16—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Dec. 7, 1956 PROGRESS REPORT No. 63 Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station, The Penn sylvania State University, Uni versity Park, Pennsylvania A relatively unknown chemi cal with a name which only chemists undei stand, 2-dipheny lacetyl-1, 3-mandtone, did a good job of destroying meadow mice in preliminary trials in the Agricultural Station orchard # here. Meadow mice threatened to girdle fruit trees every winter, and orchardists often have tried every know measure to reduce the population ot these rodents with doubtful success. This poison with a long name was first mixed with wheat which was applied around the trees with a trac tor drawn implement known as a “trail-builder”, by David ' G. White, horticulturist, and D. E. H. Frear, biochemist. A trail builder makes artificial runways at the surface of the soil by means of a metal “mole”. Later trapping indicated bet ter results than from zinc phosp hide on apple cubes placed by the trail builder, endnn flushed through the trail builder, or en dnn flushed through the trail builder, or endnn flushed through the trail builder plus wheat as an attractant. PROGRESS REPORT No. 64 Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station The Penn sylvania State University, Uni versity Park. Pennsylvania Average per capita consump tion of fluid milk in the United States is a trifle over three fourths of a pint per day, ac cording to a review of national studies by Daniel A. Swope of the iDepartment of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Bt Pennsylvania State Univeisity. About three-fourths of the fluid milk purchased by the average family is used for drinking, Swope found. About half of the people 15 years of age and over drink milk on the average day, but the pro portion varies greatly in dif ferent surveys. Most people like milk but more men than women state that they like it. Milk consumption is greater among children than among adults. In general, people drink the amount they want and co not greatly change the amount vsed if the price changes. People drink more milk where it is readily available, as In homes, cafeterias, 1 -and fac tories where milk vending ma chines are installed. In general they agree that adults should drink milk. Many people, especially women, restrict milk drinking because they believe Penn State Has Highest Marks At International Capturing both the grand championship and. the reserve grand championship of the open class steer show at the Inter national Livestock Exposition, Pennsylvania State University not only turned in an unusual ac complishment m itself, the Chicago Daily Drovers Journal reports, but reached the climax of an unusually successful season of showing beef cattle “While the double take of In ternational supreme champion ships marked the zenith, Penn State also rang up an enviable, list here of other purples includ ing the grand championship on fat wether lambs, won by a Hampshire, and these steer championships on the way up to the two grand awards; Champion Angus steer, Champion Shorthorn steer. Champion group of three steers, Champion Shorthorn group of three steers. Progress Report it is fattening. Adults drink more milk as the weather be comes .wanner. Adolescents, however, drink more milk in cold than in warm weather. Milk consumption increases rapidly -from the lowest income to flow-middle income families Persons ( of higher educational levels consume more milk than these with less education. Many non-drinkers of milk prefer some other beverage. Coffee is a primary competitor. Persons who were compelled to drink miflk in childhood frequently are non drinkers. I ♦ BEACON COMPLETE STARTER UNIFORMLY better because BEACON -TROLLED to help you grow stronger more productive chicks! before manufacture. Ingredients are continuously checked, m 'kam to assure that everybag contains concentrated feeding value. Beacon-trolled Beacon-trolled during manufacture. Beacon technicians conduct hundreds of check tests to make certain that feeding values are always higher, formulas constant, Beat manufacture. 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W Q DECEMBER IBM ufMT Q THE WEATHER BUREAU’S 30-day out look for December calls for a continuation of below normal temperatures over the eastern third of the nation. West of the Continental Divide temperatures averaging not far from seasonal normals are ex pected, except for above in the Southwest. In the Great Plains slightly above normal temperature averages are indicated but iiii Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc. RHEEMS O. Kenneth McCracken Millport Roller Mills LITITZ Earl Sauder NEW HOLLAND Osceola Flour Mills GORDONVILLE with large fluctuations. Precipitation is ex pected to be subnormal over fnost'of the country excejpt for near to above normal amounts over the Northeast quarter and also west of the Continental Divide. Cen tral and Southern West Coast areas, which have had' very little rainfall during Novem ber, are expected to become appreciably wetter as December advances. on-trolled after MANHEIM J' 1
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