Pinkshipper, New Pink Tomato,
Features Fusarium Wilt Resistance
Pinkshipper, a new will lesist
ant, pink fleshed vauely of tomato
ten iresh maiket, is announced by
the U S Department of Agricul
ture It was developed by den
tists ot USDA’s Agricultural Re
starch Seivice lo meet growers’
demands lor a pink truited ship
pina and flesh, maiket tomato
highly resistant to fusarium wilt
borne seed is available this year
fiom commercial seed sources
'Hie Department has no seed for
distribution
Designated as US 351 during
HIGH
YIELD
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P. L. Rohrer & Bro.
SMOKETOWN,
Phone Lane. EX 22659
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Asphalt Paving & Crushed Stone
Quarryville STerling 6-2191
FINAL NOTICE
For Enrol linen I Period Ending April I, ’5B
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R.D. Lancaster, Pa.
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ACT TODAY
DON’T LET YOUR FAMILY REGRET YOUR DELAY
f've yeais’ gicenhouse and field
testing at the Agucultural Re
sc-aich Center, Baltsville, Md the
new tomato has aso been thor
oughly field tested in the wilt in
ft sted soil ol southeastern Ar
kansas under actual commercial
growing conditions
Pinkshipper is adapted to
gieenhousc or field cultuic, and
wdl give good yield on wilt lice
soil as well as on wilt-infested
son It is an excellent variety for
commercial growers and home
1 aideners in any area where pink
tomatoes are desired
The new variety was developed
fiom a cross of Gulf State Maiket
and Pan Amera j out
ci ossed to a line derived from a
Plarvelosa and Marglob' cross
William S Poite, USDA plant
pathologist at Beltsville, contin
uously tested and sc’ected lines
ri this cross foi plant type, fruit
uniformitj, an 1 wilt lesistance
through many gcreiations before
the Pinksmpper emerged as a
fixed vanety It received much
favorable comment from cooper
ating investigators when it was
grown for three yeais in the
Southern Cooperative Tomato
finals under the designation
STEP 202
Lloyd M.
BURKHOLDER
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Call RE 3-0613
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Call
Quarryville, Pa.
Farm People Like Trees for Shade,
Not to Increase Property Value
By G. A. VAN HORN
\molv4 laim people UlO value
ol trees and shiubs loi shade is
moio important thin inueased
piopcily value, according to a
statewide suivey of
among homeowncis Tins repoit
\va« made at the iccent nursci,'-
iiicn’s conlciencc at the Pennsvl
\ ima State University
J E Kivhn, giaduate assistant
in the Dcoartmcnt oi Agricultuial
Etonomics and Rmal Sociology
at Penn Slate said 40 per cent of
(he people sampled listed the
shade value of tiecs and shrubs
as one ol th 1 most important lea
ders foi landscaping
The study was made of 640
home ownei families m seven
a’cas oli eastern and western
Pennsylvania More than hall of
Luisas Agucultural Expcnment
Station has conducted extensive
giowei trials of Pinksluppcr on
soil infested with fusauum wilt
In these tests it was highly wilt
lesistant
Pinkshippei flint is uniforrr
and smooth Medium-sized toma
toes of this variety are round,
while large' ones become deep
oblate Tjpical hints aveiagc over
2‘j inches in diametci and weigh
Over 5 ounces Pinksluppcr skin
is transparent This allows the
scarlet of the tomato flesh to show
tiuough the skin and gives the
Ii uit its deep pink coloi
Pinkshipper ripens in season
with Mai globe First fi mts are
usually leady for picking about 75
dai- alter transplanting medium
sized plants, but in warm wcathei
they may upen in 65 days The
1 1 si haivest may be small, but
glowers w*ho have tested Pink
shippei feel it will give a high
pucentage of maikctable fruit
throughout the growing season
Farm Calendar
Mai ch 30
Egg Outlook meeting 7 30
p m at Ag Room, Cocalico Joint
School, Reamstown
March 31
Ilempfickl Community 4-H Club
mngani/ation 730 pm at
Faundale School
Garden Spot 4-H Club 7 30
pm at Faun Bureau Lancastei
Apid I
Kukwood 4 H Club - 730 p m
at Odd Fellows Hall, Kirkwood
Eastern Stales Mcmbeiship
meeting 7 30 p m at Blue Ball
Fue Hall
Apul 2
Led Rose Babj Beef and Lamb
dub 730 p m at Milton
Brecht School, Lititz Pike, Lan
caster
Apnl 3
Scmoi Extension Club reor
ganisation 8 pm at Faim
Luicau Coopciative, Dillerville
Road Lancaster
Southeast Disluct Babj Beef
and Lamb Show and Sale commit
tee meeting 8 p m at Exchange
Room, Lancastei Union Stock
\ aids
Little Britain 4 II Club 7 30
pm at Fulton Giangc Hall
Tractor Club tour ol New Hol
land Machine Co —• 1 30 p m at
New Holland
Eastern Stales Membership
meeting 7 3 p m at Methodist
Chinch basement, Quanyville
April 7
Eastern States mcmbciship
meeting 745 pm at Pequca
Valiev High School
April 8
Eastern Stales Membership
meeting 7 45 p m at Eluabcth
town Mill Road Elementaiy
S' hool
Apnl 9
Miss Lynn Blacken of PSU will
meet with the Elizabethtown
Flc.wei Club to discus culture of
annual and pcncnnuals 1 30 p
m at Recreation Room, Elizabeth
Umm Bank
Apul 10
Lancastei Countv Bankeis
/t«-sn Banquet 6pm at Hotel
Biunsmck Lancastei
April 10
Eastern States Membership
meeting 730 pm at Eh Hos-
the sample, especially those in
rewei residential and ruial non
Imm aicas, said they expected to
make fuithcr plantings
Kivhn said one ol the maior
dS'-cts ol the nuisei> mdustiv ] s
the ‘built in’ dcsnc home own
cis have to landscape then piop
ertv The survey showed 79 pci
cent of home owners mentioned
‘enhancing the appeal ance of
the home” when asked why they
should landscape then home
grounds
Home owneis believe nuiseij
men should be the ones to supply
them with trees and shuibs, Kiv
1m asseilecl Eighty three pei-conl
recommended nursciymen as the
best source of landscaping ma
tenal
‘.The maior obstacle to gicater
use ot tices and shuibs is the
s:
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GREIDER’S ANNOUNCE
The Sale of Ist Generation
VANTRESS ARBOR ACRE
BROILER CHICKS
Beginning July Ist
★ All eggs produced on our farms, and
hatched under rigid sanitary conditions.-
★ High chick quality and liveability will*
be stressed.
★ Small orders given the same attention
'*• and service as larger orders.
Call Hatchen: Mt. Joy OLdficld 3-2455
v Joe Wolgemulh. Jr.
Mt. Joy OLdficld 3-4965
Greider Leghorn Farms. Inc.
Mt. Joy, R.D.I, Pa.
Lancaster Farming,
Friday, March 28, 1958—13
saongi desire to complete land
scaping as soon as possible after
moving into a new home,” he
sided fiom survey results
Sixty-one per cent of the sample
said they would recommend that
li lends plant immediately or dur
ing the fast year after moving
into a new home ”
Obstacles to gi cater use of
trees and shiubs weic summaned
as follows
1 ‘ Have all the trees and
slnubs that are wanted’
'I “Trees and shrubs we want
die too expensive
3 “Don’t have the time to do
mo l c lanscaping ’
4 ‘ Lack knowledge about land
scaping ”
He pointed out that 36 per cent
el the people in the sample want
ed moie advice on use of trees
and shrubs
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Also contains medicanfs to help
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Ph. Landisville TW 8-3031
Pa.
Manheim R. D. 1
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