Lancaster Farming, Satuday, July 18, 1964 Tobacco Crop Down 4 Percent Production of 1964 Pennsyl vania tobacco is forecast at 48.1 million pounds based on development and progress of the crop on July 1, according to the Pennsylvania Crop Re porting Service. iThis repre sents a 4 per cent decline from 1963 when production totaled 49,950,000 pounds and an 11 per cent decrease from the 1958-62 average production. A yield of 1850 pounds per acre is anticipated. This would equal last year but exceed the 1958-62 average yield of 1770 pounds by 5 per cent. A re duction in acreage planted to tobacco is responsible for the expected drop in production. The 26,000 acres is 1,000 acres or 4 per cent below that har vested in 1963 and 15 per cent below the 5 year average of 30,600 acres Planted acreage is the lowest since 1953. Plowing Contest Is July 23rd The Lancaster County Plow ing Contest and Conservation Field Day will be held Thurs day, July 23, on the farm of Roy Garber, Fruitville Pike, near Rohrer’s stone quarry. The rain date is July 27 A revolving trophy which must be won three years in succession will be awarded to the first place winner, who also will win a permanent tro phy, $25 in cash and a blue ribbon. Other prizes will be $l5, $lO, $5 and $3, as well as ribbons, for second through fifth places. | Richard Groff, last year’s winner, is bidding for a second leg on the challenge trophy. Each contestant must plow ap proximately one-sixth of an I acre, and points are awarded on various phases. The winner also will have his expenses paid to the state contest in Fort McCord, Frank lin County, on Wednesday, July 29. Elmer V. Good, Lititz Rl, is chairman of the county con test. The judges for the Lancas ter County contest will be James F. Haldeman, County Agricultural agent, Reading; Henry Mattox, Soil Conserva tionist of Adams County, Get tysburg, and John J Herr, Mount Joy Rl, farmer. Pfont Cover Crops Now • Rye Grass • Field Brome • Sweet Clover • Winter Vetch • Rape • Soybeans Emergency Hoy Crops Available • Piper Sudan Grass • DeKalb Sudax • Soybeans • Japanese Millet SMOKETOWN Ph. Lane. 397-3589 A wet April delayed the planting of tobacco seedbeds and transplanting' got under way later than usual. Very little transplanting was done in May but the pace improved by mid-June. Transplanting Was practically completed by July 1 with a few growers finishing up or transplanting plants burned out by dry con ditions experienced in some areas. Although later than normal, it was completed ahead of last year when dry condi tions were experienced early in the season. May and June were dry in most tobacco areas but plants set in the field look good. Early July rainfall provided much need ed moisture for continued good growth of plants. Some cutworm damage is occunng in unsprayed fields but disease and insects have created no problems so far. Checkerboard News 11 EXTRA CASES with Purina’s new Least-Cost Performance Chows Purina’s new Least-Cost Performance Chows pro duced 11 extra cases of eggs per 1000 birds yearly. These records are the results of 5 years of tests with light-breed commercial layers at Purina’s Research Farm and Laboratories. With eggs at 30p a dozen, that made $99 additional income per 1000 birds, with no measurable increase in feed consumption. A savings of that kind is worth checking into. Stop by or call today for more information about .. C. P. feeding. LOW COST PRODUCTION... the reason why more farmers feed PURINA John J. Hess, II Paradise - New Providence John B. Kurtz Cedar Lane James High GordonviHe John B. Kurtz Ephrata dj. H . • Rural Safety (Continued from Page 1) effectiveness of safety pro grams among farm residents,’ “accidents still cause thou sands of deaths and nearly a million disabling injuries to farm people each year. “This loss of human and economic resources causes a significant adverse impact upon the economy of-the entire na tion and must be viewed as a matter of national concern.’' Primary concentration of the 1964 campaign will be on safe ly with farm chemicals, pre venting home poisonings, and tractor - safety. Farming remains the na tion’s third most hazardous oc cupation, according to Howard Pyle, NSC president. “While our farm population is declining, the total number of deaths to farm residents each year remains almost un changed,” Pyle said. ®Refistered trademarks—Ralston Purina Co Ira B. Landis Valley Road, Lancaster Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc. Rbeems Whiteside & Weicksel Kirkwood S. H. Hicstand & Co. 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