10—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 1, 1957
The agreements signed so far
cover 1,707,321 acres of corn, 1-
-798,614 acres of cotton, 95,135
acres of rice, 40,502 acres of to
bacco, and 11,610,396 acres of
wheat, including winter wheat.
LANCASTER FARMING
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THIS IS HOW TO RtfV A
“SPLIT-FLOCK” TEST
• If you run a split-flock test I
suggest that you get both strains
of day old chicks the same day
One strain should be carefully
toe-marked Gove both strams the
came kind of quarters, heat, feed,
etc. I believe it best to keep the
two strams separate right from
day-old because some strains are
much more vicious and cannibalis
tic than others
Both strams should -be simul
taneously housed in similar laying
pens with equal floor space, water
trough, mash hoppers, feed, lights,
etc Put lights on pullets as soon
as you house them and push for
top lay I hope that all birds you
test make you top profits
This is How to Test Babcock
Bessies
When can we send you your
Babcock Bessies 9 Tell our com
petitor you are testing his pul
lets against Babcock Bessies •
Don’t tell us about your test un
til after we have delivered your
Bessies to you You get the same
quality from us whether you run
a split flock test or purchase all
your chicks from us
Ask about our advance order
discounts Many of our customers
are ordering their Babcock Bes
sies up to a whole year ahead to
take advantage of these dis
counts.
For free literature and prices
write to
Babcock Poultry Farm, Inc.
Route #3
Ithaca, New York
Russell Mease
Route 4
Manheim, Pa.
Local Representative
Phone Manheim MO 54705
POP S£7T£& y/£IPS
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Elmer Brill
Elizabethtown 7-5441
Frank H. Bucher
Lititz MA 6-9124
C. B. Erb
Landisville TW 8-2531
Lester Erb
Landisville TW 8-3216
.Martin R. Kraybill
Elizabethtown 7-2696
A. H. HOFFMAN, INC,
Farm Women 4
To Entertain
Farm Women 17
Members of Society of Farm
Women 17 will be guests of Soci
ety 4 at the Mar. 30 meeting, it
was announced Saturday at meet
ing of the latter group in the
home of Mrs John Gingrich, East
Petersburg. The meeting will be
held in the Rohrerstown School.
Sgt. Herman C. Ries of the
Pennsylvania State Police showed
a film on the County Safety Pa
trol and spoke on school safety
measures in general.
Plans made included a food
sale at the John Musser farm
sale tomorrow and sewing cancer
dressings last Tuesday at the
home of Mrs. Frank Nolt, Landis
ville.
There were 32 present at the
meeting with Mrs. John Musser,
president, in charge. Mrs.' Leh
man Shellenberger conducted
group singing and Mrs. Maude
Mohler led devotions.
Rose Society Director
Talks in Elizabethtown
Fred S. Glaes, Reading, direc
tor of the American Rose Society
addressed the Elizabethtown Rose
Society last night at their" meet
ing in the Educational Room of
the First National Bank building,
Elizabethtown.
Members and friends attended.
Glaes’ topic was “Growing and
Exhibiting Roses ”
Reservations are still being
made for the bus trip to the Phil
adelphia Flower Show, March 26,
and the New York 'Flower Show,
March 30-31.
PASTURES
For year round grazing sow
a Swiss Permanent Pasture.
Ready to pasture in 8 weeks.
No more reseeding.
We also have an excellent
Hay Pasture Silage Mix
2-3 cows per acre grazing.
Casupa Super Green
Pastures
FRED FREY
QUARRYVILLE, PA.
ST 6-2235
- -ntTST
Jason H. Mellinger
Strasburg OV 7-2383
E. C. Seldomridge
Quarryville ST 6-2951
Jonathan S. Shirk
Intercourse SO 8-3111
Levi M. Stoltzfus
Edgar C. Umble
MorganlowQ 6-4359
Gap HI 2-4525
LANDISVILLE, FA.
livestock, Meat Industries Try
To Please Wants of Homemakers
“The livestock and meat in
dustry centers its activities on
pleasing the homemaker, since
she is the one who does the meat
purchasing in most American
families.”’
This realistic appraisal of the
importance of the American
housewife to one of'the nation’s
largest industries was made by
Augie R Ring, director of the
Department of Merchandising of
•the National Live Stock and
Meat Board
Noting that the industry makes
a point of understanding the
needs and problems of the Am
erican homemaker, Ring pointed
to some of the changes which
have come about since the years
that preceded World War II
“The two key advances in the
meat industry have been in the
fiplds of frozen meats and self
service meat markets,” he said
“Other factors have been the
change toward more compact
meat cuts, and the growing popu
larity of convenience foods ”
He said that the number of 100
per cent self-service meat mar
kets has jumped from less than
10 in the entire nation in 1938 to
15,000 in 1956. In the same period
there have been many changes in
merchandising techniques,
brought about, in part, by the
use of pre-packaging, he noted.
“Unit purchases are smaller in
size, and there are more boneless
cuts being made,” Mr. Ring said _
“Boneless cuts are easier to
handle at the retail level as far
as packaging is concerned, and
they definitely prove advantage
ous from the standpoint of the
consumer since they are easier
to prepare, serve and carve ”
He listed boneless pot-roasts
and boneless round steaks as
specific examples of cuts that are
being used more widely now thgn
in the years before World War
II He noted, also, that rib roasts
are usually shorter and more com
pact today with excess bone and
fat removed.
“The practice has become more
widespread of removing the flank
—or tail _— from steaks,” Ring
said. “Shankless and skinless
hams are becoming quite popular.
These hams have the hock por
tion removed, and therefore, do
not taper to one end. This gives
the ham a different shape from
that which we have traditionally
associated with hams, and is
another example of the trend to
ward meat cuts with more meat
and less bone. Of course, one of
the major developments recently
has been the practice of giving
pork cuts a closer trim in exter
nal fat ”
He stated that the volume of
frozen meat sales in this country
has increased from 15 million
pounds in 1947 to 325 million
pounds in 1956.
“There are varying predictions
within the industry on the future
of frozen meats, with estimates
ranging from 20 to 50 per cent as
to the amount of total meat sales
that will be in the form of frozen
meats by 1960.'” Ring said.
Concerning the growing popu
larity of convenience foods, the
meat expert noted that today’s
typical homemaker is a very busy
woman. He pointed out that
thirty per cent of the nation’s
married women hold down part
or full time jobs, and the other
70 per cent also have less time
Farm Show Checks
In Mail This Week
Checks from the Pennsylvania
Farm Show for prizes and sale
proceeds should start arriving
this week, the state department of
Agriculture said Monday.
The biggest single check to be
mailed out will be one for $l,-
733.63 to Glenn Foreman, R 3
Manheim, as payment for his sale
of his grand champion 4-H An
gus steer.
The department said that a to
tal of $45,761.69 will be sent to
113 farm boys and girls who sold
steers and lambs on the last day
of the 1957 Farm Show.
to spend in the kitchen.
“Therefore, we can see that
the so-called built-in maid service
or paid-for convenience is im
portant to her in any food pro
duct she purchases,” he said
“And this built-in service is one
of the factors, of course, that she
pays for in her food purchases.
“The industry is going all out
to provide her with food pro
ducts that are just as close as
possible, at the time of purchase,
to the can opener, the stove, the
refrigerator, the food freezer, and
ultimately, the family table. She
is even buying canned gravy to
day.”
Ring said that with all foods,
and that applies particularly to
meat, the homemaker has indi
cated a desire for convenience
Not only does she want conveni
ence and ease, in preparation, but
she wants and is being pro
vided a wide selection from
which to choose.
“She wants the foods conveni
ently located and easy to get to,”
he said. “Certainly she wants
plenty of parking space, along
with shopping carts for junior
and sister, or better yet, a corral
in which the youngsters might be
confined with comic books
while she pushes her cart down
aisles half a block long.
“The industry is keenly aware
that Mrs. Homemaker wants de
pendability in her meat pur
chases that she wants to be as
sured of consisten quality and
tenderness. And the industry
including the growers and feed
ers,-the marketing agencies, the
meat packers and the retailers
is putting all its know-how and
experience into seeing that she
gets just that.”
H. M. KRADY
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First Plans Made '
For Homemakers
jWeek in June
Preliminary plans for the 1957
Extension Homemakers Week at
the Pennsylvania State Univer
sity were made at the recent
meeting of the program planning
committee, reports Ruth Kimmel,
extension home economist, Lan
caster County.
June 17 to 20 are the dates for
this fifth annual state-wide meet
ing of homemakers on the Penn
State campus. A program of vari
ed interests and special activities
is planned for the three days.
Six homemakers on the pro
gram planning committee are
Mrs. Robert Nolt, R 1 Lancaster,
Mrs. Richard Meade, Havertown;
Mrs. Robert Crissey Central City;
Mrs. Edward Turnbull, Clards
Summit; Pauline Fetter, Hern
don; and Mrs. Harold Streator,
Corsica.
On the committee are these
county extension home econom
ists: Mrs. Martha Chapman,
Wayne County; Jane Ifft, Indiana
County; Ruth Mangus, Delaware
County; and Vivian Peterson,
Mercer County.
Japanese Wool Imports
Increase 42 Pet.
During 1956 Japan imported
291.5 million pounds of wool com
pared with 205.4 million in 1955,
an increase of 42 per cent. Most
of the increase came from Aus
tralia.
The, s{\arp .rise in Japan’s wool
imports is reported to be a major
factor in the strength of the wool
market in recent months.
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