r> MHtif *ujr> tf.l t «- 14—Lancaster Farming Friday, June 14, 1957 Pilated ’Peckers, Eccentric Birds, Like to Pound Poles for Fun of It Pileated woodpeckers are eccentric birds Once concidered rare, they have become a pest by * Better Chicks for You Through Breeding Research "^r Chicks Chicks for for Meat Eggs Manheim Pike EX 2-2155 ✓O' ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT CO. 4021 North Sixth St. Harrisburg, Pa. Conestoga Farm Service. . . Quarryville Snavely’s Farm Service. .New Holland habitally poking big holes in cross country utility line poles. Since there is almost no food in poles treated with preservatives, and the birds attack those without wires as well as with, it appears that their only reason is a desire to pound on something. A half dozen methods for keep ing these “chiselers” off of utility poles have proved satisfactory, but they present risks to linemen who must climb the poles and toi the public relations departments oi the utilities. “We are still testing cage samples in our search for. a good repellent chemical,” R. N. Jorgen sen, wood technologist at the Pennsylvania Agricultural Exper iment Station, University Park, reports. Jorgensen is assisted in woodpecker control work by W. C. Bramble, department head, M. E. Wood, orthonologist, and P. F. English, wildlife management in zoology. The pileated woodpecker, a pro- MR PORTABLE IRRIGATION SYSTEMS Distributed by Sold and Serviced by nr«>vii£i newaM 1 Tests Snow Dark Yoked Eggs Graded Down Unintentionally UNIVERSITY PARK For many years, egg candlers have been suspected of unintentional ly grading dark-yolked eggs low er than those of the same quality having lighter yolks. Results of an egg-grading experiment at the Pennsylvania Agricultural Ex periment Station show this to be true. Nearly 100 buyers attending a conference at the Pennsylvania State University last winter candled and measured broken out quality eggs having dark and light yolks. Broken-out quality of both kinds was the same but those having dark yolks consist ently received lower candled grades. The (trials were conducted un der the supervision of Werner J. Mueller, Station Poultryman, who will publish details of this work in a progress report en entitled “Yolk Color and Candl- digious insect eater like all mem bers of his tribe, is protected by both state and federal law. As large as a crow, it is well known to hunters because of its peculiar swooping flight, strange call, and noisy pounding. H. T. Pfitzenmeyer, graduate student in zoology,,raised a pileat ed woodpecker chick to adulthood a rather unusual accomplishment When mature, the bird was placed in an aviary, and a study of its habits indicated it acted in the same manner as a wild bird. Many repellents were tested on decayed posts containing natur al woodpecker food and several kept the bird away. Those com patible with preservative mater ial used on utility poles will be field tested in the near future. School ‘Vo-ag’ Courses Train Future Farmers UNIVERSITY PARK—Pennsyl vania members of the Future Farmers of America were told to day that the four-year couse in vocational agriculture in Pennsyl vania’s public schools has demon strated that it is “meeting the need of the Pennsylvania boys interested in agncultue as their life’s work.” The assurance came from H. C Fetterolf, chief of agricultural education in .the Department of Public Instruction, in a spech at FFA Activities Week which each June draws 1,500 Future Farmers to the Pennsylvania State Uni versity campus here for vocation al agriculture contests and the farm boys’ organization’s mid year convention. Fetterolf is the State FFA adviser and sum marized results of the school year now closing. “The farm boy who wishes to go to college has found that our vocational agriculture courses in high school qualify him throughly,” Fetterolf said. “The best proof of that state ment is the fact that during the 1956-57 academic year 24 per cent of all students enrolled in the College of Agriculture at the Pennsylvania State University have been graduates of the four year course in vocational agricul ture at Pennsylvania high sc hools. “Even more striking is' the fact that of all the students en rolled in Penn State’e curricul um of agricultural education, 77 per cent during the present col legiate year have been Pennsyl vania graduates of the four-year course in vocational agriculture. “Not all of the vocational agri culture students go to college. After their graduation from high school, many devote their ener gies full-time to putting into pratice in the field, the barn, and the poultry yard, the lessons they learned in their Vo-Ag class es. They, too, have found that these courses have qualified them for the work ahead. “The best demonstration of the excellence of the vocational agri culture curriculum in this State comes when the Pensylvania farm boys complete with Vo-Ag students from effective-methods of comparison is offered by the contests sponsored by the Future Fanners of America. /k ed Grade of Eggs” Eggs of comparable grade, whether dark or light yolked, are equally nutritious and whole some. Laying hens fed rations high in such feeds as corn, corn gluten, and alfalfa meal produce darker-yolked eggs. Present wholesale grading and pricing systems may work a hardship on uocks owners using poultry feeds of this type. To improve candling methods, Dr. * Mueller recommends that candled grades be checked fre quently against broken-out eggs. He also suggests that eggs with the same yolk color be candled together. 18 COMBINE Harvests More, Saves More Harvesting goes faster with an Oliver Model 18 pull-type. You take a full 7-foot cut with its floating, auger-type header. Right behind it are field-proven units to save more of every grain and bean crop. First of all, a semi-revolving reel reduces shatter ing by descending straight into the crop. Then another grain-saver takes over. Oliver’s "Man Be hind the Gun” traps 90% of the grain right at the cylinder, sends it directly to the cleaning shoe before it can mix with straw and chaff. Finally, extra pitching by extra long walkers shakes out the remaining kernels. There’s a lot more to see—the swing ing drawbar, 25-bushel tank, husky tubular frame, adjustable concaves. I I Engine or PTO model; hydraulic or V, J counterbalanced hand lift. 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