If Reflections
TEN YEARS AGO
(Continued from Page 6) Among improvements listed
realized from the Lancaster f° r next year’s barbecue, Mor-
County Poultry Association’s tonsen suggested changing from
barbecue, according to prelimin- electric appliances to all gas,
ary figures reported by chair- and expanding the cooking con-
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k >,i i|s
SMillion Rain Ends Drought
Rains that soaked most of
the state Tuesday (July 23) con
siderably eased the drought
conditions in the area.
Described as a “multi-million
dollar rainfall”, the first sub
stantial rain of the month may
have come at a crucial time for
many county crops.
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Tobacco Price and Use Drop
According to the latest To
bacco Situation report from the
USDA, domestic use of cigar
filler and binder tobacco in
1956-57 is down.
Acreage planted this year is
expected to stay about the same
for Type 41 tobacco, but Ohio
types may be off as much as
7Va percent.
Prices for 1956 Pennsylvania
filler leaf averaged 24 cents,
one-half cent below the preced
ing year.
The report also shows that
the state’s farmers glossed $ll
million from tobacco last year,
15 percent of the total state
farm income; gross in the 1955
crop year was $l3 million
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LF Adds Egg Quotation
Starting with this issue (July
19), Lancaster Farming offers
a new service to its readers
The Urner-Barry New York
Egg Quotation will appear week
ly on the market pages. The
Philadelphia egg report now
carried will be continued for
the time being.
Wheat Harvest Underway
Wheat harvest m the Garden
Spot is well underway, it was
observed this week (July 12).
With test weights and yields
running higher this year, one
producer went so far as to say
this looked like a real vintage
year for wheat.
PH. 464-3321
Lancaster Fanning, Saturda;
• Leukosis
(Continued from Page 4)
Clearance was recently grant
discovered that the causative for “ neW Iu ? Bl I cide ’,
agent could be spread from in- iana , M 4 ™nufacUnecl by
fected to healthy chickens in 1 ? e , a £ d Haas ornp ‘ my
droppings and saliva. But the 01 Philadelphia.
identity of the agent remained The U.S Department of Ag
unknown, despite repeated at- ncullure clearances permit a
tempts at laboratory culture by broader use ol the fungicide to
scientists at ARS’s Regional include potato seed pieces and
Poultry Research Laboratory, nee seeds
East Lansing, Mich
Success finally came when
ARS microbiologist Dr. John
J. Solomon and co-workers
used cultures of duck embryo
cells seeded with blood from
chickens infected with Marek’s
disease. Previous, unsuccessful
studies were tiied on cultures
prepaied from chicken tissues
Solomon found that the cul
ture of infected duck embiyo
cells developed colonies of al
tered cells, evidence that the
disease agent was present.
Chickens injected with infected
cells came down with Marek’s
disease while those injected
with uninfected cells did not
When Nazenan examined a
culture of infected cells under
an electron microscope, he
found pai tides that looked like
herpes virus The herpes vnus
group infect the nucleus of
cells, and under expeumental
conditions have not been in
fectious outside of cells, prob
ably because the viruses lack
an outer coat. This finding may
explain why scientists have
been unable to transmit the
Marek’s disease agent from one
bird to another without trans
mitting whole cells from an
infected bird to an uninfected
bird
By contrast, lymphoid leu
kosis viruses infect cell areas
outside the nucleus, and they
, July 15,1967
NEW FUNGICIDE CLEARED
In addition, the hequency
with which Dilhane M-45 may
be applied in the contiol of
giay leaf spot on tomatoes has
been increased to two applica
tions per week at a maximum
rate of three pounds per acre.
For control of Fusanum
seed-piece decay the company
recommends whole or cut po
tato tubers should be dipped
in IV4 pounds of Dithane M-45
per 50 gallons ot water For
dry treatment, Dithane M-45-
based dusts are available from
local suppliers, the spokesman
said.
A broad-spectrum fungicide,
Dithane M-45 reportedly ef
fectively controls major dis
eases on such crops as pota
toes, tomatoes, onions, carrots,
celery, sugarbeets, corn, cereal
crops, apples and grapes.
can be isolated outside of the
cells they infect.
Scientists at the Houghton
Poultry Research Station,
Houghton, England, announced
their independent identifica
tion of Marek’s disease virus
at the same AVMA meeting.
They grew the virus in a cul
ture of chick kidney cells, un
like the East Lansing group’s
procedure.
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