■5720 Ivey Shows Heavy Winter Grain Damage <- o' -w ' *5 iW V* *. TANT COUNTY AGENT HARRY S. SLOAT, , advises county fanners to inspect- winter small 1, especially oats, closely to determine their win l ‘ burn” damage. Here he pulls some oat stalks rate the effects of winter damage. —LF PHOTO y 4-H Electric Club Picks istratipn Team Members Armstrong, Dru l, and J. David sville RD 1, were inesday night to Lancaster County nsylvania 4-H El imonstrations for ring the county ual Round-Up in Bldg auditorium. for the demon, earn is Elaine 'pluata. The couxi embers were each e teams m the lo thion with judges >u individual, ra ti am ability lelUion for best completed under ce Lancaster |!ionoi S m First " w 'ih a ceramic \ Loth division >' oi o credited ii mdmg workman- 'AY ther Recast y - Wednesday leather Bureau, Office atures win ave . '° r sh 9htly be rang* of 37- **• Colder, al- F” 1 * for un. Warming , ‘ and Tues. with n «xpecfed on ship by Judge Ralph Patter sob, PSU agriculture engin eer. Armstrong had 2nd place in first year work with a ta ble lamp and Elsianne Hess, 1759 Old Pike was 2nd in second year work with a work lamp and stand Conservation Contractors' School Set Amos Funk, Millersville, chairman of the Board of Di rectors, of the Lancaster Co untv Soil Conservation Dist rict has announced a heavy equipment operators train ing meeting to be held April Ist in the auditorium of the Lancaster County Farm Bu reau on Dillerville Road at 8 00 phi This meeting is being held on request from heavy equi pment operators for informa tion and guidance on meeting p’ans and specifications in construction of permanent type conservation practices. These practices include the construction of ponds, diver sion terraces, waterways, m stallation of tile open drains etc Specifications and require ments for Agricultural Stabi lization Conservation Pro gram permanent type conser vation practices will be cov ered at this meeting. Dorothy Y. Neel, ASC offi ce manager urges all heavy equipment owners and oper ators to attend this meeting. Especially those interested in using purchase orders. Lancaster. Pa., Saturday, March 28, 1959 SLOAT AND FLOYD IMES, PA. Farm Bureau seed field man from Manheim, in spect damage to oats on the David Gassel farm, southwest of Manheim. Imes reported small-grain fields in Lebanon comity has suffered even greater damage than in Lancaster County. —LF PHOTO Winter Oats Almost Total Loss An inspection tour of Lancaster County winter small graln fields this week by Assistant County Agent Harry S. Sloat produced a report of the worst winter-kill and “burn” damage to county oats, barley and wheat in two decades. Sloat reported after inspecting 15 fields with about 150 acres of winter oats, all of which were intended for certi fied seed production, that only five acres of the 150 have any possibilities for a .crop. He inspected fields of Le- eomte and Dubois, with the latter showing a little great- er winter hardiness. . Winter barley fields, Sloat report** have from’ 10 to 35 per cent damage, but with favorable conditions coultT produce a fair crop. Winter wheat stands in spected had about five to 15 per cent damage, with condi tions a little worse than us ual on low wet spots. The damage was done due Plastow Picked For NaL'l School Victor Paslow, associate Lancaster County Agent, was notified this week that he has been selected to attend the National Extension Ser vice 1959 Summer School on the Colorado Stale University campus. Fort Collins, Colo rado The school will* be in ses sion from June 15 to July 3, with class periods from 7 a. m. until 11 am, five days each week Courses of study will be entitled “Farm Policies” and “4-H Youth Work”, Plastow staled. The well-known county ex tension agent added that he plans to take his family on the trip and spend some ti me following the sessions, louring farm and ranch sec tions of the western regions. “Of course,” he added, “there is the possibility that we might stop off to do some sight-seeing in a couple of national parks ” to the extreme cold begin nmg about Thanksgiving and continuing through March 15, with virtually no snow cover for gram fields and much added damage from continual cold winds. Pas ture grasses and other vege tation also suffered, Sloal added A slight thaw of the up per inches of soil, with rain falling and waterlogging the "thawed ground, followed by near freezing x and freezing Across the Land Following is a statement of basic policy for the Nat I Assoc of Soil Conservation Districts, adopted at the, recent 1959 convention We print it with the hope that every far mer will read and study these words This is not a text book theory, but the carefully weigh ed thinking of thousands of farm leaders across the coun it' , who know, conservation ralues from experience on Ibeir own farms—farms presenting evciy conservation problem to be found on YOUR farm “There is need for a complete conseivation plan for c\ cry farm and ranch in the nation to provide a consen •> tioii and land use program fitted to the resources of each *opoi ating unit As a matter of good business, a farmer can do a better job of farming with a complete conservation plan than without one. Piecemeal and un-coordmated con sc'iation eflorts cannot be fully effective When each acie is protected according to its needs and used within its capabilities, the cost of production is reduced and per acre j .olds normally are increased. “We believe that every farm and ranch in the nation should be operated on the basis of a conservation program designed to protect and wisely use the resources of that larm or ranch. We further believe that such basic farm conservation programs should be given priority as a basis lor providing government conservation help such as tecli naal assistance, credit and cost sharing—in order to get maximum conservation accomplishment.” S 2 Per Year conditions apparently was the finishing blow to oats and added heavy damage to barley, he pointed out. Pithian rot developed in crowns also due to the cold, moist conditions, he said. Sloat advised county farm ers to look over fields, pull a few stalks and if a large percentage are dead, with roots rotting off, you can still seed to spring oats by disking. Of course, county farmers also may replant with soy beans, corn, potatoes, tobac. co, lima beans and other row crops. “Some fields may ' need close inspection, as they look quite green from a distance, due to timothy and weed growth—not oats,” he said.