• SCS Train** (Continued from Page 1) PA vice-president, and was rec ognized with a slate award for his 4-H. activities He has con tinued his interest in both of these youth organisations while In college, having served as president of the collegiate FFA chapter and as a membui of the college’s 4-11 ejnb As a part of Bass’ staff dur ing the summer he will be working in the field and in the Lancaster office, learning .md applying conservation tech niques. [• Egg Specialists (Continued fiom Pace i breeders, producers, piocessors and retailers and has tiadition ally presented the latent Hum iliation on producing, measur ing, grading and maintaining the quality of eggs This y cat's curriculum has been reused to include instruction and practice in all the newest techniques and procedures applicable to liquid, frozen, dried and further pro cessed egg products In addi tion to classroom lectures, each subject is put into laboratory practice. Aluminum Clapboard Skiing Safe! You’ll sure up to 25% and more when you buy durable weather resistant aluminum siding, with 25 yr. guarantee. Application Service Available (Call for Free Estimate) Agway Bee-Line Supply Center 1027 Dillcrville Rd., Lane., .Pa. Ph. 394-0541 ; Serving Southeastern Pennsylvania Mlximg Plajut & Feed Warehouse, Birdsboro, Pa. Sycamore Sickness Not Confined To County; Comeback Anticipated The sad stale of Lancaster County's onu'-Malelv sycamoie trees tins spring has .Housed considerable- local interest Bui the .sycamore sickness is not confined to the county, nor to the st.de New lei soy’s tiers, for one. ha\e been as badly hit Vccoidiiu to Lancastei < our • County FFA (Continued from Page If lest e\cnls actiuties will >n elude the animal business meet mg of the stale association plus educational dcmonsu.itions and tours Ilaiold ) BrubaKei Mount Joy Rl. Lancastei County’s na lional FFA vice piesident, \ull also be among the feat mod speakers at the combined FIIA FFA meeting on June 28th A final assembly will be held June 30th at 10 am to present awards. Idleness travels so slowly that poverty easily catches up with it. ~V> ‘ 1 ly agricultural agent M M Smith. the problem is caused by .1 fungus which .ilt.icks the liei-s (Mil) /ear It happens lb.it tin- ;cvr ihe weather con dit'ons i.aorui the disease r.i Ukm than the tiees The fun gus anion- the sjtainoies is anlhr.u ne-i Smith noted add in', ih.it ■inthin'.’ tan be done m help the trees at this point but to w.el lor warm diy weather Thin the trees are expelled 'o regain then leaves Tiee uw-ers halt tlnoded lo ca) ,ieent.c< and nmsenes with <a!N m. inis p-oblem wonder me wli,': ‘hev can do for the sviamo'ss Thi onlv control me«i»uie r e«-ommendcd now is to clean up the fallen leaves and lines from around the trees and burn these to dcstioy the organism Spraying is piac t-cal only when applied as the first buds appear on the syca mores in the spring, and even then, most of the trees are too tall to be covered effectively. SYCAMORES NOT RECOMMENDED According to the 1949 Year book of Agriculture “Trees” the American Sycamore, or planelree, is not recommended for street or lawn planting be cause of its extreme suscepti bility to anthracnose The year book describes anthracnose as “a fungus disease that attacks and kills the leaves when they are de\ eloping in the spring, and also mtects twigs, causing a disfiguring dieback”. The USD A noted m the year- , TYPICAL of the appearance of the sycamore tree book that the London plane- m the area is this tree growing at the Penn State Uni tree, which is considered a hy- verslty Research Farm near Landisville. While semi bnd between the Ameucan of county sycamores snow fewer leaves than this one sycamore and the Onental some others look m a little better shape New leave planetree, is moie resistant to have been observed on several area trees, and the tree anthracnose than the native gpg expected to recover from the fungus that has hi variety, and is recommended them L. F. Phot for street and home plantings. Lancaster Farming. Saturday, June 24,1967 — MANUFACTURERS OF Complete Line of Dairy Feeds Poultry Feeds Steer Feeds Swine Feeds Guinea Pig & Rabbit Feeds ROWN'S Eirdsboro Sinking Spring FEEDS SONS, INC Fleetwood * 9
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