Q. Reports
Survey
50,000 acres in 1958.
Pennsylvania seedleaf cig
ar tobacco growers intend to
plant 31,000 acres to leaf this
year. Last year they planted
only 30,000 acres.
Soybean acreage (for grain
and hay) may be down by
five per cent from a year
ago with 44,000 acres being
listed by farmers as intend
ed for the crop.
Hay acreage intended for
harvest this year stands at
2,313,000 acres. This is one
per cent larger than last
year’s 2,290,000 acres and
would be the largest acreage
harvested since 1950 when
Pennsylvania farmers made
hay from 2,468,000 acres.
The Crop Reporting Ser
vice notes these are purely
intehtions-as of-JVlarch 1 and
may not materialize depend
’ng on the extent bf winter
kill in winter grains.
Weather and soil condi
tions at planting time, labor
supply, financial conditions
and even the farmers react
ion to planting intention re
ports may cause changes.
If all farmers intentions
throughout the United States
are.carried out, the nation is
headed for another record
breaking crop year. Corn,
acreage may exceed last year
by more than nine million
acres for the largest planted
acreage since 1949.
Total feed grain acreav ’
may be nearly five per cent
above 1953 while food grain
acreage seems likely to be
about three per cent more
than last year.
Total acreage of crops
planted or grown in 1959 now
looks to be about 339 million,
acres,, 51 and 8.4 million,
acres, respectively, above the
low levels of 1957 and 1958,
but otherwise the smallest,
national crop planting totals
in comparable records avail
able back to 1917, according
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Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 28, 1959 —13
Officers, Directors, Dates
Named for W. Lampeter Fair
A complete slate of offi
cers and 16 directors for the
West Lampeter Community
Fair Board wore named last
week m the annual election.
Officers are:
Mark Meyer, ..president;
John Stoner, vice-president,
Wayne B Rentschlcr, secre
tary-treasurer; J. Lloyd
Rohrer, asst, sccretary-trcas
urer;
Mrs. Robert Weaver, re
cording secretary; Mrs
Clyde * Steiner and David
Hubei;, Jr, corresponding
secretaries; George -W.
Myers and Harold Rohrer,
asst, treasurers;
Roy Herr, general manag
er; Leroy Welk and B Snav
*
County 4-H Leaders Council
Organization Meeting is Tues.
A Lancaster County 4-H
Leader’s Council will be or
ganized at a special meeting
for all club leaders, Tuesday
evening (March 31), at 8 p.
m. in the 12th floor auditor
ium of the Greist Building
on Penn Square in Lancaster.
The meeting and projected
council will include all home
economics and agriculture 4-
H club leaders.
to the U. S. Department of
Agrichlture.
Weather in Pennsylvania
during the winter has been
colder than normal with less
than normal snowfall but
normal precipitation. Soil
moisture is generally adequa
te for spring plantings. Dur
ing much of the winter large
areas of the state were with
out snow cover. The extent
of damage to winter grains
and new seedings of alfalfa
and clover is unknown.
ely Garber, assistant manag
ers, and Henry Brenneman,
chaplain.
-Elected to three-year terms
as directors were.
B Snavely Garber, George
B. Hershey ' Jr, Richard
Hess, David Huber, Paul G.
Longenecker, Mark Myer.
Geo. Myers, Melvin G. Peif
er, Paul Rowe, Mrs Warren
Walton, Mrs. Robert Weav
er, Leroy Welk, ’ Harlan
Keener, Jay Risser and Mrs.
Harry Mentzer.
Robert Winters was elect
ed to a one-year -directorship.
Board officers have sched
uled an Apnfc 3rd officers
meeting.
Dates for the 1959 lair
were set for :§gpt. 23 - 25.
A special letter to all cou
nty leaders, signed by County
Agent Max Mf Smithy Home
.Economist Norma J. Zehner
and assistant and associate
agents Harry-S«Sloat, Victor
Plastow and Winthrop Mer
rian was mailed-this week.*
The CouncilJs projected to
provide leaders with an ap
portunity to exchange ideas,
assist in developing and ad
ministering the -4-H program
and provide recognition for
4-H leaders thus encouraging
more people to ,take an active
part in the program
Myio S Downey, from the
National 4-H club office in
Washington D.C , will be the
guest speaker. Downey was
Maryland 4-H leader before
moving to the national post.
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Sat., April 11-12 noon
Some new, some old Watcli
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