20 Pages, Two Sections m AORICUI/UR/lL LIBRARY I SIATEjeULEGE Mary K. Bettendorf, —I jjj ' >v —* The Penaa. State \ Vol. 111. No. 25. Farm Activity Going Strong Across State Farm activity was interrupted in the beginning of this week by ram, but by the end of the week fie’ds had dried out enough in most sections of the state to allow farmeis to resume their spring work Planting of oats and plowing for corn made good headway in nearly all parts of the state with the exception of the North Cen tral area where wet field condi tions caused some delay Winter grains are making good growth throughout most of the slate Oats in some areas of the south are starting to show green. Planting of corn has started in a few sections. FARMERS IN most other parts of the state are busily preparing seed beds. Hays and pastures are growing rapidly as a result of last week’s waim weather. Farmers in scat tered areas of the southern part of the slate have turned their cat tle on pasture. Alfalfa spittle bug spraying is also going on in most aieas PLANTING OF early potatoes in some sections is underway and the setting of early cabbage is making good progress. Spinach is starting to move in small volume. Cheines, peaches and pears are in blossom throughout most of the state. Early apples are starting to bloom in a few sec tions The planting of new straw berry plants has started. THE COMING weekend will see the annual tours of the apple orchards m Berks and Adams Counties. Temperatures ranged up to eight degrees below the previous v/eek, but remained well above normal through most of the period A cold front moving through the state Tuesday night brought thunderstorms and local ly heavy rainfall. The tempera ture was predicted to drop to near the freezing mark Wednesday night Safe Harbor reported 1.37 inches of rainfall during the week ending Wednesday and 138 inches since April 15. The aver age maximum temperature at Safe Harbor was 66 and the av ciage low was 50 degrees. Byars & Allen Sale Has Buyers From 9 States GETTYSBURG Buyers from nine states Connecticut, Mary land, Colorado, Georgia, Pennsyl vania. Virginia, Oklahoma, Cali fornia and Texas bought 47 head of Angus cattle at the Byars & Allen Sale here Saturday. The 47 head, all females, av eraged $691 for a total of -32,503 The President did not attend the sale because of the distract ing influence of the press corps which travels with him and be cause of the security restrictions which would have caused a dis traction to the buyers. The second high individual was another heifer which brought $2,- 700. Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, May 2, 1958 IN A UNIQUE ribbon • cutting ceremony Wednesday, the work commenced for the World Plowing Matches and Conservation Exposition to be held at Hershey next Aug- Newsman to Discuss World Affairs At Holstein Convention in Boston __A brief glimpse of the past plus an expert analysis of the present will be prominent featur es of the 73rd Annual Conven tion of The Holstem-Fnesian Assn , of America at Boston in June. Before discussing the affairs of the world’s largest dairy cattle registry organization, the Con vention group of more than 2,000 will tour histone Plymouth harbor in a chartered excursion vessel. “Problems of a Strong Amen- USDA Suspending Portion of Poultry Products Inspection Regulations The Department of Agriculture announced Monday that the pro visions of the poultry products inspection regulations requiring the removal of kidneys from all classes of young poultry will be suspended until Jan. 1, 1959. The regulations containing this re quirement are set to become ef fective May 1, 1958. Suspension action on that por tion of the regulations requiring the removal of kidneys from clisses of young poultry is being taken in order to permit all poul try plants to operate on a com paiable basis in this respect for the balance of 1958. AS OF JAN. 1, 1959, all plants shipping poultry in mterstaate commerce will be required by law to meet the regulations govern ing the inspection of poultry un cior the Poultry Products Inspec tion Act. Until that date Federal inspection is only voluntary on the part of the plant owner. PROVIDING SIMILAR operat ing requirements with respect to the removal of kidneys will en courage currently approved ust. Shown above are officials of the event as they held a ribbon for a 16-ton bull dozer to cut to mark the beginning of work (LF Photo) ca,” an address by Erwin D Can ham, Editor of The Christian Science Monitor, wil highlight the business sessions, June 4-5, at the Sheraton-Plaza Hotel. Canham, an internationally prominent news analyst, writer and radio commentator, will dis cuss events which have shaped recent American history No stranger to the Holstein in dustry, he started his career as a Maine 4-H boy under the lead ership of Convention Co-Chair man Harold J. Shaw - a former County Agent. plants to continue providing of ficially inspected poultry during the balance of the year It is also anticipated that uninspected plants will find it convenient dur ing the balance of the year to ap ply for the service in order to be approved and operating under the program as of the Jan. 1, 1059, mandatory date. THE DEPARTMENT also in d tea ted that a thorough review of the kidney removal problem would be made prior to Jan 1, 1939, for the purpose of deter mining whether modification of the regulations in this respect ap pears advisable. Currently some 350 plants are operating under the department’s voluntary inspection program. It is expected that practically all these plants will, as soon as ap proved, shift to the mandatory piogram being offered as of May 1, in accordance with the Poultry Products Inspection Act. An ad ditional 250 plants not now re ceiving Federal inspection have applied for plant approval and seivice. FIRST TO LIFT a shovel full of dirt at ground breaking ceremonies Wednesday was William L. Henning, state sec retary of agriculture. The ground breaking was the first event of the exposition which is expected to bring more than 100,000 visitors to the state in August. (LF Photo) —Section A Ground Broken Wednesday for » Plow Matches Giound was broken Wednes- day at the Milton Hershey Es tates in preparation for the 16th National Plowing Contest and Conservation Exposition to be held there Aug 21 and 22 On hand for the ribbon cutting and hoisting shovels were Wil liam L Henning, secretary of aguculture, James Bobb, vice president of Hershey Estates, Ivan McKeever, state soil con servationist, and Lee H Bull deputy secretary of agriculture and general chairman of the ex position Representatives from state water, game, wild life and forestry departments were also present Others from the depart ment of highways, utility com panies and heavy equipment deal ers witnessed the proceedings. Two 16 ton bulldozers and other equipment started moving dirt and building a dam for an ex position demonstration on farm pond fish management Ralph W. Hunter, U S Soil Conservation Service and chairman of the con servation exposition division, in troduced the dignitaries and di rected the work. The conservation demonstra tion area covers 2,300 acres. S 2 Per Year
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