Nurseryman Elected
MEDIA - Wayne Norton,
prominent Middletown Township
nurseryman, was recently elected
to the presidency of the Delaware
County Agriculture Extension
Association at the group’s annual
meeting at the Springfield County
Club. The Association is the group
of volunteers involved in sup
porting the Cooperative Extension
Service in program development
and promotion, according to C. R.
Bryan, Jr. County Extension
Director. The Extension Service
provides educational programs in
agriculture, home economics and
4-H youth clubs to all interested
Wayne Norton, second from left, prominent local nurseryman was elected president of
the Delaware County Agricultural Extension Association at their recent annual meeting.
With Norton are from left ro right, State Representative Thomas Gannon of Ridley
Township, Dr. Thomas King of Penn State University and State Senator Clarence Bell.
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county residents. The other of
ficers of the Board of Directors
elected at the meeting are Aileen
Allen of Havertown as vice
president, Barbara Kahler of
Sharon Hill as secretary, and
William Goolsby of Media as
treasurer.
The program at the meeting was
“Understanding World
Agriculture” presented by Dr.
Thomas King. Dr. King has been
on the staff of the College of
Agriculture at Penn State
University for over thirty years.
He has headed the Universities
agriculture program in Swaziland,
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Africa for three years and also
served as the head of agriculture
international programs.
Representative Thomas Gannon
of Ridley Township and Senator
Clarence Bell were the state
legislators who attended the
meeting. The Extension staff
exhibited some of the educational
programs provided to county
residents on an equal opportunity,
nondiscriminating basis. The
Extension Office is located in the
Rose Tree Hunt Club, Rose Tree
County Park, 1521 N. Providence
Road, Media, PA 19063. The public
can phone 565-9070 for information
about Extensior -©grams.
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thumbed their noses at the Con
stitution as they always do.
As for the pesticides, they are
just making it hard for farmers
deliberately. In the late ’sos a 75
foot strip from Adams county
across York county was seeded
with Giant Foxtail, it went across
our farm. We never had it before,
and we grew crops without her
bicides or even cultivation. Now if
you don’t spray Lasso and other
grass killers that Giant Foxtail
takes over and is as high as a foot
all over. Wild game enthusiasts
planted that and many other bad
plants. Multi flora rose was in
troduced by the Game Com
mission, which freeloads on the
farmers. Those plants have taken
over the farms and are hard to kill.
The politicians and the Game
Commission who are responsible
for their existence refuse to do
anything about it other than make
us victim farmers be violaters for
having those plants on our lands.
The lawmakers that I talked to
about the multi flora rose did not
-Farm products in Lancaster
County during 1955 had a value of
$95,268,637, or 31 percent of Penn
sylvania’s entire farm produce of
$311,915,000 last year.
Drought, heat, hurricanes,
government controls- none had any
great effect on the productivity of
Lancaster County’s fertile farm
land, yards and lots.
First in rank, eggs declined
slightly from 1954, but had a total
value of $18,218,000 last year. The
1954 total value was $19,088,100.
The decline in egg prices ac
counted for part of the total Comity
decline, some $2,500,000 from the
$98,590,317 in 1954.
Milk values on Lancaster County
farms increased from 15,887,400 in
1954 to 18,145,800 last year.
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know what a multi flora rose
looked like. But they know how to
go behind closed doors and take
away the herbicides to control
those bad plants.
The average politician knows
how to talk smart, dress up smart,
talk before radio and television
and before different groups and all
that. But they don’t know much
about farming and other thngs.
And that includes the U.S. Con
stitution. But they know the tricks
of propaganda and politics and
how to herd the people to vote for
them and rob the people of their
rights and wealth and substances
and liberties behind closed doors.
That’s what they’ve done here.
There are too many Dwyers (?)
and smart ashers among them. I
pray that the Lord will bring more
of them out to light so that we can
all see them. They betrayed us all,
democrats, republicans and the
rest. They gave us a hell of a bad
Christmas as a thanks for our vote.
Yours truly,
Paul Holowka
York
- A record number of livestock
will be seen at the Farm Show this
year. To date, 2,025 head of horses,
beef cattle, dairy cattle, sheep and
hogs have been entered.
Biggest expansion in number of
entries is in dairy cattle, according
to state agriculture Secretary
William L. Henning.
- In its latest estimate the Census
Bureau reports that females now
outnumber males in the United
States by about 1,381,000. The
greatest disparity is in the 25 and
older age groups.
The sex ratio switch is said to be
due to two factors... the mortality
rate is higher for men... and im
migration has declined. Prior to
1930, about two-thirds of the im
migrants were males.