Vol. 1, No. 9 Arthur S. Young Farm Equipment Dealer, 66, Dies Funeral services will be Fri day afternoon at 1:30 for-Arthur S Young, 66, pioneer-Lancaster County farm equipment dealer from Kmzers, president and organizer of the Rough and Tumble Engineers’ - Historical Association- Mr. Young, highly' respected throughout the country and Nationally known for his out standing collection of steam traction engines, died at his desk Tuesday morning. He was active as a member of and a counsellor to the industry, and just recently was' one of the guests of honor at the Christmas Party of the Lancaster County Farm Equip ment dealers. Organized Steam Fraternity Starting in the farm imple ment business in 1916, he es tablished the Arthur S Young Co in 1921. He was secretary treasurer of the Pennsylvania Farm Equipment Dealers 16 years, and was currently treas urer of the County association. In 1949 Mr. Young organized the Rough and Tumble .group, and has, collection of old-steams ers along Highway 30 has at tracted the attention of thous ands It was here the annual reunion of the organization was held, and throngs jammed the grounds among the stationary' and mobile steamers. Funeral Services Friday For 33 years he was an elder gf the Leacock Presbyterian Church. He taught the Fellow ship Men’s Bible Class there and was Sunday school superintend ent many years. His wife, the former Luetta Sheaffer, two daughters and a son survive. They are C. Everett Young, Kinzers; Jane E, wife of E. Herman Brackbill, EDI Kinzers, and Nancy L. wife of Ray M. Young, PeachTßottom. Funeral services will be from the Brown Funeral Home, Paradise, Friday at 1:30 p. m., to the Leacock Presbyterian Church for 2 p- m. services, with interment in the adjoining cemetery. Friends may call at the Brown Funeral Home on Thursday from 7 to 8 p. m. POULTRY EXCHANGE MEET The second annual Poultry Ex change meeting will be held Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1956 at 7:30 p m in the Elementary School at Rohrerstown. All members are urged to attend. Memfbers are those persons who have used facilities of the Exchange for buying or selling poultry during the calendar year. The Loniardi provisional gov ernment an Argentina recently disclosed it would ratify the 1948 Bogota Inter-American Charter “very soon” in'a -move to restore (hemislpheric ties. January is National Egg Month, and here eggs valued at $11,951,975. Lancaster is a smjdl" fraction: of- Lancaster bounty’s County events heralding January Egg contribution to the multi-million dollar in- Month include a breakfast Wednesday dustry. In 1954 Lancaster County market- morning, Jan. 4, and the Second Annual ed 30,200,192 dozen eggs or 362,402,304 Poultry Exchange Meeting Jan. 17. Meat Output in 1955 at Record; More Next Year _ Meat output in 1955 soared to a new record volume, and even more is expected for 1956, J Morrell Foster, Chairman of the Board of the American Meat Institute, said today He also is Vice President of Merchandising and Procurement of John Mor rell & Co, Ottumwa,.lowa. In a year-end summary the Chairman of the meat packing trade association said the coun try had- done a remarkable job of producing an estimated 268 billion lbs of meat. . - “Even more remarkable.” he added, “is the fact that the con suming public ate this tremen dous production and thus cleared the way for the even bigger 27.2 billion lbs predicted foi 1956, with no heavy stocks hanging over the market as in so many other farm commodities.” Near 161 Lbs Per Person Foster attributed the nation’s ability to consume an estimated 161 lbs of meat per person to continued high employment, high personal income, a growing population, and a high apprecia tion of meat’s food value- “Rising production of meat,” he declared, “is indicated by livestock feed stocks being plenti (Continued on Page Three) Quarryville, Pa., Friday, December 30, 1955 January _ Egg Month Queen Dairy Resumes Deliveries in County Queen Dairy, Lancaster, has resumed regular delivery of milk to all customers following a Dec. 6-23 voluntary shutdown after px outbreak of paratyphoid in the "county. “Samples of each lot of milk processed on Wednesday, Dec 21, at the Queen Dairy have been found to be free of harmful organisms and safe for human consumption,” the State Inspec tion Team reported. Dr Oscar Davis, county medical director, and Elwood F. Schaffer, advanc ed sanitarian, of the State De partment of Agriculture, signed the order Forecasts 14.18 For December’s Farm Milk Price NEW YORK A uniform price of $4lB per hundred weight (46.5 quarts) for milk de liveries to approved plants dur ing December, was forecast to day by Dr. A J- Pollard, Acting Market Administrator of the New York metropolitan milk market ing area. The actual price for December, 1954, was $4 39 per hundredweight Dr Pollard also estimated that the producer butterfat differen tial for the month would be 5-4 cents for each tenth of a lb of fat above or below the standard 3.5 per cent. The estimated price of $4lB is based upon an expected total December production of 620 mil lion lbs That would mean that each of the 48.800 dairy farmers expected to participate in the pool would have an average daily production of 410 lbs Handlers must submit reports df the use made of their mlik receipts for December not later than January 10. Co-Founder of Landis Valley Museum Dies Henry K. Landis, 90,“ co-found er of Lancaster County’s famed Farm Museum, died Tuesday night in a Lancaster hospital. With his brother, George D- Landis, who died Dec. 6, 1954 at 87, he was renowned for his col lection of items on early Penn sylvania and Lancaster County cultural background. Starting by collecting guns and antiques, the brothers built up a collection that has developed into one of the finest farm relic displays in the nation. More than 50 years ago the two opened their home as a farm museum, and from this start the Landis Valley Museum took form. Later the Commonwealth took control of the Museum, and the two brothers life-time curators. Both brothers won high re cognition, one citation being from the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society for “being out standing preservers of that which is originally Pennsylvania Ger man m this area ” The two were engineering graduates of Lehigh University and at one time Henry was pro fessor of mining and metallurgy at the University of Missouri. From 1894-1897 he was with the Engineering and Mining Journal and for 28 years with the Gas Age Journal- He was admitted to the hospi tal Christmas Day. For the past two years he had been a guest at the Hatfield Memorial Home in Wagon town- $2 Per Year Crop Production This Year Second Largest for U.S. WASHINGTON Crop pro duction for the year now draw ing to a close will be the second largest on record, and livestock production will strike an all time lecord, figures from the United States Department of Agriculture indicate. Production of crops fell just six-tenths of one per cent below the 1948 record. At that time the crop index was 106 per cent of the 1947-1949' average, but totalling the 1955 livestock and crop indexes, the total figure for the year is expected to be at leas| 111- per cent Corn Crop Close In 1955, the United States pro duced 3,184,836,000 bu of corn, just slightly under the November forecast of 3,182,870,000, and wheat is figured at 938,159,000 bu Production in 1954 for corn was 3,010,248,000 bu, the 1944- 1953 average 3,080,115,000- However, acreage harvested for corn in 1955 fell 5,400,000 acres to 333 million for the year. Winter wheat acreage was off 5% million, spring wheat 1.6 mil lion, cotton 2.4 million, oats 1.4 million, and rice 700,000 acres lower Tobacco showed marked in* creases for the year, from the 1944-1953 average of 2,098,738-, 000 lb to 1954’s total of 2,243,- 813,000 and for the year just ending 2,256,037,000. Here are some other compari sons Oats: 1955-1,575,736,000; 1954 - 1,497,045,000, 1944 - 1953 averag o 1,323,321,000; Soybeans: 1955-371,276,000; 1954-341,565,- 000; 1944-1953 avg 238,488,000; Barley: 1955-390,969,000; 1954* 370,502.000; 1944-1953 avg 266,- 918,000; ,Rye. 1955-29,187,600; 1954-24,320,000; 1944-1953 avg 21,097,000;FIaxseed: 1955-40,638,- 000; 1954-40,808,000; 1944-1953 avg 35,898,000; Sorghums: 1955- 232,638,000; 1954 - 216,066,000; 1944-1953 avg 134,582,000; Hay (tons): 1955-109,697,000; 1954* 104,937,000; 1944-1953 avg 102,- 199.000, Potatoes; 1955-381,631,- 000; 1954-356,031,000; 1944-1953 avg 401,146,000; Tobacco (lbs): 1955 - 2,256,037,000; 1954-2,243,- 813.000, 1944-1953 avg 2,098,738,- 000. Dairymen Name Landis Association President Aaron L. Landis, R 4 Lancas ter, will succeed Frank P. Heckel, Lititz Pike, as, president of the Lancaster County Dairymen’s as sociation and Bottle Exchange, Inc- He was elected at the an nual meeting of the association in offices at 345 North Concord St. Lancaster, last week- Others elected are C. H. Har nish, New Danville, vice presi dent; Robert H. Keen, Lancaster, secretary, and Christ M. Kendig, Millersville, treasurer. Tobacco Shed Blaze On Smucker’s Farm A faulty damper was blamed as cause of a oil heater blazing up in a tobacco shed on a farm tenanted by Bli Smucker near Mondamin Friday morning. No damage was reported. The Leacock Fire Co. extinguished the blaze Others responding were the Bareville and Leola fire com panies