Vol. 111. No. 24.
Flying Farmers
Being Asked
To Hershey
Flying Farmers from all parts
of the United States will head
their planes toward the Harris
burg area next Aug. 21-22 for the
16th National Plowing Contest
and Conservation Exposition at
nearby Hershey.
The 2,500-foot airstrip near
Hershey stadium will permit land
ing and takeoff by planes under
DC 3 size. At the four-day world
plowing matches last September
near Peebles, Ohio, 467 Flying
I armer planes from 17 states car
ued 1,310 passengers.
The exposition landing strip al
so will be used by planes carrying
v,sitors on 60-mile air tours over
Southeastern Pennsylvania coun
ties for observation of soil and
water conservation practices, ac
cording to L. H. Bull, Pennsyl
vania Deputy Secretary of Agri
culture and chairman of the gen
eial committee arranging the
first national plowing matches
held east of Ohio.
THE CONTESTS and conserva
tion demonstrations will be
spread over 3.000 acres on the 10,-
000-acre Hershey Farms
Bull said the International Har
vester Co. would serve as host to
all Flying Farmers attending the
largest outdoor agricultural ex
position ever held in Pennsyl
vania. The company plans to send
imitations to all members of Fly
ing Farmer Associations in the
Tinted States.
IN OTHER COMMITTEE ac
tions the deadline for county
Western Ewes
LAST FALL, Robert Harnish, R 3 Conestoga, was one of
several fanners to share m a carload of Western ewes for
a breeding flock. This picture shows the ewes as they were
being unloaded. (LF Photo)
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, April 25, 1958
Broiler Chick
Replacements
Up 45 percent
Broiler chick placements the
second week of April were down
54,000 from the week before to
943,000, but were still a whop
ping 42 per cent above the cor
responding week last year.
Eggs set for broiler chick pro
duction totaled 1,612,000 down,
one per cent from the previous
week, bpt still 12 per cent more
than were set in 1957.
Shipped into the state were
89,000, bbroiler chicks, and ship
ped out of the state were 241,000
chicks.
Placements in the 22 import
ant bbroiler growing states were
1 7 per cent above the correspond
ing week last year and five per
cent above last week. Settings of
eggs for broiler chick production
were 17 per cent above the cor
responding week of 1957 and
about the same as last week.
eliminations m a statewide
“Queen of the Furrow” contest
was set for July 10. Regional con
tests must be completed by Aug
10. Selection of the queen will be
at special ceremonies m the Her
shey Community Theatre on the
night of Aug. 15. This phase of
the exposition is being sponsored
by the American Steel and Wire
Co., one of the scores of firms
that will place exhibits in a 24-
acre tented area devoted to dis
plays of farm machinery and oth
er equipment
The national matches coincide
with the annual Pennsylvania
Dutch Days at Hershey.
Women to Hear Their Role Discussed
At Homemakers Week;, June 16-19
“Many roles are open for the
woman of today. Her horizons
seem almost unlimited citizen
and community leader, part-time
worker outside the home, and
homemaker” , These are some
points that will be discussed, in
an interest group during Exten
sion Homemakers’ Week, June 16
to 19, at the Pennsylvania State
University.
Grace M Henderson, dean, Col
lege of Home Economics at the
University, will lead the discus
sion Homemakers can choose
"The Challenge of Being a Wom
an” as one of their four interest
groups m several subject-matter
areas, such as clothing and tex
tiles, home furnishings and home
management, child devedopment
and family life, landscaping the
home grounds, and care and cul
ture of house plants. To balance
their program, they may select
COT Dressing
Date Changed;
Now to Be May 3
The dressing date for Coates
ville Region Chicken of Tomor
iow contest entries has been
changed to Saturday, May 3, ac
cording to Floyd H Moore, regi
onal chairman
Moore said that the volume of
dressing now being done at the
Producer’s Co-op Exchange at
Coatesville necessitates the
change. The birds were have to
been dressed on Monday, May 5
The contest birds will be auc
tioned at Coatesville at 10 a.m.
May 7 Moore is asking for sealed
bids from various groups on
eight lots of 12 birds
It is estimated that the contest
birds should bring close to or
above retail price at the auctions
Top winners will, of course, sell
at much above retail prices.
THIS LAMB IS typical of the crop re-
ceived this spring from the Western ewes
and Shropshire rams. The lambs do not
show the roughness of the ewe and seem
thrifty and evenly fleshed. Harnish had
corsage and jewelry making, oil
painting, and women’s chorus.
Members of the University staff
and others with special talents
will be in charge of the 32 differ
ent interest groups
Other activities on the three
day program include tours of the
University campus and farms,
chicken barbecue, fun night, ban
quet, vesper service, and informal
get-togethers.
Women who attend this sixth
annual event will live in resi
dence halls on the University
campus and eat their meals, ex
cept the barbecue and the ban
quet, in dining halls.
Interested homemakers may
obtain details on the program
fiom Miss June Wilks, Agricul
tural Extension Office, 31 West
Market St., West Chester, or from
Mrs. Ruth Kreibich, Agricultural
Extension Office, 204 Post Office
Bldg., Lancaster.
PENB Hires Ad
Agency for PR
As Leicht Quits
CHICAGO The Poultry and
Egg National Board has named
the Public Relations Division of
Western Advertising Agency to
develop,and add strength to its
publicity and promotion programs
until a replacement is made for
Brcnte Leicht who resigned last
month to assume similar duties
with the Pure Milk Assn. Chicago
According to an announcement
by Lloyd H Geil, general man
ager, the new set-up will be under
tne direction of David L Howlett,
Western’s director of public rela
tions. The agency has been active
in PENB programs for the past
eight years.
Geil stated that PENB’s promo
tion plans are proceeding without
interruption.
• . • Find Home in Lancaster Co.
some trouble bringing in the lamb crop this
year because he did'not receive the ewes
in time to condition them properly before
breeding which made the lamb crop only
100 per cent (LF Photo)
S 2 Per Year
Filler Producers
May Lose Quarter
Of Market Soon
Cigar filler producers stand to
lose more than a quarter of their
market if present research on.
stem utilization by manufactur
u s is effective
Th'S gloomy prediction was
made Thursday night by E. I.
Hendrickson, tobacco marketing
specialist in the AMS, Washing
ton, D C., at a meeting of the
Lancaster County Farmers Assn.
Hendrickson said that at least
two laboratories are presently
working on processes to eliminate
the “aicid, woody taste” in stems.
The processes for cutting, slicing
and otherwise processing the
stems are fairly well developed,
he indicated
IN EXAMINING the supply
and demand situation for filler in
the past 10 years, Hendrickson
gave answer that was not exactly
what the tobacco producer want
ed to hear.
The question posed by PFA
president J. Roy Greider was,
• Will the price for Lancaster
County tobacco ever get back to
SO cents a pound’”
“It doesn’t look like the buy
ers will have to pay close to 30
cents to get all the tobacco they
heed,” he said.
HE NOTED THAT since 1954
the acreage has remained fairly
constant as the price dropped
steadily. In the years from 1947
to 1951 production exceeded use
until 1951 when the price took a
nosedive to 19 cents a pound.
All pi ices quoted by Hendrick
son were average prices for filler
and binder.
Another factor that has affected
the tobacco market is that manu
facturers are holding less leaf as
reserve stock m warehouses In
the pie-war era, a three year
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