10—Lancaster Farming* (Friday, Aujgust 16, 1957 . i Hot Weather Increasing Insect Damage to Tomatoes, Tobacco, Corn Russet Mites, found in Lan caster County this year for the first time in three years, pose a threat to the tomato grower, ac cording to Associate County Agent Harry S Stoat- Stoat told growers at a series of meetings last week that the in sect is of nearly microsopic size and multiplies at a tremendous rate during hot weather Its pre sence can be detected by general bronzing or yellowing of the tomato plant stem and leaves. “Don’t confuse this yellowing ior bronzing with nitrogen de fiency,” Sloat warns. “Nitrogen deficiency starts at the - tip of 'the leaf and works back The Russet Mite usually is found on the stem flist ” The best control is sulphur in a spray or, dust applied at the rate of an ounce of 95 per cent wettable sulphur per gallon of water. Six pounds per acre can be applied with Manzate or Zer late. When asked about the practi cal aspects of irrigating the tomato crop for the remainder of the year, Sloat said that the cost of irrigation per acre should not exceed $2O to $25 per acre. Some other insect and disease problems m this years tomato crop were also discussed by the associate county agent. Some two spotted mites are moving in from alfalfa and clov (Continuea on page IS) Red Vantress Chicks Available Every Thursday None Better! Call BOLTON’S HATCHERY Phone 76-R-3 Schaefferstown, Pa. NEW OLIVER Semi-Mounted ONE-ROW PICKER Best for 3-point hitch tractors Now you can pick your bumper yields and save corn every year with your 3-point hitch tractor. New Oliver Model 6 gives you mounted picker-type "hitch up-and-go” convenience. Adjustable snapping roll spacing lets you adjust the gathering unit to fit every crop condition. Lets you clear the gathering unit from the tractor seat... on the go. Long snapping rolls and "live” points get the down and leaning com. Swayback center elevator reduces shelling, increases capacity of the gathering unit. Roller-type gathering chains are another Oliver "exclusive” . . . twice as strong, wear three times as long as ordinary kinds. 'VntVn'V' If you’re the fortunate owner of a new Oliver Super 55 or similar 3-point hitch tractor, be sure to see the new Ohver Semi-Mounted Model 6 picker. v— ■> Farmersville Equipment Co. N. G. Hershey & Son THREE FIRST-TIME tomato producers are instructed by James Dutt, Penn State ex tension vegetable specialist, right, in some of the 'fine points of tomato grading. They are, left to right, Warren Spickler, R 2 Mt. Joy; Mahlon Shelly, R 4 Manheim, and John Kopp, 13, R 2 Mt. Joy. They have planted 10, E. L. Herr Peach Bottom Ephrata, RD. 2 eight and three acre fields this year respec tively. Dutt told them that the presence of white mold in tomatoes this year is being graded down much harder than formerly because it has been found that it does not wash out properly in processing. (LF Photo) •' '•v
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