Lancaster County Ranks On Top
In Most Categories, Report Shows
Lancaster ranks at the top — In every catagory of pro
of the Hvt of counties in 35 otßduction and income produced,
53 agricultural categories, ac-* Lancaster ranked eighth or
cording to figures in a new higher with the single excep
boofclet published by the Penn- tion of oats production
sylvanla State Department of
Agricultme.
In addition, the county
ranks second in four other
categories and third in three
more. In only four categories
does the garden Spot rank out
of the first tenand these in
clude: Total land area; 12th;
Rural population as % of total,
42nd; Oats production 33rd;
and- Average size of farm,
<5 6th. Only Philadelphia Cou
nty has smaller farms.
August Is The Month
• ALFALFAS
Work
Planned
Winter Oats
• NORUNE
• DUBOIS
John E. Melhorn
Mt. Joy
Maurice Good
Gordoarille
Jacob L Kurtz
Elizabethtown
LANCASTER SERVICE CENTER
QUARRYVILLE SERVICE CENTER
Eastern States Farmers’ Exchange, Inc.
A list of the categories in
which Lancaster leads all the
other 66 in the commonwealth
are: proportion of land in
farms, 79%: Number of farms
(includes all farms with over
$5O production per year) as
of Jan. 1, 1962, 6,770; Percent
Tenancy. 24.9; Rural popul
ation, 121,153; Farms with
telephones, 5,316; Farms with
home freezers, 4,749; Automo
biles on farms, 7,299; Motor
trucks on farms, 3,981; Trac-
To Band Seed
• CLOVERS
With Us On A
Forage Program
AUGUST IS THE MONTH TO ORDER
FALL GRAINS FOR FULL BINS
BARLEY
WONG
HUDSON
Rye
Winter
• BALBO
THE EASTERN STATES TAG
ASSURANCE OF QUALITY SEED
G and G
Feed & Supply
Ldfcite - Manheim
Mairtin Wanner
_ Farmers
Enos R. Buckwalter Feed & Supply
Bird-in-Haud JS'ew Holland
• GRASSES
Gap
John Martin
Bareville
tors on farms, 10,593; Number
of livestock farms, 4,650; Cat
tle and calves on farms, 175,
000; Average number of cows
milked during 1961, 64,000;
Milk produced during 1961,
506.000. pounds; Calf crop
1961, 65,000: Beef cattle on
farms, 60,800; Hogs no farms
40,000; Chickens on farms,
3.623.000, Average number of
layers, 2,913,000; Eggs pro
duced, 626,300,000; Broilers
produced, 7,688,300; Value of
poultry meat produced, $B,
464,800.
Also corn for gram, 6,763,
600 bu ; Corn for silage, 329,
000 tons; Wheat production,
1,937,200 bu.; Barley produc
tion, 980,700 bu., Alfalfa hay
production, 120,000 tons; All
hay production, 232,500 tons;
Tobacco production, 47,886,
WHEAT
REDCOAT
PENNOLL
SENECA
DUAL
IS YOUR
Wilson Scott
West Willow
mi
Stephen Kurtz
Morgantown
Evon E. Dinger
Reinholds
Henry B. Hoover
Ephrata
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 25, 1962
000 pounds; Value of all field
crops produced, $36,614,900.
Also cash receipt from crops,
$24,682; Cash receipts from
dairy, $23,529,000; Cash rec
eipts from poultry, $33,389,
000, Cash receipts from other
livestock, $24,987,000; Cash
receipts for all commodities,
$106,504,000; Value of Comm
ercial fertilizer used, $4O,
058,000.
Only one country outranked
Lancaster in Value of lime
used, Value of vegetable pro
duction, Clover and timothy
production, and area of land
in farms.
Only two counties outrank
ed the Carden Spot in Pro
duction of Sheep, Production
of potatoes, and Acres of all
vegetables harvested.
Lancaster county ranked
seventh m average value of
land and buildings per acre.
Peach production, and value
of all fruit production A
ranking of eighth was given
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Lancaster County Is Certified
Drought Disaster Area By USDA
WASHINGTON, DC -- of adequate cover on burned-
State Agriculture Secretary out pasture coul)d threaten
William L Henning repoited senous problems of soil eros
today that emergency grazing i o n by next Spring, Henning
and haying permits m drought- said
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stricken counties had been
extended to November 15 and
that special funds were being
sought to finance re-seeding ot
damage pastures in Lehigh,
Fulton and Dauphin Counties.
Henning was in Washington
at the request of Governor
David L. Lawrence who vis
ited XT S. Secretary Orville
L. Freeman last "week m an
attempt to speed assistance to
Pennsylvania farmers who
have been hit by summer
long dry weather.
After a conference with tT.
S. Department of Agriculture
officials in Washington, Henn
ing confirmed that all of the
54 counties requested by
Governor Lawrence had been
approved for using hay from
acreage reserved under fed
eral land retirement progra
ms. The latest of the 54 co
unties were Allegheny, Lan
caster and Lehigh
Robert Reed, special assis
tant to Secretary Freeman,
said a representative was bemsj
sent to the Lehigh, Fulton and
Eauphin Counties to determine
whether special emergency
funds ot the Agricultural
Conservation Program should
be released for re-seedmg Lack
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to the county in average value
of land and buildings per farm,
Commercial apple production,
Sales of forest products and
Sales of nursery products.
Dr William L. Henning,
Secretary of Agriculture, in a
foreword to the booklet, said
“this new edition of Ranking
Among- States and Counties’
provides for the first time a
capsule 'summary of agric
ulture m each county in Penn
sylvania. It is the answer to
a large number of requests
for county summaries.”
The booklet is available
from the Pa. Dept, of Agric
ultuie upon request at no
cost.
Almost half the nation’s
milk supply is used as fluid
milk and cream. The other
half is used in the manufac-
tuie of ice cream, butter,
cheese, non-fat dry milk and
many other dairy products,
Henning also said he plann
ed to renew the request that
eastern railroads effect a tem
porary freight rate reduction
on feed grams similar to the
special 75 per cent rate on
hay now in effect He said the
freight reduction on hay is
scheduled to end October 31,
but it should be extended
further.
“Many of our farmers are
going to need hay shipments
later in the winter, and they
will probably need supplement
ary corn and other grain, too,"*
Henning said
GAS TAX REFUND
DEADLINE IS SET
Farmers have until Septem
ber 30 to file for refunds on
their state and federal gasoline
tax.
Refunds totaling 11 cents
per gallon are made on that
portion of gasoline used by
farmers directly in the pro
duction of agriculture pro
ducts
Machines using gasoline in.
the production of agricultural
commodities include tractors,
combines and unlicensed
trucks used on the farm
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