18—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April 15,1967
Moved To
New Location
SWEIGART
FIRESTONE
329 West High St.
Manheim, Pa.
665-2258
ATTENTION
FARMERS!
Now is the time to top dress
your pastures and small grain
with
URAN 30
LIQUID NITROGEN
for high quality forage and
top grain yields.
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We also have excellent spread service
for bulk liquid fertilizers to top dress
alfalfa and control weevils at the some time.
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ALSO For plow down for corn
We recommend 14-7-7 without manure or
9-9-9 wifh heavy manure application.
Lebanon Chemical Company
JOHN J. HESS CUURWEIR
Paradise, Pa. Kinzer, R. D. 1
442-4632 %T 442-4239
Oak Wilt Control
Program In Pa.
Slows Spread
Pennsylvania’s program of
oak wilt control may account,
in part, for the slow rate of
spread of oak wilt compared
with adjacent states not using
such control measures, stated
William Merrill. Jr., research
plant pathologist at Penn State
University, during a Northeast
Forest Pathology Workshop
held recently in Morgantown,
W.Va.
Merrill referred to the oak
will control program carried
out by the Bureau of Plant
Industry. Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Agriculture, whereby
aerial observation detects dis
eased and dead oaks. Such
trees are cut down by the Bu
reau and ammonium sulfamate
(Ammate) is applied to the
stumps.
Such a program reduces
considerably the amount of oak
wilt fungus that can be spread
by wood-bonng beetles and
other insects, Merrill pointed
out.
He and his associates have
found that the fungus causing
Contocf
oak wilt can survive up to five
years in the roots of dead
trees. However the fungus will
seldom live more than one
year when stumps of trees are
treated with Ammate.
He and research assistant
John M. Skelly, in the depart
ment of plant pathology at
Penn State, have excavated
and studied root systems of
over 300 trees killed by oak
wilt. These roots became in
fested with insects soon after
the trees died. Wood-boring
beetles and similar insects car
ried the fungus in or on their
bodies when they emerged
from the roots.
Studies by the Agricultural
Experiment Station at Penn
State have confirmed previous
findings that such insects feed
on healthy oaks by tunneling
into the woody portion of trees.
Such wounds make ideal in
fection areas for spread of the
oak wilt fungus, Merrill claim
ed.
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LANDIS BROS., INC
1305 Manheim Pike/ Lancaster, Pa.
Ag. Sec. Urges Food
Industry To Push Eggs
Secretary of Agriculture Or
ville L. Freeman asked the na
tion’s food industry to join with
the U.S. Department of Agri
culture and the Poultry and
Egg National Board in u co
operative merchandising cam
paign to encourage consump
tion of unusually heavy- sup
plies of eggs.
In a letter to major retail
ers, food trade associations and
public feeders, Freeman said
that supplies of eggs now and
during the coming months “will
make it possible to offer con
sumers this highly nutritious
and outstanding protein food
at bargain prices.”
Egg output now is running
some seven percent above a
year ago. Supplies will con
tinue to be larger than nor
mal at least through July.
The Secretary lauded the egg
Great changes are taking place In the seed world
these days. Your Hoffman Seed Man is kept in close
touch with research on new varieties . . . and on
weed, insect and disease problems. Let your Hoffman
Seed Man help you get better results on your farm.
Frank Bucher, Jonathan Shirk,
Bothsville 626-6504 Bareville 656-9302
Lester Erb, D. Wayne Sweigart,
Elizabethtown 367-7112 Elizabethtown 367-2280
Jason Mellinger,
Strasburg 687-6546
SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY
industry for. “aggressively pro
moting its product” through the
Poultry and Egg National
Board. USDA is cooperating
with a plentiful foods special
campaign, spearheaded by the
Consumer and Marketing Serv
ice whose food trades repre
sentatives and marketing spe
cialists across the country are
enlisting support of food mar
keting and allied industry
groups, and communications
media.
“The ability of the food in
dustry to employ effective, im
aginative merc h a n dising to
move abundances of farm prod
ucts through commercial trade
channels has been demonstrat
ed frequently. Your help, now,
for eggs, will be appreciated
by and beneficial to producers
and consumers alike,” Freeman
said.
A grown elephant eats about
800 pounds of fodder a day.
Edgar Emble,
Gap 442-4525
Landisvilfe, Pa.
Phone 393-3906/