Farming, Saturday. June 10.1967
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• Plosfic Tobacco
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with any differences In
growth rates Immediately evi
dent. Mylin started planting
tobacco on June Ist, this
year, but said that plants in
his plastic-covered beds were
ready to go by May 30th.
This reporter observed ear
ly this week that while leaves
on Mylin’s plants grown under
muslin were the size of silver
dollars, the plants were only a
couple of inches tall. Tobacco
grown under plastic, however,
had leaves as big as dollar
bills, and plants measured at
least six inches in height.
THE WOMAN'S TOUCH
It has often been noted that
when it comes to raising baby
chicks, or other young stock,
no one seems to do as good a
job as a woman Apparently
the same thing applies to grow
ing tobacco plants At Mylin’s,
it’s Robert’s wife Mary who
tends the seedbeds once they
are planted
There *eems to be a bit more
management involved m grow
ing plants under plastic Tem
perature control for instance,
is critical A thermometer
hanging under the plastic dome
gives Mrs Mylin. an indication
of how to handle the ventila
tion. When the temperature
hits 110 degrees she generally
ventilates the beds by opening
the plastic covering at the
ends or by removing tape
from one-foot-long air slits lo
cated either side of the plastic
dome A certain amount of
judgment is necessary in hit
ting the right balance between
ventilating properly and over
ventilatmg The wind direction
and velocity, and the outside
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WATERING
One of the drawbacks Mrs. Anaerobic bacteria mirco-
Mylin notes in caring for the on , an j sms that live without air
plants under plastic is the dif- m .,y p ro vlcle a way to reduce
Rl iu lly J ln Kett '? s DDT accumulations in (he soil,
tributed properly. Once the The pr j ncip j e of anaerobic
plants are well-started tins is decomposition has been applied
only a once-a-week job, but to fop mnnv ars bv buil( i ers 0 f
get them going requires daily septic lapkSi The indication that
watering. This is done through jt a , so wark on DDT sug .
the ventilation dils. Mrs. Mylin gests a t 0 one 0 f the
says she is still looking for a vexing problems concern
more efficient way to get this ing DDT _ its pers i s tence.
important job done. Once released into the environ-
TREATMENT
.All three tobacco beds were
seeded at Mylin’s on April 3rd.
This was nearly three weeks
later than last year because of
the poor weather conditions.
The only fertilizer used on the
beds was some ammonium ni
trate when the plants wei"*
large enough to benefit from
it
About two weeks ago, when
the weather was beginning to
warm up. the plastic and mus
lin co\ers were removed per
manently For (wo weeks be
fore that they were removed
during the morning, covered
at noon, and then, gradually,
left off all night to harden the
plants
Mylin has stuck with the
same varieties of tobacco for
the past few years He plant
ed two beds of Pennbel-69 this
year, one under plastic and
one under muslin, and one bed
of Hill Island
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Mylin adds slart-and-grow fer
tilizer to the planting water,
and also chlordane to kill cut
worms. He uses a Holland to
bacco planter which he picked
up at a sale last year, and
notes that it operates so handi
ly his eight-year-old son can
help feed the plants into the
planter with no trouble.
The Mylin’s hired man is
Don Harnish of Willow Street
R 2, a senior in vocational ag
riculture at Penn Manor High
School Harnish farms two of
Mylin's tobacco acres on the
halves.
Mylm cites one mistake he
made this year when he or
dered his plastic. Instead of
getting 6-mil thick matenal,
he accidentally bought a light
er weight 4-mil plastic It suf
fered somewhat more wind
damage than the heavier ma
terial he had the previous year.
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the samples in an airtight cham
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After four weeks in the in
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the applied DDT remained in
its original form. The scientists
also applied DDT to soil sam
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free them of all micro-organ
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four-week test period.
Most of the DDT was convert
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material. The scientists pointed
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contact with air and permitting
anaerobic population* to
flourish.
In (he tests, Gucnzi and Beard
added .1 milligram of DDT to
each 10-gram soil sample. The
soil samples were moistened
and incubated at 30 degrees
centigrade in an atmosphere of
20 percent carbon dioxide and
80 percent nitrogen. Radioactive
DDT was added to the soil *o
that DDT and its decomposition
products could be identified -by
a scintillation counter. After
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June 13-7 p.m., Lancaster
County 4th Annual Dairy
Princess Pageant, at Host
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June 14-10 a.m., 4-H Strawber
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Lancaster.
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meeting at Eric Stoner’s,
1051 Eden Rd., Lancaster.
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