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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-
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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-
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