—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. April 20.1968
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Japan Little League Given
Reception By Pa. Ag. Dept.
Oriental dignity and Ameri
can informality blended into a
common bond of friendship in
Tokyo when the reigning Little
League world champions the
West Tokyo team was feted
at a reception by the Pennsyl
vania Department of Agricul
ture.
Seven boys from last year’s
championship team, and a group
of league officials that included
Shigetoshi Kiyokuni, president
of the Little League of Japan,
were guests at the reception.
Each was presented with a num
ber of gifts that included:
Baseballs autographed by
Governor Raymond P. Shafer,
certificates as Pennsylvania am
bassadors from the Committee
of 100.000 Pennsylvanians,
photographs of the baseball au
tographing ceremony in Harris
burg, and boxes of Pennsylvania
food products.
The boys, in their school uni
forms plain black, high-col
lared coats with brass buttons
sat stiffly at attention as
Pennsylvania Agriculture Sec
retary Leland H. Bull greeted
the group. Their faces were ex
pressionless, and they were
politely attentive. As the first
boy’s name was called out for
him to receive his gifts, he
arose, stepped forward to within
a few paces of his host and bow
ed low from the waist in the
typical Japanese mark of res
pect
Foimality vanished, however,
when Secretary Bull smiled and
held out his hand. The Japanese
boy smiled back, as any youngs
ter would, took the extended
hand and a big grin spread hap
pily over his face He was still
smiling as the gifts were handed
to him, and as Secretary Bull
put his aim over the boy’s
shouldeis and turned him to
ward a battery of press cameras
for a picture
And that’s the way it went,
through the entire presentation
One youngster, the team’s short
stop, as he sat down glanced at
a friend The friend winked and
the boy winked back as the
smile spread again over his face
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There was no doubting how he
felt, or how his teammates felt
about Pennsylvania’s salute to
the Little League word cham
pions who had won their title in
Williamsport last August.
Secretary Bull was assisted in
the presentation by Mrs. Bull
and Will Ketner, director of the
Agriculture Department’s Bu
reau of Markets. Miss Marion
T. O’Neill, the bureau’s food
specialist, and Donald O. Cun
nion, chief of the Market De
velopment Division, also were
hosts at the luncheon which
followed the presentation.
The event was held in con
nection with opening cere
monies of the American Festi
val, the mammoth U.S. agricul
tural exhibit that is being held
here from April 5 to 21. Pro
ducts of eleven Pennsylvania
food processors and manufac
turers are featured at the Penn
sylvania exhibit at the Festival.
The history of all the wars are
written by the victors. There
fore, the losers are always the
aggressors.
ATTENTION
FARMERS!
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your pastures and small grain
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Yews Suitable For Most
If you’re looking for an at
tractive evergreen that requires
little, If any, care, perhaps the
yew will fill the bill, suggests
Robert F. Stevens, extension
horticulturist at the University
of Delaware.
Japanese and English yews,
or taxus as they are called by
nurserymen, have been grown
in this country for many years,
says Stevens. But it’s only re
cently that these plants have
been available in a variety of
sizes and shapes.
Though all yews are similar
in appearance, they differ wide
ly in growth patterns and ma
ture heights. These shrubs vary
in size from 1 to 50 feet high
and 1 to 40 feet wide. Many
dwarf varieties, however, do not
grow over 18 inches tall.
Yews will grow well in both
sunny and shaded areas. How
ever, the shrub does require
good diainage. This is, perhaps,
the only serious limitation of the
yew. If yews get “wet feet,” the
foilage turns yellowish-green,
then brown, and the plant dies.
Do not plant yews in poorly
drained areas or in areas that
with
Contact
CLAIR WEIR
Kinzers, R. D. 1
442-4239
•re overly wet at some time
during the season. In these
areas, plant Japanese Holly or
some other shrub that is toler
ant of moisture.
Some of the most useful va'ri
eties for this area include Densa,
which is twice as wide as its
height: Expansa, usually three
feet high and five feet wide at
maturity; and Nana, three feet
high and six feet wide at ma
turity. These three plants are
dwarf Japanese yews.
For medium upright varieties,
Stevens recommends Hicksi, a
columnar yew reaching a height
of six to eight feet; Hatfield, a
pyramidal yew six to eight feet
high; Browni, a compact conical
yew; and Kelsey, a dense, com
pact "fruit-bearing yew.
Purpose of planting will usu-
Diazinon
stops
corn rootworms
in any season,
wet or dry.
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SMOKETOWN
Landscaping
ally determine the approximate
variety to use, says Stevens.
Yews can be used as founda
tion planting, border plantings
for screen or background and
as specimen accents. Carefully
select the variety that best fus
your landscape needs.
The number of varieties and
forms make yews one of the
most suitable shrubs for orna-
mental use,
The average price received by
Pennsylvania farmers for all
eggs sold during March was 34
cents a dozen, the State Crop
Reporting Service says. The
price was two cents less than
received in February and two
cents below the price received
in March 1967.
Ph. Lane.* 397-3539