Poultry Garter
Ground Broken;'
(Continued from page one)
Farming the poultry industry had
decided to show the community
“we’re not thinking narrow
terms alone.”
First shovelsfull of earth
were turned Thursday by Dr. E.
I. Robertson, president of the
Lancaster County Poultry Asso
ciationf Levi Brubaker, presi
dent of the Lancaster County
Poultry Exchange, and Mr, Mort
ensen.
To date $14,487 86 of the $30,-
000 goal has been reached, and
already power shovels have
moved in to further turn the
earth and create Lancaster Poul
try Center, Through volunteer
labor, as much as possible, the
building will be constructed,
With completion date tentatively
set within six months. June 15
has been set as the deadline for
pledges or donations to the Poul
try Center fund.
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Tuesday Sale
Of Broilers
Averages 20.85
Lancaster Poultry Exchange
(Rohrerstown, Pa) (Sales Re
port, sale 150, Tuesday, May 29,
1956) Tuesday sales of poul
try resumed at the Lancaster
Poultry Exchange this week,
with nine lots of a total 25,000
birds listed, eight lots totaling
20.200 offered and sold Prices
ranged from 20 'A to 21, averag
ing cents.
There was no sale on the cor
responding Tuesday of last year
Listings for next Tuesday’s
sale will be accepted until late
Friday afternoon. For the fol
lowing Thursday, listings will
be accepted until late Monday
afternoon.-
Here are Tuesday sales listed
by lot number (each preceded
by 29-), seller, with growers in
dicated in parentheses, amount
and breed, age by'weeks and
days, buyer and price:
1, Henry Burkholder, 5000 In
dian Rivers, 9-4, to C. F. Man
beck, Inc., 201+, 2, Henry Burk
holder, 5000 Indian Rivers, 9-4,
to Roy E Ream, 20 %; 3, Hend
rik Wentink (Amos Stoltzfus,
Jr.), 1200 White Vantress, 9-4.
to Daniel K. Good, 21, lots three
through seven by same consig
nors and growers 4, 1700 Red
Vantress, 9-4, to Walter C. Mel
linger, 21; 5, 1000 Red Vantress,
9-4, to producers Cooperative
Exchange, 21; 6, 3300 Red Van
tress, 9-4, to Producers Coopera
tive Exchange, 21, 7, 1000 Red
Vantress, 9-4, to Producers Co
operative Exchange, 21, 8,
James Mohan, 2000 White Van
tress, 11-1, to C F Manbeck,
Inc., 20%, and lot 9, Arthur
Lauf, 4800 White Vantress, 9-6,
withdrawn prior to sale.
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Last weekend was sweet-potato planting
time at the farm of Paul Barley, R 1 Mil
lersville. Here he is shown behind the
planter, where 4,000 Nancy Halls, Puerto
Ricans and Jerseys were being planted.
On the tractor is Mr. Barley’s son-in-law
Robert Kreider
Heads Council
(Continued from page one)
and Miss Lausch succeeds Jean
ette Breneman, R 2 Mount Joy.
Treasurer of the council last
year, a position one brother
held two years, Bob farms with
his father on Route 72 south of
The Buck where he and his
family are hosts to Eike Franz-
Georg Grevel, German exchange
student. Now 20 years old, he
finished high school in 1953 and
he has three brothers, all of
whom are active in club work
Henry T. Moon, assistant
state 4-H Club leader, instructed
the new officers in their duties
Others assisting at the meeting
in John Neff School, Neffsville,
were Eilinore Griffith, HI Eph
rata; Isabel Myers, assistant
state 4H club leader from Penn
State; Mrs. Jean Singer Thomas,
Manheim, and Hal Fox, assistant
extension editor at Penn State.
Others Namerd
Other officers named include
Stanley Longenecker, Rl Stras
burg, vice, president; Marian
Graybill, R 3 - Manheim, secre
tary; Donald Moore, Rl Quar
ryville, treasurer; Walter Augs
burger, Rl Reinholds; song lead
er; Joanne Gamber, 2403 New
Holland Pike, and Harold Frey,
345 Running Pump Rd., game
leaders; and James Hess, Rl
Strasburg, news reporter.
Other mew Home Economics
Council officers are Miriam Ro
land, R 2 Mount Joy, vice presi
dent; Arlene Heisey, Florin,
secretary; Nancy Newcomer, R 2
Lititz, treasurer; Audrey Musser,
Mount Joy, and Betty Umble,
East Lampeter, game leaders;-
Esther Wolgemuth, Elizabeth
town, song leader; and Lois
Buckwalter, East Lampeter,
news reporter.
President Signs
New Farm Bill
(Continued from page one)
ed. although Mr. Benson said
it is conceivable that certain
' springtplanted crops might be
plowed under, but this would
be determined later by farm
ers and the USDA.
In addition to the $l2 million
soil bank plan, the measure also
contains provisions for a manda
tory increase in feed gram price
supports, a discretionary two
price plan for rice, and an in
crease in corn planting allot
ments from 43 million to 51 mil
lion acres.
Sweet Potato Planting Time
Nikita S. Khrushchev, Com
munist Party leader- “All mea
sures taken by the (Communist)
Party during the past three years
have been correct.”
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Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 1, 1956
Louis Miller, on the planter, sons Roy
and Harold Barley. Mr. Barley checks the
work afoot. He’s planting three and one
half acres of sweet potatoes this year.
(Lancaster Farming Staff Photo).
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