Lancaster Farming/ Saturday, /October 14, 1961—;7
• Mico-Fume 10 ° squ ” e ,f f a i
(From mm 9 3 - - waler wlth 150 63110113 oi
water per 100 sq yards; 4,
Iry, one 20 pound bag of the no thmg more until seeding
Iry chemical Mylone (D-25) time, then hand rake but do
P, L ROHRER & BRO., Inc.
SMOKETOV/N
WANTED-DEAD!
ALFALFA WEEVIL and Spittle Bug, too!
Your Custom Sprayer
' Richard R. Forry
LANCASTER EX 7-0035
Herbert F. Gehr
AN 7-6822
STfiV-ENS
Kenneth H. Habecker
LANCASTER
Hess Bfos.
MOUNT JOY,
T. M/s Heg. U. S. Pat. Off.; OBTHO
LANC. EX 7-3539
‘EX 3-4187
OL 3-7195
Benj. B. Landis
PARADISE
M '■■if*.
FUMIGATING A TOBACCO BED is not the hard work it used to be Forney Dong
enecker, left, tobacco farmer of Dititz R 3 watches as Jere Rohrer, chemical company
representative, applies a dry chemical to a tobacco bed on the Longenecker farm Ross
E Holtz, chemical company representative, sprays the bed with water to activate the
chemical and seal the surface of the soil Tin company claims the chemical will kill
weed seeds, grass seeds, fungi, nematodes and some soil insects —L t Photo
not turn the soil ” can be made at any time soil
“This is a great thing for temperature is between 50
the farmer who has been and 65 degrees, but lire man
-used to staying up till all ufacturers suggest doing the
hours of the night to try to job during September, Octo
get his tobacco steamed at ber or November in order to
the same time everyone e’se be ready for planting in the
is trying to get his done ” spring
Rohrer said The treatment Mico-Fume is one of four
is using
Melvin G. Lapp
LY 3-5717
ATGLEN
Leßoy R. Pfautz
STEVENS AN 7-6015
Alvin F. Smoker
INTERCOURSE
LANCASTER
“■ V <
Harold Zook
OV 7*6535
Dieldrin
SO 8-8418
EX 4-5412
treatments recommended by
the agronomists at State Col
lege, Rohrer said, but we
feel that the convenience
and ease of application make
it the best material available
for tobacco bed fumigation
At any rate, farmers in
the tobacco growing business
wili be watching with great
interest the beds on the
Longenecker farm. Plots in
other sections of the county
are located on the farms of
Samuel E Fisher, Gordon
vil’e R D, Christian Peter
sheim, Bird-m-Hand, Jay Le
fever, Quarryville R 3. as
well as the beds at Click’s
Plant farm m Smoketown.
Lancaster Farming advertis
es brings results.
USE DIELDRIN
THIS FALL
CONTROL-
ALFALFA WEEVIL
NEXT SPRING
Alfalfa and clover fields
sprayed with Dieldrin
during October and No
vember gives satisfact
ory control of alfalfa
weevil and spittle bug
the following spring.
Order your supply now
from
SMOKETOWN
PhV’ Lane. EX 7-3539 ,
t.M » «tft » i >u or. 6«iMB itetet
SRTHQi
im, » BKS
Dieldnn
Distributed by
J. C. Ehrlich
Chemical Co., Inc.
755 E. CHESTNUT ST.,'
LANOASTER, PA.
EX 7-3721
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