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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 (Continued on Page 13} 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 (Turn to page 5) 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 (Turn to page 6) 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 (Turn to page 14) 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 (Turn to page 7) 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 (Turn to page 6) 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 (Turn io page 11) 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 (Turn to page 10) 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 (Turn to page 16) 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.