Vol. 11, No. 19 Special Speakers, Activities Planned For Extension Homemakers Week June 17 to 20 is Extension Homemakers Week on the cam pus of The Pennsylvania Slate University, University Park, an nounces Miss Ruth Kimble, exten sion home economist, Lancaster County. A varied program oh interest groups, special activities, and speakers is planned foruhe three days With special emphasis this year on music,-women interested in music will be encouraged to participate in a chorus Speakers on the three-day pro gram-inelude Miss Ins Davenport, woman’s department editor, Farm and Ranch, Nashville,. Tenn.; Dr. and Mrs,. Harry Overstreet, lead ers in the field o_f human re lations and mental health, New York City; Mrs. Dexter G. Arnold, homemaker and lecturer, Con cord, N. H.; and Miss Martha Mc- Donald, Shippenburg, 1956 In ternational Farm Youth Ex change' delegate to Israel. Scenic -tours through. Centre county and tours o"f the Penn State campus Monday afternoon, chicken barbecue, vespers, and banquet are among the special ac tivities. Efforts are-being made to have as. many of the women who attended the first Extension Homemakers Week in 1953. re turn this year for the meeting. Homemakpfs vdll register Mon day afternoon, June 17 and re turn to their homes after break fast Thursday,-June 20. While on the campus they .will live in resi dence-halls and eat all meals ex cept Monday and" Wednesday din ners in University, dining halls. Mondaywiffbe the chicken barbe cue in Hort Woods and Wednes day will be the banquet in the Hetzel Union Building. THIS SEPARATOR was devised and is used by the Pennsylvania State University agronomy department for cleaning tobac co seed. The small electric fan at the left is the only power source. Seeds are drop ped down the funnel, into the blast of air si Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa,, Friday, March 15, 1957 PP&L to Build Steam Plant . On Brunner’s Is. - Plans for a new 330;000 kilo watt steampower plant to be built on Brunners Island, 15 miles below Hainsburg, were an nounced Wednesday by Charles E Oakes, president of' the Pen nsylvania Power and Light Co. He said that the company ex pects to spend nearly $24 million this year in new construction and expansion of existing 'facilities.' The new unit will be twice as large as the largest present unit in the PP&L system It will oc cupy a 766 acre site, which was purchased last spring. It has a potential capacity of two million kilowatts. Actual construction will not begin until 1958. The new plant will be of the semi-outdoor type and will, in that respect, be similar in design to the Martin’s Creek station. It will use steam with a pressure of 2,400 pounds per square inch. This is nearly double the pres sure of the largest units now in service for the company. It’will take more than half million tons of-ooaT a'year. PP&L also plans to extend a 220,000 volt transmission line to the South Akron substation and build a 150,000 KVA substation addition. v It had been believed that the Brunners Island site might have been-used for an atomic power ed generating plant. However an from the fan. The light seeds are carried to the farthermost hopper where they are collected to be discarded. Dust and other foreign matter are also eliminated by the separator. (LF Photo) itory and additional pictures on page 16. THE OTHER MORNING when Roy Steffy, R 2 Manheim, went out to the barn, he thought that three cows had freshened. A closer check showed that one cow was re sponsible for these three calves. They are official of said, that atomic generation is too far, in the future and that the new gen erating facility is needed now. ' He said that PP & L has some 70 people now working with the atomic energy commission and that PP & L does plan to make use .(this new power source when it is economically sound. out of a stock Angus cow and a Hereford bull. This has been a good multiple birth year for Steffy. This spring he also got three sets of twins from his ewes. (LF Photo) High Rainfall Raised Vegetable Profits in 1956 The wet growing season last year made a sharp difference in crop yield figures, from 1955 ac cording to a release for the state department of agriculture. Last year’s rainfall totaled 29.- 69 inches between April and Oct ober. 6.17 inches above normal, while practically no rain fell be tween mid-June and mid-August of the preceding year. This meant a 42 per cent rise in total tonnage and a $5 million gam in farm income from 12 vegetables grown for fresh mark ed and nine grown for processing The processing crops were I worth $11.3 million, an increase of 54 per cent from 1955, and the fresh market crop rose in value by one million dollars to $lO.B million. Most of this increase was regis- Lancaster Stock Yard, Plant, Farm Visited by Japanese Marketing Team The Lancaster Stock Yards and the Christ Kunzler Packing Co. in Lancaster were visited Tues day by an eight man livestock marketing and meat processing study team from Japan. The tour was arranged by the International - Cooperation Ad ministration in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture and the Pennsylvana State Uni: versity. In addition to the stock yard visit, the group visited the farm of Melvin G. Rohrer, R 3 Lititz. They showed great interest in his one man operation of a farm carrying 10 to 30 head of steers and 15 to 30 hogs. They explained that in Japan, a farm family will usually raise only one of two steers a year for sale or slaughter. The family cow was also a cause for wonder to the Japanese. Japan raises only limited num bers of dairy cattle, and milk is $2 Per Year Dairy Price Support Purchases in February During February dairy price support purchases amounted to 10,061,996 pounds of butter, 13,- 34,623 pounds of Cheddar cheese, and 29,051,962 pounds of nonfat dry milk. These figures compare with February 1956 purchases of 13,279,237 pounds of butter, 11,- 988,264 pounds of cheese, and 53,672,842 pounds of nonfat dry milk. tered by the five major crops grown for processing—tomatoes, sweet corn, lima beans, snap beans and peas—which totaled 275,000 tons. The 1955 total for, thsee crops was held to 153,000 tons by the dry weather. Tomatoes led the processing vegetables list in total farm value with $6.9 million, nearly twice the value of the poor 1955 crop. The 1956 yield per acre for canning tomatoes tied, the pre vious high of 9.2 tons s6t in ISSI. Sweet corn for processing aver aged 3.4 tons an acre, 43 per cent above the average. somewhat a luxury item in that country. The group included Thomas Y. Arai and Eddie Mixutam, Japan Productivity Center, interpre ters Masso Kamio, examiner for the livestock bureau, Misistry of Agriculture and Forestry; Tada kazu Goto, chief of general affairs, Ossaka Municipal Office; Jokfchi Higuchi, director of Tokyo Shibaura Livestock Vis cera Cooperative Assn. Kentaro Nagao, persident of Meat Commercial Cooperative Assn.; Yoshinori Okoso, presid ent of Tokushima Ham Co., Ltd,; Ichizo Ohdi vice president of Chiba Prefeotural Federation of Livestock Agricultural Coopera tive Assn., and Tomoo Takeda, chief of livestock bureau, Iwate Prefectural Federation of Econo mic Agricultural Cooperative Assn. Assistant County Agent Victor Platow was the tour guide.
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