6. NO. 3
zer Heads
ty Ayrshire
elation
K. Mentzer, New Hoi
R 2, was elected presi
of the Lancaster County
e Breeders’ Associa
their recent meeting.
officers elected at
;ing were vice presi-
iorence Mae Flory of
im R 3; secretary-treas-
Roy Boutwell, Eliza-
to tiie board of di- ,
for two year terms
Leon Kreider, Quarry-
Rl, and Kenneth Esh-
Elizabethtown R 1
Hamish, Quarry
-112 was elected director
state Ayrshire Asso-
and Eli N. Martin, of
director of the Rod
Dairy Herd Improve-
Association.
organization voted
the Ayrshire magazine
county vocational ag
•e departments and
>unty Agriculture Ex-
Service office.
rinanans
Farmers
t Lepto.
isylvama livestock
can help prevent the
of Leptospirosis, the
> third most costly
;k disease, by a prop
igram of vaccination,
■cognized sanitary mea
the Pennsylvania Vet-
Medical Association
id today. *
as the disease is
commonly called, caus
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Calendar
10—1:00 p.m. Solanco
Turkey Shoot on the
r ,er McVey Farm near
■ille.
12 noon - District
ing for 4-H tractor
leaders at Ruser’s
irant Rt.. 122 North
eadmg.
pm. - Soil Conserva-
District meeting in
Lancaster County
•t House.
3—8.00 pm. - Manor
ig Farmers Associa
meeting in the high
>l. Sgt. Ries will dis-
Farm-Highway prob-
4 800 p. m . - Bed
: Baby Beef and Lamb
meeting m the East
irsburg E’ementary
>o’ Farm Show activ
> will be discussed.
14 and 15—Seed con
we at P.S.U.
5 800 pm. Solanco
■g Farmers Associa
will hold the first of a
on Civil Defense,
Physics of radiation,
tlie high school Ag.
Pm. - Agriculture
'°ok conference in the
’turn Credit build
■oseville Road,
m. - Meeting of the
■er-Strasburg Young
■s in the high school
ial culling of poultry,
noon - meeting of
Friend’y Farmers club
tne Spanish Tavern, in
-ille.
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MAN UP A TREE, BUT THIS MAN knows what he is
doing. Dr. Carl Bittner, Extension Fruit Specia.ist from
the Pennsylvania State University demonstrates pruning o£
apple trees to county fruit growers Thursday. Dr. Bittner
told orchardists that pear trees need very little pruning;
peach trees may be cut rattier severely every year and ap
ples and cherries are somewhere between with apples need
ing Jess thinning than cherries. Work with the tree in
stead of fighting it, was his advice. —L F. Photo
Ag Outlook
Panel Will Look To 1961
Agriculture Economists
end marketing specialist*
will be on hand next week
for the annual Agriculture
Outlook meeting of the co
unty Extension Service
'County Agmdustry repre
sentatives will team with the
specialists from the Pernsi-
Ivania State University to
form a panel to discuss farm
i ng during 1961.
Alvin Boigt, Agriculture
Economist, and Tom Piper,
Marketing Specialist, will
bring the state and national
viewpoint of next year’s out
look. Boigt recently attend
ed the national agriculture
outlook conference m Wash-
Santas Deer-
Are Arch Enemy
Of Yule Trees
Harrisburg—lt’s hard to
believe, but Santa’s deer may
be the worst enemy a Christ
mas tree ever had.
That’s the. complaint any
way of Pennsylvania’s
Christmas Tree growrs who
put more Christmas trees on
the market each year than
the growers of any other
state.
Raymond Nelson, Presi-
HU.i ~ - —*
THE PENNSYLVANIA in" ATE COLLEGE
Lancaster, Pa., Saturday, December 10, 1360
imgton, D.C.
County residents on the
panel will be Charles Cow
an, Interstate Milk Produc
ers Cooperative; Stanley
Musselman, Lancaster Co
unty National Bank; Paul
Mount, President of the Lan
caster County Farm mach
inery Dealers Association;
William Poorbaugh, Grain
Merchant; and Levi H. Bru
baker, livestock farmer.
The meeting is scheduled
to begin at 7:30 pm. in the
Production Credit Building,
Roseville Road, Lancaster,
on Thursday, December 15.
County farmers are invited.
dent _of the Pennsylvania
Christmas Tree Growers As
sociation oldest such as
sociation in the country, in
cidentally—estimates that his
oiggest prob em, next to the
rise and fall in the market
for Christmas trees, is pro
tecting his trees from insects,
mice, and especially deer.
It’s clear that raising
Christmas trees for a living
is no cinch. Nelson estimates,
for instance, that about 75
percent of the Christmas
trees planted in Pennsylvan
ia never get cut.
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Too Much Spray As Bad
As Too Little Says Bittner
One of the most common mistakes in applying chcmic*
als is putting on more than recommended, Dr. Carl Bittner,
extension fruit specialist told county orchardists Thursday
at two tree pruning demonstrations.
Dr. Bittner told of one
orchardist who applied sev- anc * the rows are six feet a*
eral times more Week killer P ar t> y° u are covering only
than the manufacturer or one third °f the ground ar
the Pennsylvania State Uni- ea ”- he Sloat added a
versity Research Department °f caution against ap
recommended. The orchard- Piy in S an y chemical at rates
ist did not intentionally higher than recommended.
spray, at several times the Speaking to the 30 fruit
recommended rate, Dr. Bit- growers in attendance at
tner said; the spray was ap- toe pruning demonstration in
plied to a sraa'l area under toe orchard of Ray Hahn,
each tree and very much Columbia Rl, Bittner recom
less than an acre of area was mended applying three to
covered in each acre of or- four pounds per acre of Si
chard. mazinc for control of weeds
Associate County Agent, m peach, apple and ’pear
Harry Sloat, explained it orchards,
another way. “If you spray Simazine should be ap
a two-foot strip on the row (Turn to page 12)
Cow In Ankrum Brothers' Herd
Has High Lactation In D.H.I.A.
A grade Guernsey cow 19,238 pounds of milk with
owned by Paul and Robert a 4.0 per cent test and 772
Ankrum, Peach Bottom R 2, pounds of butterfat.
comp eted the highest 305 Both records were made
day lactation in the Red cn twice a day milking.
Rose Dairy Herd Improve- Four herdg for high .
ment Association during Oc est butterfat average for | he
tober. - _ month with 49 pounds per
Figures released this week cow eac h.
show that Roxanne finished . , ,
the year with 14,860 pounds Among the top four herds,
of milk with a 55 per cent ° a ™ d S Smucker’s 21 regis
test and 814 pounds of but tered Holstems
t - was highest in average
, it* pounds of milk. The Elver-
Runner up in the lactation son R 2 herd made 1,357 lbs.
records was a registered c f mi xic with a 3.6 per cent
Ho stein in the herd of JC. test for the month,
and Jay C. Garber, Lancast- The registered and grade
er R 6. Masterpiece produced Holstein herd of Elam 801 -
inger. Manheim Rl, was sec
[\,u,r £ ond. His 24 cows averaged
L/WalT vOin 1,298 pounds of milk with a
• | I 1 d 3.8 P er cent fat.
vJUtyielaea oy The 57 registered Hol-
X || u I • 1 steins in the herd of Job
I all hybrids Stoltzfus, Elverson R 2, was
_ „ _ , third with 1,267 pounds of
Chicago, Dec. 7 Tall hy- m ilk with a 3 9 per cent
brid corn has outyie.ded its test.
Markets
dwarf counterpart by 9 per- The 28 registered & grade
cent in three year tests, a Holstein cows in' the herd of
Pennsylvania State Univer- John H S t au ffer, Willow
sity researcher reported to- street R 1 averaged lj2s x
day at meetings of the Amer- pounds of milk with a 3.9
ican Society of Agronomy. per cent fat to u ~\irth
Tests were made of Penn- p i a ce.
sylvania 602 hybrid, compar- Even though no herd in
ed with its, dwarf counter- the association averaged ov
part. Nutritional components er 50 pounds of fat for the
as determined by chemical mo ntn a total of 47 herds
analysis, were similar. The had ,. 0 pounds or better. An
two varieties differed only in o thei 100 herds posted aver
dwarfmg characteristics. a ges of 35 to 40 pounds
The report was made by All averages and records
David A. Mays, graduate as- wer e from data released by
sistant in agronomy at Penn the Pennsy'vania State Uni-
State. Mays described his versity and compiled by Jay
work with John B. Washko, an d Lois Anne Risser.
agronomist, and John W.
Bratzler, animal nutritionist,
of the Pennsylvama Agricul-
tural Experiment Station.
Yield samp’es were taken
at milk, soft dough, and
glazed stages Yield increas
es were significant at each
stage. Pa. 602 dwarf hybrid
tends to be four or five days
later m maturity than the
tall variety
Stalks of dwarf corn are
much thicker and about two
feet shorter than stalks of
tall corn, it was mentioned.
Most of the shortening oc-
curs below the ear level. The
dwarf corn shows less dam-
age from wind breakage and
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FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
$2 Per Year
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures during the
next five days will average
2 to 5 degrees below the
normal range of 28 at nite
and 42 in the afternoon.
A rising trend is expected
over the week end follow
ed by colder late in the
period. ' Precipitation may
total a few hundredth of
an inch of rain or snow
late in the period.