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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
Mary K. Bettendorf, Librarian
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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.