20 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 9, 1963
More Chemicals
On The Way
New York, NY— John Q.
Citizen will face many more
new heibicides and pesticides as
he tackles the insect and weed
.piohlem in .the'future according
to papers presented at the 17th
Annual Noitheastern Weed
Control Conteience held at the
Hotel New Yorker in New
Yoik City last week.
The present and tuture sta
tus of pesticide tolerances, a re
cent conti oversial topic, was
discussed by Pai ke C Brink
lev, President ot the National
Agncultural Chemical Associa
tion ot Washington, D C
Bnnkley noted that in 1951
there weie 109 diffeient basic,
synthetic, organic * pesticide
chemicals produced in the Uni
ted States “The number has
neatly doubled in ten years”,
Bnnkley pointed out He adds,
“We now haie 193 pesticides”.
“Herbicides aie an economic
necessity We have to substitute
herbicides toi laboi”, Brinkley
said
“One-thnd of the cost of
putting pesticides on the mark
et is used to double check the
pioduct to make sure it is safe
foi the consumer as required
by the fedeial government”,
the expert said Brinkley prais
ed pesticides foi their contribu
tions to our welfare and said,
“Pesticides have saved more
lues than all of the wonder
di ugs combined” He noted
that DDT alone sated 5,000,-
000 lives and prevented 100,-
000,000 illnesses due to insect
earners ot disease organisms.
, Belaud G Merrill Jr , Dean,
College ot Agncultuie. Rutg
eis it he State Univeisity of
Men Jeisev, New Brunswick.
New Jersey, spoke on Pesticid
es in a Balanced Environment,
and told the confeience that
“The absolute mandatory and
judicious use of pesticides in
tegiated with the battle to
hold back the elements is re
sulting in a much more favor
able balance of the envnonment
tovTaid mankind” Merrill fur
thei stated, “I have full con
fidence that effective use of
chemicals undei leasonable go
vernment controls in combina
tion with the other means of
pest control will give every day
to man an inci easing advant
age over environmental ag
ents” He chaiged the people
at the meeting to do every
thing to inform the public of
the value of pesticidal usage
Industrial companies intro
duced a dozen new herbicides
for 1903 as 700 state, fereral
and industnal workers from 15
states gathered for the confer
ence.
Two Countians
Take Course
On Fallout
Larry R Corson & Richard
A Shipman ot the U.S Soil
Consenation Seivice m Lan
castei County attended a la
diological monitoring, training
school at Harrisburg last week.
At the two and one-halt day
vvoikshop instructions in the
use ot Geiger counters for de
tecting ladioactivity in the si 1
vveie given by Di F Glade
Loughiv ot the Soil Conserva
tion Service and Air Richarl
Lane of the Pennsylvania St' e
Office of Civil Defense
Corson & Shipman also re
ceived naming on methoas
which tarme s may use to
minimire injunes liom ra’b
adivc material to livestock
and fami pioducts used for ani
mal and human consumption
Lancaster County had been
designated as one of the Penn
sylvania Nations scheduled to
assemble data on radioactive
iallout.
Dog
Are Reminded
To Buy Licenses
HARRISBURG Dog licen
ses for 19 63 are overdue
have been since Jan 15, the
Bureau ol Animal Industry,
Pennsylvania .Department of
Agriculture, leminded today in
announcing a checkup that is
soon to start on all unlicensed
dogs
Walter H. Miller, chief of the
BAl’s dog law division, warned
that dog law violators' are “li
able to fines ranging from $5
to $lOO, plus costs, or impris
onment not exceeding 30 days,
or both ”
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Miller said “it is not the wish
ol the Bureau of Animal Indus
try or enforcement officers to
make prosecutions. 'Rather, the
checkup aims at the licensing
of all dogs with homes and the
disposal of strays and homeless
dogs.
The purpose of the Pennsyl
vania Dog Law, he explained, is
the proper control of dogs for
the protection of the public, the
protection of property, and the
protection of properly licensed
and tagged dogs.
All dogs over six months of
age must be licensed. Dog lic
enses may be purchased at
county treasurer offices, or may
be ordered through any potary
public, justice of the peace, or
alderman.
“The purchase of a license,"
Miller warned, “do.es not per
mit your dog to run at large
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m -|i» i a tlon to Heart Haven.
farm Women lU It was announced that bus
[>•___ Vo lanflnPC reservations to the Philadel
ormg V aiCillUlCS pt, ia Flower show on Wed-
Trk MpAfinO nesday, March 13 are to be
1 O iTICCUHg made with Mrs. Jacob Evans,
Society of Farm Women 10 451 w< Chestnut Street, Lan
brought valentines to a recent caster Mrs. John Habecker
meeting in the home of Mrs. and Cyrus Neff reported
Abram Miller, 1130 Farm- on the state convention in
ingdale Road.' Harrisburg last month.
The valentines.' however, 'Mrs. Edgar Porter spoke in
were not for the members tbe absence ot her sdn - ® e “-
themselves. They were to be who spent six months inNo
distributed to the children m duTln / l he ]at er J
the Elizabethtown Crippled 196 1 *f d the earl y f art ° £
Children's hospital and the Glenn is now m th«.U.S.
special education classes at Armed Services.
Conestoga Valley and Hemp- The next meeting will be
field Elementary schools. The held Saturday, March S, in
society also voted a $l5 dona- Kauffman's Tea Room, East
Petersburg, when the hostesses
, T . . . will be Mrs. Wayne Brubaker
unaccompanied. If found and Mrs- Fred A white
mg at large,, it can be picked e j ephant sa i e w ,u be featured,
up by any officer.
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