t HAY FROM MICHIGAN TO LANCASTER COUNTY took the last part of
its journey by wagon and mule team. The hay, imported by the carload by Wilson
Scott, Willow Street Rl, came in to the Strasburg Railroad terminal this week
and was hauled home by Eli Stoltzfus, Strasburg Rl. At the railroad siding
where tourists are plentiful in the summer months the hay is unloaded by Wilbur
Shultz, in the car, and by Scott and a son of Stoltzfus on the wagon. The mules
are unidentified, L. F. Photo.
• Corn Growers
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a corn after corn program Af
ter about two years, it is best
to “go in there with 2, 4-D to
knock out the broadleaf annu
als that atnzine won’t contr
ol”. He also suggested using
a cover crop occasionally in a
continuous corn system, but
this is not possible if atnzine
is used year after year.
Assistant county agent Ar
McCormick Spreaders
I IN. PURCHASE
'TOKVt'.T PIAW
nie Lueck presented ribbons to
the winners in the 1962 flve
acie corn contest. J. Zeigler
Hess, Quarryville R 3, explained
that his winning entry was
wheel track planted right
after the plow at the rate of
20,400 plants per acre on a
conestoga silt loam. Zeigler
plowed down 350 pounds of
30-20-10 fertilizer and put an
other 200 pounds of 8-24-S in
the row at planting time. The
TRUCK LOAD SALE
PLUS FREE ONE MAN’S GOLD WRIST WATCH
Offer Good On A Limited Quantity - Buy
D.
LITITZ,
Berggren announced that
there will be three changes in
the contest rules this year
There will be a contest for
hand harvested crops and one
for machine harvested crops.
All contestants will be requir
ed to have a complete soil anal
ysis. For yields over 175 bus-
• High-Speed Uniform Spreading
• Low and Wide For Easy Loading
# Reinforced Treated Wood Boxes
«Choice of Rope or Lever Control
• Extra-Heavy-Duty Apron Chain
• Rugged Frame Construction
• Four Apron Speeds
(Limit One to Customer)
L. DIEM &
PA.
field was sprayed premerge
with LV-4 and again post-em
ergence with atnzine The field
was not cultivated once
‘ Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, March 23, 1963-—^
Show, Performance Testing-
Proposed By Agri. Department
HARRISBURG Pennsyl
vania Secretary of Agriculture
Leland PI. Bull today proposed
two new maior farm programs
• scale dairy and live
stock exposition and organize^
performance testing in live
stock.
Both, he said, would “stimu
late the state’s whole agricul
tural program, and would be
in keeping with the impoitance
of the Commonwealth’s dairy,
poultry, and livestock industri
es ” He invited these industries
to join as sponsors.
An enlarged dairy-livestoclc
exposition, patterned after the
Canadian “Royal” and other
events of the kind, would com
bine the Pennsylvania Lives
tock Exposition and Pennsyl
vania Junior Dairy Show, both
now sponsored by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, and add
an adult dairy section.
Features could include a ser
ies of national sales by the dif
ferent dairy and livestock
breed associations, meetings by
these groups, and expanded pr
ograms of intercollegiate and
junior (4-H and FPA) judg-
mg
Contemplated as a fall event,
the exposition would be tuned
with the state’s “flaming foli
age” displays to afford an add
ed attraction for toui’-mmded
visitors.
International in- scope, the produced 65 percent more crops
exposition would be open to all p ei . acre during 1962 than
states and other countries. It they did m 1920.
' “ Some growers of red tart
hels per acre, a purple ribbon chernes aie using mechanical
will be awarded and growers harvesters to pick th 3 fruit,
who make more than 200 bus- More than one thousand tons
hels per acre will get a gold of cherries were machme-pick
nbbon. ed during the 1962 season, ,
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SONS
would not conflict with the
Pennsylvania Farm Show that
is sponsored by the department
also The Farm Show is held
in January and is restricted to
Pennsylvania exhibitors.
Secretaiy Bull said livestock
performance testing would help
cattlemen and hog farmers or
ganize breeding programs aim
ed at the superior meat-type
carcasses that are continuing
to And increasing consumer
preference. He likened this pro
posal to the department’s ran
dom sampling work in chick
ens and turkeys.
Similar livestock programs
in nndwestern and western sta
tes were repoited to be giving
breeders premiums of up to
$2OO per animal for breeding
stock. “Until Pennsylvania es
tablishes such a program us
livestock farmers will continue
to operate at a disadvantage,”
Bull declared.
He said dairy farmers bene
fit from the comparable DHIA
(dairy herd improvement asso
ciation) program that is super
vised by the Pennsylvania St
ate University.
Livestock and poultry test
ing, Secretary Bull pointed out,
could be combined under his
department oi conducted join
tly with the university.
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