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Ivey Shows Heavy Winter Grain Damage
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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
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istratipn Team Members
Armstrong, Dru
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sville RD 1, were
inesday night to
Lancaster County
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imonstrations for
ring the county
ual Round-Up in
Bldg auditorium.
for the demon,
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Armstrong had 2nd place
in first year work with a ta
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1759 Old Pike
was 2nd in second year
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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.