Penn State Gains
20 Wins At Show
The Pennsylvania State
University showed 20 cham
pion animals, including five
grand champions and two re
serve grand champions, at
the, Pennsylvania Livestock
Exposition recently in Har
risburg.
The University had the
grand champion Shorthorn
bull; the grand champion
Polled Hereford female; the
grand champion steer of the
show, an Angus; the grand
champion group of three
steers at the show, also An
gus; and the grand champion
lamb of the show, a Hamp
shire wether.
•The reserve grand champ
ion bull of the Angus show
was a Penn Staae entry
The reserve grand champion
female of the Angus show
was also a Penn State Angus.
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FB Writer Remains
On State Job
For Farm Show
Harrisburg, The State
Department of Agriculture
announced today that Penn
sylvania Farm Bureau had ex
tended the special assignment
of James H. Smith, Camp
Hill, public relations specia
list, through the 1959 State
Farm Show in mid-January.
Secretary of Agriculture,
William L. Henning said Geo
rge G. Connor, Pennsylvania
Farm Bureau general mana
ger, extended Smith’s assign
ment with the-Department in
the interest of Keystone State
agriculture.
' Originally, Smith was as
signed June 1 for six months
to assist in the Department’s
publ’c information program
and help publicize the 16th
National Plowing Contest and
Conservation Exposition
Hershey, the Junior Dairy
Show in September, the re
cent Pennsylvania ■ National
Livestock Exposition, and to
prepare for the 1959 State
Farm Show.
Smith was designated act
ing director of the Depart
ment’s Public Information
Division after the retirement
October 21, of Donald M.
Cresswell, veteran publicist
for the agency.
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Nation's Food Retailers
Hold 10-Day Supply
Results of a nationwide survey by the Bureau of the
Census for the U. S. Department of Agriculture show that
in 1957 retail food stores were carrying slightly more than
10 days’ supply of food for the nation, including noncon
centrated fluids.
Counted separately, the nonconcontrated fluids consti
tuted about two days’ supply of beverages that could be
substituted for drinking wa- quantities required per per
ter. son per day are 3,000 calor-
This study was made to i es * or f anc * 58 fluiB
provide Civil Defense auth- ounces for fluids,
orities with data to help in Marketing researchers
planning emergency feeding found that of the various
programs. The supplies on types of retail food stores,
hand in retail stores are in grocery stores with fresh
addition to the vastly larger meat had by far the largest
supplies on farms and in the stocks of food on hand
marketing system as a whole, slightly more than 81 per
The sample for the survey cent of tl J e total. Next were
consisted of approximately B«>W stores without fresh
7,000 retailers engaged pri- ™ ea *> 8,6 per cent of
marily in selling food to be s ne totaL
eaten off the premises. About Population density did not
83 percent of the" food was appear to influence the food,
in forms that normally can or fluid inventories of retail
be stored for long periods—' ®rs materially, except in low
canned and bottled or dried density counties-of the North -
and packaged. The balance east and West and high-den
was fresh and frozen_ pro- sity counties of the South. 1
ducts. In the low-density counties
Food and fluid inventory of the Northeast, the stores
figures wfere tabulated on had about 13 days’ supply of
the basis of caloric values or food, and about 15 in the
fluid ounces. The number of West. In the high-density
days of food supply on hand counties in the South the
was calculated by dividing supply, was only about eight
the daily requirement figures days. -
into the calories and fluid .
ounces available per person. Patronize Lancaster Farm-
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formal singing of a public
Law 480 agreement with
Pakistan for* the sale to that
country of $B2 million worth
of agucultural commodities.
The pact was signed in Kar
achi on Nov 26.
The principal commodities
in the agreement are 31 mil
lion bushels of wheat, 44 mil
lion pounds of vegetable oil,
and more than one million
bags of rice Title I of Public
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than $5OO million of U S.
farm products.
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