Wending its course toward the Dela
ware River and the Delaware Water Gap
in Stroudsburg, this stream today appears
most inviting for summer vactioners. This
Debris and rubble plus the temporary
bridge prove effects of the August flood
in Stroudsburg, where traffic and trade
A patch on your coat and
money m your is better
and more creditable than a writ
on your back and no money to
take it off—Benjamin Franklin.
EXCAVATING
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LOADING AND GRADING
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Downstream at Stroudsburg:
Back In Business
General Motors’’ sales reached
almost twelve and a half billion
dollars last year, a record. Net
income passed the bilhon-dollar
mark for the first time in the cor
poration’s history.
PUMPS
FOR EVERY
FARM HOME
AND
INDUSTRIAL NEED ii
is one that last summer overflowed in the
August flood. (Lancaster Farming Staff
Photo).
are returning to a normal basis in the
'beautiful Pocono Mountains. (Lancaster
Farming Staff Photo). (
June as Dairy
Month Faces
Big Schedule
HARRISBURG Capitol Hill
became Pennsylvania’s “Dairy
land” today with the start of
June Dairy Month
Governor George M Leader
attended tha opening of a milk
bar, in the rotunda of the mam
Capitol Building and later re
ceived “Miss Pennsylvania Milk
maid of 1956” in his office.
“Drink more milk” was the
slogan advocated by Governor
Leader for the month of June,
along with the increased con
sumption of ice cream, butter,
cheese and other dairy products
when milk production is at its
peak.
- The Governor drank milk with
Miss Susan Gail Coskery, Centre
Valley, Lehigh County farm girl,
winner of the State Milkmaid
Queen title over nearly 100 en
tries in a statewide contest.
At the milk bar he drank
milk with Miss Martha McDon
ald, Shippensburg RD 3, a Penn
State University co-ed She was
Pennsylvania Apple Blossom
Queen in 1955, and sails for
Israel on June 12 as an inter
national exchange student. Gov
ernor Leader left last Mon
day for Israel where a forest is
to be dedicated to him. They
talked of their pending visits
while studying a map of Israel.
Miss McDonald will spend six
months in Israel, living on farms
to learn customs if the people.
Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 8, 1956
Rules on 1956
Crop Soil Bank
Participation
WASHINGTON (USDA)
Secretary of Agriculture Ezia
Taft Benson today announced
the national average rates
which will be used in determin
ing payments which can be earn*
ed by corn, cotton, wheat, and
rice farmers who participate in
the 1956 crop Soil Bank pro
gram, after entering into agree
ments with their local county
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation (ASC) Committees
Rates for peanuts and tobacco
will be announced later.
Under the Acreage Reserve
part of the program, farmers
in areas where crops are not
too far advanced will be able
to earn payments in connec
tion with their 1956 crops of
corn, wheat, cotton (both up
land and extra long staple),
peanuts*, rice, and most types
of tobacco. They can qualify
for the payments by putting
land into the Acreage Re
serve, and thus reducing their
acreage of the crop below the
established allotment (or base
acreage in the case' of corn)
for the farm.
“The rates and conditions we
are announcing today apply to I
1956 production only,” said Sec
retary Benson in discussing the
1 announcement “It is so late m
the season that we are moving
with all possible speed to make
the Soil Bank available fo.r those
farmers who can participate this
year, in line with the expressed
intent of Congress In a sense,
we are going to the field with
a special program designed to
meet the time emergency. Be
fore next year’s crops are plant-'
ed, including fall seeding of
grain this year, we will have an
opportunity to review and study
, all provisions m more detail
'Such changes as are found to be
! desirable will be made and an
nounced before the 1957 Soil
ißank is under way.
Cautions Farmers
“I should like to caution farm
ers on one point No producer
should go ahead with action to
participate in the Soil Bank un
til he has checked with his local
county ASC committee, and en
tered into an agreement with
the committee legardmg the
practices he is to carry out. The
lack of time to get more com
plete information into farm
areas makes this especially im
portant We will get instructions
to the county committees as
rapidly as 'possible ”
The payments which farmers
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jTandisville Guernsey
Herd in Type Tests
Harry S. Mumma, Landisville,
has recently hjul his Guernsey
herd classified for type by L.
0. Colebank, official classifier
for the American Guernsey Cat
tle Club.
A complete analysis of tlje
herd shows that of his 27 cows
classified! four were
Good, 13 Desirable and eight
Acceptable-
Thirteen daughters of R- F.’s
Melody Master were classified-
Two rated Very Good, five De
sirable and five Acceptable
Four daughters of Llan Fair
Resolute Km were classified.
Three rated Desirable and one
Acceptable
can earn for participating in the
Acreage Reserve will be deter
mined by multiplying a base
unit “rate” by a jield factor to
be determined-
The national average rates for
1956 crops of corn, cotton, wheat
and rice are as follows:
Corn 90 cents per bu.
Cotton 15 cents per lb.
Wheat $1.20 per bu.
Rice $2.25 per cwt.
Regulations aie being com
pleted for the Conservation Re
serve but are not ready for re
lease The Acreage Reserve for
1956 crops obviously must take
ipiecedence Farmers who par
ticipate an the - Conservation Re
seive part of the Soil Bank pro
gram can -earn two types of pay
ment The first will be a pay
ment to cover a major part of
the cost, including labor, of
establishing a conservation prac
tice The second will be an an
nual payment during the period
of the individual Conservation
Reserve agreement. The annual
Conservation Reseive payments
will average out nationally at
about ten dollars an acre.
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