hi-mn Trees, Bending Low With Cherries
Heavy yields of cherries this year Lancaster. Here a man is treeu, wuxu-mg
several varieties are bringing thou- away, picking the delectable fruit. (Lan
sands to the Shank orchards along the caster Farming Staff Photo).
New Danville Pike just southwest ot
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Cherry Picking
Headlines Work
On Shank Farms
(Continued from page one)
“But best of all is the shot
gun,” this fruit grower continu
ed, “and you know the crow
will waste as many cherries,
knocking them off the trees, as
he eats’”
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and mulberries come on, prob
lems with the birds will be
lessened.
Fog Cuts Frost Loss
Land on which the Shank
cherries are grown is hilly Fog
covered the low spots and sav
ed a good share of the crop
from frost-damage which struck
late in the season. But on the
higher points of his cherry or
chards, yields may be some
what lower Then there was
hail two weeks ago which bruis
ed some of the fruit, but for
tunately there was no wind.
Birds, insects, weather
s ’
there’s many another worry for
the cherry grower. Luckily,
nany are being met. “Through
breeding, the problem of
cherry leaf virus has been al
most licked,” Mr. Shank ad
vises.
He has searched afar to
plant, and replant his stock.
There are cherries from Ontario
that will be ready July 4. One
of the more lucious'ls the Em
:eror Francis from Austria,
mother that originated in Rus
sia the Black Russian, which
urvived the frost wonderfully.
Still another variety originated
n England.
There’s a more universal
’■ouch to the program here, tor
assistance has bean given Lan
caster County cherry produc
tion from Purdue University at
Lafayette, Ind., from New York
State experimental stations at
Geneva,-from Chico and Davis,
Calit, and from New Bruns
wick, N J. New vaiieties have
been developed by these sta
tions to centralize on compact
nsss of trees, higher quality
truit, heavier, larger size of
fruit.
Terrific Expense Involved
' Results are more than evi
dent today, when one drives
through the orchards with" Mr.
Shank and compares the old
type trees, rank in growth,
heavy in leaf, lighter in pro
duction, and the newer varie
ties that are closer to Jthe
ground, whose branches are
peppered with fruit.
While the thousands will be
picking on 1,000 stepladders.
and fruit picking ladders Mr.
Shank keeps on hand there
may be echoes of noisemakers
and shotguns reverberating
through the wooded hills oc
casionally, to keep the birds
away.
There’s terrific expense in
volved in an orchard operation,
to keep trees sprayed against
the many plagues they face, to
keep the soil in topnotch pro
duction.
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Peaches and apples round
out production from Shank
Orchards, and the Lancaster
County outlook is good in
view of the fact that apples
were badly frozen i.n north
western United States. The
Appalachian area expects an
85 per cent crop, and the en
tire eastern production may
be down considerably from
last year. Peaches will be
ahead of last year, Mr. Shank
believes, but he remains con
vinced that to sell, you must
advertise.
“Any product that isn’t ad
vertised today just isn’t sold,”
he asserted
Despite increased advertis
ing, prices have remained
on the pick-them-your
self program, from 20 to 23
cents per pound for the white
and darks sweets, 15 cents for
the red pie cherries These
prices have been in effect' for
years and years
Crow Glides Overhead
Mr Shank, who has been very
influential in Pennsylvania
agricultural politics, and who
has contributed much to state
agricultui al legislation and
building, still remains modest,
hard-working.
While the Shanks concen
trate on production of fruit,
Lancaster farming goes on
about them Across the road
tobacco rows were straight and
true. Pea hullers shelled out
his year’s crop.
While overhead, a wary crow
glides about, convinced this
picki-them-yourself program no
'onger included him.
Merck Issues New
Booklet on Use of
RAHWAY, *N J. A new
leaflet of interest to broiler
growers who face the danger of
Coecidiosis has been issued by-
Merck & Co , Inc.,' manufacturers
of the coccidiostat, Nicarazin.
The eight-page folder explains
in dollars and cents the difference
a preventative coccidiostat like
Nicarbazin can make through ef
fective control of mortality and
through its effect on feed effi
ciency and weight gams. In ad
dition to preventing cecal coc
cidiosis, a form difficult to de
tect because it does not cause
loody droppings as occur in birds
which have the cecal type
The new Merck coccidiostat
leaflet for broiler growers is
available in feed stores which
sell broiler rations carrying Ni
carbazin. Copies may also be ob
tained by writing to Merck & Co.,
Inc., Chemical Division, Rahway,
N. J.
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Benson Booed in
lowa Appearance
Irate farmers Friday booed
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson when he spoke be
fore the Farm Family Field Day
at Eldora, lowa last week.
Mr. Benson told the 1956 Soil
Bank program is “the best we
can do for the farmers on short
notice at a late hour. . , . The
real test for this program will
come in 1957, 1958 and 1959 when
we can put it fully into opera
tion ”
Farm prices, the Secretary
told, have as an average increas
ed about nine per cent since Jan
1, adding, “This increase in farm
prices has occured under flexible
price supports, even though there
has been only a modest applica
tion of the flexible principle.”
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