and between manly, and also radio and tele- P ubllc research agencies and Vision was accepted in most of the reports Mass media are par ticularly valuable in dealing with urban and suburban dwellers and wuh the part-time farmer, it was pointed out The family relations committee suggested that more assistance be made available for financial planning including such things as will, father son agreements, and inheritance tax assistance Mrs Harrison Nolt, who prc--. 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P & S Violator, USDA Charges Swift & Company meat .pack er has been charged by the U. S Department of Agriculture with violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act. Two complaints and notices o£ hearing were issued One charge violations principally through Swift’s Neuhoff Packing Company Division, Nashville, Tenn The other charges violations at the St. Louis National Stock Yards, Na tional Stock Yards, 111 The complaint in which the Neuhoff Company is named charges that a country livestock buyer for Neuhoff was instructed to “drive out the competition” at various country markets in Ten nessee, Alabama and Missippi. THE COMPLAINT also charges there was an arrangement with a country dealer to buy hogs with out competing for purchase of the hogs, that price information was disseminated to country dealers in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississip pi and Kentucky for use in buying livestock to be sold to Swift & Co. on a dealer basis, and that some dealers were guaranteed against losses on a declining market The complaint of violations at the St Louis National Stock Yards charged the respondent company with assembling with salesmen and buyers to establish the market price, also with buying hogs from various ’market agencies in the mam alley of the hog division without lokmg at and bidding on the hogs m the sales pens in open competition with other buyers iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin 1 . RTHQ Ph. Lane. EX 22659 Good Weather Favors Spring Work; Ahead of Cattle Fields Are Getting HARRISBURG Weather con ditions favored progress in spring wok on Pennsylvania farms dur ing the past week and crop growth was such that pastures in some areas are getting ahead of grcnng cattle and may have to be clipped, the State Department o' Agriculture said Wednesday Cool temperatures slowed growth of vegetation in northern counties but the planting of corn continued and the cutting of alf alfa 'has started in southern areas, according to Federal-State sur veys Many tamers are spraying for insects and weeds but little dam age is reported to date from plane pests except tent caterpil lars which are unusually heavy in many areas, the Department said Fruits are making good prog ress throughout the Statt and in the Erie fruit belt the growers re port prospects for red cherries the best in the past several years Giapes in that area also are mak mg good growth Transplanting of tomato plants is in full swing and will con tinue at peak operations until the end of May Early potatoes are up and growing nicely while green CHARGES INCLUDE the buy ing of hogs and sows on a “weight schedule” basis with pi ice being determined on average weights and supplying information to com petitor buyers and dealers as to the number of hogs to be bought at specified prices by Swift & Company fjto/l IMPROVEMENTS for BALING PERFORMANCE! 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Early planted field coin is well above the ground and making good growth Pastures and hajs aie making lush growth Oafs show good stands except in low sections and barley is maturing rapidly. Rainfall for the week ended Monday totaled less than one inch over the State foi the second con secutive week Heaviest amounts fell in the Harrisburg State Col lege-Brookville areas Tempera tures averaged near to slightly be low normal beffei-than-ever Ph. EM 7-1341 Haverstick Bros, , Allen H. Matz Sander Bros. New Holland Ph. EL. 4-8721 Lancaster Ph. EX 2-5722 Ph. AN 7-6502
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