12—Lancaster Farming, Friday, December 24, 1965
Vo-Ag Teacher
Receives M. S.
It was learned this week
that Robert Gene Daugherty,
agriculture teacher at Garden
Spot High School, had re
cently received a Master’s De
gree in Agricultural Educa
tion from the Pennsylvania
State University.
Dnugheity has been teach
ing at Garden Spot High
S-hool for the past four >eurs.
He is a graduate of Dußois
Area High School, and re
ceived his US. from Penn
State in 10G1. He is current
ly piesident ot the Lancas
ter County Vo-Ag Teacheis
Association
H's parents aie Mr. and
Mis Hugh Dangheily of
Falls Creek, Pa.
I
Gene Daugherty
Pioneer Hybrid Tops
Corn Demonstration
Project With 153 Bu.
Analysis ot the data Horn
this jeai s Lancaster County
Coin Demonsti ation Plots
shows a lubrid, Pioneei 33 06’,
tops in the \ield department
with 133 0 bushels pel acre
Howetei, accoidmg to as
--ociate county agent Arnold
G Lueck, no final tonclu
-ions as to perfoimance of
the 39 tull-season hybrids
should be diawn on the basis
ot this one limited test.
He desenbed this yeai’s
giow mg conditions at tlfe
plot location on the Henry
G Shenk taim near Mount
Joj as fauly good Although
raintall was light dunng ear
ly July, it was near normaf
atteiwards Weed control was
ien good with banded atra
zine and one cultivation.
Theie was a light infesta
tion of aphids. Lueck said,
and stalk rot late in the sea
son caused stalk breakage in
all ot the hybrids tested.
Each hybrid was replicat
ed four tunes with a pl'ant
population of 18,000 per acre.
Planting was done on May
12, and the crop haivested
O-tober 15, Lueck reported.
A heaty application of man
uie was plowed down with 90
pounds of nitrogen in the
fonn of uiea, and 200 pounds
of 10-20-10 fertilize! At
planting, 300 pounds of 5-
15-3 feitihzer was applied
The top jield this jear of
133 bushels compares fator
ablj with last jeai s top of
141 4 bushels Last year, 38
h\binds showed an aveiage
; leld of 110 1 bushels This
\ears aieiage was oonsider
abh better at 124 4 bushels
Yie’ds in both jeats w'ere
c oner ted to 13 3 peicent
inoistui e.
Xe\t jear marks the 25th
or silver arumeisaiy of U S
Sat mgs Bonds The first Ser
ies E Bond was sold to Pres
ident Frankl'in D. Roosevelt
• Feed Conference
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plant wlentlst said the gold
en age In vegetable plant
breeding hns arrived.
“There has never been a
period when the means of
making giant strides in vege
table variety improvement
has been as promising," stat
ed E Wilbur Scott of the
Joseph Harris Company, Inc.,
Rochester, N"V,
Speaking on problems and
trends in hybrid vegetable
seed production, Scott said
new methods ot hybrid seed
pi eduction can be considered
“milestones” in plant breed
ing Hybrid vegetable varie
ties generally meet the in
dustry's demand for uniform
ity ot type and maturity,
handling qualities, and high
yields per acre, he pointed
out
OTHRR HYBRIDS CITRD
Hybnd corn varieties vary
in uptake of elements such
as nitioijen, phosphorus, and
«
V.
p'otcislum, according to Mel
vln W. Johnson, Corn breed
er for the Agricultural Ex
periment Station at Penn»
State. Accumulation of ele»
ments is controlled by gene
tic mechanisms, Dr, Johnson
reported. He described certain
inbred lines of corn as high
accumulators of certain ele
ments ■while others are low
accumulators. Experiments
show these factors are con
stant, he said, even when
different levels of the ele
ment are available to the
corn plant as fertilizer.
Seed usage of sorghum
suda.n hybrids has increased
20-fold in the last five years,
reported John E. Baylor, Ex
tension agronomist at Penn-
State He said the number of
soi gluini-suda n hybrids avail
able lor distribution has in
creased fiom 5 in 1960 to
30 in 19G5.
The alfalfa weevil now cov
eis all of Pennsylvania, re
ported Stanlej G Gesell, Ex
tension entomologist at Penn
State Contiol of laivae of
the alfalfa weevil last spring
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May the
blessings and joys of
Christmas be with all
of our many friends .
E. HORN & CO., INC
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YORK, PA.
w«« generally satisfactory, he
stated. Recommendations for
control of larvae will be es
sentially the same for 196-8-
as they were last spring, he
added.
"maize"’DWARF
MOSAIC FOUND
Clifford C. Wernhsm, re
search scientist in corn dis
eases at Penn State, said
Maize Dwarf Mosaic of corn
was found in 20 Pennsylvania
counties last summer but on
ly in trace amounts in field
corn. He said late planted
sweet corn showed a range of
diseased plants from zero to
90 percent.
Dr. Wernham said Penn
State plans to continue its
program of testing inbred
lines of corn so that resistant
lines can be pollinated and
Continued in the program to
breed resistant hybrids.
Strains of the disease should
be identified, he added. Fer
tility levels will be investi
gated to determine whether
symptoms of the disease are
hidden bv certain applications
of fertilizer.
• Tnftd Dam
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■prlng with official production
records.
The coir’* progeny aver
aged 9,412 lb*, milk and -497
lb*, butterfat on twice-dally
milking, 305-day mature
equivalent basil. The record*
were made under one of tbe
programs of official testing
of The American Jersey Cat
tle Club.
The Tested Dam rating
aids Jersey owners in tbe
selection of superior breed
ing stock. The three tested
progeny required to qualify
a cow as a Tested Dam may
either be three tested daugh
ters 'or three tested sons, or
any combination thereof to
taling three.
U. S. FARM FIRES
NEW YORK Fires and
lightning strike about two
out of every 100 farm's in the
United States each year, ac
cording to the Insurance In
formation Institute.
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