6—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 21, 1962
• Warwick FFA
(From IM-se 1)
the awards Janies
Boose, president, ;.ue his
winning chapter spent h, "The
Threat ol Creeping So.iahsnl'
The special quests were the
Rev. and Mrs. Grosz, Brunner
anile, Mr and Mrs Forney
Gongenecker, Lautz R 3, and
Mr. and Mrs Harold Swisher,
latitz R 4
The iuiocation was deliv
ered bj Rev Grosz and a spec
ial invocation given by N'ed
Bushong.
After a home-stjle turkev
dinner the awards were pre
tented to more than half of
the future farmers present
Mo.st of the awards were gnen
to members who helped the
After
WarvuiK Chapter bring home
a Gold Cup for judging at th*
West Lampeter Comnuinitv
Fair This is the third tear in
a row that the Warwick Fu
ture Farmers won this award
After the speeches Air Ilen
nev showed slides ot each hot
in the shop at home oi on the
farm, showing oi woiknu, on
his project
• Spring Weather
(Continued train Pa_,c. 1 )
bure because of wet lield con-
ditions
FRUIT TREES iam >
through the winter in good
condition Growers hate then
pruning completed e\<ept in
the Erie region Ti ees aie gen
erally in the bud- stage in the
Berks-Lehtgh and South Moun
tain areas but are somewhat
later in the Erie locality
Spray programs are underway
where tield conditions permit
There has been little or no
spring frost injury to date
Some plantings hate been
completed for the eatlv spring
vegetable crops of cabbage,
green peas, spinach onions,
lettuce A few earlv cobbler
potatoes have also been plant
ed in the Lancaster area
Weekly Weather Summary
The cool breezy and wet
-weather of the past week
seemed more like the weather
of March than of mid-April
1 emperatures an i.iced some
4 to fi degrees below noima'
for the coolest penod since
the thud week in March
A senes of storms dttnn;
the week produced almost
daih precipitation in ueneions
amounts Weekh totals langecl
from 1 to 2 inches generalh
except m the extreme north
east and extieme southeast
where around Vi inch fell Sex
eral inches ot snow were re
ported Thursday at high eleva
tions northern halt of the
State with up to (> inches m
Tioga Countv Snow (lurriej,
widespread Sundae but no ac
cumulation resulted
When will the last freeze
occur this spnng"’ This is i
question frequentlv heard ev
ery year about now To ans
w‘*r such a question, an exact
lenig range forecast would be
needed as freezing tempera
tures have occurred in Penn
sylvania as late as Mav and
June I'nfoi Innate h such foie-
casts arc- not available 1 it it i
the precision required lor pi in-
ning purpose's Ilowecei re -
ords of past wesither are i
xatlable fiom win h the jnob
abilities ’ or odds ol freezing
le±mperature s aftt'r siiecif>r
dales can be determined
The acerag' 1 date of the last
12 degree temporal in e 01 low
er in Lancaster Counn is \p
nl 20th In other words, freez-
ing temperatures ean be ex
pected on the teenage of one
year out of twe which means
that (he chances of no freeze
after the indicated date at'
only 30-50
File Electrode
On Spark Plug
When Cleaning
Should the electrodes be
tiled when servicing used
spark plugs 9
"Definitely so,” sa> agricul
ture engineers who advise that
failure to file the electrode
sparking surfaces after abra
sive blasting spark plugs actu
ally can result in the, plugs
being worse off than they were
before they -were cleaned.
Emphatically stating that
the electrode filing operation
is one of the most important
parts of a spark plug clean
ing job, the engineers point to
recent tests in which the re- p A . lrc T_ T*\¥ II A
qmred sparking voltage of pro- wOlnrS 111 UEM,Lt\
perly serviced pliyts. (those
which had been abrasive blast- »'vlUl 11 ITlvfl C
ed, electrodes, tilcci and re- f'ooV* TV» i^IAIT»P»» , C
gapped) was compared to the VWIICI9
voltage requirements of plug" Dairy cows in the National
that had been improperly ser- Cooperative Dairy Herd Ini
vaed (simply abrasive blasted, provement Association - pro
then regapped ) gram returned herd owners an
The results’’ . The plugs estimated average profit of $BB
on which the electrodes
weren't filed actually required gmeers, a spark plug's future
more voltage to create a spark S er\ ice life depends entirely
than was required before they on how well the plug Is ser
were removed from the engine viced
in a used condition'
Proper servicing should m-
On the other hand, the plugs elude abrasive blasting to re
which were abrasive blasted, move deposits, electrode filing
tbeir electrodes filed to re- t 0 restore clean sharp edges to
store clean sharp edges, and the sparking surfaces, and re
then regapped, performed com- g'apped (If plugs are oil
parable to new spark plugs! fouled, be sure and degrease
\ccording to tractor en- them befoie abrasive blasting.)
per head last jear, the U. S,
Department of Agriculture re
ported this week
These high DHIA returns
show that sound management,
based on record-keeping im
provement programs, can lead
to profitable dairying, USDA
says. Records help dairymen
cull low-producing cows, feed
each animal according to pro
duction, and select the best
stock for breeding herd re
placements.
Dairymen In the DHIA con
tinue to improve production
ot their herds faster than
other dairymen.
DHIA cows boosted average
annual production trom 8,1353
pounds of milk in 1940 to a
1961 record of 10,796 pounds
per cow, an average yearly im-
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