Lancaster County Dairy Day Speakers
Here are four of the speakers appearing
at the Lancaster County Dairy Day at the
Guernsey Sale Pavilion east of Lancaster
Wednesday of last week. From left to right
they are Joe Nageotte, extension dairy
specialist from Pennsylvania State Univer
sity; A. B. Freeman, chief sanitary engi
Voice Of
Lancaster Farms
AND FARM FRIENDS
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FROM LEGION ADJUTANT
HARRISBURG Dear Mr.
Neill I have been reading copies
of your newspaper on my perio
dic trips back to Lancaster Coun
ty where I was born and raised,
but having (taken residence in
Harrisburg some six years ago I
return to Lancaster quite fre
quently and have read your
newspaper with much interest
and especially during the famous
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THE SIGH OF Ve/MSx/nM FARM EQUIPM EHT
season just past (February 2,
1956)
While I was not able to be in
Quarryville for the annual cele
bration of Ground Hog Day, I
am still a member of the Or
ganization and hold it in highest
esteem, regardless of , what
Punxutawney or Allentown may
say about our Organization Your
write-ups were indeed a credit to
the Slumbeimg Groundhog
Lodge of Quanyville and its
members and it pleased me to
know and to be able to clip -from
your paper these items and show
them to my friends just what our
Organization does, the commun
ity spirit that its members have
and the fact that they continual
ly keep the town oi Quarryville
in the front so far as Lancaster
County is concerned
I hope that you and the own
er, Mr Alspach, who is a per
sonal fuend of mine, will be able
to increase the size of your paper
and the distribution thereof be-
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Equipment. See us for information.
neer, U. S. Public Health Service, New
York City; Ivan E. Parkin, extension dairy
specialist from Penn State, and John W.
Newlin, associate counsel, Inter-State Milk
Producers Cooperative. (Lancaster Farm
ing Photo). -
cause I believe 'that it is one of
the best farming papers that I
have read in a long time, and I
appreciate the items contained
therein because they <are really
done to advise the farmer the
thnigs 'that are in bis mind and
which confront him from day to
day in his opeiation of his farm
With kindest peisonal re
gards, I am, Sincerely, Daniel W
Shaub, Department Adjutant,
The Amencan Legion, Depart
ment of Pennsylvania.
WISHING SUCCESS
STEVENS, Pa I wish to
thank you for the sample dopy of
Lancaster Farming which I re
ceived this morning Although I
do not live on a farm, I find it
quite interesting Therefore I am
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$lOO and ask that you enter my
name as a charter subscriber
Wishing you success with your
new paper Mrs. Florence M
Stroup
THANK YOU
PHILADELPHIA Dear Mr.
Neill Thank you very much for
(the newspaper clippings which
you sent me, (for which I am
very .grateful Very sincerely
yours, Vincent A Can oil, Judge,
Court of Common Pleas No. 2.
LIKE IT VERY MUCH
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ter Farming and like it very
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Galen Beager.
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TYPE OF NEWS
MILLERSVILLE We look
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FarminS every week as it brings
the type of news we don’t get
much of in the other papers
Thanking you very much-
John Carney.
KEEP IT UP
COLUMBIA I’m enclosing
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ter Farming. I like the newsy
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for the sample copies. Enos
Shaubach.
Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 9, 1956
Price Spread
(On Beef Now
Much Wider
Washington—(USDA) Charges
for marketing beef advanced
about the same amount the last
quarter of 1§54 to the last quar
ter of 1955 as they did in the
seven years ending in 1955
about one-fourth in each in
stance.
The farm value of Choice
grade beef averaged over 9 cents
per pound lower in the last
quarter of' 1955 than a year
earlier, whereas retail beef prices
were down only about 3.5 cents
per pound. This means that
approximately three-fifths of the
drop in farm value was absorbed
by higher marketing costs.
Series of Publications
These relationships are brought
out in a report “Beet Marketing
Margins and Costs.,” published
by the USDA today The publi
cation is one of a series being
issued by the Agricultural Mar
keting Service in response to a
request by the Congress for in
tensive studies of costs of mar
keting farm products. A lecently
issued publication, “Marketing
Costs for Food,” presented an
overall view of recent changes
in the spieads in prices between
pioducer and consumer
The report shows that the
farmer got 70 per cent of the
consumer’s dollar spent for beef
in 1949, and only 62 per cent
in 1955 The difference between
what the farmer gets and the
consumer pays—the “maiketing
margin”—represents the leturn
to maiketing agencies for their
sei vices, including such costs as
labor, supplies, and transport
ation Such costs have risen sub
stantially in the last seven years
Wide Fluctuations
The beef study shows that the
difference between what the far
mer receives for U.S. Choice
grade beef on the hoof and what
the consumer pays for the meat
has fluctuated widely during the
seven years 1949-55.
Retail prices remained relat
ively stable, for example, during
the latter half of 1954 when
farm prices of cattle were using,
and during 1955 when farm
prices generally declined Mar
keting margins therefore nar
rowed substantially below the
long-run average in the latter
half of 1954, but widened mar
kedly in 1955 The comparisons
are based on the puce of a
pound of beef at retail and the
price of its equivalent weight of
2 16 pounds in the live animal
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CONESTOGA FARM SERVF
Quarryville Ph. 282
Service Awards
Given Eight In 4-H
Service . awards were ' given
eight Lancaster County 4-H Club
leaders in Thursday night cere
monies at the First Presbyterian
Church in Lancaster last week.
Victor Plastow, assistant coun
ty agent, and Miss Ruth K.
Kimble, county home economist,
made the presentations. .Speaker
was Rev. Wallace E Fisher, pas
tor of Trinity Lutheran Church.
Receiving awards Werer Dan
iel A Brubaker, Rl, Ephrata 20
years as a club leader; Mr®.
Samuel Long, Drumore, and Mrs.
Frank Bromer, Lititz, 15 years;
Paul Longenecker, Edgar Porter,
Mrs. Arthur Reist, Raymond
Showalter and Glenn Herr, five
years
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