. _ Youth serve. It was very dark and
A reo j 10% the black mountain tops were
:o Dti nl,e<l p s embedded in the densely star
ve training of 4-H Youth lit sky, -forming a beautiful
I can be a great stepping- silhoueUe—and there went a
iy t o the success of Souvh falling star just like at home.
l{ in the future. However, The environment reminded me
'**, found that they must of Boy Scout camping as the
(‘ man y staff revisions in village was scattered with
V oi-amzation to give suf- lanterns which looked like
„t “uidance to the mem- flashlights as the crickets were
'and to reap the fullest gayfully singing. Across the
s fi(s from this dynamic valley was a flickering lan
tL This makes my tern which reminded me of a
vices very challenging. flash signal, and I could hear
' _ a radio playing Korean music
Traffic Jam m a ver y clear tone. Yes,
‘jjter spending one week an d there is the sound of a
S«ml. I would say the most motor and a few toots of a
jUengmg game in Korea is horn off in a long distance
lie The streets are full of it was a very peaceful en
.(tt cais. buses, micro-buses, vironment, as I heaid people
ns, bicycles, carts pulled by talking, First, I heard a baby
§ men and -animals, and C ry, followed by the barking
)bs of people. There is a 0 f a dog, then someone was
jjdy fl° w of horn blowing calling and later the giggle
these vehicles and people of a boy interrupted the steady
ijestically zig-zag among each flow of noises. Now it is gett
er. It wouldn’t have been mg iate and the village is be
ty difficult to convince me coming calm as all the noise is
kt my heart was in my head left to the cricket until day
(i traveled through this dar- break. Now it is about 10 p m.
L adventure several times _____
[day.
(I
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"ffhat is an evening like in CLASHING THIMBLES
country village in South
ira? My host brother had The Clashing Thimbles held
it away one evening as it their weekly combined work
s getting dark. I walked out and business meeting, Thurs
jny room which is on the day at Penn Manor Junior High
1 above the rest of the vil- School Members of the 4-H
[e and climbed a ladder on club discussed plans for a par
« side of my room to ob- ty for their parents.
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Hardiness Is
Feature Of
Pennrad Barley
“Pennrad barley has wintei
hardiness 14 percent points
above Hudson variety,” says
Elmer C. Pifer, extension
agronomist, The Pennsylvania
State Univeisity, “yet in 4
years of trials, both varieties
yielded the same number ol
bushels per acre.”
Agronomists conducted trial
plantings of the Pennrad varie
ty in 37 locations. During the
past four yeais (1960 thiough
1963) Penmad, Hudson and
Wong pioduced about the same
bushel weight, plant height,
and matured in the same time,
but Penmad excelled with 78
percent winter survival while
Hudson showed only 64 per
cent and Wong only 57 per
cent.
Average yields foi the four- confers with Robert P. Pfeifer, developer of new,
year period weie 55 bushels winter hardy Pennrad barley. The crop is high yield
per acre for Pennrad, 53 ing and has good straw strength,
bushels for Hudson and 45
bushels for Wong. resistance to disease. In the
Pennrad is beardless, making past 50 yea is, such recom
it more economical than Hud- mendations have inci eased
son to combine. Cattle seem corn fl om 27 to 54
to prefer the beardless grain, bushels per acre, barley by
It is not evident that either gy 2 bushels per acre and pota
Pennrad or Hudson has any toes have nearly tupled in
greater resistance to scald or y;eld.
powdery wildew than the other, ' _____
but in the four years Pennrad
produced 2 1 tons of straw per CcLlf CITOP OOWIT
acre while Hudson produced ~ _ _
2 2 tons and Wong produced FrOITi LiSlSt I QSiV
19.
Agronomists at Penn State The Pennsylvama Crop Re
expect seed stocks to be ade- porting Service today esrimat
quate to meet the demand -ed the state’s 1964 calf ciop
this year, and that some dairy- both dairy and beef type am
men will look forward to tak- mals—at 892,000 head, 33,000
mg advantage of more north- less than last year
ern climates by planting Penn- M o£ the redU ction is at
rofl
tnbuted to a piolonged de-
Testmg, and recommendation c i ine in the number of milk
of new crop varieties is one cows on Pennsylvania farms,
of the principal activities of the according to the Crop Repoit-
Extension Service in g Service Since 1955, when
Through these recommends- cow numbers peaked ac 940,-
tions the commercial produc- QQ tJ the tot?! has diopped al
tion of field and food grains most 10 , pei cent to 8 48,000
increases because new vane- j iead yea _-
ties of plants offer greater
yields and improved natural The Seivice noted, too, that
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EXTENSION AGRONOMIST Elmer Pifer (right)
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