14—Lancaster Farming, Friday, May 10, 1957 Pennsylvania Regains First Place In Farm Cash from Chickens. JfIARIUSBURG, May 9 Penn sylvania has regained its first place among all the states in farm casSwncome from chickens other than broilers, the State Depart ment of Agriculture announced today. Records compiled by the Penn sylvania Crop Reporting Service lor the year 1956 show that the Keystone State Poultry industry retained its second place nation ally m gross income from eggs alone and second place in the farm value of all poultry and eggs combined. The State has held these rankings for a number of years but in 1955 was second in income from chickens, except broilers The total 1956 farm cash in- Os ft ' o 4 y s { A pen of new Honegger iTayers J i topped the nation In all ( i official 1955-56 Standard laying i * tests 87% Production and i 1 100% Livability Order the > ' new Chix NOWI £S\ | * WINDLE’S HONEGGER ITM B » | ASSOC. HATCHERIES ws\i f I * PH LYnc 3-5941 COCHRANVILLE, PA ( J - The prospects for a better egg market •***?«' ll * . are better than ever j If You Are a Milk Producer... Unquestionably you are interested in The Girton Deluxe Farm Cooling Tank First Choice of American Fanners Meets 3-A Sanitary Standards We combine Girton’s 26 years experience in T>airy Equip- |j| ment with our 28 >ears experience in the refrigeration ♦» field to give >ou the correct installation to'suit your needs. i •• :U :: H tl u ♦H Intercourse, Penna. DILLER & CLARK SO 8-3321 come from Pennsylvania’s poul try industry came to $184,524,000 compared with $192,091,000 in 1955 due to lower prices received by farmers. The 1956 total repre sents 25 per cent of all Pennsyl vania farm cash income compared with 30 per cent for the dairy in dustry. When combined, livestock and poultry gross receipts repre sent 76 per cent of all Pennsyl vania faim cash income. > During observance of Pennsyl vania Broiler Week, May 4-11, State Agriculture Secretary Wil liam L. Henning says poultrymen can take pride in the high nation al standing of their industry which includes: Fourth in number but'second in value of chickens inventories on Pennsylvania farms on January 1, 1957, fourth in number of chick ens raised, fourth in number of layers, fourth in number of eggs produced, seventh in number and value of turkeys on farms January 1, 1957, ninth in income from turkeys, ninth in value of sales of farm chickens and broil ers and 13th in the number and \ alue of broiler-fryer chickens. Nine oi the 100 leading poultry counties in the United States are in Pennsylvania.” Lancaster, York, Berks, Bucks, Montgomery, Schuylkill, Northumberland, Ad ams and Chester, in that order. SUBSCRIBER SAYS: Mrs. S. D. Edwards, 210 W. Franklin St„ Ephrata ~ Lancaster Farming I enjoy your paper very much. The first thing I look for is the recipes. I will send some in later. Bulk Tank Cooling SEE We Invite Your Inquiries. Electrical Service Kinzers, R. 1, Penna, (Intercourse) SO 8-8167 Farm Bureau Reports $91,000 Dividends Back Keystone State farmers saved more than $450,000 by making greater use of their Farm Bureau regional services in 1956, it was shown in a report to the Pennsyl vania Farm Bureau Cooperative' Association’s board of directors. Of this amount, about $91,000 was returned directly to farmers as dividends on their investments,’ in the organization, according to Controller L. A. Thomas Jr. The balance, which was returned to the Regional’s Member Associa tions in stock, boosts the equity of farmers in Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Cooperation Assn, to $l,- 937,000. This is in addition to their equity in their local associa tions. Executive Vice President George G. Connor said the re gional association’s dollar volume for purchasing and marketing m 1956 amounted to $23,938,000, a. gam of three-quarters of a mil lion dollars over the previous year, despite lower costs for feed and some other services. “Although this is not the high est volume of business in our his tory,” Connor stated, “it is among the highest. This is an achieve ment in itself, considering the economic squeeze in which farm ers are operating. However, we are more pleased that farmers are making greater use of the facilities they own ” Connor continued; “This is evidenced in the fact that we distributed more feed and gasoline last year than we did in 1956 While our fertilizer ton nage did not quite equal, in ton nage, the year previous, it was greater in plant food units The regional Farm Bureau distributed more than 84,000 tons of mixed feeds, more than 53 million gal lons of liquid fuels, over 2,800,000 pullorum clean chicks, arid more than 57,000 tons of fertilizer. “Our seed volume for the year was up 300,000 pounds, or more than 12 per cent and ingredients showed a gain of 31 per cent to more than a million dollars ” Attaches Meet In Rio de Janeiro; Benson to Speak A conference of 1 1 S. Agncul tm al Attaches will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil the week of May 20, the U S. Department of Agriculture announced today. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, the Department’s agricultural attaches for Latin American countries, representa tives of United State farm organ izations and trade associations, and others will partcipate. The Secretary will address the con ference the morning of May 24. The meeting will end May 25. Conference sessions will be de moted largely to planning more -extensive coordinated effort by USDA and private trade to pro mote greater exports of United States agricultural products to meet increasing Latin American demands for more and better food as a result of economic growth. Gwynn Garnett, administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Serv ice, will be the principal speaker at the opening session on May 20. He will outline conference ob jectives, and report on agricul tural developments in the United States. Eastern Sheepmen's Sale To Be Held June 15 The Fourth Annual Eastern Pennsylvania Sheepmen’s Assn, sale will be held at the Reading Fairgrounds, June 15. Robert M. Harbster, show man ager, said today that 60 purebred sheep will be sold. Harbster also stated this is one of the best con signment of sheep ever offered at the Reading sale. The sale is sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania Sheepmen’s Assn, a non-profit organization, whose 350 members are promot ing the sale in the interest of the small and part-time farmmer. The show will start at 10 a, m. the sale will start at 1 p. m. More Than 2,800 Day-Old Chicks Transferred to Frnitville Farm HARRISBURG More than 2,800 day-old chicks were trans ferred Saturday from the Penn sylvania State University to the Fruitville Poultry Farm near Lan caster, for rearing in the State’s first random sample egg laying test. John L. Rainey, director of the Bureau of Markets, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, said the birds will be kept under care ful observation until September 1958 to test and grade their laying ability. The program is designed to pro vide a basis for commercial poul trymen to evaluate entries with respect to egg production and other economic factors Rainey said. Each of 48 poultry breeders from nine states several weeks ago sent 210 eggs t