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LOOKING OVER GRASS GROWN IN an incubator at Wyeth Laboratories is the
arch engineer, Ivan Z. Martin, who developed the machine Grass in the upper tray
le issult of live day’s growth After seven in the incubator, oats will have near
ighl inches growth, according to manufactures of the machine Lights m the side
he machine are turned on for 12 hours per day during the last three days of growth
jimg gram on the other four trays receives no light —L F Photo
nnsylvania Poultry Federation
imes Bicksler Top Poultryman
Uimeisity Park, Pa—Homer J Bicksler, manager ot
Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Hatchery at Harrisburg,
foimor president of the Pennsylvania Poultry Federa-
, \\?b named “Poultryman of the Year” at the Federa
's Annual Conference banquet at University Park June
fsl.e S Hubbard of Lan- of the Federation. Kauffman
Er, another past president also received a piece of lug
he Federation and former gage as a token of the Feder
plenl of the award, pre- ation’s appreciation
ea Bicksler with a fram
>croll m recognition of
many years of devoted
lc e to the Pennsylvania
ltr J Industry, and partic
ty lo the Pennsylvania
Hry Federation
notbcr industry leader
5i ed was Harry H. Kauff
> wlio retired at the end
Une head of the Penn
anid State
extension division.
®as E Rloncnef of Ev
lods s Poultry Magazine,
° Vei ■ toastmaster for the
“ng. presented Kauffman
a framed scroll making
a, i ho’ioiy hfo member
RM Calendar
iO-— 00 pm . County
Aifehire . jersey club
the home of Mxl
a Brubikcr, Lititz Rl.
H—s 00 pm. Lancaster
Wy \ ocational agncul
tiMtlicrs annual sum-
Picnic at Hershey.
Pm - Twilight meet-
a t the Southeastern
Artificial
int Cl> Cooperative on
e -'lO By-Pass near
)Q
111 ■ Ehzabethtown-
community
w at the home of
1 F "-'. Mount Joy Rl.
t T Illcll ce judging for
teams at
ir v ”, C ; An Sus Farm
njK ork Lancaster Co.
xer T Cets 31 Wheatland
if* ■‘ mc oln Highway
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HARRY H. KAUFFMAN
Guests appearing on the
program included Dr W. L.
Henning, Pennsylvania Secre
tary of Agriculture, who m
(Tura to page 7)
Farm Prices
Show Decline
For 6th Month
Harrisburg Pennsylvan
ia farm product prices drop
ped for the sixth consecutive
month during June, the Crop
Reporting Service said Wed
nesday.
In mid-June the average
price received for all agricul
tural commodities was one
per cent below a month earl
(Continued on Page 13>
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 3, 1961
Tractor Upsets
On County Man
A sixty-six-year old farmer
in the Peach Bottom area
was seriously injured ■ Mon
day when a tractor he was
operating overturned pinning
him underneath.
Landis Schaeffer, Peach
Bottom Rl, was admitted to
the Lancaster Osteopathic
Hospital suffering from mul
tiple fractures of the ribs,
possible internal miuries and
possible concussion By Tues
day night, hospital authori
ties reported Schaeffer was
(Turn to page 12)
Crop Summary
County Crops Making Good Growth
Tobacco crops throughout
the county appear to be mak
ing excellent growth, reports
this week indicate The crop
is more than 90 per cent
taransplanted, estimates from
around the county indicate.
Tomatoes and corn made
satisfactory growth during
the week with corn passing
the last possible stage for
cultivation in most fields.
Tomatoes are setting fruit
and green fruit is sizing rap
idly. Reports indicate good
vine growth and good fiuit
set to date.
Pastures continued to pro
duce good qualities of lorage
Most pastures have been
clipped and some farmers are
beginning to make second
cutting alfalfa hay.
Early harvest has started
m southern counties, the
Pennsylvania Crop Reporting
Service said Wednesday in
its weekly roundup of crop
and weather conditions
The re-irt said that yields
are good and that barley
fields have turned yellow
throughout most of the rest
of the state Reports from
Lancaster County indicate
near record yields in some
fields.
Sweet cherry harvest should
MachineSaidTo Produce
Grass Indoors In Winter
Green grass for livestock all year round 7 Impossib'o,
you say? Not so, say the manufactuiers of a grass incubator
recently installed in the county
The incubator, recently
put into operation at the
Wyeth Laboratories at Mari
etta, is reported to turn 84
pounds of grain into 500 lbs
of green grass in a matter of
seven days. And what is
more important, say the
makers, is that the machine
will do the job winter and
summer making it possible
to keep livestock production
uniform throughout the year.
The Marietta installation is
designed to produce green
forage for several thousand
rabbits and guinea-pigs and
Early Blight
inTomato Fields,
Sprays Needed
Some tomatoes early blight or our animals ’ Said a rcp
(alternna blight) has been rosentative ot the drug firm,
reported in county fields, Ar- The size meubator mstall
nold Lueck, assistant County cd at the laboratory would
Agent, said this week supply forage tor 24 dairy
The outbreak is not sen- cows > the makers state The
ous, however, Lueck said. ilurn to page 12)
Weather conditions have been “ ' "
favorable for the spread of secticides in the spray pro
this and olhei diseases, and gram with the addition of
it is important that a fungi- one fungicide and repeat ap
cide be added to spray pro- plications at seven to ten day
grams at this time. intervals.
Aphids, leafhoppers and Insecticides and amounts
flea bettlcs are working in, per acre recommended by
county tomato fields at pres- plant disease personnel at
ent, LueHk reports. If aphids the Pennsylvania State Uni
are the particular prob’em, versity include the following:
the spray program would call Malatluon, 25% wettable
for the use of malathion or pow der, three pounds;
parathion while DDT is ef- rn „, .
fective on leaihoppers and n 59 % emulsion,
flea bettles but not aphids. pi ’
Thiodan is a good general
insecticide for tomatoes, the
agent said.
Lueck further recommend
ed the combination of two in
start in Erie Co this week as
the peak of the crop is har
vested m southern orchards
The short sour cherry crop is
starting to ripen and harvest
should commence next week
in southern counties and dur
ing the third week of July in
Erie County. Erie County
grapes were in full bloom on
July 1.
Staked tomatoes from the
Lancaster - York area will be
moving to market in volume
next week as will green
wrap tomatoes from the Wy
oming Va'loy. The tomato
crop is about a week late.
Some early marketings of
tomatoes m the Washington
Boro area wore reported this
week.
Cabbage is now being har
vested in volume in the
southern two thirds of the
state as lettuce harvest tap
ers oft. Snap beans are being
picked in light volume, but
harvest will not be full scale
until the middle of July.
Strawberry harvest passed
its peak in northern counties
last week.
Early green pea harvest
for processing is progressing
rapidly in all areas except
in Potter and Erie Counties
(Turn lo page 14)
$2 Per Yeat
several hundred monkeys
used lor test purposes. A
spokesman for the laboratory
said this week they expect to
produce forage in the winter
to replace the kale and beets
which they now use but con
sider an uncertain source of
green material needed to
keep the test* animals in top
health But if costs are in
line with those predicted by
the manufactures of the ma
chine, the entire forage pro
gram will bo switched from
outdoors to indoors
Hydroponic Industries, Inc.
manufacturers of the Martin
Forager claim grass can be
produced for about $lO 00 a
ton, including all seed and
operating costs ‘ This is no
more than the cost of silage,
and the grass is far better
Parathion, 15% weltable
powder, two pounds,
Parathion, 25% emulsion,
IX > pints,
Thiodan, 50 '/(>
powder, one pound;
Thiodan, 2 pounds per gal.
emulsion, one quart;
DDT, 50% weltable pow
der, three pounds
Recommendations call lor
the addition ot any one of
the following fungicides'
Maneb, 80% weltable pow
der, three pounds,
Dyrene, 50% weltable
powder, eight pounds
Fixed Copper, 50% wet
table powder. 8 pounds
In using any insecticide,
label directions should be
followed carefully, but
Lueck cautions spray opera
tois to be particularly care
ful in following label instruc
tions with malatlnon and par
atluon
FIVE - DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Saturday • Wednesday
Temperatures during the
five day period will aver
age 2 to 6 degrees below
the normal range of 86 in
the afternoon to 66 at nite.
Cooler temperatures are
expected Saturday night
with lilt’e day to day
changes thereafter. Preci
pitation may total 0.6 inch
fa'ling mainly as showers
Saturday with a chance of
leal showers about Wed
nesday,
wettablG