20—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 19, 1964 NEPPCO Plans To Honor Past Show Winners Back again with a few addi tional special touches at the annual NEPPCO Exposition this year will be two of the show’s most popular features, the Boulevard of Champions and the Random Sample Lay ing Test Display. The two outstanding attrac tions will share the spotlight with a three-day educational piogram and more than an acie of technical and commer cial exhibits at the Fatm Show Building here in Harus buig on October 6. 7 and 8 Outstanding winners of the poultry industry competitions ovei the past two decades thioughout the noitheast are honored in the Boulevaid of Champions display. The giant panorama will tell the stoiy in photos, trophies, charts and words of the finest egg laying flocks in official U S competition, will honor egg quality champions and the fin est egg carton designs, and will call attention to the North east’s “Best Poultry Boy,” the “Poultiy Pnncess” contest winners and champions in 4-H and Futuie Fanners of Amer ica contests back thiough the yeais In addition to honoring past winneis of the 34-state competitions, it will also sene as the center for an nouncing winneis of the sev eral contests at this year’s NEPPCO exposition. In the Random Sample Lay ing Test Display, breeders who compete in official laying tests maj display the same' type of buds that made up their win ning entnes. Each cage will bear the complete record of the test entry they poitray In older to be eligible for the display, buds must have fin ished in the top quaitile of an official random test, based on net income Moie than 5,000 poultrymen, women and youngsteis from thioughout the 14-state north eastern area aie expected to visit Harnsburg for the three day exposition Atti actions m elude addi esses by poultry ex perts commeicial exhibits by more than 100 poultiy prod Aids films and a social and educational piogiam foi faim youngsters STOP—DROP SPRAYS FOR APPLES Weathei conditions this sea son may make it advisable to use a spray to reduce early fiuit drop Two materials are cleaied for this 2,4,5 TP and NAA (Naphthaleneacetic Acid) The material usually consid ered best is 2,4,5-TP It may be used on all varieties. Ap ply it two weeks ahead of the expected haivest date: this will hold the fiuit on the trees about three to four weeks In case of a delay in applica tion, do not harvest closer than three days It is suggested that this matenal be used at the fol lowing concentrations on the following varieties Johnathan 15 20 ppm: Gumes. R Delicious, and G Delicious 10 ppm; York and Stayman 15-20 ppm, Rome 20 ppm This matenal has a tenden cy to hasten matunty if ap plied too eaily oi at too high concenti ations. As jou pick and stoie yom fruit, watch it veiy caiefully for intei nal bieakdown. Cut samples fre quently for guidence but by all means do not pick too late because the “stick-on-spray” reduces drop. Your fruit keeps on ripening. Wild Sweetclover Resists Weevil Resistance to the sweetclov er weevil has been found m a species of wild sweetclover, the U. S. Department of Ag ncultuie reports. Scientists are working to tiansfer the lesistance to com mercially important sweet clover varieties. The wild sweetclover, Melilotus infesta, is not acceptable as a forage, hay, or soil-improvement crop Conquering the sweetclover HORNCO FEEDS... The Growing Choice of Business Farmers More Steer Men Are Feeding Homco Than Ever Before Supplements Are Fortified With All The Essential Ingredients To Produce A Pound Of Beef At The Least Possible Cost. From The Company With STEER FEEDING Know Now jjjjg; entative or call us direct. D. E. Horn & Co. # Inc. York, p a . ph. 854-786? weevil by genetic changes in the sweetcldver plant would greatly reduce dependence up on insecticides. M. infesta was the only sweetclover species not fed upon by adult weevils in re search conducted by Dr. George R Manglitz and Dr. Herman J. Gorz of USDA’s Agricultural Research Service, in cooperation with the Ne braska Agricultural Experi ment Station. This finding is the first indication of resist ance to the weevil in sweet clover. Development of agronomical ly acceptable weevil-resistant sweetclovei would enhance this plant’s potential as a for age and soil-improvement crop This destructive pest has Hornco Beef discouraged many farmers from trying to grow the crop, which partially explains the widespread decline of sweet clover acreages in the North ern Great Plains and other areas, officials said. Scientists do not know why the weevil, Sitona cylmdricol hs Fahraeus, does not eat the leaves of M. infesta. Research has shown no indication that the plant is harmful to the weevil. Weevils confined to M. in festa produced fewer eggs, ap parently because of starvation. Suiviving weevils recovered their egg-laying ability about as well as weevils kept with out food, when both groups were later fed the same diet. Ask your neighbor who feeds HORNCO - Hornco dealer, sales repres- LOCAL GUERNSEY COWS COMPLETE PRODUCTION RECORDS A senior three-year-old R e , istered Guernsey cow by R. F. & L, A. Witmer, tVil low Street, has completed an official DHIR production. i tc ord of 11,690 pounds of tniH and 585 pounds of fat in 305 days with two times a day milking. Another Willow Sti eet Guernsey cow, this one a sev en-year-old owned by J. Boh rer Witmer, had a production record of 13,210 pounds o[ milk and 598 pounds of fat m 305 days on two-times a day milking. Character is what you are m the dark. Then contact your
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