ireman Honored
George K. Erisman, of Wet.
ange Street, Lancaster, was
lored at a birthday party,
en by Zone 5- firemen on
■dnesday. Feb. 1. The event,
■ld in the basement of the
uarryville Fire Hall, marked
r Erisman’s 93rd birthday on
m 23. He was given a birth
iy cake and gifts. He was a
;mber of the original Union
duntary Fire Co. No. 1 of
mcaster, which went out of
evistence when the city formed
a paid fire department
“Rabbit Bank”
Antibodies to --
Battle Viruses
Washington, (USDA) —A sup
ply of antibodies for use in re
search agauntst major vims di
seases olf crop plants is being
budt uip in the iblood of living
i a tbits toy scientists of the U. S-
Department of' Agriculture and
Nebraska Agricultural Exped
ient Station at Lincoln, Neb., the
Department reports.
This new type* of blood bank
provides a source of antisera
(rabbit blood serum containing
antibodies) to enable researchers
to determine the presence in
joung plants of such viruses as
ifciarley-'strT.pe lljfrome
mosaic, and others that cause
heavy losses every year to grow
ers of small grams.
From Plants to Rabbits
In building tine bank, Agricul
tmal Research Service serologist
Ellen Moonhead -and biochemist
M Brake mgeet virus from the
juice oif diseased plants into rab
bits The reaction of the animals
is similar to that of humans in
to cted with dsptheria toxin-an
tuoxin or smallpox vaccine. They
don’t get the disease, but anti
bodies specific for the particular
\nus imeoted are built up in the
serum portion of their Wood.
When an ingested rabbit bas
developed the required antibody
level, its blood is drawn off per
iodically in small quantities and
used as needed m the field Or
laboratory for test of ceral virus
es
Once a stock of antisera has
been prepared, the scientists
have a method of virus-disease
identification that tos faster than
those now used It will help speed
up the breeding Of plants resist
ant to Viruses by enabling
bi eeders to md their stocks of in
fected material without waiting
for the plants to mature It as ex
pected also that the bank will aid
m closer study of plant viruses,
their sources, how they are
spiead, and their relationship to
each other.
Test Tobacco Mosaics
Ralbibits in the living (bank at
Lincoln now contain antisera of
Pmified preparations of barley
otnpe fosalic and
viruses and several of their
‘'liams The "(baulk also contains
antisera of the viruses of potato
\ tobacco mosaic, dm ring spot,
and culcaiirr[b°r mosaic .Although
"ie latter diseases have no con
nection with cereal-crop viruses,
they make useful laboratory' tools
occause of the r common cbar
iclensifcs and distinct reactions
ln the test tube.
Viruses whether in plants or in
■ ''imais, are made up largely of
oiotems Anv warm-blooded
n ' unal wit 1 pr-duc' 3 anf’ibodxes m
] esponse to an virus.
Radio and T T " industry hits the
HOLSTEINS OWNED BY
LOCAL MEN COMPLETE
PRODUCTION RECORDS
Announcement has been re
ceived frOm the Holstein-Fnesian
Association of America of the
completion of official production
records by registered cows owned
by local men.
The complete records are-
John C. Metzler, 'Christiana—
Winding Glen Dunwodd Cather
ine, 21,648 lbs milk, 836 lbs
butterfat, milfted 2 times daily,
365 days Average quarts daily
27. Age when record "began 6
years 7 months 2d Winding
Glen Dunwood Janet, 21,074 lbs
milk, 741 lbs butterfat, milked 2
times daily, 365 days Average
quarts daily 27 Age when
record began- 5 years 7 months.
3d. Winding Glen Bondsman
May, 20,522 lbs. milk, 803 lbs
butterfat, milked 2 times daily,
365 days. Aveiage quarts daily:
26. Age when record, began
5 years 10 months 4th: Wind
ing Glen Dunwood Pluto, 16,700
lbs. milk, 620 lbs. butterfat,
THIS LIMIT IS FOR EVERYBODY
15 . . . -25 . . . 85 . . . 50 . . . all 1
speed limits are'for everybody .
Today. . . yesterday. . . every day
last' year . . drivers, passengers
and pedestrians died on our high
ways simply because speed limit
signs were ignored . . . treated
with contempt.
Whether you drive an old, low
horsepower car, or the very latest
high-powered model . . . whether
Average quarts daily: 21. Age
when record began 3 years 1-
month
William A Reid, Oxford —
Lauxmont L Marjorie,- 17,527
Lbs milk, 651 lbs butterfat,
milked 2 times daily, 302 days
Average quarts daily 27 Age
when record began 8 years 8
monias. '
Levi U Stoltzfus, Gap—Locus
Gap Regal Belle, 10.900 lbs
milk, 502 lbs butterfat, milked
2 times daily, 357 days Average
quarts daily 14 Age when
record began 2 years 8 months
Pennsylvania State University
supervised the weighing and
testing of the milk for this
record and it is a part of the
Herd improvement Registry
Department of the Holstem-
Fnesian Association of America
in Brattleboro, Vermont
This program is designed to
give an official production
record on every cow in the herd
every year so that wise selection
for increased efficiency can be
'made.
, \
Drive to stay alive
This message in the interest of highway safety is one of a series'
prepared and disseminated by the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers*
Association and the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue.
COMMONWEALTH OF
i
George M. Leader, Governor
Lancaster Farming, Fri
Ag Building
Now Formally
Armsby Hall
Honoring the late Dr Henry
Prentiss Armsby, director of the
State University of Pennsylvania
agricultural experiment station
fiom 1887 to 1907, the agricul
tural Building on the University
Park campus has been renamed
Armsby "Hall
Dr Armsby was dean of the
college of agriculture from 1900
to 1904, and director of the in
titute of animal nutrition from
1907 to 1921
He died in 1921, and was in
strumental in help founding the
American Society of Animal Pro-
Those that make the best use
of their time have none to sparfe.
—Thomas Fuller.
SPEED
LIMIT
35
MILES
your reactions are quick or slow:
. . . whether you’re in your teens,
your twenties, thirties, forties, fifties
or sixties ... no matter what your
"age . . . Pennsylvania’s speed limits
are intended for your safety. The
signs are put there because expert
studies have proved they are nec
essary for safety.
So . . . obey these signs . . . and
live longer.
PENNSYLVANIA
Gerald A. Gleesoo, Secretary of Revenue
iday, February 17, 1956—13
FIVE CRASHES IN ONE.
Norton, Va. A fire engine, on
its way to a house blaze, roared
down US. Highway 58. Paul Car
roll, in a pickup truck, swerved
to get out of the way and his
(truck skidded and dropped 15
feet over a bank. An ambulance,
summoned to take Carroll to a
hospital, was hit on the left side,
by a passenger car as it pulled
off The passenger car blocked
the flow,of ti%ffic Then another
car skidded mlto a ditch trying to
avoid vehicle No, 3. A fifth car
missed the ditch but hit vehicle
No. 3 All five vehicles suffered
heavy damage, and, in the mean
time, the house burned to the
ground.
DRIVERLESS AUTOMATION.
Decatur, 111. A car without
a driver rolled backward and mov
ed diagonally across an intersec
tion, bounced off a traffic island,
turned completely around and
headed up a railroad embarkment,
where it stoped, unscratched. Its
owner got in and drove off.