I —— JOt. 5, NO. 31 I AHMET ELGIN, ANKARA, TURKEY, studies the annual report prepared by the ■Lancaster County Extension staff. County Agent, M. M. Smith explains the nuroose End the organization of the report to the visitor from the Near East. Efigm is m Am lenca to study the organization and administration of the extension services as carried font by he county agents. After completion of several courses m thl graduate Echool at Cornell Elgin is visiting county agents in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and iHaryland He will return to Turkey m July. __l F PHOTO bwo Assistant Home Economists ■n County Office assistant Home econ- have been appointed B the Lancaster County Ex- Bnsion oil ice on a tempor- Bry basis, it was announced Bis week. Borinng during the summer Bonths with Mrs. Norma De Beilis, associate home econ- Bwst, will be Mrs. Lucille B Baldwin, Frenchtown N. Bind Mrs. Barbara A. Hie ■ A June graduate of Drex- H institute of Technology, B rs - Baldwin has a bachelor B science degree in home ■wnomlcs. Last summer she Bsted with the 4-H pro- B :am m Dauphin County. ■Wnle at Drexel, Mrs. Bald was a member of the Bmn Economics club, the ■ramatic club, the Glee club a service sorority. She Bsart chairman of the Wo « Athletic association MRs - BALDWIN o rfe d Qi" e 111 intrammal iphs c 0 1S a member of j. k'Ona Alpha sorority. r It ® al dwin is the daugh %ot r ~, and Mrs William * h„ , Fre «chtown. N. J. W f * and - Gary D , is a in physics n I ( J ’ estand > Salunga, a >l Ua . Lebanon, is a 1959 ln home economics Wheat Variety Plots Open To County Farmers Lancaster County farmers are invited to inspect winter wheat verities on the farm of Ralph D. Brenneman, of Washington Boro HI, on Tuesday evening, June 28, County Agent, M. M. Smith announced this week. Three of the established varities of winter wheat are planted in plots alongside a new variety which shows promise of being the best one for Lancaster County. Mr. Elmer Pifer, Exten sion Agronomy Specialist for the Pennsylvania State Uni versity will be on hand to discuss the merits of Red coat, the new variety form at Indiana State College. A former 4-H member, Mrs. Hiestand was active in the outdoor cooking, child care, snacks, foods and sew ing clubs m Lebanon county from where she attended the 4-H club week program and leadership training school at MRS. HIESTAND The Pennsylvania State Uni versity. Mrs Hiestand, the former Barbara Zug, is a teacher of home economics at the Eliza bethtown Area High School. Her husband, Larry, is em ployed by his father in the livestock feed business in Salunga. Lancaster, Pa.. Saturday, June 25, 1960 erly known as C. 1.-13170, as compared to Seneca, Pen noll and Dual. The meeting on the Bren neman farm, located about midway between Central Manor and Cresswell, is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Pifer has drawn up the following descriptions of the four varieties in the test plots: Redcoat New Variety; High yielding, has out-yield ed Pennoll by 4 bushels per acre in Pennsylvania Agri culture Experiment Station tests during the last 5 shears; lower bushel weight than Pennoll or Seneca but high er than Dual; soft red kern els; beardless; white chaff; yellow straw, stiffer than any variety tested; 8 inches shorter than Pennoll, 4 in ches shorter than Seneca and 3 inches shorter than Dual. Heads 4 days earlier (Turn to page 16) Business-Farm Date Announced The date of the 1960 Busi ness-Farm day m Lancaster County will be October 6, Willis Esbenshade told mem bers of the Lancaster Coun ty Agricultural Council at their meeting Thursday mte. During the day this year, farmers in tho county will play host to the leaders from industry. During the first such program, in 1959, farm ers were the guests of the business places in tho city and county. An eight-man committee from the council, headed by Esbenshade, will select 30 to 35 farmers to host the indus trialists during the day. Plans are being formulated bv the committee from the Agricultural Council and a like sized committee from the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce. The committees are sched uled to meet again during July at which time final plans for the celebration will be announced. Freedom Is Impressive To Visitor From Turkey “America is a very free country. All your activities are based on experiment and the transfer of new ideas to the farmer and other peo ple.” is the way Ahmet Elgin of Ankara, Turkey summed up his impressions of the United States this week. Elgin, an advisor in the ministry of Agriculture in Turkey, included a tour of five days in the Garden Spot County in his ten-month schedule of education in this country. Studying under the Europ ean Productivity Agency, Elgin enrolled for graduate classes at Cornell University during the fall term. Since the end of the semester he has been touring through the states of New Jersey, Penn sylvania and Maryland. Elgin hopes to gain insight into the administration and organization of Agriculture Bomb Shelters Are Best Hope, Manor Young Farmers Told Fallout shelters are the only practical defense in the event of an atomic bomb at tack, members of the Manor young farmers were told at their regular meeting in the Penn-Manor High School on Tuesday evening. County Sheriff, Harry Meyers, Director of Civil Defense in the city and coun ty along with Max J. Stier storfer, administrative offic er of C.D. headquarters pre sented a program of slides and pictures showing the ex pected destruction and pos sible consequences of a neu clear attack. Howard Siglin, advisor of the Young Farmer organiza Cutworms And Other Crop Pests Numerous On Many County Farms Insect pests on crops were in the news again this week as farmers around the conn- ty were reporting light to heavy damage to corn and tobacco crops by cutworms, Many of the tobacco fields in the county have been treated prior to planting, but the untreated fields have been badly infested in some areas ' Reports indicate that some corn crops have been entire- ly replanted while replant- ing ot tobacco is very heavy in some cases. Alfalfa weevils also are causing damage in fields where no spray was used af ter the first cutting. One far mer reported that the new shoots never did develop be cause the weevils were wait ing for every bit of new growth. Harry Sloat, associate county agent, in consultation with J. O Pepper, extension entomologist, recommends the following treatments foe the control of these pests. Tobacco fields may be sprayed with Heptachlor in the following amounts: Two pounds of 25% wettable powder, or one quart of liq uid emulsion, or 25 pounds of the 2f'2 % dust. To control cutworms in $2 Per Year Extension work in the Unit ed States with plans to set up similar programs in his own country. “I am studying all three phases - Home Economics, Agriculture and 4-H. “We have the same type of pro gram in Turkey,” he said, “But we call it 4-K. The sym bol is the same as in Ameri ca and the meaning is the same ” Lancaster County was in cluded in the itenerary be cause Elgin said he wanted to see the diversified agricul ture in the county and the extension program in the county had been recommend ed to him as one of the out standing ones in the state. “This is my second time in the United States” Elgin said. “But the other time in 1952 I was m a group of 45. We toured Texas and Calif (Turn to page 14) tion, planned the program and showed how inexpensive fallout shelters can be con structed on the avrage farm. Other emergency measures, such as caring for livestock during the two week danger period after a neuclear ex plosion, were discussed. Meyers said that the pub lic generally reacts to Civil defense in one of three ways —with apathy, with com placency, or with indiffer ence. “But we owe it to the children yet unborn to be as well prepared as we know how.” he said. Estimates indicate that as many as 100 million Ameri (Turn to page 16) the cornfield, if the soil was not treated before planting, spray with Chlordane or Toxapheno. Apply the Chlor dane at the rate of three pounds of the 50% wettable powder or three pints of the 45% liquid form per acre, Toxaphene should be applied at the rate of four pounds o£ the 40% wettable powder or one quart of 60% liquid per aci e. The material should not bo worked into the ground for at least three days, (Turn to page 16) FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday • Wednesday Temperatures for the next five days will average near normal to five de grees below normal. Nor mal temperatures for this week range from a low of 63 at night to a high of 84 in the afternoon. Cooler temperatures are expected over the weekend. Warmer Monday and Tuesday turn ing cooler again Wednes day. Rainfall will average about one inch occurring mostly Tuesday or Wed nesday.
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