14—Lancaster Farming. Friday, Oct. 18, 1957
Winter Wheat Acreage Reserve Only
36 Pet. of 1957; State Acreage Up
Slightly over 3 8 million acres
of Winter Wheat “allotment”
land were put in the 1958 Acre
age Reserve of the Soil Bank
--'through the close of the winter
j,,jivheat signup penod Oct. 4, the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
announced.
According to preliminary re
ports from State Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
committees in the 36 States of the
commercial wheat area, 140,662
Acreage Reserve agreements,
covering 3,806,000 acres, had
been signed by farmers through
the Oct. 4 deadline. Participating
farmers will be eligible for pay
ments totaling $76,808,773 if they
comply with their agreements.
At the end of the 1957 winter
wheat Acreage Reserve signup
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last year, 10,692,000 acres had
been offered through the' signing
of 193,474 agreements The maxi
mum payments on this acreage
totaled $198,877,000, although
there weie some later cancella
tions.
The number of 1957 winter
wheat acreage reserve agree
ments reported is nearly 73 per
cent of the number signed last
year, but the acreage covered is
only 35.6 per cent of a year ago.
The maximum payments commit
ted for the 1958 program are 38.6
per cent of the comparable 1957
figure.
For the 1957 signup reported,
the average acreage per contract
is 27.1 acres compared with 76
acres a year ago. The average a
mount of payment per contract
is $546.05 this year compared
with $1,413.86 last year.
The keystone State has placed
47,364 acres in the reserve with
5,092 agreements being signed.
The maximum payment these
farmers can expect to receive Will
total $1,341,634.
This compares with only 37,381
acres entered into the reserve
last year.
New England Trees
Must Be Inspected
USDA officials again remind
Christmas tree dealers and the
general public that Christmas
trees and evergreen boughs
grown in northeastern areas in
fested“with the gypsy moth, must
be inspected and certified before
shipping them southward and
westward.
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Attraclants to Lure Insect Pests
Modern Weapons of Entomologists
Natural and synthetic attract
ants, which ladiale luring “scent
waves” to lead insects to their
doom, are sought by USDA scien
tists as modern weapons to com
bat these pests.
Three atlractants proved effec
tive last year in the Meditennane
tive last year in the Nediterran
ean fruit fly eradication campaign
operating in Florida under Fed
eral-State direction. And male
gypsy moths on nearly 3 million
acres of forest land in New York.
New Jersey, and Pennsylvania,
have been tiapped by another at
tractant in the Federal-State era
dication effort in those states.
Wih the Medfly, a natural and
a synthetic attractant kave been
used to lure flies into traps to de
tect their presence and abundance
in an area. In addition a food-like
attractant mixed with insecticides
lures flies to consume the lethal
bait
The synthetic lure and protein
hydrolysat® bait that spearhea4ed,
the Medfly eradication attack
were discovered, developed, and
tested by ARS chemists and ento
mologists at the Agricultural Re
search Centei, Beltsville, Md.
The attractant used against
gypsy moth is prepared from fe
male gypsy moths. It lures male
moths to baited traps from dis
tances of at least a half mile.
Catching the males is a means of
checking the degree of kill from
spraying the foliage-eating larvae
this season. Combined with man
ual scouting, it is also a means of
locating egg masses that wil pro
duce larvae next season The
need for spraying next year can
be determined by the number of
egg masses found in a given area
this year.
Success of the attractants used
has encouraged the search for
new natural and synthetic com
pounds that will be effective not
only for Medfhes and gypsy
moths but also for many other
destructive insects
Beltsville chemists are screen
ing hundred of natural plant ma
terials and many organic synthe
tics. Workeis have already turn
ed up several new attractants
Common weeds, obnoxious plants,
vegetables and flowers are among
the plants being investigated.
Each plant material is put
through two separate extractions
One process, usuing ethyl ether
as a solvent, icmoves the coloring
matter, fats, and waxes. The other
process, using alcohol, removes
the sugars, albumins, alkaloids,
and saponine.
Work with organic synthetics
embraces an entirely different
field of effort. As in the case of
natural materials, initial work
with synthetics is usually done
without prior knowledge that they
will be attractive. But develop
ment of one attractant from a
given organic synthetic frequent
ly leads to development of other
and sometimes more effective
compounds from a related ma
Statement required by the act
of August 24, 1912, as amended
by the acts of March 3, 1933, and
July 2, 1947 (Title 39, United
States Code, Section 233) show
ing the ownership, management,
and circulation of Lancaster
Farming published weekly at
Quarryville Pennsylvania for
Sept. 30, 1957.
Publisher Alfred C. Alspach
42 N. Duke St., Lancaster, Pa.
Editor Kobert E. Best, 617 E.
Frederick St., Lancaster, Pa.
The owner is: Alfred C. Als
pach, 42 North Duke St., Lancas
ter, Pa.
The known bondholders, mor
gagees, and other security hold
ers owning or holding 1 per cent
or more of total amount of bonds,
mortgages, or other securties are.
None.
The average number of copies
of each issue of this publication
sold or distributed, through the
mails or otherwise, to paid sub
scribers during the 1Z months
preceding the date shown above
was: 5,128. Alfred C. Alspach.
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 30th day of September,
1957. Barbara J. Hackett (My
commission expires Oct. 30,
1960.)
tenal.
An example is the initial dis
covery in Hawaii that the propyl
ester of 6-methyl-3-l-carboxylic
acid prepared at Beltsville at
tracts male Medflies. Next, the
isopropyl ester of the same or
ganic synthetic was prepared at
Beltsville and proved superior in
field tests in Hawaii. This com
oound was then made in commer
cial quantities for use in the Med
fly eradication effort until the
more recent synthesis of a third
and more attractive compound
the sec-butyl ester-from the same
source.
This new compound has replac-
ed the first two synthetics. Fur
thermore, it is now being used to
eplace angelica-seed oil, a na
tural attractant now practically
unobtainable, as a lure to bait
more than 50,000 traps distribut
ed throughout Florida.
- In working with any organic
sj-nthetics, every posible chemical
variation of an attractant material
is tried and tested before it is tos
sed put. Thus in some cases, 100
or more related compounds may
made in the effort to make cer
tain that no possibility is over
looked.
Most of the tests are made at
USD A entomologist research sta
tions, where there is opportunity
to field-test the various attract
ants on several insect varieties.
An example is the Fruit Fly Re
search Laboratory in Honolulu,
Hawaii, where the Mediterranean
fruit fly,, oriental fruit fly, and
melon fly are common These
and other insects are destined to
run up against even more effec
tive scents in future invasions.
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Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
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Sorkin, 46, of Hyattsville, Md., as
assistant to the Secretary. Sorkin’s
special field is in agricultural eco
nomics. He succeeds Dr. Don
Paailberg who recently became
Assistant Secretary for Marketing
and Foreign Agriculture.
Sorkin entered government
service in 1934 as a junior agricul
tural economist. In 1936 he trans
ferred to the Illinois State Agri
cultural Adjustment Administra
tion where he was in charge of
statistical operations. He returned
to Washington in 1942 as head of
-he statistical service for the
North Central region.
From 1947 to 1950 he was chief
of the oilseeds division of the
Fats & Oils branch, Production
and Marketing Administration,
during which period he received
the Department’s Superior Serv
ice Award. In 1950 he was placed
-in charge of the statistical and
allocations division, Requirements
and Allocations branch. In 1954
he became economic advisor to
the Assistant Secretary of Agri
culture for Agricultural Stabili
zation, specializing in price sup
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