POC Withdraws Traming Charge Against Season Closed County Trucker The Public Utilities Com mission Tuesday withdrew a complaint charging a Lancaster County trucker with unlaw fully cutting rates. The commission said the complaint had been filed by x F Bell, Chief of Law Ba the Lancaster County Livestock foi cement for the Commission, Trucking Association against sa ul the closed season is desig- Oliver H. Sensemg. ped to protect nesting game birds and animals He stated the law prohibits the owner of any dog to peimit it to chase or trail any wild bird or animal during the four-month closed season. The only exceptions are made in certain counties wheie petitions have been filed to per mit fox hunting with dogs. The complaint was with drawn, the PUC said, after Sep sen.ig had adjusted his charges to conform wnth those prevail ing at Lancaster Union Stock Yards. Earlier, the PUC had fined Sensenig $1 000 for charging rates at variance ■with his tariffs. spread fertilizer this labor saving way! Why not conserve important work time? Call Eastern States for economical bulk fertilizer spreading. Expert operators under Eastern, States supervision do a uniform, competent spreading job. No bags for you to handle. You save money and time, You get ail the advantages of using Eastern States high analysis granular fertilizer. Call your Eastern States representative or service center now. Get full information on Eastern States bulk fertilizer spreading today. Eastern States Farmers' Exchange A RESEARCH MAN SINGLE Does reseaich evidence jus tify the continued switch, of hotter fanners, to moie single cioss acieage’ Too much is at stake to plant single crosses jupt because they are piettier iVor is a pei son likely to get taken m the second time if the product is no ibetter even though it may "carry the single cioss label. Calculating the odds in fanning is not gam bling. It is part of the reason ing process of sound business Experience and evidence deter mine the best odds against the unknowns every time a tilizer, or fertilizer rate, or Sportsmen who own hunting dogs were lemmded today by the Pennsylvania Game Com mission that the season for field training closes at mid night, March 31 The closed season evtends from Api il 1 to July 3ir LOOKS AT CROSS HYBRIDS By Dr. Wayne Whitehead P-A-G Research Associate and seed coin is chosen, or a cul tural operation is performed Experience and evidence sup port single crosses now more than ever befoie. Have single crosses actually performed better in lephcated comparisons’ Are they any more variable from yeai to yeai > Do the broadei gene base legulai tour-way hybnds provide any gieater insurance against the environment? Is length of pollen shedding time of concern’ Are single ciosses too new to risk’ Although these are valid questions, most of them originated long ago They should be ie-e\annned in light of present knowledge The most extensive single cross lesults are available from the last few years of research testing. Wide diffeiences exi->t between single crosses, as they do with othei hybnds Highly selected single crosses and special crosses have generally outyielded regular hybrids of similar maturity. , For example, in widely scat tered P-A-G replicated research locations, all single crosses outyielded regular hybrids as follows: East Central Research Aiea j (111., Ind„ Ohio, Pa.) 19G1 A donations! .ui- • • . _ ,JllA .bu.. Railroads OK Reduced Rate Extension HARRISBURG Reduced freight rates on nay, scheduled to end on Maich 31, have been extended In eastern railroads to April 30, State Agriculture Sef retai y Leland 11. Bull said today The one-montn extension, Secietaiy Bull stated, carnes also the pel mission to substi tute two 40-£oot cais loi one 50-foot cai as a means foi mak ing moie fieight cais available at the leduced lates. Action bv the lailroads, an nounced at then New York office, conformed to special re quests by the State Department of Agncultuie on behalf of farmers in 55 counties that have been on di ought disaster status as a result of last sum mer’s long dry spell. Secietary Bull said hay freight shipments under the re duced rate arrangement have been easing acute shortages Consultant-Plant Genetics 19GO-61 A\. 41 locations . . . 12 i bu West Central Research Area (lowa, Neb , Mo , Kan ) 1961 Av. 21 locations ')■,4 bu. 1960-G1 Av 4,2 location‘s 7 1 ini.., P-A-C, competitive, ami I'm versity Ti mis showed tundar difteienccs in magnitude Fc example, in Pm due U'ii''eisay 3-veai aveiages, single uosses outyielded legulai hvbnds by 7 S bushels oven thongn some of the newer single ciosses weie not included All single ciosses compelled with all foui-vvay hvhifOs do not tell the whole stoiy. The (lends are all in the same duectiou howevei Highly se lected P-A-G SX’s gave moie favoiable peifonnance trends than the aveiage of all single ciosses What abour the variability 9 The aveiages over many loca tions and yeais give a good in dication. If single crosses were inoie vanahle, they should av erage out similar to the four ways They did not. In all groups of compai isons, they averaged higher. A more scien tific comparison, the coelficient of variation of 19 scattered lo cations over foui states showed Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 30, 1963 Forest Exhibit At Quarryville Area woodland owneis aie urged to see the exhibit now on displav in the window of the Quarryville TV store on Stale Stieet in Quarryville The tieme ot the exhibit is Tree Farming and it tells how land owners who aie practicing woodland management can gain recognition by hating their foi acies certified as a Tiee Kami. By definition, a Tiee Faun is an aiea of pti vatelv owned tax paying land dedicated to the pi eduction of lepeated crops ol foiest pio ducts The Tree Farm movement is sponsored nationally by Ameri can Forest Products Industries, on many of the state’s dairy and livestock farms, and that a month’s extension of the rate concession will be an added help in carrying ithem nearer to the spring pasture season. about 15 pei cent variation for both four-way and single crosses Selected single uossos weie no more variable in vield than legulai hybnds Ju fact, some foui-way hybrids were i lore vanable than some single ciosses Does a wider gene base such as found in foui-wa> hybnds give greater piotection against the - env nonmental unknowns’ Fust, what is meant by wide or narrow gene base’ Mam genetic types aie present with in a bioad gene base laiiecv whereas, all plants aie (’ e same, oi moie ncai iv t io s'lne in a nairow gene ba a w.nety In addition to legmai foui way hybnds aim optm-pollinat ed conis, a V ’4li,d other t U ’flge ys h;n gene bmaj.s ,b,u,je .oi hybnd alfalfa and <*i k ties of other forage flops me forthcoming from ui> . eisities and pnvate com putes w'hich have moie n«i ij» gene bases than an\thing developed heietofoie Soybeans, v\ heat, oats and othei ceieals, soighnms and single ci oss com ha\e nanow gene bases Not enough piacti cal evidence has been found lor this lathei academic ques tion to lecommend variety nnxtuies or to change the nar io\\ gene base ciops where possible Sorghums meichaii dised in the Gieat Plains by all the industiy are single ciosses even though available moistme fluctuates widely from year to year. With other crops then, nai row gene bases have not been considered a serious handicap With coin the pollen does have to travel from the tassel to the eai. Should the period of nol lination he spread out as long as possibly ConsideiAble dif ference exists" between length Inc , and here in Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Forest In dustries Committee and the purpose ot the program is to promote u ise use of our wood lands Today over 60 million acres of our Nation’s timber lands are certified Tree Farms and numbered among them are the following landowners in Lanrastei Countv Joseph S Cutler, Drumore; Paul H Rhoads, Hainsburg; Cliftoid J Backstiand, Lancas tei, Foiest Preston 11, Oxford; John D Kendig and Clarence S Eitniei, Manheim, Conrad Appel, Paiadise • Solanco YFA (Continued fiom Page l'( were particularly interested in the “double six’’ herringbone milking parlor Fiy said one man can do the milking in the parlor, but the six milking un its can be better operated by two men At Wmlernall Farms, about two miles away, manager Richard Sutton explained the breeding and management pro gram for the S 5 purebred Hol stein cows milked in a stanch ion barn with a pipeline mil ker One of the attractions on the farm was a thiee year old “Excellent” Holstein bull which Sutton is using as a herd sire The farm recently sold a young bull to a New York breeding cooperative for ?12,000 The tour was arranged by Amos Rutt, Quarryville R 2, tour chairman, and William Fredd, teacher of vocational agriculture and advisor of the Solanco Young Farmers Chap ter. HOLLAND STONE “The Building Stone” ol poiien shed between difte ent singles and difteieut foa - waj hybnds All types ot hy brids produce much rioio pollen than eiei i eedcd Sel dom have seed set piob'eaia evei been re’ated to spread in pollination p f ncd oi iaMv of pollen in corn > eiertheless all P-A-G hy oj aie caiemllv scieened 11 many eniii oil- men Lo h o s ngle mosses so new th .1 ,o’iiftl ug unexpected may i > '1 he idea of the single cios» nas conceued before that of the foul-way hybrid Four way hvbnds weie resoited to in the early days before highly vigorous inbied lines were found and betoie pioduction technology reached its present stage The plant bleeder has tested single tlosses for many yeais to predict lour-ways The seedsman has always grown single ciosses to pioduce foui ways Many differences exist between single ciosses and for this leason all P-A-G special i rosses are w idely tested. Giealei diffeiences piobably ovist between hybrids than most lenlize The moiphologi cal difteiences that we see may be insignificant yieldwise In side the plant aie huge ana tomical ditto’ cores The most important diileiences iirobably aie the pin siological ditfer eiues or tin ones relatin'.! to biological efficiency in synthe sis, ivatei usage, mmeial up take and cai bohydrate storage A faimei should be concerned with the total amount of starch stoiage, or yield from an acre Now, let’s be honest Does leseatch etidence justify the accelerated trend to inoie sin gle cioss acreage 1 ' Obviously, yes 1 5 '* 3 '' I i
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