Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, June 03, 1967, Image 13

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    Conservation Course Offered
For Public School Teachers
In an effort to properly in-room presentations Specialists
form children in the public in different fields give lectures
schools of the importance of and field trips Jones points
conservation in their lives out that last summer specialists
including air and water pollu- from the State Health Depart
tion. game and fish depletion, ment. the State Soil and Water
and disappearing woodlands Conseivation Department, and
teachers aie going back to the University’s geology depart
school ment presented some of the ma-
Because trained public school
teachers can help tomorrow’s
citizens realize the importance
of preserving natural resources,
a summer course at the Univer
sity of Delaware’s Georgetown
Substation, will offer an oppor
tunity for public school teach
ers to become familiar with con
seivation
Undei the dnection of Dr Although no Delaware com-
Robert Jones, of the depart- munity, as of now, is senouslj
ment of entomology and ap- affected by air pollution, it may
plied ecology, the course pro- be a sevei e problem in the near
vides these teachers with back- future. Water pollution, on the
ground information for class- ("Continued on Page 17)
FUL-O-PEP SALUTES
THE DAIRY FARMERS
It’s your month, Daily Farmers! June Dairy Month
is our time to thank you for the delicious and nourish
ing Dairy Foods you send us all year' long. Your
friends and neighbors salute you for a job well done.
Grubb Supply Co.
Elizabethtown
H. M. Stauffer
& Sons, Inc.
Witmer
tenal in the program
Enrollment is limited to thir
ty-three students who are select
ed by the Delaware Conseiva
tion Education Association, with
any teacher within the state eli
gible for selection The tuition
foi the couise is paid foi by a
grant from the Delawaie Asso
ciation of Soil and Water Con
seivation district supeivisois
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Harold H. Good
Stevens Feed Mill, Inc.
Low-Oxygen Storage
Hurts Potato Quality
Shipping potatoes m lovvoxj
gen atmospheres does not im
prove potato quality
Agricultural Research Seivice
plant phvsiolocist VV .1 Lipton
at Fiesno. Calif, tested White
Rose potatoes for eight da>s in
storage atmospheies of x n, 1, 5.
and 21 pei tent oxygen at 41 59
and 68 degrees Fahrenheit
Gioweis and shippers had ic
q nested the tests because of the
availability of conti oiled atmos
pheie equipment in the aiea
None of the treatments im
proved potato quality, and in
the and one percent oxygen
atmospheres at 68 and 59 de
grees potatoes de\ eloped sen
oils decay problems, pumanly
because the tubers had lost
their ability to heal over skinn
ed areas Black heait also de
veloped in manv tubeis
At the five percent oxygen
level, potatoes showed some loss
in healing ability, but black
heart was absent
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Terre Hill
Stevens
Lancaster Fanming, Saturday, June 3, 1967
SECOND SECTION
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Wentink Addresses Canadian And
American Poultrymen At EXPO/67
Over 200 poultrymen from
Canada, the U S A and as lai
away as Chile attended the
Poultry International Confer
ence at EXPO/67 in Montreal
Canada, recentl.\ The Confer
ence was sponsoied b. the On
tano Poultic Council ol Can
ada and the Vortheastein Pool
try Pioduceis Council <\SP
PCO) of the USA with se\
eral olhei Canad'an poultry 01
gamzations cooperating
COUNTIAN IS SPC\KEK
Principal speakeis were Hen
dnk Wentink sales manasei
lor Miller and Bushong In L
feed manutaetmeis and poul
try integialors headquartered
in Rohreistown and Pi of J
R Cavers, head of the Poultn
Science Department at Ontai
io’s Unu of Guelph
Wentink spoke on ‘ High Den
sity A Story of Poultry,
People and Progress" Using a
seiies of colored slides, he ef
fectively described tl\e poultry
ARMOUR VERTAGREEN,
FERTILIZERS
CONSISTENTLY GET
Through the years, more and more experienced
farmers have started their crops with Armour’s pre
mium-quality fertilizer. .. Vertagreen. And for juafc
as many years their yields have been bigger... bet
ter ... and more profitable.
Thai’s why Armour Vertagreen is known as tha
fertilizer that’s ''Worth More Because It Does More.**
Results prove it!
Let vis show you how Vertagreen can contrilbnta
to your profits.
SEE YOUR ARMOUR DEALER
TOBACCO GRADES AVAILABLE
4-8-12 VERTAGREEN
7-7-7 VERTAGREEN
TOP DRESS YOUR ALFALFA WITH
VERTAGREEN 2-15-30 WITH BORAX
OR 0-25-25 PEBBLE
OTHER GRADES AVAILABLE AT OUR
BAG AND BULK WHSES.
(SPREADER SERVICE AVAILABLE)
Armour Bulk Whse.
Enos R. Buckwolter Jr
2285 Old Philadelphia Pike, Lancaster
(AtSJnoketown on Rte. 340 * j Mile East of 230 Bypass)
Phone: 394-1257
Bagged Goods & Pesticides Available at Artnomr Whse.
J. U. Baker Whsc.
1133 Manhelm Pike, Lancaster. Pa.
Hendrik Wentink
industry In eastern United
States as it exists today
Turning to the future, Went
i Continued on Page 16)
Phone 393-9949
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