Farm Calendar
JANUARY
Jan 2-7 - Testing Milk and
Cream. Short course, Pennsylva
nia U.
Jan- 4-Feb. X - General Farm
ing Short Course, Pennsylvania U.
Jan. 6 (Sunset) Waterfowl
season ends: Bucks,-.Philadelphia
and Delaware counties and on
Delaware River bordering these
counties.
Jan. 7' - Farm Society 6, In
stallation of # Officers, 2 ptm.,
home of Mrs. Daniel Eshleman,
R 2 Elizabethtown.
Jan- 9-10 - State Farm Women’s
Society Convention, Farm Show,
Harrisburg.
Jan. 9-13 - Pennsylvania State
Farm Show, Harrisburg.
Jan. 9-21 - Ice Cream for Plant
Men Short Course, Pennsylvania
U.
Jan- 11 Special Flying Farm
ers Day (conjunction with State
Farm Show); all day program,
dinner at the Harrisburg State
Airport.
Jan. 14 - Farm Women’s So
toiefty 18 guests of Society 7, Par
adise Elementary School.
Jan, 16 New Holland Farm
ers Day Association,' Inc. annual
banquet, election of officers, 6:30
p m. American Legion Home.
Jan 17 Second Annual Poul
try Exchange Meeting, 7:30 p. m.,
Elementary School, Rohrerstown.
Jan. 20 - New Holland <*-H Ba
by Beef Council Meeting, James
Wolgemuth home, R 1 Bareville.
Jan. 21 - Farm Women’s So
ciety 2 meeting, Rosetown Res
taurant, Manheim.
Jan. 21 - Lancaster County
Pomona - Grange No. 71, all-day
meeting, YWCA. Lancaster, 10:30
a. m-
Jam. 23-27 - Rural Electrifica
tion Sduotrt Course, Pennsylvania
Jan. 23-Feb. 4 - Market Milk
Short Course, Pennsylvania U.
Jan. 25 Rural Homemaker’s
club meeting at the home of
Mrs Elwood (Emily) Bickness,
Frog Hollow Road Oxford RD.
Jan. 26 - Lancaster County
Agricultural Council meeting.
Jan. 28 Farm Society No. 5
meeting, at home of Mrs Edith
Longenecker, Manheim RD 1.
Jan. 28 The Friendly Farm
ers Club meeting, at the James
Wood home, Nottingham.
Jan. 30, 31-Feb. 1 Annual
Conference for Fertilizer and
Lime Salesmen, Pennsylvania
State University.
Jan. 30-Feb. 11 - DHIA Super
visor Tteininig, Penoßylvama U.
FEBRUARY
Feib. 1-29 - Dairy Farming
(Short Course, Pennsylvania U.
Feb. 1-29 - Livestock Farming
Shoot Course- Pennsylvania U.
Feb. 7 - Board of Directors
Meeting, Lancaster County Farm
ers Assn., Fred Solieriberger
home, Narvon. - i
Feb. -22 - Annual Meeting,
Lancaster County District of
Southeastern Pennsylvania Artif
ical Breeding Cooperative, Land
isville Fire Hall, 7:30 p. m.
Feb. 27-29 - Sheepmen’s Shoot
Course, Pennsylvania U.
MARCH
Maodh- 5-9 - Feed Dealers
and Millers’ Short Course, Penn
sylvania U.
Maoch_6-6 - Beef Cattle Herds
men's Short Course. Pennsylvania
U.
(March 12-16 - Grassland Far
ming Shoot Course, Pennsylvania
U- -
(MaOldh 12-116 - Lumber Grading
and] Inspection Short Course,
Pennsylvania U.,_
(March 26-30 - Dairy Cattle
Herdsmen’s Short Course, Penn
sylvania U.
APRIL
April 29, 30, May 1 - American
Angus Conference, University of
Tennessee, Knoxville,
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Senator Kerr
Buys Angus'Herd
At Essar Ranch
Senator 'Robert S. Kerr ol
Oklahoma and his partner, D A.
McGee, announced the purchase
on Nov- 23 of the well-known
Aberdeen-Angus herd at Essar
Ranch, 'San Antonio, Texas This
herd, solid toy Tom Stock, Essar
Ranch owner, consists of approxi
mately 800 head ot purebred An
gus cattle.
Headed by the well-known
(show hull. Prince Sunbeam
328th. the herd! will toe (trans
ferred lo the Kerr Ranch in Le-
Flore Count/v. OMa, and will
continue under the management
'df Dr. Paul Keesee. veterinarian
and vocational agricultural spec
ialist, who with his family will
live- on the 4,000-acre Kerr
Ranch
There will toe two exceptions to
(the transtar \of the entire herd to
HJhe (Kerr Ranch A portion ot (the
herd will be kept at the farm ot
Mir, (McGee on Bluff Creek near
Oklahoma City, while 40 of the
cows will (be soldi to Senator
Albert Gore of Tennessee, and bis
ooulsm, Grady Gore' Senator Kerr
'and Mr. McGee wall operate under
the name of Ker Mac Angus
Farms
FARM DIP TO CONTINUE.
New farm income in 1956 will
drop about 5 per cent below this
year’s expected return of $10,600,-
000,000, which was ten per cent
below the income received by
farmers in 1954, according to an
official of the Department of Ag
liculture.
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asks BUMS CROSBY
"Not quite...
Just rough and tumble kids, decked out for
choir service. A picture you’d like to see
your youngster in someday, I’m sure.
"Suppose he can’t even carry a
tune. No matter. What counts is
that he belong to the spirit of this
picture.. .feeling at home in church
or synagogue.
"And there are no words to describe
a parent’s peace of mind, when he knows,
that no matter what happens, the chil
dren will always be 'at home’ in the one
place time does not change.”
Give them a Faith to live by
Winter Fishing Dates
In State Waters Set
HARRISBURG In a joint
statement, issued today by Maur
ice K. Goddard, Secretary of the
Department of Forests and Wat
ers, and William Voigt, Jr., Ex
ecutive Director of the Fish Com
mission, it was announced that
winter fishing will be permitted
in all waters controlled by the
Department.
In addition, fishing through the
ice will also be permitted in all
other inland waters stocked by
the Commission, with one ex
ception Promised Land Lake,
located south of Hawley on Route
390 It was determined that the
fish population in that body of
water required protection at this
time- (
Use of all Forests and Waters
lakes must cease, by regulation,
at the regular “closing” time of
darkness each day. This limita-
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Lancaster Farming, Friday, January 6, 1956
tion applies to all park facilities
during the winter months.
Panfish may /be taken during
daylight hours the year around,
in open water or through ice.
This authorization applies to all
inland waters of the Common
wealth 'stocked by the Fish Com
mission. The use of tip-ups is
permitted for the taking of pick
erel and yellow perch through
Jan. only- No more than five tip
ups may be employed at any
given time.
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AIR-CONDITIONING
According to a survey recently
completed, one home in every
twenty-two in the nation has air
conditioning of some type.
Twenty-eight per cent of the pur
chases were for reasons of health.
Just a fraction under half of the
units were installed m bedrooms,
while 34 per cent chose the liv
ing room as the cooler site Rent
ers accounted for only 23.7 per
cent of the total The most popu
lar size was the three-quaiter ton
unit.
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