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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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try .
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Four 60-lb. Bales of Hay
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John J. Hess
Klnzers—Vintage
John B. Kurtz
Ephrata
B. F. Adams
Bird-in-Hand
Snader’s Mill
Mt. Airy
J. Fred Whiteside
Kirkwood
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