Annual Soil Conservation District Report Issue VOL. 10 NO. 14 THE VIEW OF CONSERVATION MOST APPRECIATED BY AIR TRAVEL ERS over Lancaster County is the familiar contour strips, as seen in this aerial shpt of a farm in the New Holland area. Close examination of this picture should show a grass waterway near,the lower left corner of the picture. Ammon,Speaker At Poultry Assn. Here On Thurs. The program for the An nual Educational Meeting of the Lancaster 'County Poultry Association will feature Rich ard Ammon, Executive Di lector of NEPPCO. He will discuss some of the changes and trends that lie ahead for poultrymen in southeastern Pennsylvania. Ammon is a native of Lan caster County, and served as Executive Secretary of the Pennsylvania Millers and Feed Dealers Association pri oi to joining NEPPCO. He is well known throughout the eastern United .States, and is a respected leader in the in dustry. The program .will also fea tuie Dr. L. ,Dwight Schwartz, Extension Poultry Veterinari an from Penn State Univer sity He will discuss the lat est findings and recommenda tions. in the field of .poultry disease T'be meeting will he held ft the Poultry Center, 340 West Roseville Road, Lancas ter and will begin at 7*45 Pm, March ,11. All are wel comel Farm Calendar Mar 8 730 p im. Man'heim Young Farmers at Central H S Sub] “Livestock Mar ked T>g ” * O 733 p.m Ephrata Young- AJ i!t Farmeis farm welding cL?i; ‘Vertical and Ovei b«£id welding ” 730 pm Noitheast 4-H Club at Allen Matz E lu.p Co , Denver 730 pm Reorganization meeting 4JH Ayrshire, Jei (Continued on Page 9) Weaver, Pres. Co. Baby Beef Ana Lamb "Chib At a reoigamzation meeting this week the 120-memhieir Red Rose Beef and LamibClulb named Larry Weaver, New Holland Rl, as their new pres ident. Weaver succeeds Eu gene Hosier, Manheim R 3 Other officers elected for 1965 were vice-president, Ken neth Hess, secretary, Nancy Frey, assistant secretary, Lin da Welk, treasurer, Robert Hosier; assistant treasurer, William Houser; song leaders, Judy Buckwalter and Tom Houser; game leaders, Carol Ann Hess and Dallas Wolge muth; news reporters, Anna (Continued on Page 10) Free-Stall Housing Sparks Interest At Annual Co. Dairy Day Agricultural Research Engi neer, Gordon C. Perry of Ag way, Inc., described their ex perience to-date with the free stall housing and liquid, man ure handling comtoin'ation to approximately 400 countiahs at the Dairy Day meeting this week. There has been a gradually growing interest in this system of dairy cow man agement in the county, espe cially since the company milk inspectors have been pushing the conversion of loose-hous ing to free-stalls Perry showed slides of many working system's in the U.S and abroad One point he em phasized was that the farmer must he careful of what goes into his liquid manure sys tem 'Stiaw, for example, will clog the system The ingredi ent that makes the whole thing work is water . lots ana lots of watei. Perry said. Dr. James E Honan, Cen tal Manager Inter-State Milk (Continued on Page 9) RVmCOTTIIRAL IWRARV ‘ "ITT srvf m * _ , * • * /'i 4 r i rj* Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 6, 1965 F&H Canvassing About 60 % Done In Co. This Week Total results in the Farm and Home Foundation climbed to $153 145 the past week, with the City Special Gifts and General Gifts Divisions now adding to the efforts of the Farm Gifts Division. This wias announced, Wednesday, by Levi H. Brubaker and Lawrence H. Skromime, Gen eral Co-Chairmen of the $375,- 000 capital funds appeal. Of the over-all total pro duced, to-date, in the drive, $121,531 has come from farm families and farm-related busi ness interests of the county. The Farm Gifts Division has a quota of $250,000 to raise, while the city units have been assigned a quota of $125,000. About 60% of the canvassing in the county Was been done. Campaign officials reported that support in the county Was in'cluded the gifts of num erous agricultural organiza tions Recent gifts and pledges of support have come from the Lancaster County Holstein Association, $1,000; Lancaster County Farm Cooperative As sociation, SI,OOC Lancaster County Fruit Growers Asso ciation, $400; and the Lan (Continued on Page 4) Weather Forecast Temperatures fOfr the five day period, Saturday through Wednesday, are expected to average below normal with little day-to-day change. Normal high for the period is 47 degrees, and low is 28. Precipitation is expected to occur ajs snow on Satur day, ,ajvd as rain or snow again on Monday. Total ac cumulation should be ap proximately Vt inch, melted. Soil Conservation Dist. Directors Report Program The Lancaster County Soil and Water Conservation Dis tinct Can led on the following activities during 1064 1 A total of 234 attended the Annual Meeting at the Blue Ball Fue Hall 2 The Outstanding Conser vation Farmer was Forney Longeneckei, Lititz R 3 3 During May, Soil Stew ardship was obsei ved Seven papers carried Stewardship articles and several rural churches used Soil Steward ship materials 4 A television progiam was Tobacco Growers Can Gain 7-10 Days By Using Plastic Covers Over Seedbeds, Agronomist Says One of the main new de velopments at the Penn State University Southeastern Field Research Laboratory is grow ing tobacco plants under plas tic covers Henry B Engle, re search agronomist at the sta tion, told appi oximately 70 farmers at the Lincoln Inde pendent School this week. But the key to growing plants successfully with this method is ventilation, Engle said Plants grown in this way will be ready to put out a week to 10 days earlier than those grown an a regular' seed bed, trials at the Experiment Station have shown They have found that the most durable framework for the plastic tan be made from lattice, or lath. In discussing weed control in the seedtoed, Engle said there are two basic ways toe ing used: steam and chemical. Steam equipment is gradual ly becoming obsolete, the re searcher said, and chemical controls seem to be taking over. Methlybromide, a poison ous gas, gives excellent con trol over grass and broadleaf weeds, he said, tout it is not effective against clover Three other chemic'als cited were, vapan, my lone (mico-fume), and cyanamid. 'They gave rea sonably good control, but were not as effective as steam or methylbromide, even though these have to toe applied with special equipment Fertilizer trials have not given icsults that were con sistent enough to evaluate at the Station, Engle said To bacco seems to grow well un der widely varying conditions, but given good glowing condi tions, it has .been found that a fertxhzer application of 100- 150 pounds per acre will give the toest results. In commenting on the plant breeding aspects of tobacco. Engle reported that they are $2 Per Yetu presented during Soil Steward ship Week. 5 A tour of county farms was held for the County Com missioners. 6 Director Chairman, Amos H Funk is also serving on the State Soil Conservation Commission 7 The fifth Annual Plow ing Contest and Field Day were held on the .Roy Garber farm There were 7 contes tants, and approximately 175 people attended Richard Groff. Lititz R 3, was the win (Continued on Page 6) trying to breed a variety with triple disease resistance. In Penn-Bel ’69 they have a varie ty with double resistance to wildfire and mosaic and want to add resistance to black root rot in a new variety. Sucker control was another area touched on at this meet ing Engle reported that many new chemicals are being test ed m trying to overcame the industry’s objections to some of the previous chemicals rued. Several of the new ones look promising, Engle report ed, but final approval from the cigar manufacturers is awaited. The most promising is a fatty-acid derivitive that has worked well in Pennsyl vania and in the flue-cured and hurley areas. A year with normal moisture would be very helpful in evaluating these chemicals fully, the re searcher said. Engle concluded by saying that the grower should consid er the use of supplemental heat shortly after the tobacco has been hung up to drive out that extra moisture be fore the damp, cold weather comes. This will go a long way toward pi eventing rot lat er on The other speaker on the piogram, Ben Mann, an inde pendent buyer, and President of the Lancaster Leaf .Board of Trade, confirmed that a wtll-ventilated, plastic-covered seedbed may gain that extra time that saves the grower Lem harvesting fiosted tobac co He also confirmed that long-season varieties, as Penn Bel, should not be planted later than mid June Both speakers agreed that one seri ous management problem is that growers often top their plants too high Sixteen good (Continued on Page 8)
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