VOL. 8 NO. 39
GOOD RECORDS ARE AN IMPORTANT PART of any farm operation.
Richard Hoover compliments a Farmers Home Administration patron on the
excellent condition of her records. Mrs. Robert Guhl, second from left, helps
keep the farm records up to date on the operation run by her husband and his
brother William.'Left toright in the Guhl kitchen are son David, Mrs. Guhl
holding one year oid Lori,-Robert Guhl, Richard Hoover, Robert Mumma, and
WHliam-Guhhholding Rye yean old Terri. - L. F. Photo.
Biological Control Of Weevils
Looks Promising In'Co. Trial
A new method in the fight
against alfalfa weevils was in
troduced into Lancaster Coun
ty this year, and preliminary
results look hopeful, assistant
county agent Arnold Lueck said
this week.
In late April of this year,
Lueck and the U S Depart
ment of Agriculture entomolo
gist from Moorestown, N.J. re
leased a colony of BATHY
PLECTES ANURA (a parasitic
wasp that attacks the alfalfa
weevil larvae) on a farm near
Bowmansville
On May 10, the entomolo
gist took 100 sweeps with an
insect net in the area and cap
tured about 2,000 weevils.
From these
were able to
wasps -
This is a
when you consider orfly 112 ad
ult wasps were released, Lueck
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Lueck said this was the first
release of the ANURA species
m the United States, although
several other wasps of the same
genus have been used in Utah
and California with varying de
grees of success.
.
There is no danger that
the importation, from France,
will ever become an economic
Past. Lueck said The adult
wasp lives on plant nectar and
he female deposits her eggs
only m the live bodies of al
falfa weevil larvae; the young
wasp then devours the weevil.
te are hopeful that this
method of Biological insect
cffntrol is a start toward help
mg farmers gain control over
the alfalfa weevil,” Lueck said.
Meanwhile, spray recommen
dations for weevil control still
include fall application of either
dieldrin or, heptachlor.
satisfactory Recommendations
are to apply either matenal_
after the last cutting, but BE
FORE November 1
Lueck says at least 20 gal
lons of spray per acre is need
ed to do a complete job Spray
er nozzle presssure should be
at least 40 pounds per square
inch
Either material should be ap
plied at the rate of one pound
of actual chemical per acre
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Sales
fMilTef c & Bushong,
Rohrerstown, Pa. will address
the Pennsylvania Millers’ and
Feed Dealers’ Association 85th
Annual Convention at Pocono
Manor, Pa. September 8 - 10.
His subject will be “Pennsyl-
V ania Can Be Competitive in
Poultry.”
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. f ollowing Wentmk’s presen
tation a panel of poultry pro
ducers will expand the subject
anc j answer questions from the
aU dience. The panel is compo
sed o£ . Harry Ulrich Hams
burg R D 3 Paul Konhaus,
Mechanicsburg, and William
Myer, Myerstown Ulrich is
curren tly President of the
Pennsylvania Poultry Federa
tion.
xhe convention will also hear
speakers on Dairy and Live
stock Membership in the Asso
ciation consists of flour and
feed mills from all parts of
Pennsylvania and the Conven
tion regularly attracts between
300 and 400 persons, according
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 31, 1963
Red Rose DHIA Begins
Solids - Not - Fat Testing
Directors of the Red Rose
Dairy Herd Improvement As
sociation Monday night voted
to begin testing milk for solids
not-fat in approximately 38
herds on, October 1
With the interest that has
and can be applied as spray,
granules, or in a fertilizer
mixture. Proper equipment is
necessary if either granules or
fertilizer mixture is used
Lueck warned that treated
fields must not be harvested
or grazed before normal har
vesting time next spring.
Two 4-FFers Win
Scholarships
Two scholarships of $lOO
each were awarded to county
4-H members Tuesday by the
Lancaster Kiwams Club.
Miss Barbara Gamble, Col
umbia R 2, and Mark Nestle
roth, Manheim R 3, recipients
of the awards, are both college
sophomores.
John Long, chairman of the
club’s agriculture committee,
made the presentation at the
Kivvanians’ annual agriculture
luncheon in the Hotel Bruns
wick
Miss Gamble, nineteen-year
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Cyrus S. Gamble Jr., will en
ter her sophomore year at
Mansfield State College, maj
oring in home economics
Nestleroth, nineteen-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Nes
tleroth, is an animal husbandry
sophomore at_ Pennsylvania
State University. , ~ r '
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I Ride With The F.H.A. Supervisor
FHA Supervisor Helps
With Money Management
Editor’s Note This is the tenth in a series of articles
dealing with .Lancaster County businesses related to agricul
ture,. The writer will spend a day riding with persons who
serve the, fanner but do not actively engage in the business of
tanning. The articles are an attempt to bring the farmer a
re.port of the job of service personnel before they reach tin*
farm.'Other articles will be printed in jhe following weeks.
The Federal Housing Admin
istration, an agency of the U.S
Department of Agriculture, ser
ves eligible farmers with credit
and needed technical help on
farm and money management
problems. Loans are made only
to applicants unable to obtain
adequate credit from other
sources at reasonable rates and
terms.
This was the explanation of
the job Richard Hoover, Coun
ty Supervisor of FHA, gave to
me as we started on a day
that was to take us on farms
varying from a share crop dairy
and tobacco operation to one
of the real show places in the
county.
“We don’t make loans to
been shown, directors felt the
association should purchase
equipment and make the ser
vice to members who reques
ted it To start the program,
two kits will be purchased for
the county and each one will
be used by several testers
SNF testing will be offered
to DHIA members m addition
to the present butterfat test
The present testers will be
Stockyards To
Conduct Business
On Labor Day
The Lancaster Union Stock
yards will be open for business
as usual on Monday, Septem
ber 2, Labor Day.
According to Robert Heil
bron, president of the Lancas
ter Livestock Exchange, this
year marks the first time in
about 10 years that the yards
have been open for business
on the fall holiday.
The exchange board made
the decision to remain open at
their August meeting.
Several considerations
brought about the decision,
Heilbron said. Since this is the
height of the stocker and feed
er cattle business, many cattle
in the yards would have to be
fed hay from Friday until Tues
day. With the cost of hay, this
would represent a considerable
expense to owners of cattle.
Monday is the big fat cattle
day at the yards, and .many
buyers have schedules 'that
would take them elsewhere the
rest of the week. With other
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only poor farmers,” Hoover
said The FHA is designed to
help any deserving farmer who
can not obtain credit from
other sources for any number
of reasons
Sometimes a farmer has a.
good opportunity to purchase
a farm or expand his operation,
but if he lacks collateral, the
normal sources of credit may
not be open to him. Many a
deserving farmer has to strug
gle along on an inadequate in
come because he can not fi
nance an efficient operation
through the more conventional
lending agencies, Hoover ex
plained.
The FHA makes operating
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trained to make the test by
the Pennsylvania State Univer
sity
Cost to the dairyman will be
10 cents per cow, in addition
to the present testing charges;
of this, five cents will go to
the tester and five cents will
go toward paying for the equip
ment If sufficient interest is
shown, protein testing may be
offered by the association at
a later date
Bedford County, testing 10
herds since June 1, is the only
other association in the state
which has offered SNF testing
to members.
In other business, directors
voted to start another associa
tion, the seventeenth, in the
county. At present about 18
herd owners have indicated in
terest in beginning DHIA test
ing, but all present testers are
working to capacity.
Victor Plastow, associate
County Agent asks that any
herd owner on owner-sampler
or independent testing inter
ested in joining DHIA call the
county extension office in the
Lancaster Post Office building
as soon as possible. Directors
would like to see the new as
sociation started about October
1.
FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during: the
five day period Saturday
through Wednesday are ex
pected to average 2 to 6 de
grees below the normal range
of 60 at night to 80 in the
afternoon. Cool weather early
in the period will give way
to-warmer air about the mid
dle of the period and colder
again near the end of the
period. Precipitation may to
tal more than Vi inch falling
about Monday.
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