A34-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 29,1989
30 YEARS AGO
-Miss Mary Jane Hill, Lititz
RD2, Penna. Peach Dessert
Queen, this week sliced and served
Governor David L. Lawrence a
piece of peach pie which won her
the state title last August
Mary Jane, 17, is a senior at
Warwick High School, and her
parents operate a 12-acre fruit and
vegetable farm in Brickerville.
The presentation began a per
sonal appearance tour which will
last through August 31. However
Mary Jane will lose her title
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THIS WEEK
August 29 when a new peach
desssert will be selected at state
finals in York. Most of the appear
ances will be during Pennsylvania
Peach Time August 13 though 31.
The peach pie she baked Governor
Lawrence was made from early
Lancaster County peaches.
-Discouraged after three conse
cutive years of a depressing potato
cost-price squeeze situation, mem
bers of the Pennsylvania Coopera
tive Growers Association are in the
process of working out their own
Thanks and Congratulations
to
BILL HARRISON and FAMILY *
On Their All New earmerbo? 44’x500’ Single Story,
Curtain Sided Broiler House
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salvation.
Mixing serious business with a
bit of holiday fun, members of the
co-op, their families and employ
ees will gather for the first annual
' Potato Day at Potato City” near
Coudersport in Potter County on
Thursday Aug. 13.
-U.S. farmers realized net
income in the first half of 1959 was
at an average annual rate of
approximately $l2 billion accord
ing to a recent USDA report
This is one bilion dollars, or
eight per cent lower than the first
half of 1958, but more than a bil
lion dollars above 1957.
Cash receipts from farm market
ing were only slightly smaller than
early ’5B, as lower farm product
prices were in part offset by
increased volume.
-Milk production in Pennsylva
nia during June has been estimated
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at 623 million lbs., down eight per
cent from May, but two per cent
above June, 1958. This is a record
for June and the fourth consecutive
record month for 1959.
Production for the first six
months of 1959 totals 3,521 mil
lion lbs. or about one per cent
above the 1959 yield.
-“Anna,” registered Holstein
cow owner by John Stoltzfus,
Elverson RD2, topped the Red
Rose DHIA June records with a
305 day lactation completion
record of 16,819 lbs. of milk, with
680 lbs. of butterfat from a 4.0%
test.
-Penna. egg production dropped
of f nine per cent from May and two
per cent below June, 1958. Total
output of the state’s laying hens for
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the month was 288 million eggs.
-Led by a 19 per cent decline in
expected com production, most of
Pennsylvania’s important Held
crops will show a decrease from
last year, the State Department of
Agriculture predicts.
-Carlisle Fair Grounds will be
the site of the 27th annual purebred
ewe and ram sale at 1 p.m. Aug. 1,
sponsored by the Cumberland Co
op Wool Growers, Roy P. Miller,
co-op sec.-treas. announced today.
-Cattle on feed in Penna. on July
1 totaled 50,000 head, a decrease
of 28 per cent from the April 1 total
of 69,000 according to the State
Crop Reporting Service which
compiled its first July survey in
this category.
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