18—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 4, 1963
Clean Weed Sprayers Before
Using Them For Insecticides
By M. M. Smith,
County Agent
Many crops and plants are
damaged each year bv way of
improper cleaning of the spray
er; some water soluible herbici
des such as dalapon, dacthal,
orammo tnazoe can be i amov
ed from the sprayer by thor
ough washing with water and
«, soap detergent.
However, if the sprajer has
been used to apply 2, 4-D, 2,4-
5, T or Silvez, and the spraver
is later to be used for spraying
insecticides or fungicides on
desirable plants, then a very
careful job of cleaning is es
sential. It is strongly recom
mended that on© sprayer be
used for these weed materials
and another sprayer for the
general spray program
In case only one sprayer is
to be used for all purposes,
then we have two chemicals
■that may be used to clean the
eprayer. One is household am
monia and the other is activat
ed charcoal With the ammonia
use 1 gallon of aanmomt to 100
gallons of hot water (2 tahle-
Feed Company
Promotes
Serviceman
Cleveland Hastings has heen
appointed manager of the Broi
ler Contract Division of Miller
and Bushong, Inc , the feed
firm of Ro'hrerstown. The ap
pointment became . effective
April 29. according to Hendrik
Wentink, sales manager for the
firm.
CLEVELAND HASTINGS
Hastings, a graduate in Poul
try Husbandly at the Universi
ty of Delaware, has been asso
ciated with the company since
1952 as a 'poultry meat pi educ
tion specialist.
IPnor to moving to Lancaster
he served in the same capicitv
with a national feed firm and
for four years was head of the
poultry department at the Del
aware Valley School of Agn
culture.
Landis Bros. Inc. A. B. C. Groff Alan Beyer M. S. Yeorsley & Sons
Bam aster 303-3900 New Holland 354-8001 Christiana BY 3-5087 West Chester 696-2990
Wenger Implement- Co. Shotzberger's Edwards & Cox H. S. Newcomer & Son
Buck JSU -1-4407 Khn 005-2141 Oxford 933-2929 Ml. Joy 653-3301
spoons per quart). Fill the
sprayer with the solution and
spray a small amount through
the pozzies; let the rest of the
solution stand in the sprayer
for 24 hours and then spray
it out through the lines and
nozzles: rinse with warm wa
ter.
If the activated charcoal js
to he used, put 2y z pounds of
the charcoal with 2% pounds
of soap detergent in 100 gall
ons of water (1 ounce of each
m iVz gallons of water) and
agitate thoroughly; spray part
of the mixture out through the
lines, allow to stand for several
houis, spray the balance of the
mixture through the lines, rin
se with water, and then it sho
uld be ready for spraying.
Spray operators cannot be
too careful when using one ma
chine for a number of spiay
Jobs; the cleaning operation
must be thorough to eliminate
all possible risk. Also, in this
area many of tlhe corn fields
are sprayed with atrizme to
control weeds. This material is
deadly on all grasses that may
be along lanes, driveways,
lawns, or pasture fields. In ad
dition, it will stunt and kill
tobacco plants the same
it is applied; some tobacco
growers spray their fields ah
ead of planting to control cut
worms and wireworms, only to
find that the spray was contam-
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Wheat Vote Eligibility Is Not
Changed By Soil Bank Land
A wheat-allotment farmer
•ftho has his whole farm m the
Soil Bank’s Conservation Re
seive Program will still 'be eli
gible to vote in the May 21 re
ferendum on 1964-crop wheat
marketing quotas, Fred G-. Sel
domndge Chairman, Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conser
vation County Committee, has
announced.
The determining factor in
such a case, the Chairman ex
plained, is not whetiher the
farm will be producing Wheat
m 1964. Rather, it is whether
(1) the farm has a wheat acre-.'
age allotment (preserved under
Conservation Reserve Program
provisions) and (2) the pro
ducer on that farm would have
had an interest in the wheat
that would have been produced
except for - the farm’s partici
pation in the Conservation Re
serve or'other similar program.
“In otlher words,’’ Mr Sel
domndge said, “the law auth
orizing- the Conservation Reser
ve Program in effect guaian
teed that the farm would not
lose any crop-allotment hist-
mated with a small amount of
atnzme. Spraymen are warned
to be especially careful and
keep atnzme away from tobac
co ground.
After applying any of the ab
ove herbicides, the spray oper
ate! s should wash their face and
hands with soap and hot water,
this is especially important be
fore eating or smoking
ory because of participation in
the- Reserve program. So the
farm with acreage still covered
by ithe Conservation Reserve
contract which had a wheat al
lotment befoie it was covered
by the coutract still has a wh
eat allotment. And ithe current
wheat legislation says that any
producer who has a wheat al
lotment shall be eligible to
vote, except ithat a producer
with an allotment of less than
U acres will not be eligible to
vote unless the farm operator
indicates his intention to par
ticipate in the wheat program
as an allotment grower.
“The operator of a farm wh
ich has an allotment of less
than 15 acres, therefore, will
have to indicate his intention
to participate in the 1964 wh
eat program as an allotment
grower if he wants to vote in
the May 21 referendum. This
may be done by notifying the
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Sheet Supply
Six sheets for each bed in the
house is a satisfactory supply,
says Mrs. Cecile P. Sinden,
Penn State home management
extension specialist. This all
ows for two sheets in use, two
in the laundry, and two on re
serve Three sheets lor each,
bed is a minimum. Buying two
sheets a year for each, bed
keeps the supply plentiful.
ASCS County Office by May 13.
Hie allotment notice sent to
each farm operator contains a
place for indicating such a ch«
oice.”
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