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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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