4 —Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May 9, 1959 Lancaster County Retains State's Top-Crop Title HARRISBURG—Lancaster County’s 1958 crop -value climbed $l5 million above the 1957 “drought-year” level of $lO7 million, according to the Penna: Dept, of Ag riculture 1958 Crop and Livestock Report. Leading crop dollar 1958 and 1957, and the rank in 1958, are shown in this table: CROP DOLLAR VALUE RANK 1958 36.450.000 22.077.000 20.782.000 12,856,200 10,227,800 5,768,700 5,392,800 3,284,200 1,357,000 1,727,300 .Cattle Milk Eggs Tobacco Corn Poultry Hay Wheat Hogs Potatoes Barley ■>Oats Apples Beaches Sheep •Cash receipts for 1958 county crops totaled $96,- •062,716. Chester county was second in this division with $40,231,500; while the state 1958 cash receipts total for atgricoltural products was $762,818,904. "Only Forest and Cameron -slipped below the $1 million cash receipt total, with $3BO - and $127,666 respective ly- In 11 categories, Lancaster had crops worth r a million dollars or more, an increase of one over 1957. Here are highlights, from the annual report compiled by the State Dept, of Agri culture, plus figures supplied Iby the department today: Lancaster County again led the state in cattle, eggs, milk, tobacco, corn, poultry, wheat, hogs and barley. It rose from second to first place in hay, and from third to second in potatoes Barley topped the million dollar mark for the first time Cattle showed the greatest increase in value, rising from $29,054,000 in 1957 to $36,340,000 in 1958; tobacco was next high for dollar in crease, from $8,442,000 to $12,856,200. Only crop above a million in value showing a drop was that of eggs, down from $23,- 665,000 to $20,782,000. Milk edged by eggs in ’57 as leading cash crop, return ed to top position, rising -$21,615,000 to $22,077,000. A number of farms in the county dropped from 8,050 in 1957 to 8,000 in 1958; York was second for the ■state in 1958, with 5,070 farms, and Berks third with 4,000. United Campaign Names Rural Head Herbert K. Kraybill of Li tite has been named 1959 United Campaign Chairman ■of the non-metropolnon area of Lancaster County by Wil lis Vs r Shenk, General Chair man Lancaster Farming Lancaster County’s Own Weekly F O Box 1524 I,ancaster, Penna. Offices -53 Ndi th Duke St Lancaster, Penna phone - Lancaster EXpress 4-3047 Dan McGrew, Editor; Robert G Campbell Advertising Director A Business Jfhmctt Established November 4 1955 Publi'died every Saturday by Lancaster Farming. Lancaster, Pa Entered as 2nd class matter at Lancaster Pa under Act of Mar 1, 1879 additional entry at Mount Joy Pa Subscription Rate*: |2 per year; ‘throe years $5. Single copy Price £ cento Sjtembers Pa Newspaper Publsh •«ra’ Association, National Edltot. lal Association, The Appropriations | Committee has worked out a 1 budget that rails for the ap- I AST WEEK something was said propnation of almost $7 bil- about David learning a hard lion for financing the Depart- lesson the hard way: namely that men! in the fiscal year start- n °t ? vea • a ?’ Absolute mon mg next July 1. The entire i* so highly placed that-the amount will be labeled farm law of God no longer concerns him. aid >• . David lived ina thnewben,-m most The city ,press and cong- wm m a?they m ££& complain that farmers are “be ■ mg fattened^mdali^ out oi - the Federal Treasury ”,at the -ftfAg^raa expense of taxpayers. They’ll say. again, that government p i^ et N^tha; farm programs are responsi- broutrht David f ble for “high food prices.” his senses; Farmers will take another made him fiu public flogging in the press. his own sin. The ~- and over the radio A promi- whole story‘is' there In H Samuel, nent New York paper alrea- and has,often been told. We can dy has begun the whipping leam much from it; for it shows . _ % by charging that “consumers one way In,which we can do what 11 mninn must pay high prices for food we all hate to do and some people 111TIW/II ly whie paying high tazes to never can' do: face our own sms and keep prices high.” admit-that they are sins and.that The May 1959 issue of Are the Facts? - we committed them. Foreign Agriculture reports The facts are that only aTo XiMW - that production of 31 of the small portion of that $7 -bil- “Youcanit .rotten wood," major world crops on. which ion will ever reach the poc- says an old Chinese proverb. And the Foreign Agricultural kets of farmers, and food pri- no prophet or preacher is going to Service keeps statistics has ces have increased less than ( .get-far making any one face his has risen in the past decade, almost any other item of iv- sins if the person involved has no Average in the USSR rose in S costs ln the past 10 years, notion of any difference between from 388 million acres to Government programs ha- right and wrong. A conscience can 481 million in this neriod. ve not increased food costs, be educated; but who can educate _ , , -. „„ Q+ . The government does not sup what isn’t there? Now David had Each of the six most im- porj . the pnce Qf meat) poul . a conscience; that is, he knew that portant crops in world trade. t pro ducts, vegetables an d -some things are right and some are —coffee, cotton, wheat, sug- fru , ts — food w hich ha- wrong. When Nathan told him that ar, rice, and tobacco—show- ve advanced most in price made-up story about the rich man ed production increases. in recent years and the poor man and the lamb, The biggest percentage hi- while food prices general . crease was by sunflower seed , averaj ,p d about 10% wrong, David saw, vciy wrong, production of which in 1958 vLjl than in lM9 farmeS enough to be executed on and 1959 was over 50 per SlhS piodmTfor th ? f* 0 *- “ °avid * ad I^f d cent above the 1950-54 an- 2 q% less than they did 10 callny to Nathans stoiy if Ms nual average. Coffee and ?go.VeaSle%eir ° Vet t°t t f w liaVe i tot jSor mai^waa p up by almost 20%. relieved of an expensive luxury,” The two crops whose pro- Almost no one contends Nathan would have got nowhere duction declined were abaca that the present farm pro- with Mm. The' first thing I need (18 percent) and sesame seed gram is a good one, or that it j n order to face my sin, when that (over 20 percent) isn’t costing too much. But time comes, is to know, down in World acreage planted to whatever blame there is belon all major field crops set a gs to Congress and the Admi record between 1953 and mstration for failure to adopt 1956. a better program, not to far- 1,049,800 352,500 278,400 275,200 203,700 Soviet Crop Production mers. Where the Money Goes About $3 billion of the $7 billion budget will be ear marked for price support lo ans on commodities which the government will eventu ally sell for about $2.5 bil lion, or give away under var ious foreign aid programs. , Another $1 bill'on will be paid to private firms for sto rage of surpluses. Approxi mately $1 5 billion will be TO BE CAREFUL WITH SP „ used to finance sales abroad Max Smith All farmers are iem« Kraybill will name the a £ foreign 5 aid" toxic danger qf nearly all spray materials a Campaign leaders for tne th- . , f .. h , the year with the vast alfalfa and -clover spfi ree divisions of thi<s am- One big chunk of the bud- . 1 a visions or xms area, billion dollars care should be exercised to be .sure that n namely, Northeastern, North get 15 nau a DUUon oonars 1 n , a i western and Southern. for school milk and lunch pro poultry are permitted to graze the area for f « , ~ . ‘ . grams, food distribution to to two weeks. Also, in‘ some cases the sprt Campaign n <?inre iqsfl rit the needy food label protect- drifted over on to a permanent pastmc bill is now serving as Presi- lon ’ pest and disease control, are already running; this could cause troubl dent of the Lititz Community ° f f °° d ranges [t ls advise d for spray operators to s« Chest. He served as 1958 q PaT l' of the agricultural yards away from the range Chairman of the* Town Chest budge t 1S to finance loans to TO PROTECT PLANTS FROM CUTWORMS Division of Lancaster County Rm-ai Electrification and eners with only a few plants may want to v Recently Kraybill received Farmers Home admimstra*i- of tomato and flower plants with heavy P B P er a* 16 -J^ aides ’ dr ’ ons These are g’ltedge in- paper or wrapping paper) to prevent cut" 01 mmli r v for „ bff cl nb v£st ™ nts aad w + iU b f r^ a,d ling the plants at the top of the ground G«’ nuaiiy tor service to his club m full, with interest , and community, as character- tota 1 about $650 million. amounts may want to spray the entire ized by the patterned ideals When all of the non-fann *even days prior to the planting of the P« of the late George B. Sear- items are removed, onlv a spray material such as DDT or Heptachlot ■ i es . J f - little more than $1 bilVon ac- three days before cultivating. Corn, tonia° Kraybill is a hoard direct- tuallv wil reach farmers, and growers will find this method quite success 1 or of the Lititz Recreation that mosty - for carrying out TO PREPARE FOR GRASS SILAGE F ° c Association and serves as dri-'i practices prescribed bv the COTning along rapidly and it Wlll soon be « ver of the Warwick Commu- government for conserving , . . w dairvmcn » mty Ambulance. om- «on and other natu— ’ - a y. eu g a iry ”He*~his wife and familv of souries practice of making part or all of their 8-s four ’of 305 Laurel Avenue The -into grass silage. In most oases more feej Latitz, are members of the cast linfa ’ r reflections rmn preserved by making : nto silage tlian bv Salem Church of Christ of all farm ere and upon the ’a--- into hay in uncertain weathe**. The tiend| Rohrerslo Vn. - gptrt ?nd mo<?t Vltal section -f .< bud Mage - for cuttirg bo th alfalfa and our economy - aerie;---- highe c t fc.-d-ng value The wilting of the I* Patronize Lancaster Farm- + „ to p-int ' SOf 'P a 6e > - on the comeback and along wltr ing Advertisers. them. should assist in making better grass s') age In Asia as a whole, acre age increased about 13 per cent between the 1950-54 av erage and 1956, but has not risen since then. A decline of 20 million acres in North America largely as a result of the U. S. Soil Bank program—has been offset by expansion of about 6 million acres in South America, 3 million in Europe, 3 million in Ocean ia, and 7 million in Africa. Farm Billions for Farmers l&hen Congress takes up the 1960 fiscal year budget for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in a few days it will be the signal for another “public-indignation” outburst against ‘“subsidizing farm ers.” 1957 29.054.000 21.615.000 23.665.000 8.442.000 7,061,800 5.740.000 3,816,600 3,172,700 1.161.000 1,560,500 824,500 412,400 317.000 315,600 159.000 This Week in Washington by Clinton Davidson iBIMe Material; It Samuel 7; 11 through 32; 1 King* 1 S-40. Derotlonal Beading: Psalm SI.I-17. Facing My Sin Lesson for May 10, 1959 Now Is The Time ... BY MAX SMITH TO KILL WEEDS IN SMALL fore any small grain is m 4 many'olSthe annual weeds® without doing any harm to It grain. If the grain is seedfi legume, then smaller arms should be used. Many mfest weed, mustard, red root 1# and etc. may be eliminated b' ?rain. Details available wy bon,, some thi„L are w, o m? “wrong” 1 1 meaning „ mii “I dotft never f ac( ' novel ei, n ; away myss] To Jfliagnij in ■Another w lean to ‘waging sinned-ag 81l ‘ angry abomj >im. he happened to« that v.ouhuj was angiy ,i eause m jJ see exactly J (Was tin, I. father had U Now no on e , ever stolen had done So , before the he had nei^ . 'Wife-stealing privilege of), a brilln thrust \vhe n down, that pj as tt were m ( . done to Urn To Confest There u , that I have j. -ting that Is, two way, os i Whatever it m what?” appm but it,isn't t, admit it, bull -1 did it, but, than a hund« Tes, I did it, be whole thing, si facing my sin mitting an acti a sin it is mitting sm ut , of Shame hefor It is to slope ing myself, it, to speak) will is to see myal a companion l what I can f«| be expiessedal 51st Psalm, the hope for me I! sin, if I do K God’s feeling al go on down is when I see the] falling, and se» less pit, thath cued. (Based on oil the Division ol National Cornu! 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