—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. December 16,1967
16
Cereal Leaf Beetle
Eradication Seen As
Almost Impossible
Pennsylvania wdl have to
learn to lave with the cereal leaf
beetle until more efficient con
trol methods are developed, a
state Department of Agricul
ture official believes
Henry 'F Nixon, director of
tlhe Department’s Biueau of
Plant Indu: ~v, tell the E'to
mologicai Society of Am-aca
■at a recent meeting in New
York City that eradicating the
pest with techniques now avail
able is “practically impossible ”
The New York meeting was
attended by more than two ibhou
sand entomologists from every
state in the matron.
He said quarantines, such as
are now in effect on the ship
ment of untreated hay, straw,
small grams and corn from Bea
ver, Butler, Lawrence and Mer
cer counties, are presently the
best method of controlling the
pest which causes extensive
damage to grain crops
The beetle was discovered for
the first tima in Pennsylvania
in the four v .stern counties six
months age. The State Agricui
ture Depart nenit imposed a
quarantine and set up stations
to fumigate crop shipments be
ing made from the infested
areas.
“Our present aim is to pre
vent the long distance spread of
the beetle,” Nixon said.
He said Pennsylvania’s moun
tainous ten am may slow down
the spread of the beetle which
was blown in from infested ar
eas in Ohio
Nixon cautioned that ‘wood
lots and brushy waste land ar
eas usually found on Pennsyl
vania farms aie ideal places for
adult beetles to spend the win
ter.
Entomologists from the state
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Marketing Man
Fears Tax
On Cigars
A tobacco maiketing expert
told 'farmer® this week, “We
face a serious situation”
Mark S Hess, Manager of the
Agway Toibacco Marketing Di
vision, told 50 farmers gather
ed at a meeting in the coopera
tive’s New Holland warehouse
Monday afternoon, “I am alarm
ed at the moment that we will
probably have a 35 percent tax
on agars sold in Pennsylvania.”
Hess said the cooperative had
dome what it could last summer
to have the bill put on the
shelf. “Now as far a® we can
tell both political 'parties agree
and if it comes out it looks like
there are enough votes to pass
it,” he said.
The manager said he recent
ly had a conference with the
Secretary of Agriculture and
the Secretary 'assured him he
would do everything in his pow
er to keep it from passing.
Hess said the proposed tax CHECKING THE GRADE of a lath,
would increase a ten cent cigar of tobacco at the Agway information,
to 14 cents. “If this happens meeting held at the New Holland ware
we will have trouble selling house Monday afternoon, (left) Leonard
them,” he said. “I don’t think
the public 'will accept the in- l' as t week can go direct to the In another part of the meet- ers had were centered aroima
crease.” governor. irig Leonard Ford, USD A To- hail cut tobacco and Ford said
The cooperative represents- <<Tiie ,Llarieaster County tobac- bacco Grader, showed the he didn’t 'think the hail cut
live said toe nolitieail neonle c 0 industry will' he adversally group the way tobacco is grad- damage was too had from a
are committed so toe best hope *f 'the tax goes on, he ed _ grader’s view-point until at was
as that the people we talked to concluded. The mam questions toe farm- real noticeable.
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