10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 1J5,1959 ASC Urges Wool Growers To File Payment Clai •Chairman Landis G Beck er of the Lancaster County Agricultural Stabilization ai~ d Conservation' Committee 1 day urged woll •ho marketed U«» March ’to be prompt SjrjrSTSSS wool program The deadline for applica tions is April 30, and t oavment rate will be an Sneed as soon as possible after that date Growers can speed ® payment program by filing of applications, th Chairman pointed out. He explained that mfor mation contained m the ap plications is needed bythe United States Department of Agriculture in computing the average wool price ceived by growers during ihe 1958 marketing year That price must be calculat ed before the rate of - pay ment to growers can be de termined . Under the wool program, payments are made to grow ers as an incentive to in crease wool production The payment rate is the percent age necessary to bring the national average price re ceived by growers for wool up to 62 cents a pound The percentage method of payment encourages a good 30b of marketing, since the giower who receives the highest price for his wool al so receives the largest pay ment James S Nicholson, Mun cj RD 2, Pa has resigned his position as~Chairman of the Pennsylvania Stabiliza tion and Conservation Com mittee. His resignation was ‘accepted effective as or Mar. 12, 19569 Earl Groff, Strasburg RDI, Pa, will become acting chairman of the committee until a successor is appointed by the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Mr Nicholson served on the State Committee since January 1, 1956, -liaving serv ed as both a regular mem ber and vice-chairman prior to his appointment as chair man on January 1, 1958 Mr. Nicholson’s resigna tion was tendered to afford him more time to pursue other interests. Plants are pumps In the springtime, they remove wa ter from soil and help to hasten the time for ideal plowing conditions SIMPLICITY Garden Tractors Snavely's Farm Service NEW HOLLAND EL 4-2214 sa HiwDie uVEENI You do better, you live better, when you put the Mount Hope QUEEN to work for you. For 35 years they have been bred #o lay more big, high-quality eggs on low-energy feeds than most •trains. They ore rugged, too. Yes sir, they are "Just the Bird" for you. Why settle for half Mount Hope fclood-lines (in other Leghorns) when you can get "100% Mount Hope" <>y going direct to a Franchised Hatchery near you? /•w* 1 Johnson’s Hatchery EPHRATA, PA. Ph. BE 3-2980 State Spring Farming On Schedule HARRISBURG Spring farming and planting activi ty in most parts of the Com monwealth is on schedule, the State Department of Ag riculture reported today. 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LANCASTER. PA. 4 Miles West of Lancaster on Harrisburg By-Pass. Rt. 230 Phone Landisville. TWinoakes 8-3371 Natl. Grange Master Asks New Plan University Park—A nat ional farm program financed and operated by producers was advocated tonight by Herschel D. Newsom, Wash ington, master of the Nation al Grange. Such a program, he told the campus Grange at Penn Slate University, would give farmers “equitable income Opportunities” and save tax payers "Up to $6OO annually in wheat and dairy supports alone. ms Trice support programs that take off the market all farm commodities not absor bed by the market at some predeterminned fixed price level, he charged, are actual ly “price fixing programs ” He called these fixed price support programs “inequi table, excessively expensive and unworkable ” Where farmers could not obtain equitable income for their products through their own marketing associations and coop natives. 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