VOL. 10 NO. 24
Check WeeVil By
Early Harvest Of
Alfalfa PSU Says
Weevil activity in Lancas
ter County alfalfa field's is
running very high this year,
and according to Arnold Lu
edk, associate county agent,
the peak of damiage has not
yet been reached
Onte partial solution to the
weevil problem comes from
John B. Washiko, research
agronomist at Penn (State
University He says that eai
ly harvesting of alfalfa wall
help to minimize the damage
caused by this widespread
pest.
Harvesting alfalfa at the
early bud stage has the add
ed advantage of giving maxi
mum nutrient quality. Di
Washiko pointed out, due to
high percentage of leaves an
relation to stems He added
there is a slight reduction in
total digestible nutrient (IT.
D.N.) yield per acre.
(Pour years of field trials
indicate that stand's of alfal
fa wilfl not be damaged by
early bud stage cutting, pio
vided additional cuttings are
taken at the 1/10 to Vz bloom
stage. Dr Washko said this
cutting practice helps build
up food reseives in the root
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S&W Consv. Dist. Directors Elect
Gingerich Association Secretary
Ait their regular monthly
meeting held this week at
the county courthouse, the
Lancaster County Soil and
Water Conservation District
Directors named Garland
GimgerMi, vocational agricul
ture teacher at Penn Manor
High School, secretary for
the district.
Gingerich will fill the va
cancy led-t by the resignation
of Henry Givier, effective
following the next monthly
meeting. GMer, secretary for
the pbst five years, is resign
ing to meet additional school
obligations.' He is a teacher
in vocational agriculture alt
Pequea Valley High School.
Among other business dis
cussed by the directors was
the county plowing contest
Farm Calendar
May 17 8 pm. Manhedni
Voung Fanners Aslsn. at
Man. Cent H S Speakers:
'Harry Hofmeister of Far
mec who will discuss prin
ciples, and economics of
automatic feeding; James
Metzler, P P & L. on eco
nomics of electric failm
space heating
6 pm. 4nH Leader’s
Council meeting at home
of Mis. Willis Bucher, Lit
ita RE.
May IB 1 10 atm. to 2 pm
Homemakers’ Ooekout at
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CLIFFORD-BOLLINGER SHOWN WITH PART
OF ONE FFA PROJECT, a lamb from his flock of
Hampshire sheep. His other supervised projects include
dairy, beef, tobacco and com. He is president of the
Cloister FFA Chapter, and recently won first place for
the Chapter in the area tractor contest. L F. Photo
and field day which was ten
tatively set for the last week
in July, (Soil Stewardship
Week, 'May 23-30, will be
promoted through the press
artd radio, and director Elmer
Good announced that plans
are being made to feature a
special television program on
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Cereal Leaf Beetle
Object Of Organized
Patrol At Pa. Border
Pennsylvania is organizing
a border patrol to guard
against invasion by the cereal
leaf beetle, described as “one
of the fastest moving insect
pes'is in the United States to
day ”
State Agriculture Secretary
Leland H Bull said detection
teams have begun operating
along the Pennsylvama-Obio
line in the state’s “first in
tensive effort to check the
eastward movement of this
insect that is a serious eco
nomic threat to small grain
piodhction ”
The U S. Department of
Agriculture points out that
“the cereal leaf beetle is a
good example of how fast a
new insect can be established.
“This beetle, which likes
to feed on most grain crops,
was found in the United
States in July 1062 first
i Michigan and Indiana; and
later in Ohio. Today it is
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 15, 1965
Jay Greider Named
Director On Producers
Co-Op Exchange Board
Dm e-ctors of the Producers
Cooperative Exchange, Coates
ville, elected Jay R. Greider,
Jr., of Greider Leghorn
Farms, Mount Joy, to tihe
hoard of directors of the Ex
change at a recent meeting.
Greider, a long-ltkne mem
ber of the Exchange, was
named to fill the unexpired
term of William G. Carlin.
That term will expire in De
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' &
THIS MODERN PARLOR was seen on the Leon
Kreider farm this week by touring DHIA members.
Kreider told the visiting dairymen that it takes two
men about 90 minutes to move the 70-cow herd
through here and get the parlor cleaned up for the
next milking. L. F. Photo
f
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Bollinger, Cloister
Chapter President,
Cliff
FFA
Plans Career In Farming
With so much talk about ter graduation next year
faims going out of produc- from Ephrata High School,
tion these days, and so many Cliff is the 17-year old son
high school aguculture gradu- of Mr and Mns Abram M.
ates destined for non-farm Bollinger The main Bollinger
caieeis, it is encouraging to farm consists of 109 acres of
realize that there will also corn, hay, tobacco, and pas
be well qualified young men tine, and supports a 20-ftidad
going into the business of head of Holsteins and 100
farming in the years just head of beef cattle They also
ahead Ohffoid Bollinger is opeiate another farm of
one farm boy who intends to about 124 acres of crops and
stay on the farm Although fatten ICO beef cattle,
plans sometimes have an un- Cliff's most lecent accom
piedictiable way of changing, phshment was his victory in
his piesent intentions are to the Lancastei—York County
return to the family’s Meadow area PFA tractor driving
Spring Faim at Lititz R 4 af- (Continued on Page 4)
Dairy Barn Remodeling Observed
On DHIA Four-Farm County Tour
Approximately forty county
dairymen and. ether inter
ested persons embarked on a
tom of four farms this week
to obseive what other farm
ers had done in remodeling
oi expanding their dairy
barns The tour, under the
leadership of Victor Flastow,
associate county agent, and
adviser Hogei Grout, Penn
State extension engineer, vis
ited two faims using free
stall housing, 'and two fea
turing comfort stalls.
Jay Garber farm
The first step 'was at the
farm of Jay Garber, Lancas
ter IR6 Gabber has toad a
free-stal'l set up for about
one year. When he 'converted
his old dairy [barn he put in
66 stall’s to allow for expan
sion of tois present 444e0w
herd.
Garber felt that one of the
big problems is to train the
cows to go all the way into
$2 Per Year
the stalls This is one reason
he is raising his replacement
heifers in stall's Once they’ve
been brought up to use stalls
he anticipates little trouble
with them as adults.
One mtei esting feature at
the Garber farm was the
homemade scrapei attachment
that he uses to clean manure
from the alleys and the bant
yaid The side shields pivot
a Ml 3'60 degrees. This en
ables him to push manure up
a ramp without losing any
from under the straper. He
can 'also reverse his scraping
action simply Iby braising the
whole attachment with the
tractor’s hydraulic lift. This
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Dole Hershey Named
Outstanding Senior At
Manheim FFA Banquet
The Manheim UFA recent
ly held their 13th annual
ParenhSion awards banquet in
the high s'dhool cafeteria
with 110 parents and guests
present.
Oale Hershey was awarded
the Outstanding Senior Award
given hy the Bankers’ Aisso
ciation of Lancaster County,
presented iby Norman Weaver,
president of the Manheim Na
tional B‘ank Dale also Was
presented with the DeKalb
award, having met their qual-
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Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected to
average near, or slightly
above, normal. There will
be little day-to-day variation,
with the coolest part of the
period at the beginning of
the week.
Precipitation will occur as
showers about Wednesday,
and should total between Vi
% inch.