i/QL. 5, NO- 35
T ROBERT TERILL, RIGHT, SHOWS THE EFFECT OF Mosaic disease on tobacco
Victor Hernandez, Penzol tobacco specialist with the extension service in Puerto Rico.
ie tobacco at right is Bel 2-69, a variety resistant to the Mosale organism, while the var
tv on the right, planted at the same time shows the stunting effect the disease can
ive The plots were infected with extremely heavy doses of the organism to show the
astance of the new strains. Terrill is in charge of the Southeastern Pennsylvania
wld Ciops research laboratory near Landisville. —LF Photo
iecretary Henning To Be
arm Safety Week Chairman
State Secretary of Agri
ilture William L. Henning
is accepted a Pennsylvania
ural Safety Council request
i head Farm Safety Week
;tivities this year.
Farm Safety Week will be
served the week of July
I through 30.
In accepting the invitation
scretary Henning called up
i all Pennsylvanians, ur-
'arm Calendar
uly 23 10 a.m. - Swine
field day on the farm of
James Martin,' East Earl
Rl Sponsored by the Co.
Swine Breeders Associa
tion.
h3O pm. Lancaster Co.
SCOUTdoorama at the
Gctorara Archers range,
Near New Providence. Co.
f’FA members to be guests
of the county Boy Scouts.
All-Day National Flying
anners Northeast Regional
fiy-m at the L. L. Logan
airport, Konnett Square,
uly 25 Deadline for en-
Wes m the SPABC dairy
cattle show.
8 Pm . County FFA to
meet m the Warwick high
'diool.
8 P m - Elm-Penryn 4-H
dab meets at the Penryn
Picnic grove.
26 —, 9 a m . County
JWstein rich! Day at the
hrm of Clarence Keener,
R3.
pm. . Meeting of the
pension Executive com-
In *Uee at the Spanish Tav-
Qunrryville.
Pm . Manor club meets
f 1 Stehman’s Church, Mil
‘Q'sville.
l y 28 ~ 8 pm - County
olstem 4-H club meets at
7 farm of John Shelley,
R4.
>29 County Plowing
ooptest at the R. S. Royer
ulv rm^ Ephrata R2 ‘
J,. 30 1 pan. - Bred
Ssi 6ale in tire Martin
<sjrf Barn, Blue •Ball.
nsored by the County
Breeders.
ban, and rural, to join their
efforts to begin this new de
cade with an exemplary rec
ord in farm safety.
Theme of Farm Safety
Week this year is “Enjoy
Farm Life—Practice Safe
ty.”
Secretary Henning points
out that while three out of
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N.Y. Dairymen
Visit County
Holstein. Farms
Dairymen from Lancaster
County, Pennsylvania and
Lancaster, New York crossed
trails this week as the West
ern New York Holstein
Club members toured in the
Garden Spot County and the
Lancaster County Holstein
Club held its annual tour in
the Empire State.
Approximately 48 dairy
men and their families from
the four counties in the
Western N. Y. club made
their first stop at the farm
of Henry Kettering, Lititz,
Rl, the president of the Lan
caster County Club.
It like old home
week on Monday as the Ket
terings greeted the New
York visitors, many of them
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Bag Bagworms
Agent Advises
Lancaster county bagworms
are getting bigger, stronger
and hungrier by the minute,
according to Harry Sloat,
Associate County Agent.
The bigger they get the
harder they are to kill, so
you should get after them
with a treatment of mala
thion as soon as you can.
The rates to use are one
pint liquid or three pounds
25 percent wetable powder
per 100 gallons of water.
Cover the foliage completely.
Good hunting!
Lancaster. Pa-, Saturday. July 23. 1960
$lOO,OOO
Given For
Ag Center
County Farmers’ dreams of
a meeting place for agricul
tural meetings got a hefty
boost this week with the an
onomous donation of eight
acres of land and $lOO,OOO
toward the building of an
Agriculture Center for the
county.
The proposed center, ac
cording to County Agent
Max Smith, who is heading
the exploratory committee to
plan details of procedure,
will be constructed along
Arcadia road near the 230
By-pass.
The center, a long-hoped
for meeting place for the 40
plus farm organizations in
the county, will include an
auditorium, dining hall and
educational facilities.
A committee was organiz
ed in 1957 to explore the
possibility of such a building,
but efforts came to a stop
when it became apparent
that initial funds were not
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Swine Breeders
Plan Gilt Sale
And Field Day
A purebred gilt will be
the prize to the high scorer
in the judging contest at the
field day to be held by the
Lancaster County Swine Bre
eders Association today at
the farm of James Martin,
East Earl Rl.
The contest which is to be
divided into two sections,
adult men, women and tho
se under 16, will have prizes
for the high scorers in each
section.
Judging is scheduled to
begin at 10 am. and be com
pleted in time for the par
ticipants to join in a picnic
lunch. During the afternoon
swine specialists from the
Pennsylvania State Univer
sity will be on hand to pre
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Bel 2-69 Making Good
At Tobacco Research Lab
Swarr - Hibshman may
soon be just another tobacco
variety that ‘used to be good’
if tests now underway at the
Southeastern Penna. Fields
Crop Research farm near
Landisville confirm the desir
ability of a new strain of to
bacco on the farm.
T. Robert Terrill, agrono
mist and director of the sta
tion, in explaining the work
of the station to Mr Victor
Hernandez Penzol, tobacco
specialist in the extension
service in Puerto Rico, this
week pointed out Bel 2-69
as the moat promising new
strain of tobacco in the
plots.
“Bel 2-69 is resistant to
Wildfire and Mosaic, and
Washington Boro Tomato Growers
Present Problems to Researchers
“Nobody grows good pl
ants anymore. ’ This situat
ion plus the unfavorable
weather conditions this year
have had the Washington
Boro tomato growers sing
ing the blues this year.
Growers attending the
meeting at the farm of Hen
ry Heisey, Washington Boro
Rl, on Monday night expres
sed their desire for a sour
ce of good plants early in
the spring and some way to
get the large plants into the
field easily.
We will never get the ac-
Poultrymen
Plan Tour
August 3 has been desig
nated as the date of the an
nual Lancaster County Poul
try Tour, it was announced
this week by the tour com
mittee.
Touring poultrymen and
families are scheduled to
assemble at the Lampeter
Community Area at 8 a.m.
from where they will go by
bus or private car to the
home of Mark Myer, presi
dent of the association. Myer
grows 24,000 broilers and
roasters in a concrete block
house and a remodeled barn.
Visitors will see thermostat
ically controlled fans, bulk
feed handling and automatic
feeding and watering.
Paul Rowe, Strasburg will
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Holstein
Field Day
Is Planned
The Annual Field Day of
the Lancaster County Hol
stein'Breeders will be held
on Tuesday, July 26, 1960 at
the farm of Clarence Keener,
Manheim R. D. =3 one mile
East of the Asbestos plant,
Manheim.
At 10.00 a. m. the Dairy
judging contest is scheduled
to begin with three divisions
for Juniors, Ladies and men.
The‘afternoon program will
get under way at 1:30 p.m.
with Mr. Stanley Wright,
Manager of the Great Brooks
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52 Per Year
probobly resistant to root
rot.” Terrill said. Root rot
resistance can not be claimed
for the new variety until the
incidence of the disease in
the soil can be indexed, but
root rot resistance was in
the parent stock used in the
variety trials at the ’station.
The new variety has com
pared very well in both
yields and quality tests for
the past two years, Terrill
said, and plots look very
good this year.
“We are hoping for clear
ance to release seed next
spring, but wc arc getting
some resistance from the to
bacco companies.” He said
“But the objections were noli
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reage required to operate a
cooperative market for ear
ly staked tomatoes if we ha
ve to continue to plant them
with a shovel, was the feel
ing expressed by Amos Funk
president of the State Vege
table Growers Association „
“Of course we need a
variety early enough. for the
market and high in quality”
Funk continued. “What good
are early tomatoes if they
are cracked?”
Heisoy, who grows about
an acre of staked tomatoes
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Coleraln Grange
Plans Project
For Community
Grange members in the
Colerain Township area ha*
ve initiated a Community
Development Project which
is making a bid to enlist the
aid of all the citizens in the
community to make the area
a safer place in which to
live.
Planners in the Grange
conceived the idea of build
ing a cistern to be used for
fire fighting in the Kirkwo
od area. With the advice
and council of Henry Martin
and Chief Glenn Hassell of
the Quarryville Fire Comp
any, the Grange committee
has secured permission to
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FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
-FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures for the
next live days will average
near normal to four de
grees above the normal
range from a low of 66 at
night to a high of 87 in
the afternoon. Slightly
cooler temperatures are
expected Saturday or Sun
day with warming on Tues
day or Wednesday. Scat
tered showers are expected
for the first of the week,
but are likely to average
less than Vz inch. Temper
atures for the month ot
July thus far have averag
ed about two legrees be
low normal.