ixtlook for March 1956
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The Weather Bureau’s * 30-day outlook
for March calls for temperatures to aver
age below normal west of the Continental
Divide and near normal - in the northern
Border States.' B, ln the remainder of the
nation above normal temperatures are in
dicated, wth greatest departures in the
Lower Mississippi Valley.
912 Quarry Road, Blue Ball, Lancaster County, Pa.
Pasture, Small Grain
mATHIESON
Increase your yields and your profils.
Easily'applied. Saves Time. Saves Labor.
DEALERS
L. H. BRUBAKER—R. 4, Lane. &R. 3, Litilz
» JESSE B. DOURTE
' R 3 E-Town 7-3881
ROY W. MARTIN
Marietta 6-9358
MATHIESON
and Corn
ANHYDROUS AMMONIA
82% NITROGEN
HIESTAND INC. —Marietta
SAUDER BROS. —New Holland
CUSTOM APPLICATORS
NORMAN GERHART
Lititz R 4 Lititz 6-0868
CLARENCE RETT
New Holland 4-8721 or 4-9797
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PREDICTED
PRECTWTATIOK
MARCH
Precipitation is expected to be subnor
mal in the Southwest, Southern Plains,
South Atlantic States, and New England.
Greater than normal amounts are predict
ed for the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys
and the Pacific Northwest, with near nor
mal elsewhere.
AMOS N. MILLER
Strasburg OV 7-3630
ROY ERB
Request
HIESTAND INC.
Msirietta 6-9301
Eastern States
Purchases Hit
ISO Millions
Farmers in nine northeastern
states purchased more than $BO
million worth of supplies through
their Eastern States Earner's
Exchange m 1955, more than
1000 members learned here as
they attended the 38th annual
meeting of their cooperative at
the High School of Commerce
an West Springfield Mass, The
«xact 1955 figure was $80,428,260
Total net savings for 1955 were
$3,309,842 Of this sum, some
$2,309,842 will be returned to
members starling May 1 in pro
portion to their purchases
through the cooperative in 1955
This patronage refund represents
what was left over from 1955 re
ceipts after payihg for all goods
and services and providing for
capital needs.
Significant Gains
General Manager William D
Milsop reported significant gams
in nearly all lines of commod
ities. Hts report indicated that
feed volume was down slightly
which tends to reflect the drop
of farm income over the past
year Eastern States deals strictly
in cash and, for many farmers,
cash has been a scarce item for
several years In addition, many
northeastern farmers are finding
ways to produce more feed on
their land in order to raise live
stock with the greatest possible
economy.
Some 100,000 faim families
are now members of Eastern
States Farmers’ Exchange. They
purchase a wide variety of farm
commodities including feed, seed,
fertilizer, sprays and dusts and
farm supplies amounts to more
farm supplies amount to more
than a trainload a day.
Many Present From Here
Eastern States farmer mem
bers, through their cooperative,
own two of the largest feed mills
in the world, two farm supply
and spray-dust distribution plants,
as well as four fertilizer plants
and 90 warehouses located strat
egically throughout the North
east.
Farmers attending from Lan
caster and Lebanon Counties
were- Mahlon Martin, Ephrata;
Norman Krady , and John Mel
horn, Mount Joy; Amos Whisler
and Samual Keener. Elizabeth
town; Stanley Greiner, Manheim;
John Becker, Lititz; Evan Dinger
and John Wenger, Denver;
Hardy Fertig, Richland; Alvin
Weaver and Harvey Miller, Jones
town; John Oberholtzer, Myers
town; Ralph Sellers, Annville;
Frank Book, and John Martin,
Bareville; Clayton Charles and
Robert Barr, Washington Boro;
Edward McMichael and Wilson
Scott, Willow Street; Melvin
Hess, Charles Hess, Walter Shank,
Earl Groff and Harold Mengel,
Lancaster; Benjamin Lapp and
Maurice Good, Gordonville;
Ruben Beiler, Strasburg; Naaman
King, Atglen; Steve Kurtz, Paul
Hartz, Eli Kauffman of Eiverson;
Claude Herr, Paul Howard, La
yerne Pownall, Quarryville; Di
rector Suavely Garber, Willow
Street, and Director Wilbur Erb,
Hummlestown.
Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 9, 1956
Trichinosis in
Two Areas Under
Close Watching
Twenty-six reported cases of
trichinosis in —
with 23 in Lebanon County
has placed the State Health De
partment at Harrisburg on an*
alert, and close surveillance is
being made on the Lancaster-
Lebanon County area
Three cases were reported in
the Lititz area, but no new eases
have been reported in Lancaster
County for several weeks.
. 'Dr. Berwyn F. Mattison, state
secretary of health, warns “Tri
chinosis is an unnecessary and
easily-prevented illness traceable
to eating raw or insufficiently
EXPECT TO MAKE AN EXTRA
40$ TO 60$ PER PULLET CHICK
If you are interested in chicks with bred-in ability to
lay far better than average—and make more money
—please come in and check our records.
Our strain Is capable of laying 200 eggs per bird a
year—often more. This is at least 20 eggs a pullet
more than the U, S. average.
With eggs figured at only 2s' apiece, you stand to
make 40$' to 60$' per chick more than jou can get
with chicks of average breeding.
When you order your chicks,
be sure to put in your order
for Purina Chick Startena and
Sanitation Products to help
you give them a fast, healthy
start.
’ Come in soon.
John Hess II S. H. Hiestand
New Providence
John B. Kurtz H. S. Newcomer
Ephrata Mt* J°y
James High
Gordonville
J. H. Reitz Warren Sickma
Millway
Snader’s Mill B. F. Adams
Mt. Airy Bird-in-Hand
John Hess J. Fred Whitesid*
Vintage Kirkwood
AWARDS ROAD CONTRACTS
HARRISBURG Secretary of
Highways Joseph J Lawler has
awarded two road contracts
amounting to $202,191 that in
clude Chester County U. S.
Route 1 m West Nottingham
Township Constiuct 040 of a
mile of reinforced concrete pave
ment variable 25 to 45 .feet wide
from the Peansylvania-Maryland
State Line, north, to Edwaid A.
Daylor Co, Inc , Box 551, Coates
ville, Pa $99,324 15.
cooked pork products ”
Laboratory facilities and in
vestigate services of the Bureau
of Public Health have been
opened to local county health of
ficials and all physicians in in
vestigating cases
Salunga
Wenger Bros.
Rheems
Pequea
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