6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 18, 1961
detectives
Pesi
P esi Stopped Every 17 Minutes
An inbound plant pest
was stopped every 17 minu
tes on the average at U. S.
ports of entry m 1960, the
U S Department o£ Agricul
ture reported today.
U S defenses against crop
and livestock diseases, harm
ful insects, and other farm
pests were stregthened dur
ing 1960, but even so some
pests succeeded in invading
this country. The African
red tick was found in New
Yoik and Florida, and the
cattle fever tick was found
in Florida Oriental fruit
flies were' found in California
And demonstrating the spe
<=d with which an uncontrol
led new pest can spread in,
the jet age, the face fly had
been found in 24 States by
the autumn of 1960 Ths for
eign livestock pest first be
came troublesome in thell S
only during the picvious
\ear
Regulatoiy agencies of the
USDA's Agricultural Resear
ch Service intensified efforts
in 1960 to bar foieign pests
from entering this country
and to wipe out or control
those that have alieady en
tered -Their work is helping
especially to prevent pest m
vasions favoied mcieas.ngly
by today’s speed of tianspor
tation and iecoi cf-tareaking
tiavel
More than 800,000 animals
and poultry -passed quaran
tine inspection for entry into
the United States in the year
ended Juno 30, and 20 738
others were rejected More
than 120 000 pounds of pro
hibited or restricted foreign
meats were confiscated from
foieign ocean vessels or air
ciatt or at points of entry
and post offices
Every 17 minutes, on the
average, ARS inspectors stop
ped an inbound plant pest
at U S ports of entry There
were about 161% million in
spections of travelers enter
ing the United States during
the year—many of them re
peats This was an increase
of almost 4 million over the
pi eceding fiscal year
Plant pest conti ol workers
inaugiu ated a cooperative
pibgram to eradicate the gol
den- nematode, potato and
tomato post, from Long Is
land, NY, where it has been
kept under strict control for
19 years They also helped
Illinois and Michigan halt
the westward movement of
the Japanese beetles and ap
plied treatments to eliminate
all known infestations of
khapia beetles in the United
States and Mexico
The .national fight against
brucellosis, costly disease of
livestock, entered a new
phase when New Hampshire
was pronounced brucellosis
fice the hrsi state to so
qualify Modified - certified
status, an intoarmediate step
in the eradication effort, has
been achieved hv 26 states
Each working day, Federal
meat inspectors kept about
one milhc.i pounds of unfit
meat from U.S dining tab
les Duiing the year ended
Juno 30, meat liom more
than 107 million animals was
inspected and passed at 1,-
396 mem-packing establish
ments vi 572 U S cities
About 40,000 labels and
sketches for use on Fedcral
1\ inspected meat and meat
products—both domestic and
imported were reviewed
to see that they contained
the requned consumer m
oimation and that no mis
l(advii4 statements 01 sym
bols weie included
Neaih 500 moie than
06 per cent of the Fed
ciallj inspected meat-pack
ing plants thioughoul the U
S aie now slaughtering one
or more species of livestock
CHAIN SAW
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NEW HOLLAND EL4-2214
by humane meuio. . ac
cordance with requirements
of the Humane Slaughter law
which became effective last
July. /
Corn Growth
Is Much Faster
On Windy Days
Corn yields may be reduc
ed if lack of air movement evaluating effects of
for a number of sunny days light and carbon dioxide on
prevents plants from getting corn growt iv the ARS scien
sufficient 'carbon dioxide to tists compared measurements
sustain maximum growth, ac- from p i an t s m a field with
cording to research by the ot hers made by Cornell re-
U S Department of Agricul- searc hers from field plants
ture and Cornell Univerhity enc losed in a plastic growth
Findings in studies direct- chamber The enclosed chain
ed by R Lemon of USDA’s ber permitted accurate meas-
Agncultural Research Ser- urements of environmental
vice and Robert B Musgrave conditions temperature,
of Cornell University, sug- humidity, and changes in the
gcst that the rate of photo- amount of carbon dioxide
A Canadian Layer
IN PENNSYLVANIA
The great Canadian-bred layer, Shaver Star
cross 288, finished in the first quartile in the Pa.
Random Sample test, topping all other interna
tionally franchised breeds, with the following
statistics -
Eggs per hen housed 245.6
Feed per 24 ounces of eggs 4.2 lbs.
Laying house morlaliiy 8.3%
Percsniage large eggs last month of
test 98.0%
Net income over feed & chick cost $2.85
SHAVER ' SOLD BY
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synthesis on sunny days Is
determined largely by the
rate of exchange, of' carbon
dioxide between air and
corn. About 80 percent of'
the carbon dioxide needed
by corn must be brought
from outhide the held by air
movement.
Light, another important
factor in corn growth, strong
ly influences the use of car- 1
bon dioxide by plants. As
light intensity increases, so
does the amount of carbon
dioxide used. The more car
bon dioxide available, the
more the plants use, particul
arly when light intensities
are high.
used when light intensity the growth chamber and
changed. The amount of sol- open field were small,
•dr iradiation absorbed'Tjy the thte. rate "of photosynthehi
crops was also mea'sured. both places increasing '
_ , . ~ - , light intensities increased
Data from the field were Late in the naming '
compared with those from in- ra t e of photosynthesis in
struments inside the plastic chamber stopped increaj
growth chamber. On days when the maximum rate
with little wind, environ- lowed by the carbon dioj
mental .differences between level was reached.
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