6—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 6, 1957 Farm Society 4 Hears Dr. Bucher Dr. Caleb Bucher, principal of the Brecht School, addressed a meeting of Farm Women’s So ciety Nunmber 4 last Saturday. He spoke on the subject of “Roads.” The Christmas Dinner was held at Hostetlers’ in Mt Joy and husbands were the guests of honor. Rev. Warren Bates sang several solos Approximately sixty persons attended. Committees for the coming year were appointed by Mrs. John Musset, the secretary president. It was announced that a covered dish luncheon will fea ture the next regular meeting which will be held at the home of Mrs Robert Nolt, of RDI, Lan caster. LICK MASTITIS WITH PENT-A-CIN New i-PENT-A-CIN NJECTOR with Hydrocortisone Protects Udder Tissues MEETS NEW GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS Ask Your Dealer for Penf-a-cin Products "SO ROCKLAND t |l C CHEMICAL COMPANY 1 W«* C«t«w«ll N#w I «. .. * Healthy Chicks Make Great Layers! Here’s Your Egg Size Conversion Table For Dollars On October 14, 1957 a flock laying 72% and producing all “Large” Eggs, brought in the same gross income as a flock laying 104% and laying all “Mediums”; and the same as a flock laying 149% and laying all “Pullets”! Notice that small egg strains do all right in the spring and will rum you in the summer and fall. Obviously, no flock lays over 100%. (N Y City Wholesale Prices) Month Large Price Prod. 59 20 at 72% 45 7c! at 72% 54 30 at 72% 34 50 at 72% 61 00 at 72% Sept '55 March ‘56 Sept ’56 March ’57 Oct 14, ’57 Random Sample Tests show Babcock Bessies will lay about 82% to 85% large and extra large eggs for a year of lay. Also Bessies are a good 15 months layer. During the last 6 to 9 months about 94% of their eggs are large and extra large. Check the above table again and you will see why it pays to raise birds that come into large egg production early, and keep on producing large eggs You might as well raise a profit layer while jou re about it. Now is the time to order Babcock Bessies. Phone us collect, and we will book your order today. BABCOCK HATCHERY Lancaster County Branch Route 3F, Lititz, Pa. Phone MAdison 6-5872 Russell Mease Bob Decker Route 4 R. D. #1 Manheim, Pa. Milford, New Jersey Phone MO-5 4705 Phone Milford 4-4909 Jamaica, Just a Few Hours Away (Continued from page one) Spanish means butter, or more properly, lard, to recall the tons and tons of fat that once were shipped from this port. Just east aw ays is the blackened ruins of Rose Hall, a plantation home burned in a story of witchcraft intrigue many years ago, but to day the plantation still operates as one of the leading sugar pro ducers. Mountains are wild as you fly comparatively low over a corner of Cockpit Country “the Dis trict of Look Behind” where fugitive slaves years ago fled and established their own closed state, now inaccessible and, some say, inadvisable to the visitor. Peaks are sharp. Tiny homes cling to mountainsides. Patch work fields hang almost perpendicular against the mountainside. Smoke trails up from a cook house, and roads or trails sinuous as a snake wander along hillsides. Here the Connie flew a crooked course, slaying comparatively low, fol lowing valleys over the Blue Mountains until soon the port of Kingston apears The plane flies parallel to Kingston’s main street, and lands on the single concrete strip that is Palisadoes Airport a peninsula of land extending into the bay. It’s Sun day afternoon. Behind the 1 fences are throngs of people on a Sunday outing. Gilmore recognizes his family waving at the plane. It’s a quick trip through cus toms, inquiry as to your place of birth, your address in Jamaica, your length of stay. Fortunately, I had spotted Mitch Cubberley, New Jersey engineer whom I met a year earlier in Charlotte Ama lie, St. Thomas Virgin Islands, for a policeman stopped me at the exit, asking if someone was there to meet me. Police in Jamaica wear a colorful uniform: blue trousers with red stripe, a red cummerbund or sash topped by a Now Available... Mediums Price Prod. 47 70 at 89% 43 8C at 75% 35 20 at 111% 32 2c# at 77% 42.0 g at 104% leather belt, blue blouse and cap. Sometimes the white pith helmet is substituted. Although no explanation was given of the extreme caution shown here, others we met on the trip including Amelia Lob sen? of New York City and Nino Cairone of Perugia, Italy told of tourist and civilian curfews on the island of Haiti where sim mering revolt punctuated a night’s sleep with gunfire But there’s peace on Jamaica, a peace that has lasted many years Kingston is not too appealing as a -tourist-spa; - its beaches are almost non-existent, its coast rock and lacking in sand How ever, mineral baths along the highway attract hundreds. Through the main section of town to Hope Road leading to the agri cultural experiment stations and famed Hope Botanical Gardens, it was arrival time at Courtleigh Manor a former huge residence converted to a hotel with mod ernistic wings overlooking an ex cellent swimming pool. An open terrace served as a dining room, and beautiful green lawns pro vided putting courses for those inclined to golf. Airlines and crews patronize Courtleigh Manor heavily, and it was here we met Miss June Wal lace, British West Indies Airline stewardess who is a native of Trinidad. Canadians, Tnnadad lans, British the English langu age became increasingly multi toned Miss Wallace’s knowledge of calypso English served well in haggling with bamboo vase mer chants under a gigantic rooted cotton tree on the road to Spanish Town Lower and lower went the prince in a flurry of calpso Eng lish, until the defeated native complained, “But lady, you’ve al ready drooped me down a dollar.” June’s father, she explained, is a semi-retired plantation opera tor on Trinidad, keeping active with planting of citrus and cocoa. “There we have to depend mostly on frozen imported meats,” she explained, telling of the island farther to the south. Near Spanish Town once the capital of Jamaica, now a vil lage we almost missed in driving through acres and acres are planted in banana and pineapple by the United Fruit Co., and at the moment banana harvest is well underway. Breadfruit, a staple in Jamaican diet, grows freely. But most interesting of all on Jamaica may well be the silk cot Pullets Price Prod. 31 60 at 134% 39.00 at 84% 22 90 at 171% 28 40 at 87% 29.50 at 149% Manheim Pike Tm a John Deere man myself" LANDIS BROS. JAMAICAN STRAW HAT MARKET Jamaica’s peasants are skilled in weaving straw goods, utilizing natural libers such as thatch, reed coconut straw, raffia and the supple, washable jippi jappaf (Jamaica Tourist Board Photo) ten tree, whose roots form mam mouth buttresses leading to a smooth trunk at least 12 feet thick. Towering overhead are spreading branch*. Here’s a new brand of English, where you "droop down” the mer chants, where you read a road sign which says, “Round About Ahead.” Hey, mahn in the next story we’ll go through the environs of Kingston, to a calypso night club, up and over the Blue Mountains famed for coffee. Of course. And he comes by it naturally. For fwo of his greatest heroes are John Deere men —Dad and Granddad. Th*t’s why your young on« will take such pride in owning and riding a John Deere Tractor-Cycle—the toy tractor that looks just like the new John Deere Model “60" —that’s built to take the punishment'that young sters are bound to put it to. II That’s why your boy or girl will de light in the John Deere miniature line, too—the tiny scale models yjm shown below that actually have functional parts and that bring a note of realism to the toyland farm. Order early in time for Christmas. See us soon. Spreader SUBSCRIBER SAYS Dear Sirs Yes I do enjoy your paper of course being a house wife I al ways turn to the housewife’s page I save all the recipes & pat terns and use them as I find time to try a new recipe I save all these pages and want to file most of them very soon. Mrs. Phares Miller, Elizabethtown, R. 1, Pa. Wagon Combine Lancaster Ph. EX 3-3906 Tractor Disk Harrow Plow
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers