■TOBACCO FIELDS GOT HAND TREATMENT on most county farms this week
Bing is virtually completed, but some reports indicate a few scattered acres are still
Big t° r P ldnts The dry weather has not apparently slowed the growth of plants in
■eld The threat of cutworm damage seems to be lessened since the weather is
Bwhdt drier Larger weeds m corn and tobacco fields are quite persistant, but con-
Bf small weeds in most parts of the couhty seems to be quite easy with the few in-
Hof dry topsoil. —L. F. PHOTO
liildren Use More Milk
with Special Progam
Hridren who - attend
Bis pailicipatmg in the
Bal Milk Program drink
B milk in a 24-hour perl-
Hhan children attending
B schools, according to a
Bt issued recently by the
B Department of Agricul-
Bt Special Milk Program
Bes schools to offer milk
■uldren at reduced prices,
■SdiUon to milK provided
mm Calendar
■ Ilth 8 a. m. —■ Lam-
B«-Strasburg Junior
BA summer tour meet at
B high school. Schedule
Bk for tour to end at 5
Hm
Bo p m —Twilight meefc-
B at Southeastern
B uis y ivan ia Artificial
B«ders Cooperative. Rte.
BO By-pass near Landis
■lle.
■|spm Regular meet-
Ht o£ Uie Lancaster Coun-
B Soil Conservation Dis
■<* directors m the court
■use
Bpm Meeting of the
B™"re - Jersey, 4-H club
H home of Paul Herr,
■wood Rl.
B*2—9 3Q a m 4 p-
B" Southeastern district
ML Ve fe'etable judging
Br« at the Farm Bur
■ *uditorium, Dillerville
* m Group of
P JII M>uth will tour
BhJ^ 1 ' beginning at
BJ"* °t Harry Mumma,
■*he.m Rl
Bet 4? ou tbeastern Dis-
BdJ 1 dair y - judging
Bib 0,1 (he W..H. Drei-
Boom , osla te farm near
'Ville, Berks
BmhV ~~ Meeting of
B°i6 of ° Uorns ey club at
Bab*, 1 Harr y Mumma,
8 P m Joint
Bm 5 the Lititz Man
a Elizabethtown -
Bh. 4 'H community
B Ule home of Rob
■ 0!lui «r, Lititz R 3.
under "the National School
Lunch Program. The study
reported recently was under
taken by USDA’s Agricultur
al Marketing Service to
learn whether the Special
Milk Program increased con
sumption of milk among
school children, or merely
caused the children to drink
more milk at school and less
at home than they would
drink without the program.
Researchers interviewed
8,444 children in 100 schools
in Maine, New Hampshire,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, and West Virginia. The
children were enrolled in
grades five through nine.
Half the schools participated
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County Vegetable Growers
Invited To Attend Tour
The annual tour of the
Pennsylvania Vegetable
Growers Association will be
conducted on July 25 and
26, according to information
received from Amos Funk,
Millersville, president of the
association.
Main attraction on the
tour will be a visit to four
outstanding vegetable grow
ers in Erie County. Growers
will have the opportunity to
observe both the production
and marketing operations
followed by the Erie County
producers. Roadside markets
operated by several farmers
will be visited.
Erie county farmers plant
approximately 7,600 acres to
commercial vegetable crops
annually. Total value of veg
etables, including potatoes,
produced in Erie county is
nearly 2 5 million dollars.
The major vegetable crops
to be seen on the tour will
be cabbage, potatoes, beans,
tomatoes, sweet corn, mel
ons, cucumbers and aspara
gus.
At one stop, the growers
on the tour have an oppor- ji
Lancaster. Pa.. Saturday, July 9. 1960
Mulch Controls
Garden Weeds
By doing a good job of
mulching, home gardners can
go vacationing and forget the -
weeds, gardening specialists
agree. Mulch also saves soil
moisture, prevents soil pud
ding, helps keep soil temper
atures uniform and releases
plant nutrients when it de
composes.
Hay and straw mulches
should be 3 to 4 inches deep
for best results, while 2 in
ches is deep enough for
ground corn cobs, sawdust
and shavings. A lot of differ
ent materials can be used for
mulching, experts suggest
avoiding those that contain a
lot of weed seeds.
Sometimes materials, such
as straw, chopped corn cobs
and sawdust, are low in ni
trogen and may cause nitro
gen deficiencies in the soil.
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tunity to observe a mechan
ical bean picker in operation
on the farm of James Hall.
Mr. Hall grows about 120
acres of wax and green
beans.
The new dwarf tomato va
riety, Epoch, will be on dis
play at one of the stops on
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Select Sires
With Caution
Experts Suggest
Selection of the sire for
the farm beef or swine herd
or the farm sheep flock of
ten does not receive the at
tention it deserves, warn ex
tension livestock specialists.
Too often the cheapest ani
mal is purchased, and this
turns out to be expensive
rather than cheap in too
many cases. If a second rate
sire is selected it could turn
out to be a non-breeder, or
one that produces the wrong
kind of offspring. Buy from
reputable purebred breeders,
because they will make ad
justments for non-breeders.
Tobacco, Wheat Share
Farm Work Spotlight
Tobacco and wheat shared
the farm work spotlight (his
week as farmers pushed to
finish the tobacco planting
and begin the big push to
get wheat m the bin before
the good weather breaks.
Most of the county tobac
co acreage was planted by
the latter part of the week
and wheat harvest was be
ginning by the middle of the
week. Most of the wheat
harvested was Thorne, Dual,
or Seneca, with the Pennoll
carrying too much moisture
until very late in the week
Most millers were recom
mending that Pennoll be left
in the field until the week of
July 11.
Reports from receivers of
grain indicated that moisture
in the crops harvested Wed
nesday and Thursday averag
ed between 13 and _l5 per
cent. Quality of thegram
is good, but some of
the yields are disappointing.
Farmers believe that the
large amount of rain during
the blossoming season was
one factor in the smaller
.Wayne Rentschler Accepts
Vo-Ag Position at Kutztown
WAYNE B. RENTSCHLER
20 years from 1927 to 1947,
is active in many farm or
ganizations.
Serving the West Lampet
er Community Fair associa
tion as secretary-treasurer lor
his 31st term, Rentschler has
seen the organization grow
and develop along agricul
tural lines He has been one
of the forces in keeping the
non-agncultural elements
out of the fair.
Rentschler has served as
secretary - treasurer of the
Lancaster County Soil Con-
Look for these major
faults m animals to avoid
when buying sires or replace
ment livestock:
Avoid buying animals with
crooked legs. This can lead
to lameness and cut the re
productive life of the indivi
dual.
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$2 Per Year
crop. Millers and warehouse
men anticipate a large flush
of grain next week.
Corn continues to make
satisfactory growth after a
late start. Weeds which were
a serious problem earlier are
becoming easier to control
with the smaller amount of
moisture available. Cool
nights, if they continue
could cause serious slow
down of corn growth soon.
A very few Washington
Boro area tomatoes hit the
market this week, but the
crop generally is ten days to
two weeks later than normal
Substantial quantities of the
fruit is expected to be ready
to harvest next week
Early sweet corn will move
on the markets m small a
mounts next week. The high
er temperatures and reduced
rainfall have had a beneficial
eficct on most vegetable
crops.
Second cutting alfalfa is
ready to be cut on some
county farms and late cut al
falfa and clover is making
rapid growth.
servation District, since 1951
and the County Agricultural
Council since 1955.
Working to coordinate the
work of all county farm co
operatives, Rentschler has
served as president of the
Lancaster County Council of
Farmer Coopertives since
its inception in 1954.
During 1959, Rentschler
headed up the International
Farm Youth Exchange Com
mittee in the county which
made possible the sending of
Jemes Hess, Strksburg, to
Peru for a year. During 1958
and 1959, Rentschler was
state chairman of the now
defunct Chicken of Tomor
row contest. Since then he
has been state chairman of
the FFA. conservation con
test sponsored by the Stale
Soil Conservation District.
While he was a teacher at
West Lampeter, Rentschler
saw 32 of his students re
ceive the Keystone Farmer
degree and six were awarded
the American Farmer degree.
Mr. and Mrs. Rentschler
plan to move to Kutztown a
bout the third week of July.
They will then reside about
25 miles from Bernville,
where the two attended high
school.
FIVE-DAY -j
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures during the
next iive days will average
near normal to four de
grees above the normals of
87 in the afternoon and 6S
at night. A warming trend
is expected Saturday thru
Monday cooling Tuesday
or Wednesday. There is a
chance of scattered thun
dershowers Sunday night
or Monday with the aver
age precipitation expected
to be less than 1 1 inch.