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.livujUNG AT xHE MOSAIC and wildfire resistant strain of tobacco, Penbel 69, re
' for trial to Lancaster County growers this week, is T R. Terrill, Instructor in ag
y and Superintendent of the Southeastern Field Research Laboratory near Landis-
The picture, taken In 1960, shows part of the experimental plots where the new
formerly known at Bel 2-69, was tested for resistance to mosaic. ■—L F Photo
ware Swine
rgo Lifted
isburg, April sth
Ivania Secretary of
■ulture William h. Hen
today advised farmers
an embargo which had
placed on swine from
tate of Delaware has
removed
I'etary Henning said
Di W. R Teeter, Dela-
State Veterinarian,
advised that a slaughter
serum treatment pro
has ended the threat-of
-ad of swine cholera in
.ate
embargo was placed in
September 19.
''or, swine being im
_ mto Pennsylvania
Delaware or any other
for bleeding or feeding
ICS Mill must be certi
’ disease-free and vacci
"dh an attenuated vir-
s <.'nnon against swine
[ Calendar
~~ 2 to 6 p. m. -
■ cn _ Barbecue at the
Jsk'r County Poultry
Roseville Road and
b .'Pas,s,
P m . Senior Exten-
CJllb District Square
; at the Guernsey
’ l ' u hion, Lincoln
■*' East of Lancast
mviled.
*0 to 12—County Ag
’ c °nicicnce at Penn
7 00 pm. - Soil
■‘Uion District meets
House County
P j^ T * County wide
4. H dub
1 Production credit,
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Changes Made
In Penna Seed
Labeling Law
HARRISBURG Pennsyl
vania Secretary of Agricul
ture William L.'Henning to
day announced provisions of
a change in seed mixture la
beling requirements.
The new regulation says:
“When labeling seed mix
tures only components of 5
per cent or more shall be
named on the label. The only
exception shall be in the
case of white clover where
as little as one per cent may
be listed. All other compon
ents of less than 5 per cent
shall be totaled and this sum
listed as ‘other crop seed’ •
any other listing shall be
considered as misleading.”
This new regulation, made
under provisions of the
Pennsy Ivania Seed Act of
19477' will become effective
January 2, 1962.
Secretary Henning said that
advantage has been taken of
buyers by the use of such
terminology as “Contains
Menon Kentucky Bluegrass”
by printing this statement in
large type on the bag or box
of seed when actually the
content of this aeed wgs on
ly a small fraction of the
total seeds in the package
“Every bag or box of seed
mixtures—lawn or field crop
—must be labeled to show
the contents of the mixture,
and the purity and per cent
of germination of each por
tion of the mixture,” Secre
tary Henning pointed out.
“Seed buyers should keep
in mind that if the desired
seed variety is only 5 per
cent pure and germinates at
70 per cent, the amount of
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THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE (COLLEGE
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 8, 1961
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County Boy
Wins FFA
Speech Contest
Wilmer Martin, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James H Martin,
New Holland Rl, took top
honors in the York-Lancaster
Area Future Farmers Public
Speaking contest this week.
The vocational agriculture
student from the Eastern
Lancaster County Joint High
School in New Holland, won
the judges’ approval with a
speech entitled, “Our Land -
Man’s Greatest Resource.”
Martin presented his talk
on conservation at the an.
nual area FFA public speak
mg contest Monday at Spring
Grove in York County.
In the Parliamentary Pro
ceedure portion of the con
test, the team from Lampeter
- Strasburg High School tied
for first place with the “Dov
er entry. The contest will be
rescheduled at a later dale.
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WILMER MARTIN
County Farmers To Try
Two New Tobacco Strains
Lancaster County tobacco growers now have the op
portunity to try out two new disease-resistant varieties of
cigar-filler tobacco, U. S. Type 41. as a result of a coopera
tive breeding and research project of the Pennsylvania
State University and the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
These varieties are the Ponnleaf l and Pennb el
best of a large number of 59 are new varieties re
disease-resistant lines that leased by the Pennsylvania
have been under test since State University Committee
1950; The original crosses on Introduction of New Var
were made by E. E Clayton leties and Strains of Plants,
at Beltsville, and the selec- Seed will be immediately
tion and testing of the prog- available to county growers,
eny have been carried out by Penn leaf 1, known experi-
H. B. Engle, research agron. mentally as S-IA, is highly
omist at the Southeastern resistant to wildfire (rust),
Field Research Laboratory and moderately resistant to
near Landisville. (Turn to page 16)
Farm Price Decline Noted
For Third Straight Month
HARRISBURG, April 3 ers, sheep, lambs,
Prices received by Pennsyl- and feed grams
vania farmers for their agri
cultural products declined for In comparing livestock
the third consecutive month, and livestock product prices
the State Department of Ag- wldl those of a year ago, it
nculture said today. , , ~ . . ,
* , . , . , , , is evident that higher egg
According to tabulations of
the Pennsylvania Crop Re- prices are mainly responsib
porting Service, the average i e f° r an over-all increase
price received for all agri- m the average prices in this
cultural products in mid- field. At 41 cents a dozen,
"March was nearly 3 per cent eggs were 5 cents a dozen
lower than a month earlier, more valuable this year than
However, the average level last.
of farm prices was the same , ~
as a year ago. Prices received for all
Seasonally lower prices crops in mid-March averag
for wholesale milk (down 15 e d 2 per cent below a mon
conts per Hundredweight to th a S° an d 6 per cent under
54.80) and eggs (down 3 last year. Lower prices for
cents to 41 cents) combined potatoes, apples, and food
with generally lower prices grains more than off-set the
for hogs, calves and potatoes higher prices for soybeans
to cause the drop in the in- an d fed grains Mainly x’e
dex of prices received. sponsible for the 6 per cent
The index of prices re- l° wer average price level is
ceived, which is the barome- potatoes Spud prices are
ter of farm income, was 230 down $1 20 per hundred
per cent of the 1910-14 base weight from last years high
of 100 in mid-March It was P rices an d the average pri
-237 in* mid-February and ces dropped 15 cents a cwt.
230 a year ago. from mid-February to mid-
Shghtly higher prices we- March,
re recorded for steers, heif-
Senior Extension
Holds Election
James A. Hess, Strasburg
Rl, was elected president of
the Lancaster County Senior
Extension Club Thursday
night at the reorganization
meeting. He replaces Harold
Musser, Mount Joy Rl.
Hess is a former de’egate
to Peru in the International
Farm Youth Exchange pro
gram.
Other officers elected in
clude vice president, War
ren Miller, Columbia Rl; sec
retary, Joan Michael, Litit?
R 2; treasurer, Roger Thome,
Mount Joy R 2.
New Holland 4-H
Elects Officers
Richard Leaman, 2554
Creek Hill Road, was elected
president of the New Hol
land 4-H Community club at
the reorganization meeting
Thursday night.
Also elected were vice
president, Tony Folker; sec
retary, Sandy Smucker;
treasurer, John Eby Jr.
Adult leaders will be elect
ed at the next meeting.
$2 Per Yea*
Manheim YFA
Plans Banquet
Elmer Rock of Clay will
show pictures and describe
his recent hunting expedition
to British Columbia at the
annual banquet of the Man
heim Young Farmers' Asso
ciation next week.
The committee has invited
the public to attend the ban
quet m the Poniyn tire hall
April 11 at 645 pm Reser
vations may be made by call
ing Eugene Weaver, Man
heim.
FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday - Wednesday
Temperatures during the
next live days will average
near the normal range of
39 degrees at night to 59
degrees in the afternoon.
Cool weather is expected
with moderating tempera
tures during the early part
of the week. Precipitation
is likely to average less
than 0.1 inch occurring as
rain late Tuesday or Wed
nesday.
soybeans