10—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. June 27, 1959 Clean Storage Helps Protect Small Grains The first step in successful storage of small grains is to completely clean all bins. This will involve cleaning be hind partitions, between walls, and in cracks. Following a clean-up, any and tests should be conduct holes in bins should be cov- ec j -to determine that the ered and it is well to sweep new grain is sufficiently dry up any gram that may have for storage leaked out or spilled to the a j SQ Wl y p a y to elimin . i j n ate rats and mice. This may After bins are cleaned, a accom pii s hed by using inside surfaces ,5 nay , ,^ e one of the anticoagulant do sprayed with Methoxychlor (jenticides. insecticide , ' .. Methoxychlor has proven effective in control of cad dies, gram weevils, confus ed flour beetles, saw-toothed beetles, rice weevils, and other insects affecting stored grain The spray should be ap plied about two weeks prior _to storing grain A twenty five per cent methoxychlor solution may be mixed at the rate of two quarts of methoxychlor to five gallons of water Using a knapsack, garden, or power sprayer, the mater ial should be applied until the spray runs off. Usually two gallons of the mixture will cover 1,000 sq feet of surface. New gram should not be added on top of old grain, Farm Calendar June 30—9.30 a m.. Farmer pond management field day, Richard Maule farm, Q-ville RD 2 1:30 pm. SE Dist, agency personnel farm pond meet ing, farm of Jacob R. Martin, Lancaster RD 2. June 30—7 30 pm , County Extension Council Executive committee dinner, Spanish Tavern, Q-ville. July 2 7:30 pm., Little Britain 4-H Club, Neal Johnson farm July 3—7.30 pm , N. H 4-H Baby Beef Club, home of Elvm Hess, Bareville Rl. July 6—7 30 pm, New Hol land 4-H_Club, bank build ing. July 6 SPABC Twilight Meeting for York County July 7—Kirkwood 4-H Club, annual picnic and parents’ night, Carl Johnson farm, Q-ville RD 2. July 8-9 J. C Snavely & Co., LandiSville, Open House Wrightsville Herd Takes HercT Honors In New York Show The registered Guernsey herd of Dr. George T Pack, Wrightsville won top honors as the championship Dairy Herd exhibiting at the spec ial Empire State Guernsey Show, held in Syracuse, N. Y. as a feature of the 82nd annual convention of the American Guernsey Cattle Club. George W. Snyder, St. John’s, Pa exhibited the champion three-year-old cow while Alvin R Bush, Muncy, Pa. completed the list of top show honors for Penna. with the Best Group of Three Fe males. Snyder’s cow, “Dumar Farm P H. Lillian”, also was named, reserve-champion of the show. RENT PORSCHE DIESEL TRACTORS $9.00 PER DAY SNAVELY'S FARM SERVICE NEW HOLLAND t temperature, vent- Bk lIHH end space ■■■■ .11 requirements for HWHBB lots of usefu.l' Information on .. , gH | CK STARTER REGULAR OR SUPER S. O. TRUPE B. G. MELLINGER & SON East Earl, R. D. 1 Willow Street. R. D. 1 M.. S. GRAYBILL & SON IRA B. LANDIS Bareville 779 Valley Rd., Lancaster Pioneer Manufacturers of High Efficiency Poultry Rations “Dad, why dowe still make hay. when we can make Harvestore haylage in 3 simple steps?" CUTandV^NDko^, wilt to 40% moisture HARVESTORE® ilHl frocta anni W hM Ho 2154 222. .O.Smtlh INVESTORS PRODUCTS K»nkaket, Illinois about Harvestore Haylage . . . proved to me that Haylage is a highly nutritious, palatable feed that is nearly a com plete ration by itself. Then we bought our first Harvestore. Now we make more money witn less work.” MAKE A PHONE CALL TODAY AND GET ALL THE FACTS ' KNIPMEYER ,INC. Harvestore Sales and Service NEW HOLLAND, Requests For Wheat Quotas Being Taken * The ASC county office is accepting wheat allotment ap plications for certain farms. A producer who intends to seed wheat for 1960 on a fa rm on which no wheat was seeded for harvest as grain in 1957 and for which a 1958 and 1959 allotment was not established, irrespective of whether or not wheat was seeded for harvest as gram in either 1958 or 1959, and who desires to be considered (jpmeoft in WOP “That’s the question my boy Jim asked one day. It got me to thinking so I checked with the neighbors who have Harvestores. They told me more PHONE ELgin 4-2351 & iff FILL an allotment must make Application ilication for an allotment, ailable in )i le ording to Landis G. Beck- Office for use , Chairman of the Agricul- quest for