—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 14, 1964 6 Corn Substance Kills Earworm The substance that makes P“«W e de \ el °V n ® w contro J corn appetizing to the corn methods based on the use of earworm has been extracted plant chemicals after these from silks and fresh kernals have been identified and syn of corn plants in US. Depart- thesued One possibility, fo ment of Agriculture research example, would be to conti o Scientists of USDA's Agii- * he earworm by using cultural Research Service, an attiac ant to draw the pes working at Tifton, Ga, found to a poisoned bait made ap that eaiwoims eagerly eat petizing by the feeding stimu fiber paper that has been all t soaked in a solution containing Another would be to develop the feeding stimulant Their crop vaueties that contain a study is pait of ARS research, high concentration of repel- Jjeing conducted at several lents or low concentrations of locations, on natural chemicals attractant and feeding and that affect insect behavior. In ovipositional stimulants, this research, the scientists are The corn earworm, along extracting and classifying these w ith its close relatives, oc substances as feeding stimu- CUIS m all paits of the world lants—that fiom corn—or as w here coin is giown. It is H El Bl HJB HI H E WWW Checkerboard News ItEKIKI IN PULLET GSWii COSTS Purina Pullet Developer made with new Least- Cost Performance formulation offers you a real opportunity to save on pullet growing costs this year. In 5 years of testing at the Purina Research Farm, this improved feed formula saved from 2 to 2]/£ pounds of feed per pullet, making a very satisfactory reduction in pullet growing costs. LOW COST PRODUCTION ... the reason why more farmers feed PURINA John J. Hess, II Paradise - New Pi evidence John B. Kurtz Cedar Lane James High Gordonville John B. Kurtz M f. be ■*, shovJi Ephrata attractants, vepelllents, or ovipositional (egg laying) stimulants. Scientists think it may be ♦Registered trademarks—'Ralston Purina CO* Ira B. Landis Valley Road, Lancaster Wenger’s Feed Mill, Inc. Rheems Whiteside & Weicksel Kirkwood S. n Hiestand & Co. easily the most destructive What Is The Market pest of sweet corn in the c..*..-* p. United States. 'ln most parts' Fu * ure For Po * E 99 s? of the country farmers find The Penn state University it almost impossible to grow Extension Service "has been marketable sweet corn unless studying the trends of egg they spray the crop with in- production and population by secticide for porlection against geographical areas to appraise the pest. the impact of these trends on the future of Pennsylvania’s • Soil Conservation poultry industry. (Continued Horn page 1) f&* n our area, the North At lantic -states, we have 25 per for state and national publica- cent of the nation’s popula tions. tion, but produce only 16 per In his present position Slat- cent of the nation’s eggs. The on is in chaige ol the mforma- average consumption per por tion education pi ogi am for the son in the US. in 1963 was Soil Conseuation Seivice in 315 eggs. In the North Atlan- Pennsylvania He is a grad- tic states we produced only uate of The Pennsylvania State enough to provide each person University and a veteran of m our area with 197 eggs. World War Id Thus, we are clearly a deficit egg producing area. The population trends, how (Contmued fiom Page 1) W show that during the period 1955-1963 the North county commissioneis; a plow- Atlantic states had a slower mg contest for the county; con- population growth rate than servation woikshop for vo-ag some other areas, teachers, encourage and sup- T „ ... , port Public Law 566 in the . In all of th f e P rodu °- Manheim area tlon fi S ures estimates 01 num- Wayne Maresch, Soil Con- bei ’ of hatching eggs has been servatiomst wtih SC S, out- lined the accomplishments of .. the past yeai and set forth servation practices; increasing some goals foi his agency in tbe number ° f lneal feat of the coming yea, These goals and .terraces from included signing up moie f’ 925 to 3° °00; increasing con consei ration coopeialo.s tour and strip cropping through distuct watershed aciea S e from 1030 to 2500. meetings; mei easing the num- A discussion of goals by the her of farms set viced fiom 351 other cooperating agencies was in 1964 to 1150 doubling the postponed until the January number of iai ms ipplvmg con meeting • Directors OeKalb Sultry Meeting Til •irsday Evening, Nov. 19 -Mister Poultry Center I Jack Nelson Assistant Manager, Poultry Division, DeKaib Agricultural Association, Inc. is planning to be with us. Kindly consider this a personal invitation to be present. York DeKalb Hatchery York, Pa. 1 > 7:30 P.M. Roseville Road off the Fruitville Pike Sponsored by Refreshments will be served. deducted so that the only coi sideration is on market eggs. The extension service sug gests from this analysis of trends that in the future lo cal production will tend to more closely dll the needs of the area. They also suggest that production will develop close to consumer centers. If this estimate is correct it suggests that (Pennsylvania will continue to be in a fa vorable position to supply the bulk of the market eggs con sumed in the heavily-populated North Atlantic States. Melhorn DeKalb Hatchery Mt. Joy, Pa. in-
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