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
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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.
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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<x be hatched
under uniform conditions at the
Penn State College of Agricul
ture. More than 50 pullet chicks
from each entry will be placed in
the first stage of the test on the
Lancaster County poultry farm.
The random sample test next
September will replace the 25-
year-old Pennsylvania Official Egg
Laying Test in which egg produc
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tion is measured under different
standards. Cooperating with the
Department m the new type of
test are the University and the
State Poultry Federation.
After being reared in Lancas
ter County under typical commer
cial farm conditions for 150 days,
the test birds wUI be transported
to laying houses near the Penn
sylvania Farm Show . Building,
Harrisburg.
Each breeder will have two
pens of 25 birds each. The number
and weight of eggs produced by
each bird and pen will be re
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other factors by specialists of the
poultry and egg division of the
State Bureau of Markets.
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