Best Food Buys
Bonanza At The Roadside
Tou’ll discover a bonanza
cf eating pleasure when you
visit the produce counter in
your neighborhood foodmar
ket or stop at your favorite
roadside stand or farmers’
market this weekend. That’s
the way Tom Piper, Penn
State Extension Marketing
Agent, describes the plentiful
supplies of field-ripened pro
duce now available from local
growing areas.
Summer apples, eaily pea
ches, plums, apucots and
blueberries are the popular
fresh fiuit items currently in
plentiful supply f i om local
orchaids. Nectarines, avoc
ados, western sweet cherries,
bananas and Califonuaoiang
es aie available too but prices
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Elizabethtown
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Eastern States Farmers’ Exchange, Inc.
reflect the costs of transpor
tation. Watermelons are cur
lently a very good buy; can
taloupes show impioved qual
ity although not so l econom
ically priced as watei melons.
Supplies of vine-ripened
tomatoes, locally harvested
sweet corn, new potatoes, cab
bage, snap beans, Romaine
and Big Boston lettuce, squa
sh and salad vegetables pio
vide economy and the season’s
best flavor Recent showeis
biought relief to the dry grew
ing conditions in some aieas
but the accompanying hail cau.
sed an uncalculated amount
of damage to the tiuit cions.
Summer meat demand is
concentiated on quick cooking
cuts and on those best suited
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for outdoor preparation. This
has an important influence on
summer prices. At this time
of year, chances of achieving
both economy and family pie
ferences in meat are probably
less than at any other season.
Among the best bets for
economy at the piesent tune
are arm and blade roasts of
foiequarter beet, and cuts
tiom the bottom round for
i oasts or swiss steaks. Sum
mer demand tor these cuts
is more limited, resulting in
lelatively low puces and more
fiequent specializing. Prices
aie slightly higher on smoked
meats, tiesh poik and poultiy
although some stoies will fea
tuie poultiy this week-end.
Tm key is plentiful and'reas
onably pneed.
Eggs are still cheaper than
a year ago and a good tood
value. Fishing has been good
>1 ixf
Wilson Scoff
West Willow
Stephen Kurtz
Morgantown
Evan E. Dinger
Beiuholds
Farmers
Feed & Supply
New Holland
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 28, 1962—17
and cuircnt good buys at the
seafood counter include blue
flsh, butter fish, fillets of had
dock and flounder, and scal
lops. lUilk, piocessed daily
pioducts and tiozen oiange
juice lemain in plentiful sup
ply.
Corn Borers
Number 1 Pest
In Corn Fields
Theie has been only one
mtei ruption since 1937 in the
downwaid tiend ot annual
losses caused by the Euiopean
coin boier.
Loss in 1961, the lowest m
pestfli) K
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736-738 E. CHESTNUT ST.
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CHADDS FORD
Harry Pyle & Sons, Inc.
DENVER
Denver Supply Co., Inc.
ELIZABETHTOWN
Elizabethtou n Farmers
Supply Co., Inc.
EPHKATA
Farmoisvillo Equipment Co,
Mai tin’s Food Mill, Inc,
HONEY BROOK
Martin D. Kent Hardware
LEBANON
Kreidcr’s Farm Supply
Pansy Hill Nursery &
Garden Center
MANHEIM
X. G. Hcrshcy & Son
MARIETTA
Lonsenecker’s Hardware
NORTH BROOK
Caleb P. Pulton Co., Inc.
nine yeais, was less than ha if
of what it was in 1954 and
195 5. It was still substantiil
enough, however, lor com
boiers to lemain near the top
of any listing of insects de
structive to ugiicultme.
Scientists say it is liaid to
ciedit this tiend to any one
thing. WeUthei conditions aie
one ot the dominant influences
contioiling borer population,
but it is unlikely that weather
alone would consistently push
boiei population lower and
lower.
Reseaich and its use lor
coin farmeis, must be a maior
Ifaotoi. Reseaich i)io\ided
lecommeiidcd cultuial nuic
(Cotinnuecl on Page 19)
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S. G. Lew is <S, Sou
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Lancaster County Farm 1
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