14—Lancaster Farming, Friday, June 7, 1957 Aerial Spray Program Against Moths Completed This Week, Henning Says HARRISBBUURG - - Slate Sec retary of Agriculture W L. Henn ing today credited ideal weather conditions for Pennsylvania’s largest and most successful aerial sprying program against destruc tive gypsy moth caterpillars in three northeastern counties. Four commercial spiaying air craft have applied an estimated 80,000 pounds Of DDT op 80.000 acres of farm and timberland to obtain 100 per cent kill of newly hatched caterpillars which defoli ate trees A total of 100,000 acres : will be sprayed as Pennsylvan ia’s share in this year’s program which is expected to end sopie time this week. Spiaying began i in Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties on May 1 Secretary Henning said spray ing began is done by low-flying aim aft beginning at daylight and ; usually ending about 9 a. m, six i days a week, provided the weath- i ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■“■■■■■■a ■ HELICOPTER ■ S Spraying-Dusting Control Insects and Diseases ■ CORN, HAY, TOBACCO, TOMATOES, ■ FRUIT. ALSO TOBACCO SUCKER CONTROL £ Contact early for scheduling m HELICOPTERS INTERNATIONAL, Inc. 5 RDI, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - ■ Phone 1109—Z ! NEW "DRIVE-IN” OLIVER CULTIVATORS Are Quick le Attach , r | ' y ' New "drive-in” mounted 2-row and 4-row cultivat ors for Oliver row crop tractors can be attached in a few minutes. Besides, they’re interchangeable among the three tractor sizes, adjustable in row width from 28 to 12 inches Here’s unusual flexibility, too. Gangs are provided for each half row to make cultivation of bedded, ter raced or rough fields easier. Gangs can be raised in dependently for cultivating point rows, along fences or ditches ... lift to 10 inches on outside for fast transport, and always to the same' height regardless of culti vating depth. Many special attach- I 1 ments available. 1 I m N. G. Hershey & Son Mtnbeim, RD. 1 Farmersville Equipment Co. Ephrata. R.D. 2 er has been favorable. Average application progress is 8,000 acres daily, he said, but during the cur rent blitz 10,000 acres were treat ed on each of two different days. The program is part of a three state mint effort by the Pennsyl vania, New York and New Jersey Departments of Agriculture in cooperation with the U S. De partment of Agriculture to treat more than three million acres of land by the middle of June. The USD A has moved its aerial spraying equipment to Matamoras in Pike County from where they will begin their spray program on 130,000 acres, making a total of 230,000 acres to be treated this month in Pennsylvania If the gypsy moth were per mitted to become widespread in Pennsylvania it would cost ap proximately $6 million to keep it under control, Secretary Henning declared. E. L. Herr Peach Bottom i£Z Charles L. Grant Appointed Head Of Budget Dept. The appointment of Charles L. Grant as director of the USDA Offive of Budget and. Finance has been announced by Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. The appointment is effective June third. Grant, who currently serves as deputy director of the -office, suc ceeds Joseph C. Wheeler, budget and finance director since Sep tember 1953. He is leaving the Department to become executive officer at U S. Information Service headquarters in Rome, Italy. The new director of the Office of Budget and Finance will as sume his duties after 22 years service in the Federal govern ment, most of which has been with the USDA Virtually all of his experience has been in the field of budget and finance Grant first entered the Depart ment’s service in 1935, first in a clerical position and later on the fiscal staff of the Weather Bureau then located in the Department of Agriculture He went to the Com merce Department when the Wea ther Bureau was transferred to that agency in 1939, serving as assistant chief of the Bureau’s ac counting unit. In 1941, Grant returned to the Department when he was appoin'- ed to the fiscal management staff of the Office of Budget and Fin ance. Except for a brief period when he headed up USDA’s Li brary management division, he since has been a member of the central budget and finance staff He has served in various capaci ties in budgetary and financial administration, and in May 1948 was named assistant to the direc tor. In this position he served as program analyst and budgetary and financial examiner for the Department. - In April 1951, Grant became chief of the division of estimates and allotments, a position he held when he was appointed deputy di rector of the office in September, 1953. Born at Chester, S C , June 14, 1915, Mr Grant later lived in Georgia He studied at the Uni versity of Georgia, and George Washington University, Washing ton, D.C. He is married and has two daughters and one son, all students in Arlington, Va., schools. He lives at 4922 North 27th Street, Arlington. Wheeler has beep. on the De partment’s staff since 1939 when he entered the Office of Budget and Finance. During World War II he was in charge of the War Food Administration budget unit, a special assignment. He served as an assistant to the chief of the former Bureau of Agricultural Economics from 1947 to 1949, in charge of administrative manage ment He leturned to the Office of Budget and Finance in 1950, be coming deputy director the fol lowing year Wheeler is married and hasi three children, one son and two daughters, all of whom attend Arlington, Va., schools. His home is at 3538 18th Street, South, Ar lington. He was born at Colum bus, Ohio, March 8, 1912. He was graduated from Oberhn College in 1933 and in 1935 received the M.A. degree from the University of Cincinnati, where he majored in political science and public ad ministration. „ Ray Fisher Buys Guernsey Bull PETERBOROUGH, N. H. Howard, B. Bomberger, Lebanon, has sold the registered Guernsey bull. Meadow-Wood Princess’ Fi nance according to the American Guernsey Cattle Club. The purchaser was Ray E. Fish er, Elizabethtown. This bull is out of the fine Guernsey cow, Spring Knoll Naughty Princess that has an of ficial production record of 13,671 pounds of milk and 697 pounds of fat, made on three times daily milking in,365 days. He was sired by Dunwalke N. K. Financier. Youth Center To Honor Late W. H. Danforth A youth denter dedicated to icsearch. with the feeding and handling of beef cattle, hogs, sheep and dairy cattle for farm boys and girls to help them with' their livestock projects will be built at the Ralston Pilnna Re search Farm near Gray Summit, Mo, it has been announced 'by Donald Danforth, chairman of the company’s Board of Directors. The center will be called the Danforth Farm Youth Center, in honor of the memory of the late William H. Dqnforth, founder of the Ralston Purina Company. For many years prior to his death on When summer sun makes pastures short and btowp. they become hardly more than an exercise yard! Milking cows can neither produce well nor maintain their own bodies without an adequate supply o£ nutri tious, succulentroughage. • , Purina Bulky-Las, high in vitamins and minerals, is an excellent roughage supplement. Just one gallon per milking provides one-half the roughage requirements mm 4k Warren Sickman Peqnea S. H. Hiestand Salunga James High Gordomille John J. Hess H Intercourse—New Providence Wenger Bros. Rheems Blend & McGinnis Atglen V.V.W.V.’.V.V.' Christmas Eve in 1955, Danforth devoted a great deal of his time and energy to causes of youth, es pecially farm youth. Thousands of farmers visit Purina’s research farm each year to study animal feeding and man agement. The Danforth Youth Center will be a- highlight of fu ture visits by thousands of farm, youth. * The Center will be built in a quadrangle, with the _research barns and feeding pens on two sides and the quadrangle- be tween. In the center will be a six foot statue of a typical farm jouth. Inscribed on the base of the status will be four of the inspirational challenges which Willian H. Danforth frequently directed to youth. Construction work will, start m the immediate future. Dedication of the completed Center is ex pected to be held in May, 1958. fares short ? try . Purina BULKY LAS! 100 lbs. of Purina Bulky-Las will Replace Four 60-lb. Bales of Hay FLIES DIE JUKE MAGIC Just spripkle Purina dry Fly Bait on the f100r... and watch ’em die! 4k 4k. John J. Hess Klnzers—Vintage John B. Kurtz Ephrata B. F. Adams Bird-in-Hand Snader’s Mill Mt. Airy J. Fred Whiteside Kirkwood S'