|L. 5. NO. 16 ■“THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE ACTIVITIES of 4-H clubs.” Keith Overgaard ■s to be saying to Patsy Witmer as they look over the 4-H display at the Conestoga fcy High School this week. Keith, a seventeen-year-old senior at the school has been H member for six years. He has had projects in garden, strawberries, capons, sweet R entomology, and handyman club on the .farm of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bgaard at Lancaster R 4. Patsy, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Witmer, Ronks ■ives on a farm but has never enrolled in a 4-H project. The pretty, fourteen-year ■mnth grade co-ed says that she has considered joining one of the clubs in the area. Rose of the poster is to encourage the'rural youth to participate in 4-H club work. own-Donegal Community Club i [ids Election Of Officers pn Miller, Elizabethtown jwas elected president of Elizabethtown - Donegal pumty 4-H Club at the png Wednesday night. Ing as vice-president is [e Witmer, Mqunt Joy [Treasurer for the year by Bixler, Marietta Rl, f Ann Ressler, Market j Water Streets, Florin, [serve the club as sec [y per officers elected we- Isst Sec., Joanne Hess, etta Rl; News Report- [erson Herd iceives Honor Ir distinguished success I breeder of registered lire dairy cattle, C. Har- IGable at Elverson, has I presented the ‘Construc ■Breeder Award’ by the pure Breeders’ Associa- I Brandon, Vt. This was End award to be won by lorder to qualify for this p, one of the most covet- » 17 -gs m dairy cattle cir lit is necessary for the B to excel in both produc ■and typo. In addition, a ■ percentage of the herd ■ bat e been bred and de by the owner, rather ■ purchased from other ■ (Turn to page 8) Plant Food i n - to Hold Meet ■tural Food Quality will subject of a talk to ■Presented by Dr. E. E. R er - director of the Bio ■nal Research Labora ■ Spring Valley, New ■? as he addresses a Kf tllG Garden Spot ■L F °od ancT Soil Assn. ■“ G Lancaster County y :> Center, Roseville B 6 general public is in ■a attend the meeting K*. ,at 7:30 p.m. Dr. K . show colored E” illustrate his sub ■ j*ordmg to John W. Blount Joy R 2, presi l* 10 local assn. Calendar |Qn Page 5 er, Larry Brubaker, Mount Joy Rl, and Christ Miller, Jr., Elizabethtown, Rl; ga me leaders, Sue Martin, Mar letta Rl, and James Ressler of Florin; Song Leader, Jo anne Martin, Marietta Rl. The following adult lead ers were elected to advise the club; Christ Miller, Sr. Elizabethtown Rl; Mrs. John Herr, Mount Joy Rl, Lew is Bixler, Marietta Rl; Wil lis Hackman, Paul Hess and Victor Longenecker, all of Elizabethtown R 3. Angus Association Announces New Registration Fees The board of directors of the American Angus Asso ciation meeting in St. Joseph Missouri, recently voted to revise registration fees on purebred Aberdeen-Angus cattle imported from the British Isles. Effective with purchases made on and after May 1, 1960; registration fees for entry in the American Herd Book of animals recorded by the Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Society will be as follows; $2,500 per head for bulls; $1,500 for a cow and her calf or calves; and $l,OOO per head for other femalesT This action was taken to discourage the importation of unworthy breeding stock. T obacco Seed T reating Demonstration Set A senes of four demon strations on cleaning and treating tobacco seed ~ has been scheduled for next we ek according to Harry Sloat Associate County Agent. Dr. Carlton Taylor, Plant Disease Specialist from Pen nsylvania _State University, will treat tobacco seed with silver nitrate solution and explain disease control pra ctices. On March 15 at 9:00 am. the demonstrations will be gin at the farm of Levi Rohrer, Lititz R 2, one mile west of Lititz... During the afternoon, beginning at 1:30 the demonstration will con- Lancaster, Pa., Saturday, March 12, 1960 FIVE - DAY WEATHER ' FORECAST Saturday • Wednesday Temperatures for the next five days will aver age 10 to 12 degrees below normal. Normal tempera tures for this time of year -range from a low of 32 at night to a high of "50 in the afternoon. Quite cold over the weekend with on ly a slowly warming trend thereafter. Next precipita about Monday or Tuesday. Precipitation for the past week was 2Vz inches of snow. Temperatures for the first 10 days in March av eraged 15 degrees below normal making it the cold est March on record. Peaches Need Dormant Spray Associate County Agricul tural Agent, Harry Sloat has prepared the following- list of recommendations for peach spray in consultation with Drs. Carlton F. Taylor and John O. Pepper of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. Purpose of the spray is to prevent leaf curl, and reduc bacterial leaf spot and br own rot and to control San Jose and European lecamum scales and red mites. The spray should be ap plied before the buds start to crack but when the tem perature is above freezing. Several combinations of in gredients may be used de pending on the condiitions in your orchard. In'each 100 gallons of spray, any one of. the foiling combinations may be used. To prevent leaf curl and tinue at the farm of Harold Endslow, Marietta Rl. On the following day, March 16, the morning ses sion will be held on the farm of J. Mowery Frey, Sr. Lancaster R 7, along route 222 just south of Mylin’s Corner. The afternoon ses sion will be on the farm of Lester Weaver, New Holl and Rl, one mile northeast of New Holland. “The control of tobacco diseases lies in clean seed and clean plants rather than field spraying,” Sloat says. March Is Nat l Egg Month How Do You Like Yours? Editors Note; Many solutions to some of the surplus problems in agriculture have been proposed. Some sug gestions have been preposterous; some have been presented tongue-in-cheek. The egg producers are attacking the prob lenxTn several ways. Following is an article printed re cently in the "Eastern Indiana Farmer." What is the plight of the egg, Efforts to glamorize it are shaping up. Pickled, per ! fumed, diced, curried, curl- ■ ed, canned, and even butter- i scotch-flavored eggs are just 1 a few of the possibilities. 1 There may be such things i as vacuum dehydrated “in stant” scrambled eggs, froz en fried eggs with prefab ricated French toast, and there will be no breaking the egg. or getting a frying pan dirty. Behind these ideas, no matter how fanciful they may seem, is an urgent eco nomic problem. Americans are not eating as many eggs and the nation’s hens are turning out eggs faster than ever. The diminshing de mand has pushed wholesale egg prices down to very - near the lowest level in 19 years, squeezing profits of producers and merchandis ers alike. Consumption has dropped from a peak of 402 in 1945 to 354 per capita in 1959. The hen has bounded from 152 eggs a year to around 200 eggs, and there are tw ice as many hens as hu mans. Forecast for 1960 is that consumers will _slip an other four eggs per ..capita. There seems to -be two possible solutions. One is to cut back production and ha ve the Government buy up part of the existing surplus. The other is to increase con sumption with heavy pro motion and improvement of the basic product. The latter idea is picking up speed with the research ers. Farmers and dealers are kicking in funds for a fast growing program of resear ch and promotion, and -at the same time are striving to increase the quafity and freshness of eggs coming to the consumer. „ reduce bacterial leaf spot, ( but not scales, use six lbs. of copper sulfate and six lbs fresh spray lime for dilute application or eight lbs. of each for concentrate spray. To control scales mites and leaf curl use two lbs. of copper sulfate and three pounds of fresh spray lime plus two gallons of miscible superior oil for dilute spray For the concentrate spray use three pounds of copper sulfate, 4!~> lbs. of fresh sp ray lime and three gallons of the oil. Where Terrapin scale is a problem, the oil may be increased by one gallon in either the dilute or concentrate mixture. When combining oil with bordeaux mixture, add the materials in the order listed Oil must be added last. For the control of leaf curl only, ferbam (two lbs. dilute or six lbs. concen ; trate) or liquid DN regular (one quart dilute) may be • used. Do not use DN with oil. Complete coverage of all buds and limbs is needed to obtain effective pest con trol. $2 Per Yea/ Instant scrambled eggs have been exhibited at the Army’s Food & Container Institute in Chicago. In just 60 seconds the demonstrat or presented a tempting dish of scrambled eggs, begin ning with yellow cracker like squares shaken out of a tiny foil package Add hoi water, and you have scram bled eggs! This instant product is not to be confused with the dri ed eggs during the war. Any soldier, even Army chefs, shudder at the mention of them. Dried eggs had a st-' rong taste, unnatural textu re, and unusual odor says one Army authority. The new scrambled egg product will keep for months with out refrigeration, according to an army authority, and the soldier or a busy house wife can enjoy scrambled eggs without dirtying a pan. The light weight saves on shipping and handling costs,' the technician said, at least partially compensating for the three to 10 cents a pou nd processing cost. Other ideas “partially rea dy” are egg salad sandwich spread in a jar, frozen Fr ench toast which can be popped into a toaster, short circuiting the present mes sy process of soaking and frying. Funds for the expansion of the many uses of eggs are derived from trade as sociations of farmers, hatch eries, handlers, feed firms, and ♦processors. Even the plain old egg is in for glamorizing. A new General Mills plant will buy 360,0,00 eggs daily, package them in gay packages inst ead of the usual grey fiber carton, and put them on the market where they can com pete with other colorfully packaged articles. In other words, the egg scramble is on. “Humpty Dumpty” may have taken a fall, but the push is on to get the consumer to eat eggs To do this, they must keep up with the other food pro ducts. The egg must be gl amorized in one way or an other. Coierain Grange Plans Open Meeting Mr. Howard Feather, assist ant to the district manager of PP&L will show slides and present a history of the rocks and soils of Lancaster County at an open meeting of the Coierain Grange at the Odd Fellows Hall, Kirkwood March 15, beginning at 7:30 p.m. Mr. Feather will be in troduced by Richard Green, grange member. A report of the Communi ty Project Committee con cerning the proposed fire protection pond for the Kirk - wood area will be heard. Worthy ' Master Henry Wenger will bo in charge of the meeting.
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