Mary K. Bettendorf, Librarian |w AeRICUUUnAL LIBRARY Agricultural Library THE rer}NSYLVAN!A STAIE GOLLEQt The Ponna, -T | __ ■%*. Vol. 4. No. 2 A RECORD CROWD of nine tables and every square 297 Lancaster County Hoi- foot of floor space in the stein Friesian Association Blue Ball Fire Hall Wed- Members and lamilies filled nesday evening for the More Complete News Coverage Offered Area's Agriculture By Lancaster Farming Change This edition of Lancaster Farming, Vol. 4, No. 2, is reaching you this week on Saturday. Saturday delivery is just one of the many changes you will find in this week's paper. It is the immediate and obvious change, noticed by many readers when they didn't receive their paper on Friday. Reading the front page you'll notice differences in the physical structure of the paper. New, modem type faces in headlines and text, a more open, streamlined "make-up", slightly narrower and longer columns. These are surface changes. Compared with the real differences in this week's pa per, they are minor. Just as the "lay-out’' has been streamlined and modernized, so has the entire organization. First, what you read. This week and every week 'following, we will be bring ing you markets as up-to date as any paper can pro vide the farmers of Lancast rer County. You can count them and see seven complete weekly market round-ups. These include. Lancaster Union Stock Yards —• Official USDA weekly review. Chicago Cattle Market Official USDA weekly re view. Lancaster Poultry Ex - change Each week we will present the latest com plete Thursday auction, lot by lot, with averages and comparisons. New Holland Sales Stables —A full weekly review of every division and class of horses, ponies and mules; dairy and beef cattle, and swine. From the largest auction stables in Pennsyl vania and the largest Middle Atlantic horse and nhule auc tions, Special to Lancaster Farming. Delmarva and Georgia poultry reports Again a complete weekly review of the Monday through Friday markets in both major East ' em broiler areas. Southeastern Penna. Fluid Milk and Cream report A USDA weekly round-up of the area’s open milk market. This regular report will be supplemented by official in formation on the New York Mik Market as this market view. County Holstein Breeders Dine information is available. Urner-Barry New York Weekly Egg Market con tinuuing, but improving our reporting of the important New York egg market, giv ing you the full week’s “rep utation” report. In all of these market fea tures, you will find a com plete week’s review. In the Lancaster Poultry Exchange, we will offer the grower an opportunity to compare his birds with those sold on open market less than 48 hours prior to when he gets his paper, with com plete coverage of the local poultry scene. Our streamlined operation will offer you a full week’s coverage of area farm news —IN ONE PAPER. You’ll know what has happened, will happen, when and how. Last minute organization news, in detail. COMPLETE coverage of everythig con cerning Lancaster County farming. Another change is the lo cation of Lancaster Farm ing’s offices. We tried to re locate in the heart of the county and came reasonably close. Our new headquarters are one and one-half blocks northeast of the Lancaster City Square, at 53 N. Duke. Specifically 360 Coho Bldg. Ouf new mailing address is P. O. Box 1524, Lancaster. To contact all departments of Lancaster Farming, by Lancaster, Pa., Saturday, November 22, 1958 Eighth Annual Meeting and Fire Company auxiliary, pgl Banquet of the Black and with the dairymen dining on e x| White boosters. The banquet roast turkey and all the ex- fea was catered by the village tras LF PHOTOS. q telephone, call EXpress 4-3572, or 4-3047. During the past three years, the staff feels the widespread acceptance o f Lancaster Farming by those directly concerned with farm ing has proven a need for better news coverage of this area. This i s our pledge to LANCASTER FARMINGS readers and advertisers. To continue to strive to ward complete, factual, current and unbiased re porting of all farm news of interest and value to you, personally, and in your particular farm op eration or business. To provide - a modern, efficient publication for reading ease and enjoy ment. One utilizing all economically sound busi ness, mechanics, editorial and advertising practices for your benefit. To remain ethical and honest m every phase of our work; fair and sincere in editorial comment, and untiring in efforts to serve all of you as best we can. Whoops! Spooknacht has passed, but the Goblins returned for a brief visit late Friday. As a result, we’ll start our printing of the milk market next week. That is_ if someone will please come after these strayed spooks. CLARENCE- LYONS, center, 204 Hess Blvd., Lancaster, state director of the Lancaster County Holstem group, swaps congratulations with Robert C. Groff, left, Quarry ville, and Elvin Hess, Jr, Strasburg following the Wednes day night banquet. Lyons is holding a gold plaque present ed him by the organization “ in appreciation of his faithful service.” Groff and Hess were elected to the coun ty director’s Board during the annual business meeting. Record Yields Bulge State's Bins State Crop Round-Up The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Crop Reporting Service reports continued favorable prospects fox record total crop production in the state, as harvest of late crops continues. Ideal weather aided in speedmgt the record harvests. The expected record corn production at 82,420,000 bushels is 54 per cent above last year's crop of 53,449,000 bu. The expected record yield of 65 bushels as nine bushel above the previous record set in 1956. Much tem porary farm storage has been erected to handle the crop. Corn silage yield at 12 but were six per cent below tons per acre is 14 percent the corresponding week last above the previous record of 10.5 tons set m 1931. Soy bean yield is expected to reach a record of 22 bushels per acre. Fall potato yield at 180 hundredweight per acre is 20 per cent higher than the previous record set in 1954. Production at 8,118,000 cwt. looks about six per cent lar ger than it did a month ago. Placement of broiler chicks at 825,000 increased one per cent from the previous week, Holstein Assoc. Elects Officers In Annual Meet The largest annual meet ing and banquet in the his tory of the United State’s largest Holstein Freisian county association packed the Blue Ball Fire Hall Wednes day night. The buidmg’s din ing and kitchen facilities were taxed the limit before accomodating an overf ow attendance of 297 Lancaster county dairymen and famil ies After dining on roast tur key, members of one of the most successful local live stock breed associations in the world settled down to the serious business of out lining their program for the coming year. Interspersed with musical entertainment and group paging, the meeting included Licer’s and committee re s, votes to continue and jnd various projects and tired speakers, tarence Lyons, (Turn to page 10) \ Work For AH year. Outshipments during the past week were 157,000, inshipments were 104,000. The indicated number of state broilers for market a bout 10 weeks from now is 762,000 compared to 731,000 the same time last year. Eggs set for broiler chick produc tion totaled 1,403,000, 17 per cent above the previous week. Total hatching during the next three weeks will be one per cent below the com (Tum to page 9) $2 Per Year —LF PHOTO
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