VOL. 8 NO. 40.
YOU HAVE TO TOP THIS NEW TOBACCO LOW. Grant Miller, teacher
oL Vocational Agriculture at Donegal Union High School, tells sophomore boys.
The class .-was inspecting part of the chapter’s tobacco project, and most of the
boys watttedd:o-'tbpahePeh’"Beh69 as high as. they are used to topping older varie-
tb'right afSTJames TSFolf,' Mount Joy;'-Miller; Robert Rote, and Galen
Rutt, both of Mount Joy Rl; and Robert Denlinger, Marietta Rl. L. F. Photo,
County Dairy Clubbers To Show
Forty-Three Animals At State
Twenty-five 4-H club mem
bers and 18 Future Farmers'
of America have qualified to
show animals in the eighth
annual Pennsylvania Junior
Dairy Show, September T 9", "in'
the Farm Show Building, Har
risburg.
Eligible animals are all blue
ribbon winners in-the District
4-H show and Regional FFA
show held last week at the
Farm Calendar
Sept. 9' 8' p.m. County
Soli Conservation District
Directors meet in the Court
House.
8 p.m, County 4-H Ayr
shire, Jersey, Brown Swiss
eluhr meets at the home of
Kenneth Eahelman,- Elisa
bethtown Rl.
Sept. 10 Vegetable Growers
Field Day at the Pennsyl
vania State - University.
8 p.m. Ehzabethtown-
Donegal 4-H club meets at
the home of- Christ Miller.
Elizabethtown Rl. _
Sept. 11 8 p.m. County
4-H Guernsey club -meets at
the Lampeter - Strasburg
H.S. agn. room.
Sept. -11 and 12 Annual
turfgrass field day at the
Pennsylvania State Univer
sity.
Sept. 12 8 p.m. Lititz-
Manheim 4-H club meets at
home of Mary Alice Gray
bill, Lititz R 2.
Sept. 13 7:30 p.m. Boots
and Saddles 4-H club meets
at the Lancaster Riding
Club, grounds, Lmdoln High
way west.
Sept. 14 —• District 4-H, horse
show at:.iLudwigv Corners,
- , .Chester'Cou'ntv. 1 "V. '
Guernsey Pavilion, Lincoln
1 Highway east of Lancaster.
Associate County Agent Vic
tor Plastow said this week all
animals exhibited at the show
must' have” innoculations for
shipping fever before being
shipped to Harrisburg. This is
in addition to the Bangs Dis
ease and tuberculosis tests re
quired for the local shows.
County Future Farmers
winning blue ribbons at the
regional show last -Friday m
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Biologic Control
Of Jap Beetles
A way to mass-produce bac
terial spores that cause milky
disease, of-Japanese beetles is.
the goal of a team of ARS
scientists at the Northern util
ization'laboratory, Peoria, 111.
Their approach: First, grow
large populations of the bacter
ial cells by mdustnal_ fermen-
tation methods; then, induce
these artificially grown oells to
form spores a dormant
stage capable of surviving
in soil and causing disease
when ingested by beetle grubs.
If they succeed, the U. S.
will have a low cost, effective
biological control for Japan
ese beetles.
Milky ‘ disease spores now
used as a soil treatment by
many eastern homeownres are
produced in diseased beetle
grubs. But this method is not
practicable for producing spo
res in the quantities needed
by farmers and by plant per,t
control officials charged With;
preventing the relentless west
ward spread 4of the Japanese
’ ton. - ■i't 'ln
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 7, 1963
Manheim H.S.
Hires Teacher
Of V6c.'Agri.
Charles F. Hess, a teacher
of vocational agriculture for
30 years, * was hired by the
Manheim Central High School
last Wednesday night to re
place Joseph McGahen, who
resigned recently to accept a
CHARLES F. HESS
position of the staff of the
Pennsylvania State University.
Hess spent the last 22 years
teaching at Mansfield High
School where, he had a Future
Farmer Chapter of about 30
boys.
He was born and reared on
a dairy and poultry farm in
Northern Luzerne County, Af
ter graduation from the Penn
: sylvania State University, Hess
1 taugtet two- years at Corsica
Union H, S. in Jefferson Coun
ty, ami six years at Scott
IHtiHChitfSaiwe*! pw »>mn-
Donegal FFA Combines
Earning And Leaning
Members of the Witness
Oak Chapter Future Farmers
of America combine education
and economics in ',a chaplet*
project.
The Tocational agriculture
students at the Donegal Un
ion High School, and their tea
cher, Grant Miller, finance
most of their program of work
with tobacco and corn projects
each year.
This year the chapter has
seven acres of tobacco planted
in five plots. The chapter di
vided itself into five commit
tees, with each committee re
sponsible for one plot. After
County Livestock Tour
To Ohio Is Scheduled
Plans have been completed
for the three day Lancaster
County Livestock Tour into
Ohio, County Agent Max Smith
said this' week.
Advance reservations before
Sept, 2*5 will be required and
will he accepted on a “first
come first served” basis. Smith
said. A deposit of $23 to cover
cost of the bus trip will be
required with each reserva
tion. Tour members will pur
chase their own meals and
lodging on the trip.
Present plans call for two
buses to be chartered with the
reservations going to the first
76 applications received. Other
applications received before
closing date will be put on a
“standby” list to be used in
case of cancellations.
In a letter to livestock feed
ers Smith gave the following
trip schedule;
“On Tuesday, October 22,
the group will depart from
Lancaster at 6:30 a.m. and
“Dairy bulls for meat” may
become an expanded farm pro
duct if experiments at The
Pennsylvania State University
continue as reported this week
during the World Conference
of Animal Production in Rome,
Italy
Dairy BuDs
Fed For Beef
Are Profitable
Dr. James R. Nichols, dairy
scientist with the Agricultural
Experiment Station at Penn
State, said, dairy 'bulls on feed
ing trials reached 800 ipound
weight at 10 months of age,
while dairy steers took 11
months to attain this weight.
For 1,000-pouad animals, the
comparisons were 13 months
for bulls and 14 months for
steers.
As for feed needed to reach
slaughter weight, bulls on the
average consumed 414 fewer
pounds than steers. Regardless
of whether they were bulls or
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$2 Per Year
the tobacco has been sold,
there will be a prize for the
Committee doing the best jdb
oi caring for their plot.
The money from this pro
ject and 12 acres of corn
grown on shares with Martin.
Musser, Mount Joy Rl, will
help finance the annual tour
of Western United States by
the 19-64 graduates, plus other
tours and awards.
Tickets for the annual FFA
area leadership training con
ference banquet, the chapter’s
annual parent and son ban
quet, and the annual trip to
FFA week at the Pennsylra
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travel by buses on the Turn-:
pike to Wauseon, Ohio (50ft
miles), where wo will lodge
for the night. After a ballot
supper, we will liave a panel
discussion period with the offi
cials of the Fulton County
Cattlemen’s Association.
“On "Wednesday, October
23, we plant to visit six cattle
feeding and hog feeding fawns
in the area between Wauseon
and Fremont, Ohio. These out
standing farms will feature la
bor-saving devices, high moi«-
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Bull Semen
Can Transmit
Foot-and-Mouth
Foot-and-mouth disease can
be transmitted in bull semen
before an infected bull show*
any signs of the disease. Use
of this virus-contaminated se
men for artificial insemination
can cause the disease in cows.
These findings by Agricul
ture Research Service veter
inarians at the Plum Island
Animal Disease Laboratory,
Long Island, N.Y., indicate
that foot-and-mouth disease
could he brought to U. S. live
stock if semeu were imported
from countries where the dis-
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FIVE-DAY
WEATHER
FORECAST
Temperatures during the
ne\t five days are expected
to average near the normal
range of 50 at night to 70
in the afternoon. Milder
weather is expected over the
week end with little day to
day temperature change
thereafter. Precipitation is
expected to total to *£
inch with a chance of xvidely
scattered showers over the
area late Saturday and Sun*
day and more general rain
I inpar, diei end of the' period.