o yely Lititz Lass Leads As Pa.'s Prize Peach R COUNTY’S PREMIER PtACti, miss Mary Jane Hid, 17-year-oid Warwick a Lititz RD 2, is shown exchanging a basket of County peaches (the eatin’ |hid lei, from Carol Ching, Pearl City, Hawaii airline stewardess. The gift erved by Governor David L. Lawrence as the kick-off event m Miss Hill’s y and August schedule as reigning Pennsylvania Peach Queen. She will own to the 1960 Peach Queen August 29 at York. iURG Miss Mary Jane Hill, Ltitz R. D. 2, Roll out other ball and cut Peach Dessert Queen, this week sliced and into half-inch strips for lat nor David L. Lawrence a piece of peach pie slce top. ;r the state title last August. le, 17, is a senior at Warwick High School, its operate a 12-acre fruit and vegetable farm e itation began a ipearance tour st through Aug ver, Mary Jane title August 29 Peach Dessert >e selected at i York. Most of nces will be sylvania Peach* 13 through 31. Pie she baked Lawrence was siiy Lancaster County peaches. Here is the recipe; Peach Crispy Pie Crust 1 teaspoon salt 2 cups unsifted flour % cup lard Vi cup water Combine flour and salt. Add lard and blend with pastry blender until mxture resembles coarse meal. Add water and blend. Form into two balls. Roll out one for bottom crust. Cify to Growers Confer on Ind usiry Problems after three consecutive years of a depres i-price squeeze situation, members of the o opeiative Potato Growers Association are 0 forking out their own salvation. County, on Thursday, Aug. 13 th. Top item will be a grower huddle on the marketing of potatoes at a reasonable labor profit. Growers consid er this their most serious problem today, according to Leland Nixon, State College, president of the association. “Problems of our Pennsyl vania potato growers were never more serious than right now,” Nixon declares. ‘They cannot continue to pro duce and sell at a loss. We turned down govern ment subsidies nine years ago in favor of free enter prise. * The public should know all the facts to offset the sometimes twisted views contained in nationally cir culated comments arising from the so-called farm scan dal.” poub business t, hol 'day fun, P llc coop, ihexr f employ oes will i* ls >t annual l at Potato City” m Potter -CAST .Wednesday sveraqe 2 or >ve normal 187I 87 - Slightly humid over ? risinci trend i*' r ° ve * the i* 1 »red ihun k*lv Mon, & j s, « recorded rain m past c »her ed and *tternoon It opens with a tout' of the Lancaster, Pa.. Saturday, July 25, 1959 Peach Pie Filling V* cup granulated sugar 3Vi tablespoons flour Vz teaspoon cinnamon Dash of salt 3 cups suiced peaches "4 cup butter % cup brown sugar Vi cup .sifted flour Blend together first five ingredients. Toss lightly with peaches. Spoon into pie shell. Combine the butter, brown sugar and flour. Sprinkle over pie filling. Cover pie with lattice top. Bake in 425-degree oven 35 to 40 minutes or until brown. potato experimental farm with Dr E. L. Nixon, vari ous contests and a demon stration of new multiple row potato planters built b y members. Owen L Barkley, general manager of the co-operative, will review all angles of the association’s potato market ing program Participants will include representative pi oducers from the neighboring potato growing areas in Long Is land, Upstate New York, Ohio, Delaware and New Jersey The program closes with an afternoon meeting of members for discussion of current problems Coordination of simultan eous marketing of potatoes in these states with Pennsyl vania will be explored fol lowing reports on the pres ent condition and production outlook m the mid-Atlantic area. Early '59 Net Farm Income Drops 8% From '5B For Nation U. S farmers realized net income in the first half of 1959 was at an average annual rate of approximately $l2 billion according to a recent USDA report. This is one billion dollars, or eight per cent lower than the first half of 1958, but more than a billion dollars above 1957. Cash receipts from farm marketing were only slightly smaller than early ’5B, as lower farm product prices were in part offset by increased volume. Production expenses continue their climb, reaching a new high of $25 8 billion, three per cent above the 1958 rate. Seed and fertilizer were the only important cost items for which average prices declined. The volume is likely to reach a new high, in 1959, 28 per cent above the 1947-49 average and two per cent larg er than last year’s record volume. Lane. Poultry Exchange Means Many Millions To Penn. Rouitrymen “Last lot, gentlemen, last lot! Anna what turn Ah bid.” As this week’s Lancaster Poultry Exchange auction came to a close and buyers began competition for the 340th ‘last lot’ in Exchange history. Exchange of officials probably were thinking of the eminent Fifth Anniversary of the weekly event. In these five short years, tire Exchange has compiled a record, which is impressive by any standards Statistic- ally, it is downright awe-m- spiring. ' More than 26.7 million i j * 14 . * , , f l sold through the Exchange since Auctioneer Claude F. Smith banged his gavel on a makeshift platform in ashed at the Miller & Bushong fa- cilities in Rohrerstown dur- ing the first week of Sep- tember, 1934. Tire Exchange’s first nor- mal sale was conducted on Sept. 16, 1954, when 17 lots of birds, with 53,425 head sold for a 22.9 cent broiler average. Round figure totaling of “GIRL FRIDAY” for the Lancaster Poultry Exchange for nearly live years has been .Mrs. Harold (Clara) Kopf, of ficer manager dhd only full-time employee of the Exchange, with headquarters in the new County Poultry Center, W. Roseville Road and Route 230 1 by-pass. Clara has been with the Exchange since its founding nearly five years ago. Dur ing that time the Exchange auction? have sold between 25 and 30 million head of poultry. —LF PHOTO $2 Per Year birds sold in the 340 sales to date exceeds 26.7 million h e ad. A very conservative u lbs . per . , , turd average weight (its f™. bably 3 / 3 ' 3 ' 4) J^ eal r S that the sales have transfe r red ownership on more th mi; « _ * <• „_i 80^ 1O V hS \°Lf OWI . ™ the . , local auC h ? ld * ng a a J. of th f f ° UrlhB °f a n C “* f onr } d above the Ddma broil f, r thls to f dd "*»• D / lmarv J ® as the base for local poultry prices, until the Exchange g o t under way. But, consider that nearly all Pennsylvania poultry are sold on the local auction pric os now, with only about 20 (Turn to page 15)
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