PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE VOL. 6. NO. 14 ioUiMG FRUIT TREES AND ORNAMENTAL shrubs served as the unwilling hosts to hungry rabbits during the recent heavy snows. Deep drifts around the base of this young apple tree in the backyard-orchard of Philip Owen, Willow Street Rl, served as a platform for the rodents as they stripped bark from the lower limbs of the tree. Most of the limbs will have to be pruned off trees like this, but snow -around ,the trunk kept the bark on the mam part of the tree intact - —L. F. Photo More Cbws Not Answer, p| o ry Ayrshire”* Co-op Members Are Told Receives Honor The pressure to “get big Harvey Shaffer, extension A registered Ayrshire or get out’’ is noT the ans- dairy specialist from Penn- owned by Miss Florence Mae wer to economical dairy pro- sylvania State University, Flory, Manheim R 3, has been duction, members of the speaking to approximately named an honorable men- Southeastern Pennsylvania 200 members in their dis- tion Junior All-American Artificial Breeders Coopera- trict meeting at Landisville Senior Yearling, it was an tive were told Thursday nito. fire hall, told the dairymen nounced this week. they will feel increasing DaDvid Gibson, Jr., exe- FaTIIU pisjn A n pressures-to increase the size cutive secretary of the Ayr- A AKM. V/ALIINUAK of their cow herds. shire Breeders’ Association, Feb 25—12-00 noon, - Bred He said Dairy Herd Im- Br and°n, Vermont, announ giit sale sponsored by the provement Association herds ced that Mount am Valley Po Lancaster County Swine have been increasing at the Beau ty, Mlss Flory s 4-H club Producers Association, ht rate of about one cow per P r °J €ct jyas selected from Blue Ball sales bam. year in recent years and now fcHu.ry 27 _, ;3 0 p.„. - average 31.9 oowa per herd. Meeting of the county FFA This trend is likely to con at the New Holland High tmue. he said, but where FlorVs‘heifer nlaoprt School: Conferring of Red land acreage, barn room or Hose Farmer Degrees. labor are limitmg factors, g " t P pennsvlvan?- 730 Pm . . southern Co- expanding the dairy herd e? Tr f tor c . lub me- .h 01 s f ol , v h e tbe . economic five Lancaster County -4H WUof l h % sh °P of C -, E problem of the dairyman. Dairy> Southeast District 4- o nn y& S °m Quarryville Good management of the h and Pennsylvania Junior b 1 rn P t 1 ' Reorg anization cows now in the herd may Dairy shows last year She R ™ eet i ng of f he Red be a more practical way to was third in Farm Show _ Dairy Herd Im- (Turn to page 11) competition m January pi oveme.nt Association bo? 1-d of directors at Pro- n . ■ r . n ~ ■ ; on T credit, Rosevme Beimscierfer To Be Speaker Lancaster. A too ary nm 8 ~ 9: r°. am At Soil Conservation Banquet 0 Pm - first annual - county S oii s day, at the Dr. D. L. Beimsderfer, Ephrata 'iiernscy Sales Pavilion, president of the Millersville The date of the banquet 'ncoln Highway, east of State College, Will be the was originally scheduled for I ncaster. principal speaker at the an- March 1, but ha<i to be oil pm- - Lancaster area nual banquet-of the Lancas- postponed to the following c‘ w factor club meets at ter County Soil Ccnserva- night avely’s Farm Equipment tion District next week, n New Holland Henry Hackman, Manheim . Pm. - Northeast trac- R 2, vice president of_the co tn c , m eets at jQhester unty SCD will show colored -3 s in Akron. slides of rural life in Po- Pm Annual meet- land. Hackman took the . 5 ,°f District seven of during a tour of Po rstate Milk Producers’ land last year when he was operative at the Blue an visitor sponsor aroh fire ed by the Brethren church Day - Annual The banquet, scheduled cn? confer- for 6:30 p.m., will be held “ , for extension work- in the First Evangelical Uni shov 8t Cocoa Inn, Her- ted Brethren Church, llv y ' Hour county exccu- rata, on March 2. The chur win °° m mittee members ch is located on the corner 7 30 aß end the conference of Locust and Chufch streets m. - Meeting of 4- two blocks north and one Uurn to page 10) block west of the square in Lancaster Farming. Saturday, February 25, 1961 USDA Reports Face Fly Problem Partly Solved Livestock raisers and dairymen who last year saw the faceTiy becoming a problem on their cattle and finding very little in the way of effective control measures will be cheer ed by reports from the US Department of Agriculture this week. Year-round research to find workers of USDA’S Agricul ways of controlling the face tural Research Service have fly,has been made possible succeeded in propagating the by development -of a labora- insects through eight gene tory method of rearing these rations in an effort to build flies. a colony large enough to per John H Fales and his co- mit experiments aimed at IOULTURfIt LIBRARY Rabbits Causing Damage To Trees, Orchardists Say Rabbits turned from their standard diet to anything accessable during the recent deep snows, and many orchard ists and home owners are seeing the results gf their forag ing on fruit and ornamental trees and shrubs. In some orchards and back yard plantings, young trees were completely girdled by the rodents In cases where the damage has been severe, rome reports indicate, the trees and shrubs will not survive. In other cases, orchardists report, the rabbits stood on top of the deep snow and gnawed the bark from the lower limbs of young trees. In most cases of this kind, the tree will probably sur vive, but heavy pruning will be necessary to remove the branches which have been completely girdled. County Agent, M.M. Smith said this week some of the branches can be saved if the Scholarship Fund Home Ec Grant To County Girl A former county 4-H member has been awarded the Extension Homemakers Scholarship award, it was announc ed this week. Mary Grube, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John 8.-Grube, liiriti R 3, a ]r. Home Econo mics student/at Mansfield St ate College, this week was the recipient of a $l5O scho larship award. Each year since the oiigin MARY GRUBE o'f the program, Lancaster County has contributed to the Extension Homemakers Scholarship award Fund, Mrs Norma DtLellis, Asso ciate County Home Econo mics Agent said in making the award public. Awards from the fund are mroe anuatly to students at honnsylvaria State Univer sity r* well as other colleges in lle state of r- ' •ig a Koine l fonomics currici ■ um $2 Per Year proper action is taken be fore the branches start 1 toi rot at the damaged places. Smith recommends remov ing all branches that have been completely girdled and applying a coat of yellow shellac to the spots where the bark is removed from a portion of the branch. The shellac, Smith said, will protect the exposed wo od and help the bark heal over If the skinned areas are not coated with some thing such as yellow shellac rot may set in and destroy the branch, he pointed out. The recommendation is a bout the same for fruit trees or ornamental shrubs, Smith said Miss Grube, while a mem ber of the Lancaster County '4-H clubs, completed projects in foods, clothing and jun ior leadership. She was the president of her local club in 1957. During the same year she was named state dinner in the poultry foods demonstration as "well as in. the county dress review At her college, Miss Grube is a member of Kappa Omi cron Phi, Omicron, Gamma Pi, the college band and the college players She has been on the Dean’s List for scho larship for two semesters. M'ss Grube was nominat ed for the award by mem bers of the Lancaster County Extension Association, but recipients of the awards are selected by the colleges in which the applicants are en rolled. FIVE - DAY WEATHER FORECAST Saturday - Wednesday Temperatures during the next live days will average live degrees above the nor mal of 27 at night -and 45 in the afternoon. Tempera tures will range cooler on Saturday and again Tues day and Wednesday. Preci pitation may total over V 2 inch occurring mainly as rain on Saturday and part of Sunday and again to wards the end of the peri od. development of suitable con trol measures The face fly, looks very much like a house fly. It is common in Europe and Asia and was first found in the United States (New - York State) m 1953 When present in large numbers, this live stock pest reduces milk pro duction in dairy cattle and holds down weight gains in moat animals by constantly atta.Aiiik the eyes of the animals as they graze (Turn to page 6)
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