i2 —Lancaster Farming, Friday, Aug. 10, 1956 Weed Killers Lose Value in Very Few Weeks PROGRESS REPORT No. 47 Pennsylvania Agriculture Ex periment Station. The Pennsyl vania State University, Univer sity Park, Pa.- Chemical weed killers, some of science’s modern tools for soil management, do not last long in the soil after their work is done They are destroyed fair ly rapidly by bacteria with no damage to soil organisms, ac cording to research at the An cultural Experiment Station, The Pennsylvania State Univer sity. Where the soil is fertile, bac teria have no trouble destroy ing the left over organic herbi cides, studies show In fact, fre quent use of weed killers on good soil tends to build up bac teria which destroy the weed killers when they reach the soil With 2, 4-D and 2,4, 5-T this destruction is rapid- Herbicides known as CMU and DNSOBP take longer to break down. Tests of organic weed killers (herbicides) began at Penn Slate about five years ago Scientists wanted to know wheth er the new organic herbicides would destroy valuable bacteria in the soil. Research also shows there are no poisonous by-pro ducts left in the soil. Penn State leads the nation in research of this type, accord ing to Dr. J. J. Reid of the De partment of Bacteriology. Only Penn State has published results of what organisms cause the break-down of CMU and DNSOB. Other institutions have resorted studies of 2, 4-D and 2P=4, 5-T. »■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■ UMC-IHB STEEL BUILDINGS You Can't Buy k Better Building Than LOK-RIB Extra Strength ■ No Costly Framing b Longer Life ■lf Quicker Erection S Phone oi Write For ■ Full Information [ WILBUR GRAYBILL ■ Phone 6.5221 ■ (Lititz Half villa Pa.) ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■a The ORIGINAL CANADIAN GREEN-LANDS PER MANENT PASTURE mixtures, modern strains, highest “live” seed content, available at these au thorized dealers: Earl Sauder, New Holland, Pa. Cassel’s Mill, Manheim, Penna. Harold K. Good, Terre Hill, Penna. Wolgemuth Bros., Florin, Penna. West Willow Farmers Assoc., West Willow, Pa, Ross H. Rohrer & Sons, Quarryville, Penna. Sunshine Farm Suppy, Lititz, Penna. Paul H. Gehman, Denver, Penna. Clem E. Hoober, Intercourse, Penna. Dr. Frederic Klein, right, and Atty. Louis May look over some of the original documents which will come into possession of the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland, Buchan- New Farm Shows To Be Featured At Penna. Dutch Days, Aug. 23-26 With the addition of new! farm features and the appear ance by Secretary of Agricul- j ture Ezra Taft Benson, the eighth annual Pennsylvania Dutch days celebration, to be held at Hershey on Aug. 23 through 26, will take on a state fair atmosphere. I Secretary Benson will speak at the closing event on the Pennsylvania Poultry Federa tion’s program on Saturday evening, Aug. 25, m the Her shey Stadium at 745 p. m. Of the new features announc- Recepients of gifts at our 30th year celebration were as follows- J. U. Flaud, Charles Kreider, Enos S. Petersheim, Amos S. Lapp, Jacob E. Beiler, Norman Graham, Robert Thomas John E. Lapp, Willis L. Hershey, George W. Jackson, Roy B Stoner, Elias Esbensbade, Leßoy Fisher, John U. Lapp, Menno Stauffer. L. J.fDenlinger Co. Paradise, Pa. Documents for Foundation ed by James E. Bobb, chairman The show will be one of five state-wide eliminations pointing toward the Pennsylvania State Farm Show next January. The winner, who will be chosen from sixteen county exhibitors, will compete in the State Farm Show early next year. Exhibilois will be entered from the following counties Adams, Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Dela ware, Franklin, Lancaster, Leb anon, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, Schuylkill and York. Also new will be an exhibit by the South Penn Purebred Goat Association. The goat exhibit will open on Friday, \ug. 24, in the field adjacent to the stadium. The dairy cattle show, which annually attracts more than 300 entries,, is being continued, with judging scheduled for Thursday evening. Prize money totaling $4,000 will be offered exhibitors. The market hog show and sale of the Dauphin County 4- H and F. F. A. groups is scheduled for Thursday, and the farm implement exhibit, a new feature last year, will be open all four days. HOSPITALITY REPAID ERISWELL, England Resi dents of the town of Salmas, Kansas, recently sent a check for $179 to the parish church of this little English village. *The gift was an expression of ap preciation for the hospitality ex tended to American service men in the area by the Enswell vil lagers. The money is to be used for the church organ fund. The reason parents often dodge the questions of children Is that they have often dodged their own questions, and never thought them through to a con clusion. an’s Lancaster home. The collection, held in the Hiram Swarr family for three gen erations, has never been published. It is the only known source of glimpses into Buchanan’s personal life. $lOO Million to AMI Asks for Up Farm Market WASHINGTON The Am erican Meat Institute has asked Congress to emphasize basic re search in the proposed govern ment program 'to spend $lOO million on finding new uses for farm products. In a statement in support of S 3503, a bill put in by Senator Homer Capehart, Indiana Re’ publican, the Institute stressed that agriculture is spending about twice as much as in 1940 for applied research Industry, however, is spending about 12 to 15 times as much, it was add ed, and national defense thous ands of times more. I HERR THE PIMP MAN | I 211 N. Ann St. Lancaster, Pa. Ph. 3-3694 ti QUARRYVILLE CONCRETE PRODUCTS COMPANY tt«J! Hess Holstein Tops Two Shows In But 2 Days Elvin Hess, R 1 Strasburg, walk ed off with double honors last weekend when his t Wye Oak Lauxmont -Belle moved into championship of both the SEPA BC dairy cattle show Thursday and the next day to grand championship of the Southeast ern Pennsylvania District Black and White Show. A total of 126 Holsteins were entered, a record for the event. Junior championships \yent to a 4-H entry, to Miss Sandra J Rutt R 1 Stevens, daughter of Mr and Mrs. George A. Rutt, on her junior yearling heifer, Sovereign Garwood DarKy Elaine. Another simultaneous honor went to Miss Rutt as her entry was named grand champion of the Lancaster County 4-H Dairy Club Roundup at the same time. In one sense, the Friday show at the spacious SEPABC grounds served as an elimina tion contest for the State Black and White Show Sept. 21 in Harrisburg, and for 4-H show men in the Southeast District 4-H Dairy Show Aug. 29-30 in the Guernsey Sales Pavilion. Other champions included Miss Florence Mae Florry, R 3 Man heim, grand champion Ayshire, Mountain Valley Gaiety King, Guernsey champion, Reba Bush ong, R 2 Columbia, Har-Len A Margie, senior yearling; reserve Guernsey champion, shown by Robert Mumma, Landisville; grand champion and reserve grand champion Holstein, a junior calf shown by Paul Trim ble, R 1 Quarryville; reserve Ayr shire, to Joan S. Paes, R 1 Stras burg. Top showman was Miss Flor ence Mae Flory, and winning the fitting award was Miss Barbara Ann Keener, R 3 Manheim. IiAWRENCEBURG. Ky. What was once Deputy Sheriff Herbert Phillips’ garage is now a “tunnel.” Phillips, driving his car into the garage, caught his foot under the brake pedal and the car went through the back wall. Fortunately, the • car was not damaged. MAR-GRO Vitamin Supple ment Your cattle and hots need DUTCH BELL for Dairy BETTER BEEF for steer* and TRIPLE RICH for Ho ( * We also have the famous DAN PATCH HORSE POWDER Manufactured by Mar-Gro Mfy. 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