Early Autumn Best Time to Plant Ornamental Evergreen Shrubs When is the best time of year to plant evergreens? The season to set such plants is early in au tumn, says Associate County Agent Harry S. Sloat. The first problem is selection of planting materials. All ever greens are pretty when small, but some of them grow to be trees 80 to 100 feet tall. If planted against a house, they will soon outgrow their position. Con tinuous pruning will develop a tree or shrub contorted in effect. So, if you are buying ever greens, Sloat suggests asking the nurseryman how large the plam will grow. If it will become too large, select some other plant. There are many-small-growing evergreens from which to choose and which will not be disfigured by pruning. Among the broadleaf evergreens, select from the Ore gon Holly grape (Mahoma ac quifohum); rhododendrons (par ticularly the hybrid forms); the azaleas; the Asiatic hollies (Ilex convexa, Ilex rotundifoha, and others.) Among the needle-type ever egg prices going up! Purina prices low! This is the time to make good egg profits... Good news is here at last—egg lay more of those good-priced prices are on the way up. eggs. If you’re not already feeding 'And more good news —the fore- Purina, start them on Purina cast is for one of the lowest Layena right away. Morejpoultry- Purina Chow prices in 10 years, men—by far—feed it than any Tfhis isa ready-made opportunity other ratiop, because it does help for you to make some mighty hens lay their best. And at very good egg money—especially if low cost per dozen. you believe in feeding your bens good feed for top egg production. Save on Feed Cost, Too Still more good news —records from 10,000 Purina customers show that most poultrymen can cut feed cost per dozen by feeding Purina. These folks who kept track and reported their results took only 414 pounds of Purina to produce each dozen eggs. That’s a full 1 pound less than the U.S. aver age as reported by the United States Department of Agricul ture. And that amounted to a saving on Purina of 5 to 7 cento a . dozen-. Help Your Hens Lay More Now is the time to help your hens FEED PURINA.. .YOU Wenger Bros. Rheems John J. Hess II S. H, Hiestand Intercourse—New Providence Salunga John B. Kurtz Ephrata J. Fred Whiteside Kirkwood BBBBBWBBJBBBBBB B BJi BJB Si B lIIIMIKIiRRHHHfiHIBHIIfI greens, upright forms include pyramidal arbovitae and upright yews. Among the spreading forms are the common Pfitzer’s juniper, Andorra juniper, and many others. Rhododendrons and azaleas will prefer a northern exposure, well-drained acid soil supplied with plenty of organic matter. Most of th'e broadleaf ever greens prefer a location that is protected from the prevailing winds and hot suns. Use junipers and arbovitaes on the hotter,- south side of the buildings. • In preparing soil for planting, make the hole larger than the ball of dirt which surrounds the plant. Set the plant approximate ly the depth that it grew in the nursery. When the hole is two thirds full, add plenty of water. When the water has been ab soibed by the soil, fill in the re mamder of the soil. Be sure the evergreens get an inch of water per week during Oc tober, and be sure to mulch each plant with two to three of saw dust, peat moss, leaves, or woods earth. No matter what size flock you have or what your grain situation may be... talk over your feeding needs with' us. Let us help you start your pullets on Purina Laying Chows for lots of eggs at about 5 to It per dozen less feed cost than average. Poultry Health Hint —Pullets need worming before going to the lay ing house. Wormed birds are - healthier, need less feed. And Purina Research has developed low-cost Purina Liquid Poultry Wormer for you. Just put it in the drinking water. The cost— only to 34 £ per bird! Come in and see us soon. CAN DEPEND ON THE CHECKERBOARD Warren Sickman Pequea Janies High Gordonville Kansan Elected Hereford Assn. President Walter M. Lewis, partner in the veteran Hereford breeding firm of John M. Lewis & Sons of Lamed, Kans, is the new presi dent of the American Hereford Assn. Lewis was elected to the helm of the association at the annual membership meeting held in as sociation headquarters at Kansas City. Elected vice president was Alan Feney, owner of Milky Farms, Phoenix, Ariz., and a for former president of the associa tion. The new president and two other board members weie re elected to three-year terms as directors. They were Albert Mit chell, immediate past president, and G. C. Parker of Tulsa, Okla. The 44-year-old Lewis was born into the Hereford industry. His grandfather, the late Walace Lib bey, was a charter member of the association in 1881. With his fa ther and brother, the new presi dent operates Alfalfa Lawn Farms. Sales price of purebred Here fords has picked up at least $lOO a head, in the last six months, Lewis said. QUALITY H|i ' ■ $ SERVICE i i B. F. Adams Bird-in-Hand Snader’s Mill Mt. Airy John J. Hess Kinzers . Vintage Blend & McGinnis Atglen Lancaster Farming, Friday, Nov. 1, 1957 USDA Scientists Discover New Plant Estrogen in Ladino Clover A new, potentially valuable estrogenic hormone has been iso lated from Ladino clover, and its structure has been determined by Agricultural Research Service scientists, the U. S. Department of Agriculture announces. This estrogen has been named ‘'coumestrol.” It is known to be present in alfalfa and strawberry clover, as well as in Ladino clover The new hormone was discovered at USDA’s Western Utilization Research and Development Divis ion, Albany, Calif. Estrogens, which regulate specific growth and reproductive activities are one type of the chemical compounds known as hormones. They occur naturally in .both animals and plants on they can be synthesized. Stilbes trol, used to promote faster wei ght gains in feeder cattle and poultry, is a useful synthetic estr ogen. Synthetic estrogens have been extremely valuable also in human medicine. Estrogens that occur m animals are secreted by the ovaries and are associated with female sex development. Less is known at present about the character and function of estrogens in plants. Coumestrol is not only differ ent in chemical structure from known animal estrogens, but it difters also from plant estrogens previously isolated. Although estrogenic compounds are known to be active in about 40 plants, only a few of these plant hormon es have been isolated. The new compound, a crystal line substance, is about 30 times more active than gemstem, one of the most potent estrogens pre viously reported m forage crops / How Are Random Sample Test Entries Gathered? At the recent NEPPCO at Harrisburg, Pa., a poultryman came to our booth saying 1 that he understood that breeders, if they chose, could pick their own sanTple for o Random Sample Tests. « With Random Sample Tests, the rules Monroe C. Babcock specifically state that the hatching eggs or chicks be picked from all the eggs or chicks of the particular strain-cross available at the hatchery that day. At Babcock Poultry Farm our samples have 'always been selected by a Professor from the Cornell Poultry Department. These samples are drawn from thousands of eggs ready to go in the incubators. One egg comes from this tray, one egg from the next tray, and so on down through a cross section of all the eggs we have ready to go in the machines. Eggs are just picked out at random with no effort to select any particular types of egg. Some breeders and hatdherymen are not located near a State College like we are. Some samples are gathered by county agents, 4-H leaders, high school Ag teachers, etc. It may very well be that some samples have not been drawn as they should be. You hear all kinds of stones. Usually, the man drawing the sample is fur nished a complete set of rules by the test. If he reads them, and follows them, the sample will be accurately drawn. By the way, some breeders and some hatcherymen couldn’t come close to winning a Random Sample Test with their own birds if they spent all day selecting the sample themselves. It’s not that simple. We have won a number of Random Sample Tests Also we have been beaten Random Sample Tests are a great incentive to us Sure, these teste have a lot of weak points but as a whole they are good for the industry. Babcock Bessies are a white egg strain-cross, laying large eggs and laying well for fifteen months. Please send for catalog, folders and price lists. If you want to place your order now, please phone us collect. P S. Many hatcherymen quit business this year There may be a shortage of good chicks for the next 10 months x BABCOCK HATCHERY Lancaster County Branch Route 3K, Lititz, Pa. Phone MAdison 6-5872 Russell Mease Bob Decker Route 4 - R. D. =1 Manheim, Pa. Milford, New Jersey Phone MO-5 4705 Phone Milford 4-4909 However, it is consideraly less powerful in its effects on animals than the synthetic estrogen stil kestrol. In livestock rations, estrogens may have either good or bad ef fects. For example, stilbestrol can increase meat production efficiency and rate of gam in weight of beef cattle This estro gen is used also in the poultry in dustry to fatten chickens for mar ket (by causing chemical capon izing). But when anunalg-are fed or graze on forage containing ex cess estrogens (or feed excess ively on forage having estrogenic activity), a decrease in their fert ility, and stillbirths or early death of their young, may result. »; Interference of estrogenic for age with normal livestock ferti lity occurred spectacularly a mong sheep in Western-Australia during the 1940’s The cause of the decline m reproductively, at first not understood, was eventu ally traced to excess intake of clover esti ogen.'This was due to a combination of wartime short ages of fertilizers and bulk feeds, and scanty rainfall in Western Australia, which caused a much greater than norrpal consumption of clover per sheep. Estrogen behavior in plants' just beginning to come under 1 systematic scientific scrutiny. An earlier study at the Purdue University Experiment Station., for example, demonstrated wide varations in estrogen concentra tions in alfalfa during the grow ing season Workers there, how ever, did not determine the na i are of the substances responsible for the effect by Monroe C. Babcock 7
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