VoL 1, No. 7
Dairy Farmers
Warned to Sell
Industry Facts
GD 24 DAIRY FARMERS
iPhiladelphia—Dairy farmers
attending the 20th Annual Meet
ling of .the Inter-State Malik Pro
ducers’ Cooperative were warned
lagamst being made a political
(football in the next'year, and told'
Ito get together with dealers, la
bor. and Ike press to tell the
“true faiets about the milk indus
try” to the public.
In a report to the delegates
from Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Maryland, and Delaware who at
tended the two-day meeting De
cember 8 and 9, O H Hoffman
Jr, Inter-State General Manager,
declared
?“ Between new and next year’s
Annual Meeting, I am sure that
eyery stop will be pulled in the
politieian l ’s organ, as he plays, for
tissimo, his tune about the plight
t»f the farmer. I am hopeful that
an spite of the fact that the farm
er is lagging considerab'y behind
bfith business and labor m pros
perity, that he is smart enough
not to .buy- too-many pre-election
brews.
Farmer Labor Differ
, “The American farmer,” Mr.
Hoffman continued, “undiersibands
better than he ever understood,
before that hoe lot is not' com
- tbatpf
is. instead,'a small businesgmah
sweating, out in his own .factory
an .the manufaoture of agriculture
goods?’
At a banquet -on “''’Thursday
night, attended "by 800 Inter
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Guernsey Breeders to
Stage Spring Tour
Jn a recent meeting, the Lan
caster County Guernsey (Breeders
association reorganized and an
nounced tentative plans for a
spring tour.
Ramond F- Witmer, R 1 Willow
Street, was re-elected president;
Paul Ankrum, Peach (Bottom, re
named vice president;
Rohrer, RD 7 Lancaster, secre
tary-treasurer.
Named to a committee planning
ithe- Guernsey tour were; Rohrer
Witmer, RD 1 Willow Street,
chairman; -C. Stanley, RD 2 Lan
caster, and Robert McSparran,
Drumore.
Later in the summer a Field
Day will be held, with arrange
ments by Melvin Stoltzfus, RD 1
Ronks, chairman; Frank Hershey,
RD 5, Lancaster; and Ellis Den
linger, RD 1 Gordonville-
EDITOR’S'FARM HOME BURNS
Ernest J. Neill, editor of Lan
caster Farming, learned Wednes
day afternpon that fire complete
ly destroyed the nine-room home
on Sunny Slope Stock Farm, own
ed by him and his two sisters,
near Nodaway, lowa Fire "com
panies from three towns were
icalled Household goods of the
tenants, Mr. and' Mrs- Edward
Goldsmith, were saved. The home
was recognized for years as one
of the most outstanding in the
county
Mennonite Home Farm - Lancaster
Let the winter winds -whine, let the snow
blow; 'li look at aseren.e summer
pond .some- of the
buildings on the farm owned by the Mefi-
Halfßillion Is
County Industry
Value for Year
HARRISBURG The value of
Lancaster County industries last
year totaled more than half a
billion dollars, Miss Genevieve
Blatt, Secretary of Internal Af
fairs, announced today.
Products valued at $517,590,-
000 were turned out by 39,941
workers who shared a payroll' of
$131,266,700. The county’s 600 in
dustries last year represented
capital investment of $130,639,-
200. In 1953, a payroll of $145,-
687,400 was distributed to 44,735
workers who turned out products
valued at $552,185,500- Capital
invested in the 604 industries re
porting that year amounted to
$140,356,700.
Investment $71,214,800
In the city of Lancaster pro
ducts value at $228,616,900 were
manufactured by 17,234 employes
who received $66,033,900 in
wages and salaries. -The city’s 190
industries last year represented
capital investment of $71,214,800-
The previous year, reports were'
submitted by 194 industries with
capital investment of $72,648,000-
A payroll of $78,958,700 was dis
tributed to 21,688 workers whose
industrial output was valued at
$265,160,000.
Columbia’s 36 industries last
year registered increases in em-'
ployes, payroll and value of pro
ducts. The number of wage and
salaried workers rose from 2,794
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Quarryville, Pa,, Friday, December 16, 1955
Fred Frey Steer in
International Top 5
Fred Frey, returning home from
Chicago and the 1955 Interna
tional Livestock Exposition, ad
vises Lancaster Farming that a
steer fed by him placed fifth in
a carcass class of 35 or 40-
Fred, who is active in farm
youth club work around Quarry
vOlle 'staid the Angus was shown (by
■Bob Wildesih of ■Sunlbury. lowa,
'and came out of the summer
yearling das® Fred nlb'amed the
steer lad May (from ALitmar Farm,
-SaubartsviUe, Pa.
Referendum on
Tobacco Quotas
Due Dec. 29th
Lancaster County growers will
vote m referendum, Thursday,
Dec- 29 on whether to accept or
reject marketing quotas that call
for 37,800,000 lbs of Pennsyl
vania cigar filler tobacco in 1956.
T bis marks a six and one-half
per cent reduction from the esti
mated harvest of ,40% million lbs
here, and is the first reduction
since 1952.
Alloted acreage for 1956 would
be 24,577, more than 6,0p0 acres
below last year’s allotment-and
2,500 less than actually planted.
Three questions'are to be in
cluded tin the referendum:
1, adoption of the proposed quota
and other quotas for 1957 and
1958; 2, adoption of the proposed
quota for 1956 only, and 3, re
jection of marketing quotas.
A two-third majority vote is re
quired before quotas may be
adopted. Notices are to be mailed
to each farmer who has grown
Type 41 tobacco in the last five
years. Individual notices will be
issued by ~ the Lancaster County
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Committee. 1
nonite Home, R 3 Lancaster, on the Old Har
risburg Pike. Wayne Baum farms the land
-which provides a scene most "representative
of Lancaster farming.
Moderation in
Weather, But
Winter Remains
Slight-moderation in weather
ruled over Lancaster County at
midweek following a Friday flur
ry of snow that made highways
and streets hazardous over the
weekend in Lancaster County.
For more than a week, temp
eratures remained below the
freezing mark, but there was
some slight melting Wednesday.
Patches of ice still remained in
many parts of the County, and
numerous accidents resulted.
Snows began falling'Fnday aft
ernoon, and by nightfall, many
highways were slick as glass.
Highway 72 south of Willow
Street was blocked by jacknifed
trucks before cinder trucks could
cover the entire stretch under the
white cover.
Snowfall ranged from one-half
to three inches. Colerain Town
ship reported the maximum,
while, the 'northern end of the
County received lesser amounts.
iSnOw banks remain along
many of the rural roads, but
trees have lost the wintry touch
that gave a Christmasy picture
Saturday morning.
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Poultry Center
Plans Studied;
Land Purchased
Six men have been named to
spearhead a campaign to raise
funds for construction of a new
poultry center in Lancaster, fol
lowing final approval by the City
Council permitting commercial
construction at the intersection
of Roseville Road and the Bypass.
Monday the two major poultry
agencies, the Lancaster County
Poultry Exchange, and the Lan
caster Poultry Association, pur
chased the site for
$7,500
Members of Committee
Named at the Tuesday night
meeting to take the jiext steps
preliminary to the start of con
sruction were: Dr. E I Robert
son, of Eshelman’s Red Rose
Feeds, who is president of the
association; Levi Brubaker, Lan
caster, president of the Lancas
ter Poultry -Exchange; Lewis
Mortenson, head of the Sexed
Chick Co. at East Petersburg;
Roy Herr of—Lampeter and Earl
Reeves from Miller & Bushong.
These six men will secure more
information and promote fund
raising for a central, modem
market -to -serve Lancaster Coun
ty’s $3O million industry.
Definite Decisions Delayed '
Drawings were presented by
the Buchart Engineering Co. of
Lancaster and included offices,
auditorium, kitchen, social room,
and barbecue storage room.
Estimated construction cost of
two plans would be between $BO,-
000 and $85,000 and another be
tween $60,000 to $65,000. Definite
decisions were delayed until the
costs could be studied more close
ly, since they were above tsaMaP
since they were above earlier
programming.
County Ag Council,to
Meet Next January 26
A calendar of agricultural
events in Lancaster County to
prevent conflict in dates is being
prepared by Wayne B. Rentschler
under sponsorship of the Lancas
ter County Agricultural Council.'
Meeting Thursday night last
week, the group heard Frank G.
Fitzroy, district supervisor of the
Packers and Stock Yards Divi
sion, USDA, at Lancaster Stock
Yards, explain the importance of
inspecting scales and preventing
fraud in buying and selling cat
tle-
The meeting was in the North
Queen Street branch of the
castre County National Bank. The
meeting will be Jan. 26.
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