Si V Farm-City Week Is Endorsed By University Dean UNIVERSITY PARK, PA. Nov, 16 “Farmers and city people must continue to dis cuss their problems freely and in an atmosphere of good will.” says Dean Lyman B. Jackson, of the College of Agriculture, The Pennsylvan ia State University. “In ob servance of Farm-City Week, Nov. 16.22, we certainly can not ignore the fact that agri culture is the largest business in this country. “More than one.third of alj the people in the United Stat es are employed in agricul LAST CALL. .. For Alfalfa Growers One application Prevent alfalfa weevil and spittlebug damage next spring. Make one dieldrin application before December Ist Top Dress with 0-15-30 W/B with .25% Dieldrin Ask Your Local Representative To Arrange For Bulk Spreading Service. John E. Melhorn Martin Wanner Mt. Joy Gap Maurice Good Gordomrillo Jacob L. Kurtz Elizabethtown G and G Feed & Supply Stephen Kurtz Eitifz - Manheim Morgantown Eastern States Farmers Exchange, Inc. ture or its related enterpris es,” Dean Jackson continues. “Six million people woik on farms; 7 million produce for or service and 11 million process or distribute faim products. There are 250,000 scientists, educators, advisors and technicians work ing on projects, goals, and endeavors related to agricul ture. “Farmers buy 5 per cent of the country’s electricity; 9 per cent of its rubber; 10 per cent of steel and 13 per cent of petroleum. Farmers use more than 50 million tons of chemicals, “and 'more trucks and tractors than any other industry. “While we speak of agricul. tural abundance m this coun- in now can eliminate alfalfa weevil and sptth PLAN AHEAD: Apply Dieldrin Emulsifiable Concentrate 2/3 Gal. Per Acre as a Direct Spray At 400 Pounds Per Acre. John Martin Bareville Wilson Scott Kenf y B * Hoover Lancaster Service Center Quarryville Service Center OR West Willow try,” Jackson reminds that “it is a sad fact that millions die every year from starva tion or the ettects of starva tion in other parts of the woild We must remember the battles are won with deeds, not words ” The Dean contends that our present technology is capable of solving the world’s food problem. This means agricul ture and its related industries are more important today than they have ever been. “Primitive agricultural and social systems will fade away,” Jackson concludes. “In their place will come new systems supplied by a complex chain of chemical and engineering industi les. This will come as our communication methods «g pioblems ne>,t spring. Evan E. Dinger Keinholds Enos R. Buckwoltei Bird-in-Haud Ejdirata Farmers Feed & Supply Xew Holland Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 17, 1962—7 improve, along with an un derstanding of the sociology ot primitive people. We can. not stand still oi turn back pi ogress. We will move a head.” Farmers Books Added To Lists At Library The Lancaster Free Public Library has annonced the ac quisition ot two new books ot paitieular interest to farmeis. Miss Esther Floiy, assistant Irbianan, reviewed the hooks and invites dairymen or oth. er interested farmers to bor_ ow the following books from the library. GENETIC ASPECTS OF DAIRY CATTLE BREEDING, by Johansson. The first pait of the book piesents thiee significant lines of research on dairy cattle bleeding which have yielded results of great value tor piactical bleeding opeiations In the lemaming chapteis the author reviews the piesent knowledge about the inheiitance ot chaiacteis which aie especially import ant in legaid to milk produc tion, such as feitihty, body size and type, uddei develop ment and milking late, and vield and consumption of milk and discusses bieedmg meth. ods. The author was profes sor of animal bieedmg at the Royal Agncultuial College, Uppsala, Sweden. The book Newl4o-bushel sprea STRENGTH and ftUALITY where it counts in a Big Spreader/ Look under the box, see how knee braces under compres sion hold box tight at the top. Notice the full-width, heavy duty axle. Look at the beaters and paddles. Paddle-centered delivery from the beaters for uniform spreading. Less buildup oa paddle shaft. Look at the front end recessed raddle chain with full length idler shaft Raddle hugs the floor surface, reduces lodging of cobs or frozen material. Notice the armored sides protection against loader damage. See the clutch-protected power line and heavy-duty, toller-driven chain. The Model 140 PTO spreader is quality-built for year round convenient performance. Let us show you. Finance [or profit. Ask us about Alhs-Chalmers’ time payment plans. ALLIS-CH AIMERS <AC> SALES 8c SERVICE NuT L. H. Brubaker Lititz, Pa, Grumelli Farm Serv. Quairyville, Pa. Lancaster, Pa. Snavely’s Farm Service Nissley Farm Service New Holland. Pa. Lousch Bros. Equipment Corn Borers Feel Effect jOf Dry Weather HARRISBURG Even the corn borers telt the effects of last summer’s severe drought. In lields checked by the Bur. eau of Plant Industry, Penn sylvania Department of Agii culture, boier infestation, averaged 30 per 100 plants as compared to 59 the year before. Fewer stalks were in fested and they had fewer borers per plant than in 19G1, Dr. Thomas L. Guyton, bur eau director, attributed most of the borer reduction to the diy weather, explaining that many of the egg masses laid by parent moths on corn plants were loosened and destroyed as the leaves cm led fiom the heat. (Continued on Page 10) was developed fiom lectin eg he ga\e at Umv. of Illinois, Dept of Dany Science, m 1958-59. (636 20S J 65). PHYSIOLOGY OF REPRO DUCTION AND ARTIFICAL INSEMINATION OF CATTLE by Salisbuiy and Van Denial k. Peitinant literatuie of the past thiee decades. Each chapter begins with a state ment of the geneial subject matter for the benefit of the laymen-inseminator or heid ownei whose backgiound may be inadequate tor a complete undei standing of the technical details 636 208 Sl6) N. G. Myers & Son Bhceuis, Pa. L. H. Brubaker Washington Boro, Pa. Sto\ous er
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