Lancaster' Firfttthg, Saturday, August 13, 1960—7
Southern Future Farmers
Visit Lancaster County
Future Farmers of
America and their advisor
from Wilkes County, North
Carolina took a look at ag
iculluie in the Garden Spot
bounty this week and liked
v |iat they saw’
The group, on a 2,300 mile
Hip through all the North
Atlantic coast states, except
New Jersey,, and into Cana
da stopped off to spend the
mdit as the guests of the
pcquea Valley FFA club.
On Monday afternoon
with Henry Givler, teacher
0 f vocational agriculture as
guide, the visitors observed
,he farm of Ellis Mentzer
and his son Roy at New Hol
land Rl- where they saw a
purebred Ayrshire herd,
dried alfalfa, and growing
tobacco Very little tobacco
is giown m Wilkes County,
the visitors said, and most
of what is grown is Turkish
or Aromatic tobacco selling
lor about $ll5 per pound
After a visit to see the
MH-30-To sprayer not to spray?
What does “Lancaster Farming” say about this?*
I! all > ?. ost of th ? tobacco was sold be
“ fore the conscientio’- ■’rmers had
mine by
Various statements have been circulated giving a mis
leading impression of the U. S. Dept, of Agriculture's
attitude on MH-30. Actually, the Department has
refused to prejudge this chemical. It is engaged in
careful, scientific review of MH-30.This will require
many months.
MH-30 has been tested for over a dozen years and used
in the flue-cored areas for the past 5 years, in the burley
belt for over 3 years and on cigar tobacco for 3 years.
With efficient labor increasingly hard to find and
costly, the farmer must rely on chemical control of
plant disease, pests and weeds more than ever before.
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new hog raising system be
ing installed by John Eby,
New Holland, another stu
dent at Pequea Valley, the
travelers cooled off from
their l«ng trip with a dip in
a farm pond
Making their, way in a
truck bought and outfitted
with camping gear by the
FFA club, the North Caro
lina Future Farmers are co
oking their own meals and
bedding down in schools al
ong their route as guests oi
local FFA chapters.
The eight members of t ic
delegation wre juniors and
seniors chosen from the
chapter enrollment of 108
boys on the basis of Super
vised Farming Programs,
leadership qualities and at
tendance at meetings throu
gh the year The group in
cluded the chapter president
secretary, reporter, and the
treasurer as well as two
state farmers.
Chaperoning the boys was
United
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MEMBERS OF THE WILKESBORO, N C Future Fanners chapter prepare to spend
the night at the Pequea ,Valley 'High School Six of the eight boys on the trip unroll
some of their camping ’equipment under the watchful eye of their FFA advisor, S. R
Pearson?-nearest the truck The visiting Future Farmers accepted the hospitality of the
Pequea Valley chapter as they passed through the county on a 2300 mile trip through
the North Atlantic coast states and Canada. The truck was bought and prepared or the
trip by the boys and their teacher of vocational agriculture. L F. PHOTO
S R Pearson, one of the two Advertisers will be glad
teachers of vocational agri- to have you mention Lancas
culture at the Wilkesboro - ter Farming when answering
North Wilkesboro consoli- advertisements
dated High School
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What happened to the promised
differential in price? Several farmers
reported that the buyer did not even
ask how the suckers were removed
from the crop.
While the buying companies insist
they will not knowingly buy treated
tobacco, they readily admit that treated
tobacco, in many instances, does not
show adverse physical effects that can be
detected on the auction floor.
Tobacco bought on the auction floor
is one thing, but the Lancaster county
tobacco market is another.
In many cases - the buyers were on
the farms during the growing season,
and still no premium was paid for the
hand suckered crop.
If the tobacco companies intend to
discriminate against the chemically
treated tobacco, they made a poor
start last season. There will be many
more farmers willing to test them out
again this year.
At least that’s how it looks from
where we stand.
MH-30 is such a chemical. On the average it eliminates
30 costly man-hours of back-breaking hand-suckering
per acre. It is very common for a single acre of tobacco
fo be attacked by as many as 125,000 suckers. We
believe anyone who insists on pulling them, by hand is
fighting progress.
With unseasonable weather delaying the crops in
Lancaster County, MH-30 should be of extra benefit
this season. This chemical control frees the farmer from
hand-suckering and allows him necessary time to catch
up with his corn cultivation, haying and other chores,
THIS IS THE CHEMICAL AGE ON THE FARM.
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Estimate Down
On Pa. Apples
Harrisburg About a 25
percent reduction in the
Pennsylvania apple crop this
year is forecast by the Crop
Reporting Service of the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture
About 5 8 million bushels
of apples will be produced in
the Keystone Slate this sum
mer and fall Last year pro
duction totaled 7 5 miLion
bushels.
Prospects for an above av
erage peach crop continue
good Orchards are expected
to yield 2 9 million bushels,
the same as the 1959 crop
and 13 per cent greater than
the average during the past
10 years
A crop of 100,000 bushels
of pears is expected to be
harvested This is a s ight de
crease from last year’s 110,-
bu.hels
Pennsylvania’s three lead
ing apple varieties, York,
Stayman and Red Delicious,
have the poorest set this year
The minor varieties all seem
to have a good set and com
prise aimost half the 5.8 mil
lion bushel crop The apples
are sizing well, and the mois
ture situation is the best in
a number of years With all
the moisture, there has been
some trouble with scab and
other pests, but this condi
tion is generally not severe
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