12—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 21, 1956
Friendly Farmer
Club Meets_
Friendly Farmer
The Friendly Farmer’s Club
met with the Robert Gallagher
family Dec 15, 1956 with all
families represented except two
The President, Gordon Toot,
called the Club to order Minutes
of the last meeting were read
by the secretary and approved
Ira Rutt and James Wood
were appointed on the inspec
tion committee. The meeting
then adjourned till two o’clock.
A baked ham dinner serv
ed by the hostess and helpers
followed a social time.
The afternoon session was
opened by singing, “Silent
Night,” after which the Rev.
Roy W Townsend read the
Christmas story as told in the
second chapter of Luke The Rev
Townsend also read the last two
stanzas of, “0 Little Town of
Bethlehem,” and followed with
prayer.
The inspection committee re
ported everything in fine shape
and plenty of feed. Mr Gallagh
er has two milkhouses. We then
had a roll call of ‘ What I want
for Xmas”, by which we found
cut people wanted anything
from health to refrigerators.
Arthur Brown told the advantag
es and disadvantages of the Bulk
Tank Lois Wood gave a very in
teresting original poem on the,
'“Night before Christmas ”
it’s time to install an
PENNSYLVANIA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
RECORD CRIME WAVE
The Federal Bureau of Inves
tigation recently reported that,
in the first half of this current
year, a major crime was com
mitted every 12.2 seconds, with
a murder, man-slaughter, rape or
assult to kill every 4.1 minutes.
One major crime was committed
for each 129 peisons m the na
tion
UNKNOWN SOLDIER TOMB
The first extensive renovation
in 36 yeais is being made on the
trophy room and amphitheater
adjoining the Tomb of the Un
known Scfldier. The major repair
job now in progress, which is es
timated to cost $500,000, includes
a roof to cover the circular aicade
of the marble amphitheater and
other general renovations.
The host then introduced
Stanley Musselman, the manag
er of Farmer Relations for the
Lancaster County National
Bank, Lancaster. He told of
his work in connection with
farmers. He gave a very good
definition of an expert, “the
one who knows the answers to
all questions but somehow
doesn’t understand the ques
tion.”
After singing one verse, “God
Be With You Till We Meet
Again,” we adjourned meet with
James and Annie Herr Saturday,
Jan 26, 1957 in Little Britain
Church
Chapped hands, chilled feet, slippery
floors, dripping walls, frozen pipes, un
pleasant odors ... all are cold weather
danger signals that can be eliminated
with an electric milkhouse heater. Most
important of all, with milkhouse tem
peratures up to comfortable levels,
there’s less temptation to rush through
the vital job of cleaning utensils,
a job that just shouldn’t be hurried
if you’re going to deliver high-grade,
Elmer Sensenig
Named Director
Of Soil District
. Elmer Sensenig, R 1 New Hol
land, was named a director of
the Lancaster County Soil Com
serration District Monday night
at a meeting of the board of dir
ectors at the courthouse.
He succeeds Lem S. Weist,
R 1 Ephrata Weist was cited for
his contributions to the orgamza
tion during the past four years
he has served.
Re-appointed as commis
sioner-director was Charles H.
Pearce, county commissioner.
Seven new cooperators were
approved They are Richard Dra
ger iRI Columbia. 38 acres, Har
old Drager, R 1 Marietta, 114 ac
res, Lester C Martin, R 1 East
Earl, 60 acres.
Martin B Thomas, R 3 Lancas
ter 72 acres; Fied F Hendess,
R 1 Gap, 40 aeies, Le Roy K.
Andrews, R 7 Lancaster, 72 acres;
and Richard II Witmer, Wilbw
Street' Pike, 139 acres
The board will attend the
area district meeting of direc
tors at Manheim Central High
school Dec. 27. A meeting of
associate directors of the Lan
caster County unit is sched
duled for Jan. 21 at the Farm
Bureau Cooperative.
The annual meeting wll be
held at 730 p m Feb. 21 at the
Manheim Central High school.
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winter. Electric heaters take little or no
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expensive to operate. No soot! no dirtl
no odor! See your farm equipment dealer
today. Have him install an electric milk
house heater immediately. .It’ll make
a whale of a difference in both your
comfort and your work-load.
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Base Acreage
Plan for Com
Coses in Vote
Washington (USDA) Pre
liminary returns from the grow-,
ers’ referendum held Deoembei
11 m the 894 “commercial corn”
counties indicate that farmers ap
proved an acreage allotment pro
gram for 1957 and subsequent
corn crops, instead of the alter
nate base acreage program. Ap
proval by more than one-third of
the farmers voting was required
for the acreage allotment pro
gram;- two-thirds or more of
those who voted would have had
to favor the base acreage pro
gram for it to be approved.
A total of 163,227 farmers, or
38.8 per cent of the 421,101
votes reported, favored acreage
allotments. A total of 257,874
votes, or 61.2 per cent of those
cast, favored base acreages.
“By their vote, farmers have
chosen to continue using the
acreage allotment program foi
corn,” (Secretary of Agriculture
Ezra Taft Benson said in com
menting on the referendum re
sults “The decision was properly
theirs, and the Department will
do everything in its power to
administer the program construc
tively
“There will be serious prob
lems. The national acreage allot
ment for commercial counties has
had to be cut back sharply, in
recent years, ' under jthe formula
of the controlling legislation
which calls for lower allotments
as supplies build up. As a re
sult, many farmers have found
that it was not practical for
them within the limits of
sound farm management to
reduce their corn crop to the
allotment level. Therefore the
corn adjustment program has,not
proved effective m either adjust
ing production or- providing a
broad base of price support.
“With the total allotment still
smaller for 1957, even though it
must cover some 54 more coun
ties than last year, this prob
lem will assume greater pro
portions And because fanners
will have to reduce corn pro
duction even below their small
allotments in order to take
part in the com Acreage Re
serve program, I am afraid
many will be shut out of this
program opportunity.
“A prompt and searching ap
praisal of the entire corn situa
tion, and of program relation
ships,-is needed at this time.”
November Farm
Milk Price Set
At |4.83 CWT
NEW YORK, Dec. 11—Dr. J,
C Blanford, Market Administra
tor of the New York metropoli
tan milk marketing area an
nounced Dec. 11 a uniform price
of $4.33 per hundredweight (465
quarts) forjmlk delivered in No
vember to 386 plants in the New
York milkshed The uniform
price in ctober was $4.55 per
hundredweight; in November,
1955, it was $4.33 per hundred
weight.
The producer butterfat differ
ential for the month was an
nounced at 54 cents for each
tenth of a pound of fat above
or below the 3 5 per cent stand
ard.
The price was announced
three days earlier than usual.
This was.done with the coop
eration of handlers, who sub
mitted their repprts two days
before the Dec. 10 deadline,
the price will enable the han
the price will neable the han
dlers to make payment to the
farmers before Christmas.
The production of milk fell be
low that of last November. How
ever, the consumption of fluid
milk in the marketing area
New York City and Nassau, Suf
folk and Westchester Counties—
reached a new high for the
month.
Dairymen delivered 530,114,-
510 lbs. of milk to pool plants,
the administrator said. This was
40,420,984 lbs. fewer than the
record high for the month of
570,535,494 lbs. That record was
set in November, 1955. The num
ber of producers and the aver
age production per day also fell
below the comparable figures of
last year. The number of produc
ers dropped from 49;071 last
year to 45,891 this year, a de
crease of 3,180. The average pro
duction per day per dairy was
down three pounds from last
year’s record of 388 lbs. to 383
lbs.
Sales of fluid milk in the
marketing area were 1.97 per
cent greater than the' previ
ous high for the month of No
vember, 1955. Sales this year
totaled 272.077,433 lbs-, 5,256,-
342 lbs. more than the 266,-
821,091 lbs. sold last year.
The farm value of the Novem
ber milk was $26,299,856.26, Dr,
Blanford reported. In 1955, the
farm value was $25,480,468.24.
The uniform price of $4.83
per hundredweight will be paid
for milk testing 3 5 per cent
butterfat and received at plants
201-210 miles from New York
City.
HEADS OR TAILS
Overheard at riding stables; I
wanted (to go one way. My horse
wanted to go another. So -he
tossed me for it. Winston-
SSiettt,<tf.a* tSentinei. -.