Mary S. Bettendorf, Librarian
Agricultural Library j. ncpirULTURAL LIBRARY
The Penna. State University /hJ PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE
University Park,
Vol. 111. No. 47
All ’5B Crop Corn
.Gets Supports
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson has announced that
price supoort will be made avail
able for 1058-crop corn which n
not produced m compliance with
acreage allotment controls in de
signaled commercial aieas Simi
lai “non-compliance” support wa r
available for the 1956 and 1957
uops
The additional support announc
ed today wJI ba at a nationa
a\ erage of 3>l 06 per bushel Thr
represents the same differentia
relationship, to the announcer
minimum sunport for corn growr
in compliance with allotments in
1038, as was in effect last year foi
final support levels
“We reached the dicision to offer
‘non compliance’ corn price sup
poi ts again th s year only after
caieful consideration, and a re
view of the whole situation with
the Commodity Credit Corpora
tion Advisory Board,” Secretam
Benson said “It is an unusua
uhd emergency type of provision
winch results m two different sup
poit levels for the same produc
ing areas
‘ We still had no effective corn
piogram m 1958 Under the condi
tions this year, we reached the
conclusion that the speem! sup
poils should be made available
Once again, the unwoikable corn
allotments kept most producers
iiom complying with their pro
MS'Ons Farmers made the deci
sion to plant corn instead On the
basjs of the latest available in
foiraation and statistics, it is now
estimated that not more than 12
oi 13 percent ol all corn harvest
ed this year in commercial areas
will be eligible foi the regular
puce support
‘We also have an all-time rc
coid total supply of corn and
other feed grains for the comm;
marketing year In these cicum
slances, we must do what we can
tc help stabilize cuirent feed
grain and future livestock mark
ets ”
“Better Poultry Health” Will Be
Highlighted During NEPPCO Show
“Trailblazing Better Poultry
Health,” an exhibit and demon
shalion of poultry disease diag
nosis, will be featured by Penn.
State Umveisity during the NEP
PCO Poultry Industry Exposition
Oct 7,8, and 9 at the Farm
Show Building, Harrisburg
The exhibit will lake the foim
of a miniature laboratory to
show poultrymen the services
availab'e at State poultry diag
nostic laboratories Microscopes
will be used to show v'isitois
some of the bacteria that cause
poultry diseases Poultrymen will
see inoculated with viruses
and onened for analysis An auto
matic =l’de protector will show
information on maior poultry
diseases
of bacteria and
vims cultures will be made daily
af 10 a m ? r>m -md 4nm Vet
pvnar’ans wilt feature the taking
of bacons enlOmes cho«ung the
t\ ne of mfifornl nqprl -irid nip*ll.
ods fer iintr diseases via
Vims culture demonstrations
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa., Friday. Oct. 3, 1958
Donald M. Cressweii
Cresswell Leaves
State Ag Post
Donald M Ciesswell. Dauph’ii,
Toneer public relations specia
usi who has served 32 jears wich
be State, will ret-re on October
U the State Department of Agn
ulture announced toda>
Ciesswell, 67, has been chief of
‘■ho Department s Divis,mi of Pub
lie Information since June, 1943
I-je served in similar capacities
with the Pennsylvania State Uni
versity for 12 years and with the
State Department of Public In
struction for five jears
Secretary of Agriculture W>l
- L Hennmg praised Cress
well for his outstanding service ti
the Commonwealth and its farm
ing industry
Secretaiy Henning said depait
menlal public mfoimatmn dutms
ill be handled b> James H
smith, Camp Hill, assigned to the
'V lartment June 1 b> Pennsyl
vrn a Farm Bureau on a tempor
al loan basis, and Robert E Best,
Isew Cumberland, foimei editor
of Lancaster Farming. Smith will
be acting division chief I
will illustrate egg inoculation
and examination Lesions used to
identify various viruses will be
point ?d out. Blood tests and ani
mal inoculations used to iden
tify viruses will be explained
thj exhibits and demonstra
tions are arranged in coopera
tion with the State Bureau of
Animal Industry and the School
ox Veterinary Medicine at the
University of Pennsylvania
Veterinarians giving the dem
cnstiat'ons will be Dr Robert
F Gentry, in charge of poultry
d'sease research at Penn State,
Dr P H Seitz, m charge of six
state diagnostic laboratories for
‘he Bureau of Animal Industry,
Dr George Sperling from the
School of Veterinary Medicine at
Mew BoUon Center, and Dr
fames V Hruska, new Extension
ooullry veterinarian at Penn
State.
“Our exhibit and demonstration
w 11 show that more than one sick
eh'cken must be examined to
diagnose a disease,” explains Dr
Gentry “Although disease diag
nosis is complex, state laboratory
services are available to all poul
try men at no cost,” he adds.
Cost Equals One Mile of Turnpike
SCO Heads Ask Pa, Support
SUNBURY, Pa. Increased appropriations for the State
Soil Conservation Commission and for completion oj coun
ty soil surveys have been urged by the Pennsylvania Asso
ciation of Soil Conseration District Directors
The request was made in resolu
tions passed at a business session
held during the annual confer
ence of District Directors, Sept
ember 18-19 in Sunbury
In other resolutions, the con
servationists confirmed testimony
J o be offered by the association at
hearings on a soil conservation
reseaich center proposed for the
northeastern United Slates, and
to continue FFA-SCD eonserva
lion contests, citing the need for
local sponsorship.
Keynoting the appropriations
resolutions was a talk by William
Richards, vice president of the
National Association of Soil Con
servation District Directors Rich
ards said conservation of natural
resources “is the most important
flung going on in the country to
day ’
“What is the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania spending on soil
Conservation 9 ” he asked “Over
the past 20 years, you’ve given
the State Soil Conservation Com
mission less than the cost of just
one mile of the Pennsylvania
Turnpike Take away that mile
County Showmen
Enter Penn. Nat’l
Competition
Thirty-nine tumor showmen by
Tuesday had filed entries ot beef
cattle m the Pennsylvania Na
tional Livestock Exposition, No
vember 10-14, William L Med
ford, show chairman, announced
today Entries closed at midnight
Wednesday, October 1
Young showmen to be exhibit
ing steers, their county and bleed
to be exhibited, include
Lancaster County Angus
Betty Jane Hess, Lorraine Hack
man, and Gary Kreiner, all of
Elizabethtown, Dennis Sangrey,
Conestoga, John J Good, Wilbur
Hosier, Marline Cassel, and Glen
Foreman, all of Manheim, Larry
G Falco, Millersville; Darvm and
E Bruce Boyd, Ephrata, Wesley,
Paul and Rhoda Nancy Mast, Elv
crson; Herbert Frey, Marietta,
and John, Magda and Maria Frey,
Quarryville. Hereford James D.
Hess, Manheim; Robert Gibble
and Willis Hackman, Elizabeth
town, and Leona Augsburger,
Reinholds Shorthorn John A
Harsh, Kinzers.
Dauphin County Angus
James Leitzel, Tom Newburn,
James Kile, Darlene Gates, and
James Gates, all of Hershey, Mary
and Earl Dehmey, Middletown,
and Eugene Sweigart, Halifax.
York County Angus Canme
Queensberry, Stewartstown Heie
ford - James Quesenberry, Ste
wartstown, and Wayne E Paup,
Hellam
Cumberland County Angus
Barbara Carole Bnndle and Jay
Fough, both of Mechamcsburg.
Berks County Herefoid
Gerald M. Dotterer, Lenhartsville,
~nd Richard E Kabenold, Kutz
town.
L wouldn’t hurt too much
“Take away what districts have
clone with the help of the State
Commission that would hurt a
lot'” he said
Ivan McKeever, state conserva
tionist of the Soil Conservation
Service, Harrisburg, outlined the
steps required to establish a wat
ershed porject unde provisions of
Public Law 566 He said that P L
566 activities are local projects
with federal help, not federal pro
iccts requiring local assistance.
Lancaster County farmer,
Elmer Sensenig, New Hol
land,, explained how he sign
ed 68 soil conservation dis
trict cooperators in two years.
Sensenig said: “People ask
me what I get out of asking
them to sign up as SCD op
eiators. I tell them, Noth
ing.
“ ‘Then why do you do it,’
they say.
“I tell them that when
somebody offers me some
thing good and it works, and
SPAB Co-op Sire Wins Breed Award
PETERBOROUGH, N H
The American Guernsey Cattle
Club has announced the first
award under it’s new Gold Star
recognition program designed to
recognize superior achievement in
the breeding of registered Guern
sey dairy cattle
The initial award was for a
Gold Star Sire, B.H.H. Valor’s
Majesty, bred by Barclay K.
Douglas, South Arlington, Ver
mont, and now owned by the
Southeastern Pennsylvania Arti
ficial Breeding Co-op., Lancaster,
Black Hole Hollow Farms,
South Arlington, Vt, was the ap
plicant in behalf of this gieat
Guernsey bull.
The official summary of Ma
jesty’s progeny shows he has 14
tested daughters with 33 official
records averaging 11,913 pounds
of milk and 643 pounds of fat,
305-2 X ME He also has 17 clas
sified daughters with an average
the service is fiee, I feel its a
good idea to pass the idea
along to my neighbors.”
The conference was opened with
a tour of the famed Stone Valley
Watershed in Northumberland
County State Secretary of Agri
culture, William L Henning,
chairman of the State Conserva
tion Commission, paiticipated in
the tom
Henning commenced on the
work done in the Valley “I want
to come back here This is wond
erful
Henning also reported on the
conservation phases of the recent
National Plowing Contest and
Conservation Exposition at Her
shey at a meeting of the State
Soil Conservation commission He
said the impact of the conserva
tion story presented at Hershey
will be felt in the Commonwealth
foi years to come
Schuylkill County Conservation
District directors made a bid for
the next annual meeting to be
held in Pottsviile, but no action
vva= taken
In a soil pageant, soils from 30
counties were mixed into a com
posite of Pennsylvania soil Dean
(Continued on page 11)
B.H.H. Valor’s Majesty
numerical rating of 83 5, called
Desirable, the breed's third high-
est rating
Majesty s dam is Pomton Max
im’s May, 1956 winner of the
breed’s coveted Tarbell produc
tion Uophy, with a lecord of 19,-
646 pounds milk and 1085 pounds
fat, in 365 days, twice daily milk-
ing, at nine years of age.
Majesty’s sire was Foremost
Royal 14th, a summarized sire
with 21 tested daughters with 48
official records averaging 11,396
pounds milk, 545 pounds fat.
305-2 X ME
Black Hole Hollow Farms will
receive a special certificate m
recognition of MaiesU’s superior
performance, according to R D.
Stewart, AGCO secretary.
The American Guernsey Cattle
Club’s new Gold Star program in
cludes awards for superior sires,
dams, and breeders
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