.D.A. Tries "J, x s “ y ”' Good Cider Is Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 7, 1963-7
' ion dsy emer e ence - All-Year Drink -oidw mm wi.-
At.this dosage level, only rul ICttl 1/1 Uilv min Cis an ideal breakfast
Corn Borers I percent or'less ' of , the eggs HARRISBURG Cider and J' uice - tast y an d healthful,”
- v ' hatched when the sterile males Hallowe’en traditionally go to- Myers said. “And it adds varie
-.rc h entomologists meT . e mated w - th untreated fe ' gether. ty to the morning menu for it
-raged by successful era- males * But it’s time, the Pennsyl- can he served cool and sweet,
Hon and control of the Sterile males competed sue- vania Department of Agncul- or bplc y hot.”
11 * worm ‘ and '* melon ' fly' cessfiHiywith normal males for. ture feels, to take off the mask Steps already have been
,*h the mass release of untreated females. and reveal cider for what is taken to expand Pennsylvan
.« made sterile by radiation Sterile'males lived about as really it, or can be a deli- ia 8 cider industry. Twelve
art investigating this tac- lon£ as untreated males, sug- cious year-round drink for ru * es for producing better cid
_ a potential weapon ag- gesting -that their survival m many occasions. er an( l apple juice have been
,st another serious agricul- the field' might compare favor- a particular occasion is drawn up a ® a glud ® appl ®
•al pest, the European corn ably with that of natural breakfast, according to Delmar f rowers ’ They pr obably will
... males. K. Myers, acting director of ‘ )ecoU !f requirements ot a cid-
Although corn borer damage However, there was an in- the department's Bureau of ii a y' be S int^odurer
recent years has taken a dication that sterile males of Poods and Chemistry. Krs said The otect he ex!
isistent downward trend, it the European corn borer might plained, is tQ encourage produc .
11 is substantial enough to not be as successful as sterile being more susceptible to ir- t lon 0 f n Ua hty cider for year
.p this pest high on the male screwworms in competing radiation. And while the fer- round marketing.
of agriculture’s insect en- with normal males. For ex- tility of both sexes decreased Pennsylvania growers last
ies, East year corn borer ample, when-sterile corn borer as radiation dosage increased, year used 835,000 bushels ot
iages were estimated at $94 males outnumbered untreated female pupae were affected apples 8.9 per cent of the
Ih°n, ’ males 2 to 1, about 40 per- more. crop, for making apple juice,
USDA insect experts, J. R, cent of the eggs resulting from Deformities were a problem cider and-vinegar. A bushel of
Iker and T. A. . Brindley, matings , with- untreated le- reaching a rate of 50 per- apples will yield 2y 2 to 3Vi
ducted irradiation tests,-us- males nateneu. However, in cent wben pup ae under 24 gallons of juice or cider, de-
X-rays on la-boratory pop-, experiments involving Ue bours o]d were i rra diated with 'pending on the variety,
tions, at the Corn Borer Re'- sa “® rat '° re ‘ 5,000 roentgens. This problem C ider and apple juice are
irc h Laboratory Antony.- d “ ced n the ‘- e » to 35 was remedied by withholding, very much alike, but cider
ra, in cooperation with the P rcea • treatment until pupae were 48 may contain very fine particles
m Agricultural Experiment Tests were also run on the hours old . 0l tbe fru i t that import a dis
horn After irradiation, the hre_edmg,performance of corn Thg scientistg used x . rays tmctive, tangy tlavor, ivhile
• n borers were placed mto bqrers as pupae. ag a gource o£ radiation for apple juice is clanfied by fil
-laying eages for study These showed'that-the percen- these studi ratlusr tban tbe termg. Approved preservatives
, entomologists '-found -tage -ofr egg hatch varied with cobalt . 6o treat ment employed or pasteurization will prevent
t 01 pupae at time ° against the screwworm and the fermentation and maintain cid-
Adult-male-corn'borers-wero.-treatment,-the- younger pupae melon fly. er m its-sweet, natural state.
They passed the ih 160,000 acre test...
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# Manheim H.S.
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Township H. S. m Lacawana
County prior to going to Mans
field.
At Mansfield Hess saw 36
of his students receive the Key
stone Farmer degree, and tour
of them went on to become
American Farmers in the
FFA.
Mansfield, one of the oldest
Vocational Agriculture depart
ments in the state, being oi
ganized in 1914, received top
award five times in state dairy
project competition under
Hess’ guidance.
He was awarded the Hon
orary Keystone Farmer degree
in 1949, and received the cov
eted Honorary American Far
mer Degree in 1959.
Hess plans to move his wife
to Manheim in the near future.
His daughter is married and
teaching school in a Philadel
phia suherb, and his two sous
are students of theology at out
of state seminaries.
Farm Women 4
See Collection
Of Buttons
Interesting stones about but
ton collections was a feature of
the recent meeting of Farm
Women Society 4 in the home
of Mrs. Mane Nissley, Salun
ga.
The president Mrs. Daniel
Will opened the meeting De
votions were led by Mrs Ira
Frantz Roll call was answered
with “An interesting experi
ence that I had last week ”
Miss Debra McFarland play
ed a piano solo for the group
Mrs. Henry Hiestand, a mem
ber of both the Farm Women
Society 4 and the Red Rose
Button Club, presented a pro
gram on buttons, telling stories
about numerous buttons in her
collection of 22,000
The next meeting of the
group will be held Sept 28 at
the home of Mrs Ira Neff, 2146
Columbia Ave, Lancaster At
that time a book review will
be presented by Mrs. Lloyd
Nolt.
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