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”
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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
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