■. NO. 13 ptional FFA Officers Here on Annual Tour ■kTIONAL FFA OFFICERS and their party are snown at top left H a visit Tuesday to the Christ King farm, Lancaster. From left Hoffer, Manheim ED 3, Pa. FFA pres ; Jim C. Fink, Petma of voc-ag education; Tom Stine, Ozark, Mo., nat’l v-p; W. Wash., D. C., natT exec-sec; Adin Hester, Aurora, Oregon, tic TTatu ? es t er ' ® ra y> Brown and Stine are briefed on production at JNH by Art King as they inspect the assembly line Atj-ight, ■-State Swing Opens in County appreciation for the senic beauty of Lancaster County B eat interest in the area’s intensive agriculture were ■ped by a group of six national Future Farmers of officers Visiting here Tuesday on the annual FFA Bs' .Tour,, - I# 31 tour was>> spon-. iby New-Holland Ma ■ Co., with a visit to piy'assembly lines and I highlighting the offic- ■ -DAY ■gather B FORECAST ■ Wednesday Weather Bureau, ■Lancaster Office B*eratures will aver ‘ ® degrees above Bl 1 ' Rather cold thru Warmer Sunday ■jonday. Colder Tues- will ave- K* - inch, occurring and Tuesday. visit. They shared an in formal session with, top NH officers and when queried, offered suggestions on ma chinery needs for their areas Two-thirds of the national officers include dairy herds m their operations. Tom Stine, Ozark, Mo , Adin Hes ter, Aurora, Oregon, Norman Brown, Temperance,. Mich, and Bryan Hafen, Mesquite, Nevada are 'the dairymen. They were very surprised to see local farmers housing herds in stqjichion barns all winter Stine reported, “When I left home, it was nine below and the cows were right out in it.” Hafen, who represents a sizable percentage of the dairy industry of southern Nevada, reported housing in winter was unimportant, a point emphasized by his deep suntan. Lee Todd, national vice , {Turn to page 12) Lancaster. Per., Saturday. February 7. 1959 LABOR SAVING - The Easy Way One of the best labor sav ing devices on the modern dairy farm is a high-produc ing -cow, according to Lep R. Fryman of the Unlv. of Illinois. He points out that 20 cows averaging 10,000 lbs of milk and 400 lbs of fat annually will net as much as 60 cows averaging 7,800 lbs. of milk and 300 lbs. of fat. And Fryman adds, the higher producing herd can bring the same net as the lower-producing . herd with two-thirds less labor SPABC Sets Annual Meetings The 1959 schedule of stockholders meetings for South eastern Penna. Artificial Breeding Co-op will open at 1:00 p, m. Monday with the Fulton County District meeting at McConnellsburg Fire Hall, according to SPABC President Earl L. Groff. The schedule for next week then will include Franklin and Adams counties on Tuesday; Cumberland dist. on Wed.; . York county on Thursday at I p. m. at the York caterpillar works, and Dauphin-Northumberland and Lebanon-Berks counties districts on Friday, the former at the Halifax Am erican Legion at 1 p.m., the latter at Lebanon Farm Bureau at 7 p. m. natl pres ; Norman Brown, Temperance, Mich, nat’l sec.; John Farrej.% nat’l FFA nnblic relations director: Bryan Hafen, Mesquite. Nevada, nat’l v-p.; Dick Van Auken, Monroe, N. J., natT v-p; Lee Todd, Bells, lenn., nat’l v-p., and County Agent Max Smith. At top right, Hester meets- George C. Delp,' president of New Holland Machine Co., sponsors of the FFA group’s local visit. Van Auken, Fink, Todd, Hoffer and Hafen witness the final assembly of a new hay baler as John Trautman explains the operation—LF PHOTOS Pa. Price index Shows Gain' Harrisburg The Pennsylvania farm prices received index in mid-January was unchanged from the same date a year eairlier but was up three points from mid-December, the State Department of Agriculture said today. The index stood at 22Q on January 15. The 1910-14 base equals 100. trices tor truits, vegeta bles, corn, mdat animals and poultry were the greatest factors in the rise, according to a Pennsylvania Crop Re porting Service tabulation. _ A large gain in the fruit in dex was duq primarily to higher prices being paid far mers for apples and a sea i £2 Per Year sonal revision of prices re ceived for other fruit. Higher prices being receiv ed for corn, barley and soy beans were more than en ough to offset lower prices -for hay. Steer and other cat tle prices showed a gam, but hog prices declined to an av erage of 18 cents a pound lowest since November 1957, and eight per cent below a year ago On the other hand, calves selling at 529 70 a hundred weight equaled a high set in mid-October 1952 and milk cows at $290 a head equaled a peak established Septemb er 1. 1952 r The poultry and egg index .rose 'six points or four per cent from mid December, the increase due to higher pric es for .broilers and eggs. The national index of pric es received paralleled Penn sylvania’s.
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