• Potato Research
(Continued from Pace 1)
maintain the crop during the
growing aeason.
At the end of the season,
the potatoes will he hand
harvested from both the fer
tilizer and the variety test
plots, and a 50-pound sample
from each treatment will be
ta>ken to 'Penn State to study
Its chipping and other proc
essing qualities. These sam
ples will be evaluated after
two months of cold storage
at two separate temperatures,
and again after recondition
ing at room temperature.
The five, standard varieties
used in ‘he fertilizer study
range in maturity from the
very early Norland to the
very late Sebago, and include
each medium season varieties
as Pungo, Katahdin, and
Kennebec.
As Harrington explained
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- insect known to attack alfalfa.
A properly timed spray of Alfa
tox will protect your first cutting.
Check alfalfa bud tips frequently
and treat by the time 30-50 per
cent of the bud tips show signs of
larvae feeding. This provides ef
fective control of larvae which have
already hatched, as well as larvae
which hatch following application.
Under normal conditions, con
trol of weevil with Alta-tox lasts
for two to three weeks, which is
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the fertilizer treatment, phos
phorus Will be held at a con
stant level while tour levels
of nitrogon and potassium
will be varied In all possible
combinations. This will in
volve g total of 16 fertilizer
treatments for each of the
five varieties, or. a total of
SO distinct treatments. Each
treatment (a certain level of
nitrogen and potash for each
variety) consists of a 25-
toot row, and is repeated six
times in each field, Harring
ton said.
The second study, which
will run simultaneously, cov
ers .4-acre, and includes 42
different varieties and un
named seedlings. It takes
manv years to deielop a satis
factory vanety, Harrington
said, but it Is possible thu
20-30 years from now a few
of these experimental seed
lings may develop into de-
tection of your alfalfa until harvest
of the first cutting. If a repeat ap
plication is necessary, it may be
made up to seven days before cut
ting alfalfa.
You can be sure of no danger of
insecticide residue in milk with
Alfa-tox. All you have to do is wait
seven days after spraying before
you graze livestock or cut for green
chop or hay.
Ask your supplier for Alfa-tox
... an insecticide you can depend
on to be effective.
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wimble commercial varieties
through such research proj
ects as this, he added.
He also described a pilot
study which is incorporated
in the over-all project. “It
is felt by some author!ties,”
Harrington said, “that the
sour, e of potassium affects
chip color. We will be using
potassium from two souices,
muriate and sulphate. It
that theory shows any e\i
dence ol suppoit Irom our
study, it can be expanded lor
later lesearLh."
Accotding to associate
count} agent Arnold Lueck,
during the glowing season the
Lancaster Comity extension
service will hold at least one,
and possible two meetings at
the test plots to obseive the
giowth pioares-, and to learn
moie about the plans for this
potato expei imental pioje t.
CALCIUM, FOR
BODY JIUILDIXG
Calcium is an important
body building material. It is
used eteiy day in the normal
functioning of our bodies It
helps the muscles relax and
it helps legulate the heart
beat. Calcium is involved in
the clotting ot Wood. Without
calcium, eten minor wounds
would lesult in hemmorhdge
and death Milk is the best
source of calcium.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 30, 1966—7
CHISELING THE POTATO PLOT to about a
12-inch depth to improve drainage is Luke Burkhart
of PSU Southeastern Pennsylvania Research Farm,
Landisville. L F Photo
Baby Beef Club
Roundup Will Be
Held Dec. ’66
The Southeast Distnct 4-H
Baby Beef Show and Sale
will be held in December this
3 ear, six weeks later than
usual This was the decision
leached Tuesday night by
the show and sale committee
at a meeting at the Lancas
ter Livestock Exchange Room
The date , aie December 6
and 7.
The loundup wall again be
held at the Lancaster Stock
Yards this year, and will tea
tuie a total of 215 animals
The Lancaster County Club
will supply 134 ot these with
thiee other counties account
ing tor the balance Chester,
26, Dauphin, 30, and Xoith
ainpton. '5 The committee
also approved Carbon Coun-
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SINCE 1925
ty's lequest to join the
loundup, although it was le
ported that Beiks CounU had
alieadj united them to iom
that county s etent
The committee set a 750-
pouud mini mu m w'eight
standaid for steel s enteied
in the show, sajing that own
ers of annuals below that
weight would hate the choice
of selling then steel s oi tak
ing them home.
The show management com
mittee bv counties, consists
ot M M Smith and MeUm
G Rohier, Lancaster, Rob
ei t Church, Xoithampton;
Chailes Mentzei, Chestei;
lia Coble, Dauphin, with
state i epresentatiwes Frank
Cortz and Lestei Buidette
The next committee meet
ing was set toi eaily Fall.
It.was also decided that all
assessments and piennums
will iemain the same for the
19 (> 6 show and sale.
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