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■SEPTEMBER IN LANCASTER COUNTY is a very special time of year Time when farmwives spend extra time
■tchens, the youngsters spend hour upon hour grooming club animals and “Dad” carefully inspects potential ex-
Kfrom the field, pasture and flock. Almost one year ago, when this photo was taken at the Southern Lancaster
Ky Community Fair, 1958 competition at Quarryville was all over but the clean-up job. Tired folks were slowly
Kg to cars and buggies. Commercial exhibitors were casually removing less prominent features of their shows,
K and brushes had gone into tack boxes. Trucks were being moved into loading places. Tired mothers, wearily
Kg on the beams of farm equipment, shielded infants from light and noise. But that was last year and after all
Kave to make rounds of fairs and shows m the county to see what 1959 has produced for Lancaster County.
m ~ —LF PHOTO
HOG PRODUCER:
Sk Twice About '6O Plans
following article is |
id, verbatim, from
spt. 9 issue of- the i
"Agricultural Silua
(tporl, compiled by i
ii. Marketing Service.
prices are down and
utlook for the next
not bright. It certain- :
not favor overall ex- ;
i m the hog industry. :
■ the outlook favors
individual producer
! always, depend on
nation—his facilities,
i supply, and what it
® to produce hogs,
thing is sure—all the
hould be made with
aspect of receiving
Prices for hogs in ’6O
5 the last three years.
What's Wrong?
7’s rising production
as well as cattle, -
W chickens, is large
pPonse to big feed
r an d lower feed pn
[trouble is that produc
es up m sudden
[‘taps not smoothly.
P what i-, happening in
piuclion now. Last
[Wg ciop—spring and
phinuf increased
Fwnt iiom 1957. This
is up 10 per cent
|? 0r a big increase m
Rs
Phst increases have a
Lt ct on Prices Ris
-0 1" h °gs on hhe
rant prices of barrows
r w the Midwest to
ITk 0 1,3 - this past
It.., erc * were $25 in
IS of 1958.
I. H Pr >ce m July, nor
iov Price month,
| M direction. Prices
I S 01 'nowhat in Aug-
r he,ts S the July
break means two things.
First, it signals the begin
ning of a period when prices
of hogs will be lower than -
during most of the 1950’5.
We won’t see -$2O hogs again
for quite a while.’
The abundance of feed at
lower support prices will- a
nrost certainly result \in a
big production that will hold
all meat animal prices below
recent favorable levels.
Summer Peak
The second thing that $l4
hog prices in July means is
that the very high summer
price peak, long a feature of
trading in hogs, is probably
gone forever.
Hog producers have brok
en away from their old hab
it of concentrating farrow
ings in a few months. Now
.they redistributing them
more evenly throughout the
year. As a result, Doth the
old summer scarcity and the
fall glut in market supplies
have disappeared.
To be sure, seasonal differ
ences in supplies and prices
remain, but they are less ex
treme than before.
For instance, note howfar
rowmgs were distributed in
1948 and m 1958
1948 1958
Percent Percent
Dec -Feb 10 5 20 6
Mar.-May 50 2 35
i June-Aug 17 7 23.6
Sept.-Nov. 21.6 20 8
In 1948 half of all farrow
i ings were in March, April &
May. Now only a third are
• in those months. December,
, January and February were
i low in 1948. Since then the
• period’s share has doubled.
In one sense, smoother sea
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Lancaster, Pa., Saturday. September 12, 1959
County Agri-Aviators
Elected to Three
Flying Farmer Posts
- Beautiful flying weather
resulted in a nice turn out
Saturday for the picnic lun
ch and business meeting of
the Pennsylvania Flying Far
mers at Dußois Airport. The
Harry Klines were host to
the group.
The following officers were
elected: William Richey, of
Petersburg, Ohio (lives in
Pa ) President; "Raymond Bel
ler, Honey Brook, Pa., Vice-
President; David Huber, of
Peach Bottom, Pa , Secretary
and John Gehman, Barto, Pa
Treasurer Amos Shenk, Li
titz was elected to the board
of directors.
H. Gail Kimmel. Entm Val
ley, retiring president, and
Harry Kline, Dußois, whose
terms do not expue continue
on the board
Harry Kline was also elect
ed to serve as representative
to promote the group life and
gioup aircraft insurance pro
gram within the Pennsylva
nia Chapter.
L. M. Barnum, Burdett, N
Y dntctor af the New York
Chapter was a visitor. Rus
sel Pisor, Porters vallc. will
represent the 1> lying Farm
ers September 23rd at a spe
cial meeting called by the
Federal Aviation Agency m
Washington to discuss prob
lems in air communications
in the Woshmgton Air Traffic
Control Center area
L. L. Logan, Kennott Sa
’ uare. Regional Director, will
1 fly to Front Royal, Va., to
! complete plans for' the air
i tour to the Skyline Caverns
1 October 17th and 18. Inter
i ested fliers are invited to con
tact Mr. Logan.
A special guest at the me
eting was Jean Dispaux, Ro
tary exchange student from
Belgium.
Mr. Dispaux is a glider pi
lot in Belgium and since ar
riving in Pennsylvania deci
ded to secure his pilot’s lic
ense and has already soloed.
Flying Fanners from New
York, Pennsylvania, New Jer
sey, Delaware, and Maryland
will rendevous at Danbury,
Conecticut, Airport, Septem
ber 18th when they begin a
5-day weekend coastal flight
and program that will end
with a special lobster dinner
at Rockland, Maine.
The tour will include a vis
it to Omega Aircraft factory
New Bedford, Mass, and al
so a visit to the Whaling Mu
seum.
The flight will be over Mar
tha’s Vineyard and the Cape
Cod area. The Mayflower
will be viewed from the air
on a low level flight over
Plymouth A stop also will
be made at. Portland, Maine.
FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures will aver
age about four-degrees be
low Lancaster County's
normal range of 57-77 de
grees.
Cooler over the week
end, some warmer Mon
day and Tuesday. Cooler
on Wednesday.
Mostly dry and sunny,
offering prospects of good
drying weather.
Week's rainfall—just a
trace.
$2 Per Year
Jack Owen Made
New Editor Of
Lancaster Farming
Jackson H Owen, former
Vocational Agriculture in
structor at Solanco High
School, Quarryville has been
appointed editor of Lancaster
I arming.
Owen succeeds to the post
occupied by Dan McGrew,
who assumes editorial duties
on the initial issue of the
fast full-size offset process
pictorial weekly in the state
of California, on September
20.
Owens brings with him to
Lancaster Farming a back
ground of practical agricul
ture and nine years of pro
fessional agriculture experi
ence. Reared on a southern
Lancaster County farm, he
attended Quarryville High
School where he graduated
with honors in Vocational
Agriculture in 1943.
After two years with the
Navy in the Pacific during
World War 11, Owens attend
ed the Pennsylvania State
University where he majored
in Agriculture Education.
Graduated with a Bachel
or of Science degree in 1950,
JACKSON H OWEN
Owen established the depart
ment of Vocational Agricul
ture at Spring Grove, York
County, leaching there for
two years before returning
to Quarryville.
He has been in the Solan
co school system for the past
, sever, ycou has s<. iV v.d
for the past four years as
head of the department of
Vocational Agriculture.
During the time Owen has
been at Solanco, the depait
. ment has grown from two to
three teachers and the en
rollment has increased from
about 70 to over 90 students
In addition to the increase
m the m-scnool enrollment, a
class for young tanners has
been organized.
He has helped coach 33
Solanco students to Keystone
Farmer degrees and two of
his students have received
American Farmer honors,
highest degree in FFA
In addition to his duties as
teacher of Vocational Agri
culture, Owen lias served as
president of the Solanco
Community Fair Association
for the past four years, and
along with his wife, is active
in the work of the Quanv
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