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.
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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.
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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.
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