Hary K. Bettendorf, Librarian
Agrloultural Library
The Pennft, State University
diversity Park, Penna. S
Vol. 111. No. 8.
More Parking
Made Available.
Near Farm Show
Seven more acres of land ac
quired by the Commonwealth will
he opened for free parking during
the 1958 Pennsylvania Farm
Show here Jan. 13-17, according
to the Farm Show Commission.
The addition boosts Farm Show
free parking space to approvi
malely 40 acres, State Agricul
ture Secretary William L Henn
ing said today, deluding street
paiking in the vicinity of the
building, an stimated 15,000 cars
and buses can be accommodated
at one time, he added
Located across the highway
fiom the Farm Show Arena, the
new parking lot was obtained
thiough a 1957 Legislative appro
priation of $91,250. In past years
the seven-acre lot was operated
pmately for pay-parking
As a safety measure, the Com
mission hopes eventually to have
a pedestrain walkway tunnel und
er Cameron Street, connecting the
new lot with the arena, Henning
Suid
In a move to improve condf
tions on the main 33-acre parking
lot adjacent to the Farm Show
BBmlding, the General State
Authority plans to construct a
network of hard-surface walkjyays
at some future time.
Henning, who is chairman of
the State Farm Show Commission,
today voiced that body’s appreci
ation to State and Harrisburg City
Police in handlnig Farm Show
traffic. Since the opening of a new
bridge over the Susquehanna
Rii er at Harrisburg several years
ago and the re-routing of traffic
motorists have far less difficulty
in reaching the big agricultural
exposition than in previous years.
The 42nd free State Farm Show
starts Monday morning, Jan. 13
with Gov. George M Leader for
mally opening the event that
evening in the arena followed by
a demonstration by mounted
members of the Pennsylvania
State Police.
Now Is The Time . . .
By MAX SMITH
County Agricultural Agent
TO ORDER CERTIFIED SEEDS The biggest dif
ference between certified,seed and ordinary seed
is that we are more sure of what we are getting
with the certified seed. Uncertified seeds may not
be true to type and may not have the desirable
characteristics we want. Place your order early
and make certain you get what you want rather
than have to take what is left.
TO MAKE EGG CARTONS Starting Jan 16 the
marketing of eggs m six-egg or twelve-egg cartons
shall be permitted only if the carton is properly
marked, this should reveal the consumer grade,
the weight class, and the name and address of the
Max Smith producer or distnbutor. This requirement is be
cause of recent changes in the Pennsylvania law
regarding standards for grading and marking eggs.
TO PROTECT FISH IN FARM PONDS When heavy ice or snow
covers a pond all oxygen is cut off, therefore, the fish may die This
often occurs in ponds that are too shallow, too heavily populated, 01
contains too many weeds It is recommended that during peuods of
continued freezing that the snow be removed from the ice covering
the pond and that a number of holes be chopped in the ice to allow
air to reach the water The inserting of logs, rails, or biush in the
water around the edge of the pond will provide air inlets
TO RID BASEMENTS AND BUILDING OF SPiDERS Many
basements or masonry buildngs are good cover for spiders during
the fall and winter months, they spin webs in which to catch smaller
insects for food. Sweeping down of these webs offers only temporary
lehef. The recommendation is to spray the basement and other dark
corners with a lindane household-type spray. One application will
usually give good control.
Quarryville (Lancaster County) Pa,. Friday, Jan. 3, 1958
ALTHOUGH THIS, was not the best year
for-corn production; these -two 4-H Corn
Club members produced crops of 80 and
100 bushels an acre. Don Trimble, left, who
topped the club in overall score at the club
Top 4-H Corn Growers Show Yields
Of 80 and 100 Bushels at Roundup
The north half and the south
half of the county were divided
into separate sections when deter
mining corn yield to pick the best
4-H Corn Club projct at the club
roundup Monday at the Bayuk
Cigar warehouse in Lancaster.
The judges gave a score of 100
per cent for a yield of 35 bushels
an acre for corn grown in the dry
roundup came up with a 100 bushel yield.
Glenn Porter had the best exhibit of 10
ears at the roundup His yield was 80 bush
els to the acre. (LF Photo)
northern townships but raised the
requirements to 60 bushels for
southern entries.
But despite the allowances both
the top corn exhibit and the best
overall score were won by en
trants from he southern part of
Lancaster County.
Glenn Portor, 18, son of Mr
and Mrs Edgar Porter, HI Wash
ngton Boro, had the best exhibit
of 10 ears and Don Trimble, Rl
Quarryville, had the best over-all
score.
In getting an 80 bushel per acre
yield on his acre plot, Porter
plowed land that had been in red
clover. Ten tons of manure and
400 pounds of 10-10-10 were plow
ed down And added 100 pounds
of 10-10-10 was applied in the row
The corn was sprayed with 2 4, D
after the final cultivation.
The variety used was Funk’s
G9l
Poiter says that he likes to
lca\e plenty of air in the soil for
corn Although the ground is well
worked after plowing, it is not
made powder fine
Trimble managed a 100 bushel
per acre yield on his half acre
plot On land that had been m
tomatoes, he plowed down 16 tors
of inamue and 400 pounds of
510-10. Tumble said that much
of the residual effect of 1,800
pounds of fertilizer applied to the
tomato crop could be noticed.
He planted Pioneer 302 A.
Neither used irrigation.
Here in order of the overall
scores are the placings of the corn
club members
Donald Trimble, HI Quarry ville
Glenn Porter, Rl Washington
Boro; Paul Trimble, Rl Quarry
ville, David Heisey, Rl Sheridan,
David Martin, Rl Mt. Joy, Wilbur
Hosier, R 3 Manheim; Barry
Haldeman, R 3 Manheim; Betty
Fatherless Poult
At Beltsville
Killed by Dogs
Graydon, the Agriculture De
partment’s fatherless turkey
being raised at the Beltsville,
Md, Agricultural Research
Center met an untimely death
when two dogs attacked him.
This was the turkey pictured
on page one of Lancastei Farm
ing a few weeks ago
Being raised to maturity by
Dr. Marlow Olsen in an effort
to check his mating ability,
Giaydon was always dull-witted
and seemed to have trouble
seeing.
When the dogs attacked, he
didn’t utter a cry. He died a
few hours after the attack. The
poult had lived 39 weeks.
Now Dr. Olsen must start
over It required thousands of
unfertilized eggs to produce
Giaydon. In the past five years
the researchers hatched more
than 20 parthenogenitic poults,
but most died within a few
hours
An autopsy confinned the
scientists speculations that the
poult was male.
Hess R 3 Elizabethtown, Wendell
Martin, Rl Drumore, and Harold
Hess, R 3 Manheim (tie), Steven
Martin, Rl Drumore, Rodney
Mai tin, Rl Drumore, James Groff
R 7 Lancaster, Gloria Brubaker,
Rl Ephrata; David Zimmerman,
Rl Remholds; and John Zimmer
man, Rl Remholds.
Judge for the show was George
Berggren, agronomy specialist
from Penn State.
S 2 Per Year
Manheim Youth
To Receive Top
State FFA Award
The title of “State Star Farmer
of Pennsylvania,” the highest
Future Farmers of America a
ward that can be given at the
State level, will be conferred dur
ing the 1958 State Farm Show
upon Dean Hoffer, 18, the son of
Mr and Mrs Aithur H. Hoffer,
R 3 Manheim
In addition to winning the top
State honor, young Hoffer, a 1957
graduate of Manheim Central
High School, has been designated
as Star Farmer for the 12 county
Southeastern Region of Pennsyl
vania Names regional Star Farm
ers were certified to the Farm.
Show Commission Jan 1 by
George D. Derr, State acting FFA
adviser and consultant in agri
cultural education in the Depart
ment of Public Instruction.
Hoffer will leceive the high,
award at the annual meetng of
Pennsylvania Future Farmers on
Wednesday, Jan 15 It will be
conferred upon him by the FFA
State president, Glen W. Fetrow,
of Dover
Young Hoffr was chosn by the
FFA Advisory Council because
hia achievement in scholarship,
agriculture and leadership gave
him his highest score among all
nominees for the FFA’s Keystone
Farmer degree. Borrowing money
to start farming projects of poul
try sheep and hay when he was
a mneth grade student, Dean in
vested his profits in additional
entei prises until he now has a
net worth of more than $14,000.
He has a dairy of 49 purebreds.
and in 1958 will be in full charge
of the home farm, with 150 acres
in hay, wheat, oats, corn, barley,
and pasture.
He has been president of his
FFA chapter and the area organi
zation, and has placed in local,
regional, and State FFA public
speaking contests. He served two
years on the high school student
council and has been active in
church and community affairs.
Annual Tobacco
Co-op Meeting,
Show to Be Jan. 10
The annual Lancaster County
Tobacco Show and meeting of the
Lancaster County Tobacco Grow
ers Cooperative will be held at 1
p m. Jan 10 at the Farm Bureau
Cooperative, Dillersville Road,
Lancaster, officials of the coopera
tive announced Monday.
The tobacco show will see en
tiles in three classes . filler,
wi upper and binder. Two hands
of each grade will be shown Gen
eral rules for the show will be the
same as used at the Farm Show.
At the meeting of (he coopera
tive in adduon o he election of
flicers. Dr Haggerstadt of the
USD A agricultural research cent
er at Beltsville, Md , has been in
vited to speak on disease control
and cultural practices in growing
tobacco. Several local tobacco
buyers have been invited to give
their opinions and needs for hand
ling the 1957 crop.
The coop meeting will be held
in the assembly room on the mam
flooi of the Farm Bureau Bldg.
The tobacco entered in the show
nia> be taken to the Farm Show.