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SHEAR PLEASURE —Nick Luhman, 19, left, of Goodhue, Minn.,
is the new National 4-H Club sheep-shearing champion, His sheep
was shorn in 4 minutes, 46 seconds during competition at the,
recent International Livestock Exposition, Chicago, 111. At right,
Darrell Stoops, Sharpsville, Ind., clipped oft top honors in the
professional division m 1 minute. 48 seconds.
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StiU Holds High
Spot in Ag Scene
Compared to Commonwealth
averages, Lancaster County, still
maintains a high position in state
—as well as national agricul
ture
Here are some comparisons,
drawn from state and federal
agricultural census reports. For
the State, half of the farm homes
iave television sets. In Lancaster
County, about 33 per cent are
equipped
Where 86 per cent of Common
wealth farm homes have piped
unning water, a little more than
18 per cent of Lancaster County
farm homes are so equipped. Both
Ihe State and County hold the 7£
oer cent figure in the number of
farm homes having telephones
11 Auto Per Farm Here
Although 86 per cent of Lan
caster County farm homes have
electric service, the Common
wealth average is 95 per cent
Pennsylvania averages “at least
one auto” per farm, while Lan
caster County figures about 1.1.
But where the 1 state figures 36
trucks per 100 farm homes, Lan
caster County has 3,760, or more
than 50 per 100 farms.
Differences' ire wider in the
number of tractors on farms For
the state as a whole, about 89
tiactors are found.on each 100
farms, but ‘the figure in Lanca
ster County is nearly 150 trac
tors for each 100 farms, or figu
iatively, 15 for each farm here
Lancaster County is almost two
times ahead of state averages in
number of gram combines Pen
nsylvania figures 10 per 100
farms, while Lancaster County’s
figures are almost 20 per 100
faims
Grassland Farming Up
Grassland farming too is sho
wing up in census reports on hay
balers Where the Commonwealth
figure per 100 farms is eight ba
lers, Lancaster County has 1,757
on 7,951 farms, or 20-plus - for
each 100 farms.
Lancaster County runs slight
ly -above State averages too on
numbers of milking machines.
The state figure is 31 per 100
farms, the County total about
one-third, or 33-plus per 100
faims
As they say, the proof of the
pudding is in the eating, the clin
ching figure comes in the fact
that Lancaster County farms aver
age but 62. 7 acres, against a
statewide 96-acre average. While
the statewide average value on
all field and fruit crops was
$2,369, Lancaster County’s figure
was $4,325. The state figure for
livestock, chickens, milk, eggs,
wool and honey figured out to
$2,982 per farm, against $3,496
for Lancaster County
First in Cigar Leaf
In the state report, it was poin
ted out that Pennsylvania in 1954
ranked first among the more
than 3,000 counties in the United
States in the production pf mush
rooms and cigar leaf tobacco-
Cigar leaf tobacco is almost a
state monopoly centered in Lan
caster County, while the mush
room production which ac
counts for almost 65 per cent of
the entire nation’s production in
that line extends into Lancaster
County from nearby Chester
County-
Proof that this is the Garden
Spot is contained in the reports-
West Germany attained the
highest level of production ever
reached in Germany at a rate un
surpassed an> where in Europe
during the first half of 1955-
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jj»s a SMALL WORLD—Soviet comrades Khrushchev, left, and
Bulgapin, right, meet a Rhode Island “Red” rooster in far-off,
India.*'Russia’s party chief and her premier were visiting a stater 1
operated farm at Bareilly, one of many stops on their Indian
itinerary. The pair laid several king-size eggs, diplomatically
speaking, with frequent and bitter attacks on England and other
NATO‘powers when speaking.
The United States has agreed Israel has asked the United
to extend about $2O million in as- States to sell her 40 or 50
instance to Pakistan for the com late-model jet aircraft as well as
struction of am bases, port facif anti ■ submarine vessels, heavy
dies and highways " tanks and other heavy armament.
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