A36-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 3,1987 30 YEARS AGO Fanning in Pennsylvania seems headed for bigger business, labor saving on the farm and in the home, and improved com munications. TTiese trends are reported by Anna T. Wink, research associate in agricultural economics at the Pennsylvania University. With the present income situation, competition is keen between spending for improved farming and for better living, Mrs. Wink points out. By 1954,96 of each 100 forms had electricity and 83 had piped running water. Almost 70 percent had telephones. Home freezers were reported on 48 per cent of the farms and more than half had television sets. There will be no seasonal decline in milk price Jan. 1 to either farmers or consumers in the Philadelphia Milk Shed, the Pennsylvania Milk Control Commission announced today in an emergency order. Over 90 percent of all homemakers interviewed served broilers or fryers sometime during the last year, and about half of these users served them once or more a week, U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers concluded after conducting a survey of a selected sample of homemakers in the United States. Washington... Portable electric fences are being improved to give better service in controlled grazing of pastures and in other farm uses, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports. A satisfactory down-trend in occurrence of oak wilt-a little known fungus disease that kills practically all oak trees that it attacks—was reported today for Pennsylvania by State Secretary of Agriculture William L. Henning. Infected oak trees and clumps of trees spotted from the air and eradicated by ground crews this Lapp ENERGY FREE DRINKERS No Got/No Boefrie 4 StHni Drinkers have a new unique baffled drinking design manufactured from a durable poly product. 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Based on official trade statistics through October, supplemented by Department estimates for the remaining two months of the year, the value of United States farm exports for 1956 is expected to surpass $4 billion, 30 percent above 1955. A new national all-time, all breed high in butterfat production has been established by Haven Hill Crescent Gewina Count, a registered Holstein owned by Mr. and Mrs. E.B. McLaughlin, Rock River Farms, Byron, ILL. AUTOMATIC FARM SYSTEMS 608 E. Evergreen Rd. Lebanon, PA 17042 (717)274-5333 VIRGINIA DAVID W. SHOWALTER Rt. 2, Box 176 Bridgewater, VA (703)828-3379 MARYLAND EDGAR F. DICKENSHEETS New Windsor, MD 21776 (301) 775-2909 Dealer Inquiries Invited STRONGSVILLE, Ohio - Changes dairy in policy, production and demand are the topics for The Ohio State University Dairy College, Jan. 5 to 6, 1967 at the Hilton Inn, North in Worthington. The dairy college is held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Ohio Dairy Far mers Federation. Milk Marketing Inc., the regional dairy marketing cooperative and a member of the Ohio Dairy Farmers Federation, will help lead a discussion about the changing role of Ohio’s dairy organizations. MMI General Manager Gordon Riehl will discuss the marketing of milk within Ohio. “Our Changing Dairy Industry” is the latest in a series of programs designed to instruct people in the dairy industry on various management topics, according to Bernard L. Erven, OSU dairy farm management specialist. In two separate sessions, OSU economist Robert E. Jacobson will address the current status of the dairy industry and ways it has changed while staying basically the same throughout the past 25 years. Carl Zulauf, OSU farm policy specialist, also looks at the effect erf political changes on the industry. 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Friday, January 9 Southcentral Area Income Tax meeting, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Chambersburg Holiday Inn on Wayne Ave., Chambersburg. Pa. Association of Conservation District Directors meeting, GrantviUe Holiday Inn; con tinues through Jan. 10. Pa. Continues through Jan. 16. For No-Tdl Meeting, Hartiy a complete schedule of Farm Flr ®. j , " ar V- y ’ Show activities turn to the „ listing elsewhere in this week’s Fr^i in Cou sl ty H °l® teln Banquet, Uncaster Fanning. 7;30p.m., Savoy, Waynesboro. Address. City Phone lam m