—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. March 30,1968
10
Sometimes a major stroke is
preceded by a series of small
. _ strokes—brief attacks or numb-
John Henry Hershey, Lititz R 4, left, and guide Omar ness 0 r difficulty in seeing.
Swift with the Wild Boar Hershey shot on the Tioga Boar These are danger signals and
Hunting Preserve in Tioga County, Pennsylvania. Hershey should be taken as a warning to
bagged the tusker with bow and arrow. This was the third see a physician. Many major
wild pig he killed with the William Tell gear. strokes ca n be prevented by
* modern methods of treatment.
Pennfield Oats Give Better
Yields At Higher Seeding Rate
For maximum yields of Penn- drill strip trials were carried
field oats, plant this variety at out by Mr. Pifer and associates
three or four bushels of seed per in Parks ’ Indiana, Mercer, Per
. , , „ ~ , ry, Somerset, and Washington
acre instead of the usual two coun ties
bushels per acre used with oth
er oat varieties, suggest small In research trials in Centre
gram breeders and extension and Columbia counties, compar
speciahsts for the College of Ag- in S recomm ended varieties,
nculture at The Pennsylvania only Pennfield responded to the
State University. higher seeding rate The two
in trials in six counties last buahel P“ seeding rate is
summer, Pennfield oats yielded fl “ e "t for parry, Clintland,
88 bushels per acre at the four- Chntford, and Russell. The
bushels seeding rate compared s raw Wlll «« d ° w " l th f se vafl
- 76 bushels per acre at the 5, tles ar «; planted thicker, the
two-bushel rate. And Pennfield Penn Staters have found ’
exceeded the next best variety. The seeds of Pennfield are
Garry, by seven bushels per larger than other varieties with
OAT>O
fewer seeds per pound or per
The results show a clear-cut bushel. Seeding at the heavier
yield advantage of 12 bushels rate compensates for the lesser
per acre for the higher seeding number of seeds and takes ad
rate with Pennfield, according vantage of Pe n nfield’s strong
to Robert P Pfeifer and Elmer straw. Adequate moisture in
C. Pifer, small gram breeder 1967 showed that this variety
and ag r onomy specialist, re- ranked at the top in yield po
spectively, for Penn State. The tential.
• Pann Manor
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Nelson E. Newcomer, olso from
Manor. His topic was “The
World Divided.” Placing second
and third and entered in the
area contest were Merlin Snad
er, Grassland FFA, and Gerald
Martin, Warwick FFA,
Charles Risser, Cloister Chap
ter, was first in the separate
conservation speech contest. He
will be entered in the regional
contest at Lebanon in early May.
He spoke on "Air Pollution
So What?”
All the judges for contests
were v o c a t i o nal agriculture
teachers from York County.
Members of the county cham
pionship parliamentary proce
dure team are Dick Rohrer,
Dave Hoover, Carl Erb, Larry
Harnish, Abe Fisher, John Mar
tin, Dave Kilheffer, and Don
Breneman. Penn Manor High
School Vo-Ag teachers are D.
Richard Hackenberger and Paul
Bahner.
COUNTY FFA SPEAKING CONTEST WINNERS. Seat
ed, Nelson E. Newcomer, Penn Manor High School, Ist;
Standing (left - right) Charles Risser, Ephrata High School,
Ist in Conservation; Gerald Martin, Warwick High School,
2nd; and Merlin Snader, Garden Spot High School, 3rd.
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