Voice of - Lancaster Farms Elizabeth Weaver, RI Paradise Dear Sir: I am very happy to be one of your first subscribers and accept your offer to renew my subscription for one year at the rate of one dollar. You asked the question; “How and why I like your paper?” I would say for many reasons. It has many items concerning activities in our community. I like the page for the farm wife, and family. I just like the paper from cover to cover. * I lived on a farm all my life. Ten years ago moved away from the farm. But believe me you “I left the farm but the farm never left me.” I don’t destroy the paper. When I am through reading it, I pass dt on to someone else. Franklin M. Homing, Rl Ephrata Dear Sirs: We like your paper very much. The girls like the recipes. In fact, we like every thing in it. Clarence W. Armstrong, Rl Holtwood iDear Sir: Enclosed is $1 for one year subscription to the pa per. I enjoy reading it very much. L. E. Teeter, Oxford Please find $1 for renewal of the paper. We enjoy it very much. Elam M. Stoltzfus, Cochranville Your Lancaster Farming is a wonderful farm paper. I found in your articles of 50 Years Ago that I was one of the invited guests at Henry Kurtz’s wedding 50 years ago. That’s when we liked to take a girl friend to the table groan ing,with good eats plus good cel ery. Lester E. Landis, Box 261, R 3 Lititz To Editor: Had a little “paper” experience three years in High School. No easy job, and today’s costs are bad. Appreciate your effort. You can’t please every body and not go bankrupt George Brenberger, R 3 QuarryviUe We are very well pleased with Lancaster Farming. We hke the suggestions in it My wife likes the Farm Wife and Family pages. Mrs. Eura Wingenroth, R 1 Stevens Publishers Lancaster Fanning: Received your letter telling me it is time to renew my subscnp tion. We Wee Lancaster Farming very much. I always turn to the page of Farm Wife and Family. Although we are past the age to farm, we are still interested in farm papers. As we were living on farms so many years a farm wife does cook many big meals 1 have tried some of the recipes in your paper and they turned out good. Glenn B. Huntzberger, 113 Elizabethtown Dear Sir: To let you know we enjoy the paper very much- We like the market reports and the latests news. We would miss it very much. M. W. Rissler, Rl New Holland Dear Sir; I like your farm pd per. I had forgotten the renewal a short time. I hope there is time yet. Please find cheek for $l. Martin Hoover, Box 73, R 3 Manheim Dear Sir: I like the paper O K. It is something different No li quor ads and a Col 6f junk like they have in some other publi cations. / William E. Miller, R 4 Manheim Dear Sir: I am a farmer living m the northern part of the County. We Lancaster Far ming b“c o iis« it dives a good live-- stock report and news in -gener al. ‘ • "fxi'M/j/oo'i'rr wsVrsV Farm Exports Setting Record; Over $4 Billion Calendar year 1956 is setting a new record for agricultural ex port volume, the U. S Depart ment of Agriculture has an- nounced. ! | $ Based on official trade statis tics through October, supple mented by Department estimates for the remaining two months of the year, the value of United States farm exports for 1956 'is expected to surpass $4 billion, 30 per cent above 1955. Exports m 1956 were approximately equal to the all-time high of $4.1 bifihon set in 1919. As prices have declined since 1919, how ever, the quantity exported will be about 5 per cent greater than in that year Agricultural exports have now increased every year since 1953. The total gam since then has been 40 per cent m value and 60 per cent in quantity Several of the major com* modity groups are establish ing new records in 1956. Grain and feed exports are breaking the record set in 1947 and equaled in 1951. Vegetable oils and oilseeds are surpass ing the 1955 peak, and fruits and vegetables are moving ahead of the 1947 record quan tity. This year’s record is a reflec tion of the continuing improve ment in the economic situation overseas. Plentiful supplies in the United States available for export and United States govern ment programs, which help over come pricing problems and dol aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiii CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING PAYS = =3 Classified Ads Biing INQUIRIES * ♦ ♦ MAKE SALES If You Selling — v Livestock, Poultry or Equipment you’ll find the buyers you are looking for amoung the many thou sands of readers who receive LANCASTER FARM ING each week. You couldn’t find a better market for your dairy cows and heiter calves, your registered bulls*and your surplus crop of bull calves, your poultry and chicks .. or for your used equipment. «sr Whether You Want to Buy a Farm or to Spll One, to Buyer Sell a Bull Calf, a Milking Machine, a Tractor or get a Good Hired Man— You’ll Find LOW COST Ads In Lancaster Farming Pay Dividends ONLY 5 cents a word if set sohdT Count initials, Use This Handy Chart To Figure Your Cost abbreviations, or numbers as words. w j rI 'i i... i..,,-. Ads" running 3'olr more consecutive times with no - Words Uj Issue Issues billed at 4c per word each time with 80c minimum. 20 Min $l.OO $2 40 EXAMPLE: Cost: 25 words at .05 $l-25 one insertion, - LANCASTER FARMING QUARRYVILLE, PA. Please run the following ad =X Name Check Box at end of this paragraph if you do not want your name signed to your ad but wish replies sent to us and forwarded to you. (Add additional 25 cents for this service.) □ 9liHllliii!lElililiifi]iflElfnßlill!l i<» u' u i mdi 1 i U.S. Imports Reach Recordjn October The value of U. S. general im ports reached a record high of $1,120,000,000 in October, about 2 per cent higher than the pre vious peak of $1,100,000,000 set in March, 1951 and March, 1956. Total imports for the first ten months of 1956 were valued at $10,556,900,000 or 13 per cent above the valuation of $9,310,- 500,000 for the similar period last year. lar shortages, are permitting United States agriculture to par ticipate in the overall export in crease resulting from prosperous conditions abroad. Foreign consumers in the ma jor marketing areas have increas ed their purchasing power, and have been buying a greater vari ety and quantity of United States goods, in the January-October period, value of total exports in creased by the 20 per cent over the like months of 1955 and ag ricultural exports by 26 per cent. The five most important desti nations of United States agricul tural exports in 1956 were Ja pan, the United Kingdom, Cana da, Western 'Germany and the Netherlands. About two-fifths of total farm exports moved under U. S. Government programs such as sales for foreign currencies, barter arid donations. The majority of exports were in form of commercial sales for dollars. These were aided to some extent by special competi tive pricing programs for such commodities as wheat and cot ton, and by Export-Import Bank loans. In . . . WELL STOCKED DAIRY FARM. for sale t»y owner.' With or without miscellaneous machinery and feed. John J. Janies, Jr. Lancaster, Pa. Phone EX 9-9999. ■naiiinainMßiHißiiHßaHittlllßmilimniMillMHinMMliamillllllMlllHllllßlßnßllllUllllHlllHlHMlMlllllinillllilllill^ Wiscosin Study Shows Bank Barns Suitable for Milk Producing The bank barn has had its ups and downs in favor among farm ers as housing for dairy cattle but a recent study by the U. S. Department of Agriculture and the agricultural experiment sta tion of the University of Wiscon sin shows that this type of barn is acceptable for the health and comfort of the animals and for production of high-quality milk. The investigators compared re sults in bank barns and above ground barns, taking into ac count temperature, humidity, light intensity, and odor. They define a bank barn as one that has earth against the greater part of one side of its first floor, or stable section. Results 1 of the study are summarized in a new USDA publication by engineers Max J. Laßodk of the university and Robert G. Yeck of USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. They found that average temp erature and humidity are slight ly better for animals during the winter in bank barns than in above-ground barns. In sum mer, these conditions were much the same in both types of barns. Temperature and humidity were slightly more uniform along the bank- walls than along exposed walls in above-ground barns. The insulating qualities of bank walls of masonry were suf- |ancaster farming times in your classified section- I enclose $ i Lancaster Farming, Friday, Jan- 4, 1957—13 If You Are Buying You don’t want to waste time reading ads that have no bearing on the farming business. And you DO want to place your own “wanted” ad in a paper which is being read by the very people you want to reach. Readers will find your ad quickly among the FARM ads in LANCASTER FARMING. 21 22 23 24 25 MINIMUM CHARGE $l.OO Address „l /ch;f''l i < ■ ficient to permit ventilation and maintain propftr temperature, during cold spellsof very cold weather. There' was j «d condensation on stable ceilings, because they were protected by the insulation of hay or bedding stored on the mow floors above. There was almost no condensa tion on bank walls in cold weath er, but m warm weather once or twice a year, at times of a sud den rise in outdoor temperature accompanied by high relative humidity, there would be some moisture on the cool bank walls. Condensation was frequent in freezing weather on exposed wafts in both types of barns, and single-glass windows frosted- But such condensation did not cause the bacterial count of milk to rise unduly. The light intensity in bank barns was less uniform than in above-ground barns, but the en gineers found that 4 square feet of glass per cow along the ex posed south wall of a bank barn having its long axis east and west proved satisfactory for lighting and for cow heaSth The quality of milk produced was essentially the same in both types of barns. LANCASTER FARMING Classifieds Ads Pay I.OS 1.10 1.15 1.20 1.25 Q Bill me later. 2.52 2.64 2.76 2.88 3.00 m payment
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