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ci op faimer, geneially plants
about eight acres oif tobacco
each yeai He is using the
lorg-season Pennlbel-69 vanety
of tobacco that was developed
at the Field Research Lalbora
toiy near Landisville Hemy
B Engle, research agronomist
at the Field Laboratory, was
instrumental in developing
HAVE YOU SEEN ANY NICER PLANTS THAN THESE THIS YEAR? We Pennbel and has long rec
haven’t. They were grown under a plastic cover by Ben F. Martin,'shown at right ommended that farmers find
above with Henry B. Engle, research agronomist at the Southeastern PSU Field Re- a wfc y of getting it planted
search Laboratory. Martin moved plants from this bed to the field on May 12 and earlier to avoid risk of frost
15. L F. Photo near harvest time. For that
Dr. Spur ling To
Quit Diagnostic
Post For FDA
Effective July Ist, Dr.
George F ISpurling, 'well
known poultry diagnostician at
New Bolton Center, will fee
leaving his post as Assistant
Pi ofessor of* Poultry Patholo
gic at the University of Penn
sylvania’s School of Veterin
ary Medicine, according toM.
W Altem, Dean of the School.
Dr. 'Spurting has accepted
a position with the Food and
Drug Administration in Wash
m'jton, D. C
The rumor that .Spurling
would be leaving caused some
concern among poultrymen
and poultry servicemen in
Lancaster 'County last week
since many of them rely on
tht- New Bolton diagnostic fa
cilities. Both Dr. Palace H.
(Continued on Page 4)
Farm Calendar
Miy 23 through 30th
'■'Oil iSltewaidshii'p Week
M>v 24 730 ip.m Redßose
FFA at Gaiden Spot High
School
730 p Elim-Pem-yn
4H (Community 'Cluib at
i'enryn Fne Halil.
Bpm. iDHIA Directors
neetmg at Farm Bureau
Bldg
illiy 25 12 noon, Pennsyl
i ama Famers’ Association
-ndustry-wide meeting at
Holiday Inn West, Harris
hung.
(Continued on Page 10)
Rural ufe Sunday To Farmer’s Fay More Influenced By
L fif;h'sunday !L L His Abilit y As Manager Than As
ter is designated as Bogation a Worker, Young Farmers Told
or Rural Life Sunday. At this 7 0
time a special focus is placed At a meeting of the Man
on God’s blessing on rural heim Young Farmer Associa
te and its resources, land, tion this week the point was
and people. Two services of m , a de iby Harry Hofmeister,
observance are scheduled in representative of Farmec Co.,
Lancaster County as follows: that more and more the
at 10 00 am. on May 23 a farmer must get his pay as
service will be held at the a managei rather than as a
Bergstrasse Evangelical Luth- worker.
eran Church An eyemngsery- As an iMportan , t part of
ice will be held at the Lititz Matter managing, be dis-
Church of the Brethren at cusse(( j the principles and
7.30 pni This service is ecoll omics of farmstead mech
sponsored by the 4-H County aniza tion He dwelt partieular-
Council in cooperation with !y
on the mechanics of mov
(Continued on Page 8) ing feed and compared the
relative values of several
, , methods of doing this. Xn le-
Dairv Prmcess ferring to the economies of
A _ _ feeding he stressed the in-
Applicants IVIUSt creasing importance of silage
A rr , n _ - A —both grass and corn. n p
Apply By June 10 Theie are two con&idera- ra. uame tomm.
tions when a farmer decides Ani”
The deadline for appli- save labor iby mechamza- lO reiFd-
cants to enter the 1965 Lan- tlon , Hofmeister said: <1) D-l-UJf f-foKitc
caster County Dahy Princess how you are going to affect IxaDDll nttUlla
contest has been extended y le quality of your materials . ~ f hhif ,
co™,nf lo fJUe Si.*” reSnSr Scythe Pe„..-
Royei 20_d Oregon Pike, xhe factor of quality is of- time m recent yea is to help
Lancaster ten overlooked, but actually fhe Commission determine why
“‘Lancaster is the number more savings can often be hunters have been bagging
one dairy county in the state, ma de by improving quality fewer cottontails lately
producing over $27,000,000 than in labor-saving, he told Biologists will capture rab
world of milk each year,” the farmers bits and mark them with re-
Mrs. ißoyer said, “and we p or example, he said that llective ear tags and dyes.
Want to make sure all girls many augers will not deliver Ferrets (weasel-hke animals),
have a chance to enter this a quality (product. They first box traps and nets will be used
contest so Lancaster will be the feed, then they sep- to catch the rabbits,
well-represented in the state it through centrifugal To study -daily movements,
contest.” f orC e and all the heavier the biologists will use devices
The Lancaster contest will particles are thrown to the at burrows which will record
- (Continued on • Page 9) outside. After 25-39 feet -of (Continued on Page 8)
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May 22, 1965
,L LIBRARY
New Holland Farmer Grew
Tobacco Under Plastic;
Transplanted On May 12th
Tins may not be a lecoicl,
but we haven’t heard of any
one else who set out then
fust tobacco plants by May
12 as Ben F. Mai tin, New
Holland R 2, did. this year.
He tnnsplanted about one
f'nd .oie, 2 000 plants, on
Wednesday, May 12, and 3,000
moie thiee days later His
idea was to get eailiei plants
to maturity to help slpiead
the work load somewhat in
the Fall
Martin, a steer, broilei,and
angering you have mainly
chaff left, according to Hof
meister. “You can see this
by watching where the boss
animals feed. You’ll seldom
find them 1 at the end of the
line,” he predicted
“You can make this un
even distribution even worse,”
he suggested, “by enclosing
this auger with a tube that
has side or bottom' holes in
it. Then your feed will sep
arate (by the time it has
traveled 20 feet, and you’ll
find hardly a kernel of corn
at 100 feet”
His recommendation was to
use an enclosed auger with
(Continued on Page 5)
$2 Per Year
leason he woiked with the
plastic “gieenhouse” idea, and
distnbuted plans and direc
tions foi its consh uetion last
yeai (see Lancaster Farming
May 16, 1964 Plastic To
bacco Cover Pushes Early
Plants)
Mai tin picked up the idea
at that time and sent for the
plans He followed them
closely but substituted %-
inch galvanized pipe foi the
i ecommended wood lattice
(the Research Station has
since changed then recom
mendation to pipe for gieat
ei stuictuial strength) Mai
tin was unable to say what
his cost of constiaction had
been because he had the pipe
on hand he had removed
it fiom his broiler house
when he converted from keio-
s. Continued on Page 71
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SOIL STEWARDSHIP WEEK
MAY 23-30, 1963
Weather Forecast
Temperatures for the five
day period, Saturday through
Wednesday, are expected to
average above the normal
high of 77 and low of 54
degrees. Wanner tempera
tures will develop over the
weekend and continue to
about mid-week.
Precipitation (for the period
will total between inch,
occurring as scattered show
ers possibly Sunday 'but most
ly during mid-week.