Vol. 11. No. 7
Agents Elect
ft S. Sloat
Sew President'
For the first time since its
organization, a Lancaster Coun
ty agent has been elected presi
dent of the Pennsylvania County
Agents Association He is Harry
S. Sloat, associate county agent.
Secretary-treasurer of the
association last year, he was
elected Tuesday night at the
agents’ Annual banquet in Uni
versity Park.
At a separate meeting, Miss
Ruth K. Kimble, county home
economist, was re-elected secre
tary of the Pennsylvania Asso
ciation of Extension Home Econ
omists.
Miss Kimble has headed -the
home economics program here
since May, 1955, coming to Lan
caster County from Mercer Coun
ty. She is also director of the
district Homemakers’ Camp at
Camp Swatara, Bethel
Other officers elected by the
county agents are: Vice presi
dent, Harold Waha, Mercer Coun
ty, secretary treasurer, James
McKean, Wayne County, and di
lectors, James Bochy, Somerset
County; and Paul Rothrock, Ly
coming County.
Mr. Sloat has. been a. full
time county agent here for 29
years. He came to Lancaster
County in 1922 to study farm
management and accounting
under Earl y L. Moffitt, rofes
sor of farm management.
He was appointed assistant
county agent in 1927, and be
came the state’s first associate
county agent in January, 1949,
Others representing Lancaster
County at the meeting are:
County Agent Max Smith, As
sistant Agent 1 Victor Plastow,
and Assistant Home Economist
Miss Nancy E. Bowen, Approxi
mately 90 members attended the,
homo economist meeting and
some 149 county agents attended
their annual meeting.
LanChester Chorus
Progam on Sunday
Christmas music with choral
and organ arrangements will be
featured in the annual Christmas
concert of the LanChester Chor
us at 3 pm. Sunday in the
Christiana Fire Co. auditorium.
Tonight the choir, directed by
Donald L. Trestle with Dick
Wright, manager and accompani
est, will sing ait the Honey Brook
Methodist Church, in a religious
program starting at 7:30.
Choirs Comhine in
Christmas Cantata
Choirs of the Chestnut Level
Presbyterian Church and Memor
ial Methodist, Quarryville. will
join m a Sunday evening Christ
mas cantata at Chestnut Level
Church, starting at 8 p.m.
“The Music of Bethlehem” was
presented Sunday night a week
ago at the Quaoryville church,
attended by a capacity audience.
May the ]oy and peace of Christmas
Be with you today and throughout 1957.
Alfred C. Alspach, Publisher
Ernest J Neill, Editor
C. Wallace Abel, Business Manager
World’s Farm
Production at
Record Levels
WASHINGTON (USDA) —-
A rise in output of both crops and
livestock products to record
levels m 1956-57 is enabling
world agricultural production to
keep pace with expanding popu
lation.
The U. S Department ol Agri
culture reported today that world
production of crops and livestock
rose to a new high level 120
per cent of prewar (1935-39)
in 1956-57. The level was 118 per
cent in 1955-56, and 116 in 1954-
55. The corresponding percent
ages for the Free World -alone
for those seasons were, respec
tively, 126, 125 and 122. On a per
capita basis, taking into- consid
eration nsmg world population
production in 1956-57 is holding
steady at 97 per cent of prewar
for the third consecutive year.
Free World per capita production
is 100 per cent of prewar, and
the Communist area output is 91
per cent.
Though the Free World out
turn outstripped that of the
Communist Bloc, the latter rose
two per cent from the level
maintained in the two preced
ing seasons. A sharp increase
in the U. S. S. R. and s mod
. erate rise in Mainland Chins
more than offset farther pro
duction declines in the Eastern
European satelites. Free World
production was slightly below
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Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, Dec. Zh 1956
Merry Christmas
Henning to Speak
At Annual Meeting
Of Farm Women
HARRISBURG State Sec
retary of Agriculture William L.
Henning will address the annual
Farm Show meeting of the Soci
ety of Farm Women of Penn
sylvania in the forum of the Ed
ucation Building here Monday
mqming, Jan. 14, the first day
of the 40th anniversary Pennsyl
vania Farm Show.
Society members will attend
their annual banquet that eve
ning and conclude their annual
conclave with a business meeting
the next morning in the Farm
Show Building.
Mrs. Charles Shriver, Waynes
burg, is president of the farm
women’s organization and Mrs.
Edward Boyd, Stoystown, is sec
retary.
Filler Tobacco
Estimate Raised
1 Million Pounds
An estimated record yield of
1,700 lbs. an acre and increased
crop acreage has caused the
U.S. Department of Agriculture
to up its 1956 estimate on the
filler crop in Pennsylvania by
nearly one million pounds.
The acreage figure is now
placed at 30,000 acres, an in
crease of 1,100 acres over 1955.
The total crop yield is esti
mated to be 51 million lbs.
This will be second only to the
1951 crop when 55,700,000 lbs.
of filler was produced in Penn
sylvania.
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Robert 6. Campbell, Advertising Director
Robert J. Wiggins, Circulation Director
And all the others who each week work
together to bring you Lancaster Farming.
Laying Tests
Improved by
New Program
HARRISBURG In line with
desires of Pennsylvania poultry
men, the 25-year-old Standard
Egg Laying Test operated by the
State Department of Agriculture,
is to be replaced next September
3 by a new and imprvoed type of
test for determining the egg-lay
ing and many other characteris
tics of different varieties of chic
kens.
Agriculture Secretary Wil
liam L. Henning today said the
new venture is to be known as'
“The First Annual Pennsyl
vania Random Sample Laying
Test.” It will be supervised by
the poultry and egg divisin of
the State Bureau of Markets.
“The purpose of the test,” Sec
retary Henning explained, “is to
measure, in an unbiased manner,
those economic factors that
would be of interest to the poul
try industry. From .results ob
tained, breeders who enter the
test will be able to compare their
strain or cross genetically with
those of their competitors. Com
mercial poultrymen will be able
to evaluate the different entries
with respect to the economic fac
tors that are most important to
them.
The present standard egg lay
ing test wll close its 26th year
next September 15 when the
poultry houses near the Farm
Show building will be renovated
to accommodate the new type of
test. The Pennsylvania test is one
of eight operating in the United
States. It currently contains the
highest ranking pen in all tests,
an entry of Rhode Island Reds
from Harco Orchard and Poul
try Farm, South Easton, Mass.
Under the new set-up, test
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$2 Per Year
Exhibit Space
In Farm Show
Rents Quickly
HARR ISBURG Approxi
mately 100 applicants had to be
refused commercial ex h i bit
space for the 1957 Pennsylvania
Farm Show due to lack of room,
according to State Secretary of
Agriculture William L Henning.
Allocation of more than four
acres of space was completed to
day for the 40th anniversary
Farm Show which opens Mon
day morning, January 14 and
continues until 6 p m, Friday,
January 18.
All available space went on
a rental basis to more than 300
commercial exhibitors in the
4-acre main exhibition hall
with an overflow into the poul
try section.
At least a score of applicants
who could not be accommodated
have been on the waiting list for
three years or more, the chair
man of the State Farm Show
Commission declared.
“This condition emphasizes the
need for more exhibit space for
the Farm Show, which has re
mained static since opening of the
large arena 17 years ago,” Hen
ning asserted.
“While the General State Au
thority has allocated $2 million
for a new heating plant, new
roof for the large arena, and re
placement of some utility lines,
there will not be enough to com
plete a proposed 3-story addition
with exhibit space on the ground
floor After deducting architect’s
fees, interest and other charges
we expect to net about $1,500,000
for improvements This com
pares with the Farm Show Com
mission’s original request of $2,-
750,000.”
More than 100 heads of
sheep and swine and large
numbers of poultry were turn
ed away due to pen limitations
in those departments of the
Farm Show, according to the
chairman. Re-arrangement of
stall areas will care for record
entries in beef and dairy cat
tle displays, assuring the larg
est livestock exhibits in Farm
Show history, he said.
Due to the great interest shown
by farmers in the latest develop
ments in farm machines, ap
proximately half of the main
exhibition floor will be filled
with full line displays of the lat
est models of all types of equip
ment. Other areas in the hall will
display dairy and other types of
barn apparatus, poultry equip
ment, seeds, feeds, fertilizers,
pesticides, nursery' and various
modern farm and farm home
supplies and appliances.
Bridge Hearing at
Harrisburg Dec. 26
A public hearing to determine
the economic effect of construc
tion of the South Bridge, span
ning the Susquehanna River and
connecting Lemoyne and Harris
burg, will be held by the De
partment of Highways at 2 pm.,
Dec 26.
The South Bridge project,
which has been on the drawing
boards m the Department ol
Highways the past 10 or 15 years,
will be in the vicinity of Third
and Lowther Streets in Lemoyne
and extend to the River steps
in Hamsburg.