If your dogis bitten by a poi sonous snake,,enlarge the wound to encourage bleeding, apply a tourniquet to prevent the spread of the poison and take the animal to a veterinarian as quickly as possible. BARGAIN MVS " Thur.-FrL-Sat.Feb.7,B,and9 - F 4 OFF ★ Shoe Skates ★ Sleds ★ Bicycles 1 GROFF'S HARDWARE NEW HOLLAND SPECIAL "FACTORY RUN" SUE OF. WELL-NIGH.UNBREAKABLE molded of miracle melamine. / Umitedtime offer 10 DAYS ONLY on Introduction to th# best-wearing, - best-looking -dinnerware model Actually guaranteed against breakage,* safe in a dishwasher's hottest waterl Four colors Shell White, Bon Bon Pink, Turquoisette, Butter Yellow. Place setting includes 10" plate, 9 oz. dessert dish, cup and saucer. •Written guarantee centelned In every eeckegei OPEN THURSDAY and SATURDAY EVENINGS GROFF’S HARDWARE London, England —’■Firemen, called out to fight a fire during the recent heavy 4og, had to walk in front of the fire engine to guide it through fog-bound city streets. Visit Our Store During Many other specials for this Semi-annual sale SOME FOG See the new 1957 HOTPOINT APPLIANCES Protect Shrubs From Snow Use a broom to remove heavy snows from evergreens and other shrubs, reminds Chester County Agent Robert A. Powers Jr. Spreading evergreens can be wrapped loosely with chicken wire or staked to prevent split ting by a weight of snow and ice. When the ground freezes deep ly and cold, dry wind? previl, Powers points out that winter in jury to evergrens is likely to be much more noticeable. Ever green foliage gives off moisture in winter when temperatures are above freezing and the soil lacks sufficient moisture. A liberal mulch of Well decom posed hardwood sawdust, peat moss, organic peat, or other simi lar materials will help prevent alternate freezing and thawing, and the drying out of the root sys tems of the pints. On mild days turn over the compost pile to have it ready in spring. Chinchillas are not bothered by fleas because of their dense fur. PH. ELgin 4-0851 Corn Borers Show Increase In East; Down in Total Survey The potential 1957 crop of European com borers found in U.S. corn fields last fall is smaller than the previous year’s but still large enough to threaten eco nomic damage, according to State-Federal surveys. The North Central states showed reduced numbers of .this costly corn pest, while a build-up of the insect’s numbers occurred in Eastern states, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says. J Sample counts of live borers source of devouring hordes that may hatch during the coming year if weather is favorable were made by agricultural agen cies in 27 states last fall. These records are summarized in this week’s cooperative Economic In sect Report, issued by USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. For all states surveyed, Average borer numbers decreased from 147 per 100 plants m 1955 to 105 in 1956. ' Borer populations have been •building up in the East and de clining in the North Central states since 1954. Six of 11 Eastern states reporting in both 1955 and 1956 recorded important in creases in 1.956, with the average for all 11 states rising from 75 borers per 100 corn stalks in 1955 to 130 in 1956. Heaviest concentrations were found in New Jersey, Rhode Is land, Delware, New York, Vir ginia, and Pennsylvania. Among eastern states, only Maryland re ported a pronounced decrease un der 1955. Entomologists think persistant drought in the Midwest is con tributing to continued decline in corn borer a dozen North Central states, the average number of borers per 100 plants Bond Sales Top 112-Million In Two Counties Lancaster and Chester coun tians bough(t a total of over $l2-mislion worth of Series E and H. U. S. government Sav ings Bonds during 1956, it was announced this week. In Chester county residents bought $312,419 worth of bonds during December, bringing the year’s total to $4,727,219. County chairman is Charles W. Bothwell. BUY 4- SAVE MORE I 4 PLACE SETTINGS *995 REGULARLYJIB.OO PH. ELgin 4-0851 NEW HOLLAND Lancaster Farming, Friday, Feb. I, 1957—9 dropped from 173 m 1P55 to 98 in 1956. In lowa, most heavily in fested of these states, borer num bers continued to drop from 497 in 1954 to 351 in 1955, reaching 220 in 1956. In some states less than half as many borers were re corded in 1956 as had been founci in 1955. Borer counts in Illinois dropped from an average of 285 per 100 stalks in 1955 to 127 in 1956, and in Indiana from 172 to 97. Although the borer has been found in no new states since 1953 it is now found in 37 several states reported new county rec ords last year,, indicating con tinued spread. The pest showed up in 28 new counties in Missis sippi, 7 in Arkansas, and 1 each in Alabama and South Dakota. It is now found in 1,681 counties of the United States. A native of Europe, this major pest of corn was first noted near Boston in this country m 1917. Since then' it has spread west, north, and south until today its mfestation reaches from Maine to Colorado and from Montana to Georgia. It seriously attacked pi mento peppers in Alabama m 1955 and damaged potatoes in North Carolina and New York m 1956. _ How to Tell When Baby Chicks Are Waim Enough. You will raise much better pullets if you always keep your chicks at exactly the right tempeiature. A chick should have a place to go to get herself as warm as wants > to get and then run around, eat, drink and when she feels too cool she should be able -to go back and get warm. Her feed will not digest properly unless she has exactly the right blood ' temperature. As a chick gets older she goes to the heat less often and by the time she is 8 weeks old she usually doesn’t need much extra heat. With electric and gas brooders you should look under the hover three or four times a day to see what the chicks are doing. If they’re all standing up with their shoulders together they are too cold.. If they are not under the centerof the hover and if they are panting, they are too warm If about half of them are standing up and halt of them sitting down, the temperatme under the hover is just right. A guard a foot to two feet fiom the hover should be used the first two davs to keep chicks from getting into the corners and huddling rather than go ing under the brooder where they belong. With coal and oil brooders this ring should be far enough away so that the chicks can get as cool as they want to get because if you overheat them you may ruin them for life. Babcock JBessies - Great Layers tor you. We believe that Babcock Bessies are the ideal com mercical layers bred to per form the way you want a lay er to perform. Please send for catalog and price list to: ’ Babcock Poultry Farm, Inc* Route #3 Ithaca, New York Russell Mease Route 4 Manheim, Pa. Local Representative Phone Manheim MO 5-4705
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