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Planned for your present needs, and with built-in
space insurance for your future, this ranch house
has many, outstanding features. It’s the ideal choice
for.a narrow lot but by no means could you call it
a “little” house. Everything you’d want is here:
spacious livings room with fireplace 'and a ten-foot
picture window; separate dining room with double
exposure; a fifteen-foot “U”-shaped kitchen, a guest
closet at the front entrance,'and a bathroom on the
main floor level.'On the first floor, there are two
bedrooms with double exposure and plenty of closet
space.' The upstairs, area can exnand into two
additional bedrooms and a second bathroom. The
full basement will take care of your ’aundry center,
plus your hoßby activities and a play area for
youngsters.
For the convenience of readers who wish to study this
house in greater detail, we have prepared a complete
sketch-plan which can be obtained by sending 25 in
coin to Modern Flan Service, Department 130, Lincoln
Building, Mount Vernon. New York.
Area- 1,448 sq. ft.
About Y<
By FRANCES DELL
If your house is beginning to
look old, shabby and drab, it is
time to paint it. Whether or not
you give it a full baseraent-to
roof job or just touch-up work,
you will find you can give your
home a complete new personal
ity.
Knowing what paint and equip
ment to buy is half the battle
The first, and most important
step is preparation of the sur
face to take and hold the paint-
For this you will need rough
sandpaper, steel wool, or a wire
brush or a-scraper. You’ll want
ladders and cross planking for
the upper reaches of the house.
More Cans Needed
In addition to the "paint, you
will need extra cans for mixing,
paddles for stirring, strainers for
removing lumps and cloths for
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Agricultural Ground Limestone Hard Poultry Grits
Feed Mixing Calcium Calcium Stable Grits
Lime Spreading Service
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Cubaget 37,648 cu. ft.
iur. Home
wiping up spatters. If possible,
have some drop cloths for pro
tecting your shrubbery and
porch rooC '
(Buy only good brushes. A
brush four-and-one-half to five
inches across is best for paint
ing large, areas. A sash brush is
needed for narrow strips and a
brush one-and-one-half to' two
inches wide is best for-the trim.
Surface Absolutely Dry
You will need some paint thin
ner to clean your brushes and
some linseed oil to break them
m Surfaces to be painted must
be absolutely dry.
Check to see if any wood re
placements are needed under the
eaves, around window heads and
sills on postsvor_ steps, etc- -
Find- out about the many new
kinds of paint and choose one
that is made to meet your needs.
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th
Cigar Tobacco
Value Exceeds
$ll Millions
Based on an average of 27 2
cents per lb; Pennsylvania farm
ers last year received an estim
ated $11,790,000 for their crop
of filler tobacco, according to
the Pennsylvania State Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Hay led in value, with all types
worth - $95,788,000, with corn
next at $88,554,000. Corn led in
1933 through 1952.
Highest Since 1950
Gross returns on tobacco were
the highest since 1950, despite,
lower per-pound prices The va
lue in 1954 was
in 1935 —with a smaller cr0p—
59,438,000 This made a per acre
1955 value of $4OB on 1500 lbs.
The 1954 value was estimated
. Wheat placed third at $30,592,-
000, oats fourth at $23,187,000,
and vegetables fifth at $18,185,-
000 for both fresh market and
processing.
Others by-Value
Others by rank were: potatoes,
$12,948,000; tobacco; commercial
apples $10,260,000; barley $7,-
930,000, and peaches $5,062,000-
Hay averaged 147 tons per
acre, corn .for grain 44 bu shel
led. Pennsylvania placed 15th in
corn production, 12th in corn
value nationally-
Safety in Masks
Gas masks are said to be un
expectedly popular with" small
school children in Europe The
youngsters' have disvovered a
salfe method for making faces at
the teacher.—Worchester (Mass )
Gazette.
' May!
Those who r say these “straw
votes” don’t m-dan anything are
burning their bridges behind
them; the next report may show
things going their way.— Lynch
burg (Va.) News-
Ain't It So?
Barnacle Bill says: “Ten per
cetn of the people in the United
States suffer from hay fever.
The other 90 try-to grin and bear
them.”—U.S-S. West Virginia
Mountaineer.
NO GUARANTEE
f The label on material or a
garment that says “preshrunk”
without giving the percentage of
shrinkage, is no guarantee
against further shrinkage, Ber
nice J. Tharp, Penn State ex
tension clothing specialist, de
clares.
Hay Leads in
State’s Crops
At $BB Million
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Harrisburg—ln value of total
production, hay was the “King
Of Crops” on Pennsylvania farms
in 1955 for the third straight
year,'according to revised Feder
al-State figures announced today
by the State Department of Agri
culture
Corn has reigned as the high
est value crop in the Keystone
State from 1933 through 1952,
records show
Crop Value $95 Million
The value of last season’s crop
of all types of hay is estimated
at $95,788,000 compared with the
corn total of $88,554,000, the
Department said. Corn value has
not exceeded that of the total
hay crop since 1952 when corn
came to $108,905,000 In that
year hay had a "value of $95,788,-
000.
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Dr. William L Henning, State
Secretary of Agriculture, in com
menting on the dollar value lead
ership of hay, pointed to the in
creasing trend of Pennsylvania
agriculture towards grassland
farming to assist its growing
livestock and dairy industries.
Third place in 1955 Pennsyl
vania crop values goes as usual
to wheat which is worth $3O 592,-
000
Oats is in fourth with a
total, value of $23,187,000 Com
mercial vegetables for both fresh
market and processing, are fifth
with $18,185,000
Potatoes Place Sixth
Potatoes take sixth place with
$12,948,000; tobacco seventh,
$11,790,000; commercial apples,
eighth, $10,260,000, barley, ninth,
$7,930,000 and peaches, tenth,
$5,062,000
Hay production last year came
to 3,421,000 tons at an average
of 147 tons per acre. Corn
grown for grain totaled 61,072,-
000 bushels from an average of
44 bushels of shelled grain per
acre.
Pennsylvania ranked 12th
among all the states in 1955 hay
production, but was seventh m
total value The State was 15th
in production of corn, 12th m
value
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Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 16, 1956
New Varieties
Of Potatoes,
Inspection Up
COUDERSPORT —New vane
ties of potatoes and a new type
of Federal-State inspection pro
gram will combine to give Penh-I
sylvania housewives a “superior'
spud service,” it was learned
during the annual Potato Grow
ers Institute at nearby Potato
City Hotel, sponsoied by the
Pennsylvania Cooperative Pota
to Growers Association.
Dr William* L Henning, State
Secretaiy of Agriculture, report
ed that an experiment on official
potato inspections which he ar
langed with association officers
last fall has been “highly sue-'
cessful ”
Superior Varieties
Dr E L Nixon, director of
the research tarms of the asso
ciation at Potato City, told of
several superior varieties of
potatoes which he developed
through cross breeding. Adapted
to Pennsylvania farming condi
tions, they still need field test
ing before' they can be grown
commercially, 'he said.
Potato glowers are greatly
satisfied with the new inspee
tional service that centers in the
Bureau of Markets of the State
Department of Agriculture, Dr.
Henning said Producers pay for
inspections which started as-'an
experiment in northwfestern
Pennsylvania last fall. Since' the
first of the year it has expanded
to five of the.six association dis
tricts, covering most of the state.
In the new program, he ex
plained, Federal-State inspectors
grade all potatoes that the co
operating grower plans to ship
out-of-state Ten trained inspec
tors are now assigned to 1 the
program. Nearly 1,500 lots have
been handled in the Erie County
potato area alone.'
Grade Marking Stressed
Secretary Henning told potato
growers that the Department of
Agriculture is stressing enforce
ment of the potato grade mark
ing law. During the 1954-55 sea
son there were 92
for violation of the law.,-. This
great majority of offenders were
dealers and shippers. Agents ex
amined nearly 7,000 lots of pota
toes on the wholesale and retail
levels, including 4,235 lots from
Pennsylvania farms.
The institute continued with
election of five association direc
tors, a youth panel, review of the
national potato situation, presen
tation of new and experimental
machinery and equipment used
in growing potatoes and a dis
cussion of labor management m
potato production.
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