16—Lancaster Farming, Friday, !viay 4 24, 19^7
POTTED PETUNIAS are inspected by Mark Nolt, Landis
jville, (left) and B~F. Barr, Marietta Avenue, Lancaster, at
meeting of the Lancaster Florist’s Assn. May 16. Barr is
charter member of the association and Nolt is president.
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County Florists See Program
On European Flower Industry
A slide and lecture presenta
tion on European gieenhouse
practices and flower breeding pro
grams was given the Lancaster
County Florists Assn at their reg
li'tai meeting May 16 at the Farm
Bureau Cooperative in Lancaster
Giving the presentation was
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11 took a threefold increase in turkey production in the last 20 years
to satisfy American appetites
As this huge mountain of meat continues to grow, it is sure the
market will seek out—at premium prices—carcasses of better qual
ity and finish Here’s where the highly efficient Bea con-trolled
Feeding and Management Program can help you.
It builds moist, tender meat —deep meat —with the flavor that
brings buyers back for more. And it builds it economically
This year, feed for premium finish! Start right with Beacon
Turkey Starter and follow through with the Beacon Turkey Grow
ing program best suited to your flock. See your Beacon dealer now.
Since 1927 when Beacon made the
industry’s first complete line of com
mercial turkev feeds, thousands of
poults like this one have been raised
at Beacon Poultry Research Farm.
Cayuga, N Y. Constant research
keeps the Bea eon-trolled Feeding
and Management Program efficient
and practical for turkey growers.
nr BEACON FEEDS
ME UNIFORMLY BETTER BECAUSE THEY’RE BEACON-TROLLED
Beacon Dealers are located from Maine to the Virginias
THE BEACON MILLING COMPANY, INC.
Cayuga, n y • york, pa. • laurel, del. • eastport, n._y.
BEACON-SHOWALTER FEEDS, INC , BROADWAY, VA.
Charles Crownover. 405 West
' Rosedale St, West Chester
According to Crownover, the
European taste in floweis, es
pecially chrysanthemums, vanes
greatly from that in the United
States There, reds and bronzes
aie highly populai, while here
LIVIN G PROOF
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TenNalned
To Be Honored
As 4-H Friends
Ten persons making outstand
ing contributions to the nation
wide development of the 4-H Club
program have been named asf
“Friends of 4H” to be honored
here during the 27th National 4-H
Conference from June 15 to 21.
Selections announced by the
Subcommittee on 4-H Club Work
of the Cooperative Extension Ser
vice include: E. R. Eastman edi
tor of the American Agricultur
ist; Mrs Emd A. Haupt editor of
Seventeen magazine, Norman C.
Mmdrum, executive director of
the National 4-H Cttib Foundation
Miss Mary Omen, head of the Con
sumer Services Department of the
J. C. Penney Co.; J. Homer Rems
burg, president of the Maryland-
Virgima Milk Producers’ Assn.;
Charles B Shuman., president of
the American Farm Bureau Fed
eration, Dr. George Taylor, direc
tor of agricultural development
for the United States Rubber Co.;
Howard F Todd, farm depart
ment manager of the American
Oil Co , Mrs. Ella Hale Weyant,
research and educational program
director of the Kerr Glass Manu
facturing Corp , and Louis H. Wil
son, secretary of the National
Plant Food Institute
Engraved piaques will be pre
sented m a citation ceremony
during the afternoon conference
assembly on June 19. Emphasisi
will be placed upon each recipi
ent’s long and valued service to
agriculture, and to the progress
of 4-H Clubs whose membership
now totals about 2,200,000
whites and yellows are in greater
demand in most markets'on a
year round basis
Another European practice that
drew comment from the florists
was that of retailing through
“green grocers,” comparable to
a produce stand in this country..
The cut flowers sold in this
manner are not arranged, but are
ot high quality. Regular retail
flower shops in England and other
European countries retail spe
cial pieces, displays and arrange
ments.
A true shell pink variety de
veloped by English breeders drew
looks of envy from the viewers.
Crownover said that arrange
ments are being made to intro
duce this variety into the United
States. At present, he said, there
is no true pink variety available
here.
This was also potted plant night
for the flower growers.
On display were potted plants,
mostly petunias, grown by Gir
vin’s Floweis, Leola.
The next meeting of the asso
ciation will be held with the
Funeral Directors Association in
Lancaster.
Poultry Auction
Sale Observed
By Visitors
r our representatives of the
Chester Delaware County Poul
try Assn, attended the State Poul
try Federation board meeting last
week at the Lancaster Poultry
Center.
After the board meeting the
group observed the sale of broil
ers at the Lancaster Poultry Ex
change. They also had opportun
ity to visit the first random sam
ple laying test.
Plans were discussed for the
annual meeting of the Pennsyl
vania State Poultry Federation to
be held at Penn State University
Junp 11-13. Chester County poul
trymen are urged to attend this
meeting.
A report was given by “Sol”
Shearer on the publicity for the
coming Chicken Barbecue season.
Many barbecues are planned for
the summer throughout the state.
The Chester Delaware County
Poultry Assn mam event is to be
held June 18 at the New Bolton
Center after which all are in
vited to Longwood Gardens for
a colored .fountain display.
Those attending the state meet
ing from Chester County were
Walter Carlin, Coatesville; Harold
Thomforde, Victor Leto, and L. L.
Logan, from Kennett Square.
Connecticut Tobacco Growers
Using Irrigation Extensively
By ERNEST J. NEILL
HAZARDVILLE, Conn.—Acres
and acres of northern Connecticut
land are covered with cheesecloth
supported by poles as the 1957
crop of shade-grown tobacco en
ters the seeding stages. This is
the higher-priced wrapper var
iety.. -
It-has been a dry season'here
near the Massachusetts border,
and a weekend tour of the terri
tory from Hartford east, north to
Scioto and west into Hazardville
shows ‘ irrigation is coming into
its own rapidly.
Implement dealers now carry
stacks and stacks of irrigation
pipes and pumps in addition to
(heir lines of farm machinery.,
Despite weekend showers more
minor drizzles, perhaps irriga
tion equipment was pouring tons
of water on dairy pasturelands at
many places in the rustic country
side.
Villages in this section have
grown tremendously the past few
years to help house the ever ex
panding rolls of industrial work
ers in such towns as Springfield,
Mass., and Hartford, Conn At thei
same time, water supply problems
have been added to overcrowded
school conditions to worsen mat
ters.
In one former village now
grown to a city of 5,000 only a
tiny trickle of water flowed from
household faucets until the lines
were connected to an abundant
supply of water from a well dug
by the builder of a housing proj
ect, and sold to the village for
$30,000. >
Although Connecticut has not
been troubled with forest fires,
many areas were closed several
weeks as the northern drought
expanded, until showers damp
ened woodlands. Qun Powder Hoi-
MORE
SHEAR
POWER
To chop big tonnage
The cupped, curved and spiraled knives of the
yard-long cylinder of the Allis-Chalmers Forage
Harvester provide a full 12 feet of cutting edge
more than any other chopper in the business.
What’s more, those knives are easy to keep
razor sharp with a built-in sharpener. And a “stone
stepper” safety clutch keeps out objects that can
damage the knives. The positive-action feed rolls
comb and regulate crop flow to within 2 inches of
the knives. '
No wonder this chopper keeps going where
others slug down! Let us show you how this extra
shear power makes tough chopping easy.
Jk. TUNE IN,
ALUS-CHALMERS4O^r^,.
SALES AND SEUVICE N|r NBC, Saturday
Nissley Farm Service
Washington Boro, Pa.
llann & Grumelli Farm Serv. R. S. Weaver
Quarryville, Pa.
Stevens. Pa.
L H. Brubaker Snavelys Farm Service#
Lancaster. Pa. New Holland, Pa.
N. G. Myers & Son I. H. Brubaker
Aheems. Pa. Lititz. Pa.
low in Hazardville, now a city
park, was reopened last week.
Contractors in one community
have been asked to cooperate in
solving the overcrowding of
schools. Many pupils now can at
tend on only a half-day basis. It
has been suggested, and favorably},/
received, that when a develop
ment is completed one or two
houses will be left vacant tempor
arily, with partitions unfinished,
to provide a classroom next Sep
tember when even a larger enroll
ment is anticipated. Communities
in the Nutmeg State rely heavily
on the old township arrangement
mid school construction on- a
township basis—especially where
heavily populated encounter?!)}
many a political and sentimental
snag
Ground has been freshly
plowed in the shade-grown tobac
co areas, poles erected to stand
about six feet above the ground,
and cheesecloth stretched to pro
vide a finer, more mellow “Shade
grown” leaf. Atop Mount Holyoke
m Massachusetts Bennett State
Park, scores of these covered
fields may be seen along the fer->)
tile banks and bottomlands of
the Connecticut River Valley as
the wide stream wanders between,
mountains and bends around the
landmark known as Oxbow.
Today it’s possible to drive*a
car-to the top of Mount Holyoke
for a birds-eye view of the noted
Connecticut River Valley. But
signs are still evident of the
grand era when guests of the j j
mountaintop inn on Holyoke
came half-way up the mountain by
carnage, then completed their
trip by cablecar. Terminals stand
yet at each end, but the trackways'
and shelters, covering the tracks
are rapidly rotting.
The crop season has started,
but in northern Connecticut more
rain would be welcome.
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