16—Lancaster Friday, April 25,; 1958
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‘Doc’ Nixon.
Potato Wizard,
Honored on 75th
STATE COLLEGE. April 21
1 1 celebration of the 75th birth
daj anniversary of Dr E. L. Nix
on, long known as the Pennsyl
% sma “potato wizard,” more than
LOO of his friends and associates
asembled today at his farm west
cf here -
Tribute was paid by agricul
tural and business leaders to
‘Doc’ Nixon for his long service
to the Pennsvhama agricul
ture which began in 1917 When
he came to Penn State the aver
cge jield of 275 bushels per acre
vas reached in 1956
Nixon founded the Keystone
400 Bushel Potatoe Club in 1918
making any farmer eligible for
membership who could glow 400
cr more bushels on an officially
measuied acre It is the oldest ag
r.cultural production club in the
United States and now has 1,374
members
In 1922 23 “Doc” Nixon led a
campaign among potato growers
f’ji erection of the student in
f imary at the Pennsylvania State
Lmveisily Latei he was instru
> cntal in establishing an expen
j ental farm for development of
r w varieties of potatoes adapted
n Pennsylvania growing condi
t rns, located at what is now
Potato City He originated the
Potato Blossom Queen progiam
a id sparked a dm e for erection
of Potato City Hotel by the Pen
i 'ylvama Cooperative Potato
dowers, Inc The gioweis built
t on a gieenhouse theie for his
potato breeding woik
Others paying tribute to the
I ennsylvania Chain Store Council
L b i icultural consultant included
Fred Jackson, and Loyal D Od
F icr chain stole executives, R
J" Beniamin, New Cumbeiland
firs Hugh McPherson, Bridge
I-.n, York County and Ivan Miller,
Com, president of the potato
g-oweis association
Party Time to Be
Summer Project
Of Donegal Club
‘Paily Time” will be the sum
j. 'T pioicct of the Donegal 4H
C.ub which re-organized April IT
a' the home ot Mh Paul Wit
5, an
The 17 girls elected Judi Gind
e as president
Other officers aic Vice presi
(?' nt, Jo Ann Bi\lei, secretary,
J ,,\co Hawthorn, Jo
Ann Mai tin, game leadeis Rachel
j,o!t and Doiolhv Hitz song lead
e Carol Cupper and reporter
]- len Mussei
The next meeting will be helu
Chinese cooking
isn’t hard, Ralph
Bitler finds. Story
on page 9.
What’s Rock
Phosphate and how
do you use it? The
answers are on
page 6.
Egg market
shows firmness.
Quotations are on
page 3,
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March Milk Production Breaks All
Records for Month, State Reports
March milk production on
Pennsylvania farms in March
broke all existing records for the
month, the state crop reporting
sei vices says.
Seven per cent above March
1957, 593 million pounds of milk
were produced. This was nearly
a 100 million pounds more than
was produced last month.
Milk output in March last year
was below normal due to effects
of low quality roughage.
Average dairy production per
cow in herd on April 1 at 24 6
pounds was sharply above the 22
pounds of a year earlier and indi
cated high output for April of
this year.
Feeding rates advanced to 9 6
pounds per cow on April 1 This,
too, was a record high and half
a pound above April 1 of last
year
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Production of milk during Jan
uary through March totalled
1,628 million pounds or seven per
cent above th-a 1,517 million for
the same months last year.
Grain prices showed a slight
rise from a month ago, but the
price of hay fell off somewhat
Baled alfalfa is now quoted at
$4l a ton and other hay at $32
a ton compared with prices of
$42 50 and $32 50 a month ago
However hay prices are still
much above the 1957 level when
baled alfalfa was $35 a ton and
other hay $2B a ton
The milk-feed ratio, the num
ber of pounds of concentrate ra
tion equal- in value to one pound
of whole milk sold, is 1.45, down
slightly from 1 52 a month ago.
In March 1957 the ratio was
139
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Oak Wilt Most 1 f
Dangerous in
Mid-April
HARRISBURG A six week
period beginning in mid-April is
the time that oak-trees are most
susceptible to oak wilt disease
infections, the State Department
of Agriculture said today.
Wounds on oaks occur more
frequently during this spring per
iod because of stepped-up activi
ties in lumbering, highway and
fence construction, storms, and
public utility line clearing and
construction work. On many oc
cassions, bark cuts and bruises
are caused when machinery and
equipment scar trees, making an
open wound that is the selected
home of sap feeding beetles that
carry the oak wilt fungus.
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Gap, Pa.