RY THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE Mary K. Bettendorf, Librarian i Poona. State Ifalver s iby j ifer: •Om Vol. 111. No. 13, SAFETY WITH EQUIPMENT actually be gins before the machinery is in the field. Most non-fatal farm accidents involving machinery happen because the machine was not stopped when being repaired or adjusted. Many field adjustments or re- New Assistant Agent Serving In Chester Co. Frank E Bortz, HI Shel octa, has been named to the Agn tural-Extension Staff of Pennsyl vania State University as an As sistant County Agent and will be stationed m Chester County He will be a member of the exten sion staff headed by County Agent Robert A Powers, Jr His appointment, effective Feb 1, was announced by Dr H. R Al brecht, Director of Agricultural and Home Economics Extension at the University Bortz replaces H Wallace Cook, Ji , who resigned last Dec 15 to icturn to operate the home dairy farm in New Castle County, Del- aware Lower Milk, Egg Prices Drop State Farm Income 3 Per Cent Lower milk and egg prices in mid-January dropped the aver age Pennsylvania farm income foi products three per cent Horn a month ago, the State Depart ment of Agriculture said today According to tne Pennsylvania Crop Repoiting Service farmers received 20 cents less for 100 pounds of milk last month than in December 1957 and eggs were five and a half cents a dozen be low a month ago. IN ADDITION to lowei prices for milk and eggs, decreases were noted for hay, butterfat, tobacco and wool, and offset Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa,, Friday, Feb. 7, 1958 pairs next summer can be avoided by get ting equipment into good running order now. Shown here are Jake Kauffman, Quar ryvile, and Elwood Ammerman, Drumore, overhauling a tractor in a dealer’s shop. (LF Photo) Young Farmers Meeting Feb. 8 At Manhcim Saturday will see the fiist meet ing of the Pennsylvania Young Farmers at the Manhenn Central High School The executive com mittee will meet at 10 30 a m. The general meeting will be held m the afternoon Highlight of this meeting will be a slide show of conditions in Iran pre sented by George Derr, chef of agricultural education m the state department of public instruction Derr was former agricultural ambassador to Iran According to J J Oberholtzer, Rl Bird-m-Hand, public relations officer of the state organization, the young farmeis plan a meeting in each of the six districts of the slate. Lancaster county is m Re gion 2, the southeastern part of the state gams for meat animals, poultry and other crops The prices leceived index for mid-January stood at 254 per cent of the 1910-14 base level and compared with 262 per cent for the month ended Dec 15, 1957. Nationally, the price index was 247 per cent in mid-Janua r v against 242 pei cen: a month earlier THE MOST APPRECIABLE gain in prices received by Pen nsylvania farmeis in nud-Jan uary was for meat animals as calves showed a $1 increase and hogs and beef cattle averaged 50 cents piore for 100 pounds. AGRICULTURAL LIBRA 1957 Broiler Production jumps by 8 Per Cent During 1957 commercial broiler iroduction in the 22 important broiler-producing states totaled 1,295 million birds, up eight per cent from 1956 and the largest number of record for these states Georgia, wth a tally of 261 mil lion buds in 1957, produced over twice as many as any other state Tunneis up were Arkansas with 110 million, North Carolina with 105 million, Alabama with 102 million and Texas with 101 mllion TOBACCO LOADED TRUCKS are lining the streets adjacent to warehouses as the 1957 crop moves to market. Two things are noticable this year when looking at the Tobacco Co-op Believes Controls Will Raise Price Acreage controls, long condem cd m Lancaster County, were railed as a possible solution to Iroppmg tobacco prices by the jdneaster County Tobacco Grow ers Cooperative Assn at a meet ng Friday night Members of the coopeiatve as ociaton felt that an oversupply if leaf is causing cuirent price Jump and that controlled pro luction is the best solution. In the business session, acting ■Manager of the cooperative, Mark i Hess, R 6 Lancaster, resigned icth as manager and as a direc or Hess said tlhat his positon as nanager of the feed operations of he Pennsylvana Farm Bureau Co operative make it impossible to live the coopeiative jobs the time md effort required He has been acting manager mce 1950 Harry Hershey, Rl Marietta, T acob Stahman, R 6 Lancaster, Ar hur Reist, 1050 Eden Road, Lan aster- and Cyrus Neff, R 2 Lancas er, were named as directors from the northwest, southern and north eastern districts of the coopera tive with Neff being named to fill Hess’ unexpired term. Also discussed by f(he growers was the possibility of establishing a tobacco auction It was felt that this would give more competitive bidding for the tobacco However it was pointed out that buyers now do not buy until they are ready Questioned the value of holding an auction when nothing required the buyers to appear on the auction floor Cooperative president Harry Hershey said, “Only when we have enough cooperators willing to give us their tobacco, so much that the buyers have to have some ot it, will we be able to have an effect on the market We must hc,ve loyal, cooperative members Getting out of the realm of maiketmg and into production, presumably to grow more tobacco in case acreages aie cut, the gioup passed a resolution asking Penn State tor new tobacco fer tilization recommendations in light of present soil tests incoming leaf. First is the shortness of the bales as compared with other years and the other is that bales are being made much tighter. (LF Photo) S 3 Per Year SCO Board Get Certificates From Goodyear Seven membeis of the Lancas ter County Coil Conseivation Dis trict board of directois were awarded Certificates of Merit for their work in soil conservation at a meeting Monday night in Lan caster Presenting the certificates was Robert Dickey field representa tive of the Goody eai Tire and Rubber Co., Dayton, Oh.o Last fall the District was given the Goodyear trophy as the top con servation district in the Com monwealth Receiving ceitificales were Chairman Amos H Funk, Rl Mil lersville, vice chairman, Henry H Hackman, R 2 Manhenn, secre taiy-treasurer, Wayne B Rent schler, Lampeter, commission member, Charles H Pearce, 11 Edgefiill Dr, Lancaster, farmer member, Elmer V Good, R 3 Lit itz, and farmer member Elmer M Sensemg, Rl New Holand. An drew H Hackman, R 2 Manheim, was the conservaton farmer of the yeai in the county Work unit conservationist W Martin Muth, Lititz, reported to the board that 18 cooperators in the district have accepted an offer made by the Glatfelter Pulp Wood Co, Gettysburg, to furnish tree seedlings A total of 24,900 trees have been ordered for planting this spring The only restriction made by the firm is that the free trees are to be distributed only to coopeiators in soil conservation and that the trees be planted un der the supervision of the work unit and woodlot conservation ists Muth said that the numbers are varieties ordered are as fol lows White Spruce, 7,550; White Pine, 11,300, Hemlock, 1,000; and Bank’s Pine, 1,500 The state Game Commission also has made trees and shrub bery plants available to organiz ed groups. These are surplus seedlings not needed in the Farm-Game Land program The 385,650 plants available will be distributed in the 13- county areas of southeastern Pennsylvania. Application for the seedlings must be made be fore Feb. 24.
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