—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 22, 1965
14
New Growth Regulators Provide
Major Breakthrough In Research
Wouldn't it be great if
funnels could pick the dates
Joi hanesting then ciops 9 In
stead ot han oiling coin ift
Inc fall when puces aic at
jack bottom, whv not wait un
t i Match when puces are
bettei 0 Oi why not haivest
in Scptembei when the
weathci is nice 0 All of this
end moie may be practical in
the not too distant Inline
The complete answei may be
slow in coming but agucul
tuial leseaicheis have made
a basic breakthrough that
ma\ point the way They have
found a “switch” to turn
nla it giowth off and on at
v ill
Thev feel th.it this discov
e v mav lead to lesults even
noie chamatic than those
c edited to chemical fertih?-
e>s hvibiid seed -coin, and
pesticides Bv i emulating
plant giovvlh ciops could be
hai vested almost on com
mand Coin could be hai vest
ed ir Julv fiesh sti avvbei i les
in Dectmaei and lettuce in
Itlaich 'ln addition to the
economy advantages to faim
ei s think of the consumei
advantages involved Fiesh
vegetables thioughout the
veai could be the mle lathei
than the exception
U S Depai Invent of Agii
cultuie scientists woiking at
the Bellsville Md Reseaich
Centei say the amount af 1
light that a particulni plant
pigment called chiomophoie
>ecsives detei mines plant
ciovvth Th’s pigment, which
is pait of a phytochiome
PFA Stresses
Dislike For Rice
And Wheat Bills
Both consumers and fanm
eis would be hurt by 'the
biead and nee tax bill re
cently introduced in Congress
by the Administration, ac
coiding to Gerald Biggs,
Pies of the Penna Farmers’
Association
Under the proposed wheat
certificate plan, U IS consum
ers would ipay twice as much
lor American wheat as for
eign buyeis The plan also
gives the iSecietary of Agn
cultuie discretion to use gov
ernment surplus stocks to
impose price ceilings on mar
ket puces for faimers
Wheat for domestic food
use would (be supported ait
i ates as high as $2 50 per
bushel thiough a $125 loan
and a requirement that pio
cessois buy a $125 certificate
loi every bushel going into
this utilization U *S wheat
sold to foreign buyers, in
cluding 'Communist countnes,
would go foi $125 ipei bushel
The faimei would get $2 50
loi only that part of his pro
duction allocated to domestic
use
A similai cei tificate plan
101 nee would laise the cost
to consume!s pfiom 5 to 7
cents a pound Bugigs said
It is estimated iby the Ad
numstiation that the wheat
and nee plan would raise
consumeis’ puces by $3OO
million
‘ Consumers should not be
misled into accepting the pio
oosed higher biead tax and
new nee tax because they
think they aie doing farmeis
? favoi,” Biggs said
‘ W'neat pioduceis voted
down a similar ipro*gram m a
nationwide lefeiendwm in
1963.”
molecule, activates the mole
cule and causes plant growth
The scientists have succeed
ed in separating the oigment
fiom the lest of the mole
cule This in itself is a maior
scientific bieakthrough.
Scientists agree that they
have baiely scratched the
surface Fundamental woik is
undeiway at Harvard, Cal-
Tech and in some commercial
companies One aesearcher,
Dr R P Upchurch, ofNoith
Caiolina .State, says pulblic
agencies and commercial
funis will have to team up
to pet this dramatic leseaich
in'o high geai
Despite the lelalively small
amount of leseaich findings
in the field of giowth legu
latois theie are a number
of giowth legulating chemi
Performance Is The Key
One of our customers has been feeding our Early Bird 301 mash to 700
molted leghorns since last August. These birds peaked at a little over 77%
and are holding amazingly well. He also has been feeding 2,700 young
leghorns which he housed in September on another brand feed in crumbles.
Our customer took time to figure his feed consumption.
The 700 molted birds on Early Bird 301 mash since August, 1964, averaged
a feed consumption of 22.2 pounds per 100 birds per day. His younger birds
on the other feed, since they reached the 50% production level, consumed
26.1 pounds per hundred birds per day of this feed.
The result of this record keeping is that the customer asked us to serve his
entire flock as of last week.
Remember . . . EARLY BIRD FEEDS and GOOD MANAGEMENT
. . . a Winning Combination for Any Poultryman!
cals already in use. Some
were discovered accidentally,
some are by-products of oth
er agricultural research,
Giowth regulators are now
being used to thin’ apples,
cause pineapples to set fruit,
shoiten stems of chiysanth
mums and reduce water loss
in plants.
Pei haps the most widely
discussed inhubitoi is a sub
stance called MH 30 So far
its use has been limited to
reducing tobacco suckering,
but thei e may be uses by po
tato and onion groweis in
preventing piematuie api out
ing
Floi icultui ists say SVIH-30
can be used to ictaid ter
minal giowth of many flower
ing plants and imlprove flow
ei pioduction It mav also
inciease the sugai level in
sugai cane and delay citms
and peach tiees fiom bud
ding until the dangei offiost
passes
Looking to moie immedn-
To Low Costs!!
Quality Will Tell - -
Good Records Can Prove It!
"FINEST SERVICE ANYWHERE"
Sorghum Almum
Labelled Noxious
Weed In Penna.
The State Agriculture De
partment has' warned farmers
not to buy Sorghum Almum
seed that may be offered to
them as suitable for pastuie or
silage oops
“Under the state seed law.
it is classified as a noxious
Restrictions against Johnson
ate needs, plant breeders are gi- ass provide that “crosses
looking for a way to stop with other grasses, and any
plants fiom flowering after a other grasses which produce
ceitain day. This way all of seed which are not readily dis
the food produced by the tmguished from Johnson grass”
plant could go into the de- also are classified as noxious
velopment of fiuit already weeds Soighum Almum is a
se t ci oss with Johnson grass, ac-
cording to Wendell P. Ditmer,
Also foiage pioducers who bureau botanist.
aie mtei ested only in feed,
could pi event plants from go- Sorghum Almum is not to
mg to seed after a ceitam be confused he said with 01
time of year This would ex- dmarj -or hybrid sorghums that
t em l •*, feed .p,0d„e,.0„ ca
pacity of the plant.
Miller
&
Bushong, Inc.
Rohrerstown, Pa.
Ph. Lancaster 392-2145
(Area Code 717)
weed,” said Henry F. Nixon,
director of the department's
Bureau of Plant Industry. "The
sale of Sorghum Almum Is 11.
legal in Pennsylvania.”
Nixon explained that Sorg
hum Almum is similar to John
son grass that was banned in
Pennsylvania in 1959 as a nox
ious weed. Johnson grass
spreads lapidly through seed
and underground limners, and
theic is no effective method to
contiol or eiadicate it, Nixon
said.