14—Lancaster Farm ng, Saturday, January'3l, 1959
USDA Claims Success
All-Out Fight in Florida Controls Fruit Fly
One year ago on Nov. 26, 1958) field workers of the last fly was trapped in Nov-
U. S. Department of Agriculture and the Florida Sta’e ember of that year, only 13
Plant Board trapped the last Mediterranean fruit fly in the flies were found.
Um'ed States m Manatee County, Florida. Once before, in 1929, this
For these workers and for the fruit and vegetable dreaded fly invaded Florida,
industries of the Southern United States Hov. 26, 1957, At t!lat t . me was erad i ca .
will long be a landmark in man's continuing fight against ted by an m tensive program
insects. Since that date a comprehensive happing pro- w>thln a year>s operation .
gram has been continued to make sure the Medfly has USDA . state cooperative ef
not sil-vived in some isolated sec ion of Honda, the only mcludinß the destract-
State m which it was found in 1956 and 1957. Not a single ’ Jf
Med fly has been trapped. . Jon of j host plant J an <*
Entomologists term the Medfly the world's worst fruit thousands of tons of infested
pest It algo attacks many vegetables. Dunng the period thyh, were respons-ble for
April 13, 1956, to Nov. -26, , c ~, . the quick success.
1957, it not only menaced an mals and and wildlife Such measures would not
Florida’s $4OO m Ihon annual were effect vely protected. have been feasible in 1956-57
fruit and vegetable crops but During the month of July because of high labor costs
also those across the south- 1956 a t the height of the ae- an( t the large number and
em half of the Nation. ■ . * Jt)erations ' almost variety of ornamental and
The Medfly invasion began 1 5 m P m^n a P cres ’ t t . nat ve host plants growing m
entomologists believe when J d 5 B^late March 195 7 ab . the - area ’£hich were
the pest sneaked into Flor da out 650 000 acres ha<J been not affected m 1929.
in baggage arriving at a Mi- treated one or more fmesfor Furthermore, development
ami area water port or air- a total of some e% m . U ion of safe-10-use bait insecticide
field It was first discovered acres over 46 000 traps bai- mixtures perm tted eradica
by a Miami home owner, m- ted Wlth a USDA research- tion without the destruct on
festmg his backyard grape- d o VP i ODed attraotant were in of millions of dollars worth
fruit trees. The pest was id- to £p coun? of of ruits and vegetables that
entified promptly ana with- the dimmshng fly - popula- accompanied the 1929 Gam
in ten days a full-scale at- hons and spot P ai S a
tack was under way. State Nations. Modem - day eradication
quarantnes were mvolked By tbe Prld 0 f j une 1957, was achieved with modern
promptly and road blocks . n t ens i ve trapp ng indicated day weapons aerial, appli-
to P ravent ®P read of the insect had been elimin- cations of bait sprays, soil
infestation through move- ated 21 0 f the 28 infes- treatment under heavily in
ment of products. . ted count'es in southern and fested trees, plastic traps, at-
Survey teams af trained cerdra i pj or da Eradication tractants and various fum - -
mspectors searched out af- opQr ations had greatly gants many of them devel
fected areas and measured ced tbe num ber of flies in the oped by the Agricultural Re
and intensity of each rema mn g seven- counties. search Service laboratories
infestation. These early sur- From June 1957 unt .j the in Hawaii,
veys showed the Medfly to
be infesting a thousand squa
re-mile strip along the south
eastern Florida coast. Accel
erated surveys and trapping
operations quickly revealed
its presence on the Florida
west coast and in central Fl
orda - the main citrus pro
ducing area of the State.
By April 30, just 17 days
after the pest was first re
ported the heaviest infesta
t ons were under spray treat
ment with ground equipment
and oh* May 18 with small
a By June 15 aerial
spraying had begun over
metropo’itan areas with mu-
Iti-engned aircraft. At the
height of the program scores
of aircraft were used to lay
down a ba t spray newly de-
bv th° Department’s
Agricultural Research Ser
vice scientists. The program
was surrounded by appropri
ate safeguards so that man,
Pa. Honey Crop
Off; U. S. Up 9%
Pennsylvania honey pro
duction f n ~ 3 958 is estimated
at 3 432 000 lbs , or seven per
cent below the five-year ave
rage It was six per cent be
low 3957, and 30 per cent
below the ten vcar
Connies numbered 143 000
in 195° ending a decreasing
trend and up six per cent
from 1 DC? Average vield per
colony was 24 lbs. Value of
the 195 r ' honev crop totaled
$872,000, with bet wax being
valued at $33,000 Average
price fnr honey received by
state b 'ekeepers in 1958 was
25 4 c-.i s n lb, averaging
more tha . $6 per hive in
come
The Crop R°p r - ing Ser
vice s f a cr> that U. S 1953
hone’ nr duction totaled 26-
5,629 00) lbs , an increase of
rane per v.ea‘ over 1057 and
13 per cent above the five
year average Production av
erage from 2.42 million co
lonies was 49 lbs
The national price average
was 17 4 cents per lb Pro
duction increases were 31 per
cent in the West 22 per cent
in the West-North Central,
and .21 per cent in South-
Central Decreases were 18
per cent in North-Atlantic,
15 per cent in East North-
Central and 14 per cent in
South Atlan-ic.
The 10 leading honey sta
tes which produced 61 per
cent of the crop were Cali
fornia. Minnesota, Florida,
Wisconsin, Texas, Idaho, low®
New York, Michigan and S.
Dakota.
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EIGHT SUCKLING PIGS
1948 B JOHN DEERE TRACTOR
with roll-o-matic powertroll
1947 FARMALL H TRACTOR
with cultivators, 2 row tobacco hoers, McCormick
loader.
1937 JOHN DEERE A TRACT
7 ft. John Deere #4 trailer grass mower, 4-sec. spru
row (like new), New Idea manure spreader, two 11
tie Genius trailer plow, John Deere disc harrow, 7'
packer David Bradley rubber tire wagon, 16’ bet
Idea side rake, Ontario 13"Tibe grain drill, Judsoi
drill on rubber, John Deere corn planter with f£
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field sprayer with power takeoff pump, 50* hose w’
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180 Amp electric welder like new, 2 air compresi
50-gal. steel water tank on wagon, 2 -tobacco wagoi
ladders (18’ & 20’, one 22’ double tobacco ladder;
tobacco lath, lot of outside -tobacco scaffolding,-
tobacco press, tobacco shears, ' corn Shelters, 6
shelters, rubber ‘tire wheelbarrow, ensilage cart,
equipment, Farm Master Surslngle two-umt
Farm Master hot water heater, 6 can internation;
cooler, vacuum can hoist, wash, -tubs, ftiilk-'cans,
strainers, chicken nests, feeders, fountains, forks,
Reo 21” Trim Lawn mower, dopper kettle, some ho'
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