• SWCD . Ph. 854-786? farm workers 16 year* of age or over. If You Can*t Afford To Corbet Your Bam .77 Use MARTIN’S BfIRN-DRI! • Ktm Wm *n 9 Hi. m| 9 RmJutm iKppiag nfui.iuimN,iML biuml r* Gap 4424148 Terre Hill 445-3455 New Holland 354-2112 1 I. v jjys/ $ 4 /// center around Graybill’s farm pond. Also in the area, wagon tours will observe such con servation practices as open drains, tiles, strips and con tours. The directors also voted to award door prizes and to in vestigate the possibility of having of farm machinery and farm safety demonstrations. Deadline for plowing con test entries will be Saturday, July 23. Entry blanks can be obtained either from Aaron Stauffer, Ephrata Rl, or from M. M. Smith at the County Extension Office, Lancaster. Serving with Stauffer on the plowing contest committee are: Forney Longenecker, Lititz R 3; Elmer Good, Lititz Rl; Ivan Nolt, Ephrata R 2; Donald Her shey, Manheim R 2., county agent M. M. Smith; Orval Bass and Abner Houseknecht, both from the SCS Lancaster office. The Lancaster SWOD will be represented by vice chairman Henry Hackman at the Sus quehanna River Basin Coordin- Why Not- Check With Your Neighbor And See Why He Changed To Hornco Feeds. Then Call Us Direct For An Appointment With Our Helpful Service Man. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 18, 1966 ating Committee meeting to be held at Wellsboro June 23 and 24. The theme of the meeting will be Resource De velopment for Agriculture and Communities in the Tributar ies of the Basin. According to SWCD chair man Amos Funk, this will mark the first time in any river basin study that the plan has directly involved agriculture. In other business the di rectors voted to accept five new cooperator agreements with acreage totaling 554. Chairman Funk announced that Lancaster County’s bid to host the 1967 State SWCD an nual meeting had been ac cepted, and will be held here November 14-16, 1967. The District will provide the facili ties and tour arrangements, and entertainment for one night All other details will be handled by the state associa tion, Funk said Two Manheim Vo-Ag Seniors Are Honored Two Manheim Central High School seniors in vocational agriculture were honored Mon day night at that school’s com mencement exercises. Named Outstanding Vo-Ag Senior, Jess Miller of Manheim R 4, was cited for excellence in scholarship, leadership, and service to the agriculture de partment and to the Future Farmer Chapter The Sl5 cash award for Miller’s accomplish ment was donated by the Lan caster County Bankers’ Asso ciation. Ben Nolt of Manheim R 1 was the recipient of the second an nual Farm Women Society No, 2 cash award of $lO He was named as the agriculture senior who gave the most ser vice to the department and the agriculture program. Both boys are holders of Keystone Farmer Degrees and have been active in their FFA chapter activities. June Is Best Time To Prune Evergreens The best time to prune ever greens is during the month of June, after the first new grow th is finished, according to Dr. Charles Dunham, associate pro fessor of horticulture at the University of Delaware. If pine trees are pruned each year, they will remain compact and still keep their characteristic shape They should be pruned when the new shoots, called candles, are fully elongated but still tender and succulent At this time the new needles are about one half as long as the previous year’s needles The new growth can be cut back one-third to one-half its length, a new set of buds will form just below the cut surface, Dunham points out Yews, juniper and cedar trees are best pruned from mid- to late June. By this time most of this year’s grow th has already taken place. The effects of the pruning will last until next year; however, jiut enough new growth will occur to hide the pruning cuts. If it is necessary to remove large branches, paint wounds one and a half inches in dia meter or larger with a tree wound dressing, Dunham ad vises Spring blooming shrubs can still be pruned this spring. However, pruning in July or later will remove some of the flowering wood and reduce next spring’s bloom Know what you intend to ac complish before you start prun ing, Dunham recommends. Pruning is usually done to force side branches and flower buds to develop, to control ihe plant shape, to remove dead or diseased wood and to repair storm or winter damage Shrubs such as forsythia will bloom year after year without pruning, but after a few years, they become a tangled mass. Forsythia is best pruned by cutting out the old branches at the base of the plant New, healthy stems loaded with flower buds will replace them. Lilacs require a different treatment, Dunham says. Cut off the faded blooms before the seed pods develop When lilacs become too tall or lanky, re shape the plants by cutting off the old thick stems at the base of the plant Remove only a few old canes each year, he warns, because plants may fail to bloom after a severe prun- 5