Mary K. Bettendorf, Librarian AGRICULTURAL LIBRARY
Agricultural Library JWE MNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
The Ponna. State TlnlTerßity
Vol 111. No. 32.
Some 21 Girls
Trying for Queen
Of Furrow Title
Some 21 young women from
Lancaster County will compete
Monday night for the county
Queen of the Furrow title The
county contest will be held at
Bpm Monday at Lyte Auditori
um, Millersville State Teachers
College.
Admission to the contest will
be free.
County chairman Amos H
Funk, R 1 Millersville, this week
reported that the following girls
have entered the competition.
AMY SELLERS, R 1 Millers
ville, Miriam Moyer, R 2 Man
heim, Lorraine Hess, R 2 Peach
Bottom; Sandra Jean Graeff, R 2
Quarryville, Debbie Jeanne Herr,
R 1 Elizabethtown; Mary Jane
Hill R 2 Lititz,
Rosemary Andrews, R 7 Lan
caster, Elizabeth A Brabson,
Poach Bottom, Linda Mumma, R 1
Manheim, Lois Demmy, R 1 Eph
rata, Lorraine Hauer, R 3 Quarry
ville. Joanne E Jackson, Peach
Bottom,
Grace Funk, R 1 Millersville;
June L Evans. R 2 Lancaster;
Lois Charles, 1730 Oregon Pike,
Lancaster; Bonnie Lou Herr, R 1
Millersville, Gladys Sangrey, R 2
Lititz, Ruth Ann Carroll, Peach
Bottom, Mary Jane Landis, R 1
Mt Joy; Fay Landis, R 3 Lititz,
and Shirley Housekeeper, R 1
Nottingham.
TWO WINNERS of the county
contest will next be entered in
competition in an area contest at
Hershey on Aug. 3 at the Her
shey Band Shell.
Ten finalists will be selected in
area competition for the state
contest to be held Aug 15 at
Hershey.
The winner of the state contest
will win a free trip to New York
City, a wardrobe of clothes and
will be the official greeter dur
ing the National Plowing Match
es and Conservation Exposition
at Hershey. '
MARKET NEWS reporter David Lorenson is leaving the
Agricultural Marketing Service office at the Lancaster
Stockyards this week to take a new post in Omaha. Neb.
He has been in Lancaster for three years. (LF Photo)
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday, June 20. 1958
ALTHOUGH THE PEAK of the early hay-
making season has just passed, many farm-
ers in Lancaster County are still busy put-
ting up forage for the coming winter.
5.5 Million Eggs Laid
On Farms in May
WASHINGTON Farm flocks
laid 5.543 million eggs during
May 1957. Total egg production,
January through May 1958 was
three per cent below the same
period last year.
Shown here are Melvin Groff (driving the
tractor) and Kermit Snyder, both of R 1
Christiana ,as they bale a grass-clover hay
mixture/ (LF Photo)
Rainfall Spurs Crop Growth; Barley
Cutting About Ready to Begin Here
Rainfall during the past week
spurred growth of crops but
hindered field work on Pennsyl
vania farms, the State Depart
ment of Agriculture reported to
day
Heavy ram in the Northwest
and in sections of the Southeast
prevented cultivation of row
crops and hay making, the Pen
nsylvania Crop Reporting Ser
vvice said Most areas of the
State experienced frequent rains
during the week and wet ground
delayed field work.
CUTTING OF BARLEY is ex
pected to start this week m
South Central counties and a
good crop is forecast although
wind and lam flattened some
stands Nearly all wheat is in
head and, despite storm damage,
the average yield promises to
equal the record of 28 bushels
per acre set in 1954 While high
er temperatures stimulated grow
th of corn, weeds also flourished
and spraying is under way in
some areas
Cobbler potatoes are m bloom
Dave Lorenson, Livestock Price
Reporter, Transferred to Nebraska
Livestock market news report
er David Lorenson will leave the
Lancaster Office of the Agncul
lural Marketing Service at the
Lancaster Union Stock Yaids
elective today.
He will be succeeded by Mike
Snedden, Sioux City lowa Sned
den is a graduate of the Okla
homa State University and has
been working in livestock price
reporting at the Sioux Falls AMS
office.
in Southern sections and the
transplanting of tobacco has
made good headway in Lancaster
County Peas for processing are
blooming in Central counties and
harvesting is under way in South
ern areas
LITTLE PROGRESS was made
in field drying of hay from heavy
growths. Cutting has passed its
peak in Southern and Central
areas Second growth alfalfa is
making a good start
Adequate moisture favored siz
ing of apples, peaches, cherries
and other fruits and the June
drop is under way Much thin
ning of peaches will be required,
however, if fruit is to attain good
size Picking of strawberries is
about completed in Southern sec
tions but harvesting is general in
the Central area and just begin
ning in the Northern part of the
State.
Temperatures dipped to un
seasonable lows and a new rain
fall mark was set in Philadelphia
when 126 inches fell in a 10-
minute penod on June 11.
Lorenson opened the local
federal-state market news office
CiJ July 1, 1955.
He is being assigned to Omaha
Neb, where he will establish a
diessed meat report.
Prior to coming to Lancaster,
ht was at the Sioux Falls, S D ,
lulsa, Okla, and Des Moines,
lowa, offices of the AMS in live
stock reporting work
He and his wife have made
their home in Leola.
Conservation
Reserve Rents
May Be Boosted
Conservation reserve rents in
Lancaster County may be jumped
to $l6 20 an acre from the prevail
ing average of $l2 an acre now
paid
Federal soil bankeis this week
disclosed they will boost pay
ment rates by 35 per cent next
year in an effort to draw more
larm land into the conservation
reserve
The conservation reserve lag
ged badly this year when deposits
baiely exceeded four million
acres even though soil bankers
had hoped to idle 10 million acres.
Most officials decided the rental
rate was just 100 low to encour
age widespread participation in
the glut-cutting piogram.
This was more than apparant in
Lancaster County
ONLY A DOZEN farms are par
ticipating in this program with a
total of only 216 acres The larg
est tract on one faim is 32 acres.
Three small areas are planted to
trees and the rest of the acreage
is in permanent glass
Lnder the conservation reserve,
the government pay s a farmer an
nual “rent” for signing three to
10 year contract to plant trees
or grass on the idle acres. The
government pays up to 80 per
cent of the sost of planting the
cover crops The object, of
course, is to cut production by
iahng acres.
THIS LONG TERM program
differs from the year-to-year acre
age reserve phase of the soil
bank, m which a farmer is paid
to underplant his allotments for
major crops. The acreage reserve
is due to die after this year and
the stepped-up conservation re
serve is slated to sop up the acre
age which has been going into the
acreage reserve
In this county, this could
amount to about 3,062 acres, the
total now m the corn and wheat
acieage reserve.-There are 2,379
acres in the corn reserve and
683 in the wheat reserve.
THE FEDERAL agency has an
even more ambitious plan to get
farms into the conservation re
serve It said that it will pay
various premiums to farmers who
put all their cropland in the con
servation reserve and get out of
faming Whole farm deposits
will be eligible for a 10 per cent
piemium over the icgular rate,
officials explained Moreover, a
fanner who banks his entire farm
\\ ould be eligible foi the full rate
even on pasture land.
‘ The new higher rale for the
conservation resene the agency
announced, “should cause land of
higher average productivity to be
put in the conservation reserve ”
Thus, officials hoped the pay
ment per unit ol pioductiviey in
1°59 may not go up much over
payments this yeai and last But
the department noted that farm
ers who have already signed up
m the conservation reserve at
the old rate will get the current
rental, they will not be able to
collect the new higher rate until
their present contract expires
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