20-Lancaster Farming, Saturday. January 25.1969
LANCASTER COUNTY FARMERS
RECEIVING their State 5-Acre Corn Club
Awards at the annual corn growers ban
quet at Harrisburg last week, (left to
right) Glenn B. Thomas, Lititz R 3, cham
pion in the machine harvested class with
206 bushels of shelled corn per acre;
Sweet Corn Meeting
To Be Held In York
Corn ear worm and com borer
damage to sweet corn grown for
processing and fresh market was
more serious last year than
growers have experienced in re
cent years.
A special one-day conference
Correspondence
Courses iSi
STUDY WOODLOT
FORESTRY BY MAIL
Take a good look at your
woodlot this wintei Do mature
trees dominate certain areas,
preventing the giowth of sap
lings beneath’ Can more de
suable tree species be planted
in some aieas’ Are shrubs and
giams needed for wildlife covei
and feed’
Accoidmg to "a Pennsylvania
State University conespon
dence course on woodlot foi
estry, good management re
quires that trees grow close to
gether. Competition for space
and light causes trees to crowd
their tops as they grow making
long, straight tiunks free of
side blanches Long boards,
clear of knots, are cut from
such logs
But, there may be too many
trees in an area Oveiciowding
results in spindly-stemmed
trees Thin the stand by cutting
out trees of low value
To learn management of
woodlots study Penn State’s
correspondence course Send
your name and addi ess with
$2 25 to Woodlot Forestry, Box
5000, University Park, Pennsyl
vania 16802 A couise copy will
he sent by mail
• Have You Heard
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or in large pieces you can slice
yourself
Cost is less if you slice it
yourself
Count on about five servings
fiom each pound
There's little shnnkage be
cause it only lequires heating
befoie seiving
Theie is little waste in Cana-
Joseph H. McGahen, Extension Agrono
mist at Penn State, making the presenta
tions; Clarence Keener, Jr., champion in
the hand harvested class with 187 bushels
per acre; Guy Eshelman, second in the
hand harvested class and Arnold Lueck,
Associate Lancaster Ag Agent.
on growing high quality sweet
corn and controlling pests will _ , , ~ , „
be held in York County, Tues- Go ° d de „" tal .
day, January 28th. The meeting 51, . 0u . 1d ' n t .f ddho ° d ’ A r ®'
is scheduled for 10:00 a.m at nimds Mrs. Ruttalee Carroll,
the Avalon Farm Dairy restau- State extensum teds and
lant, Whiteford .Road. York. nutnUon You he p
your child to build Jiealthy teeth
Speakers on the program in- when you serve him well-bal
clude specialists from The Penn- aneednnd adequate meals, usmg t
sylvama Department of Agricul- a variety of - &wdS; an d with spe
ture, Perni State University and , . .
the University of Maryland. Lan- cial em P hasls on raw fruits and
caster County sweet corn grow- vegetables, and restricting sweet
ers are urged to attend. snacks between meals.
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Poultry Products
Go To Orphonoge
What happens to the poultry
products exhibited at the Penn
sylvania Farm Show?
This year’s products, 675
pounds, were donated to two
orphanages, Sylvan Heights
Home of Harrisburg, and the
Methodist Home for Children at
Mechanicsburg.
State Agriculture Secretary
Leland H. Bull, Gov. Raymond
P Shafer, Sen. William B.
Lentz, Sen. Clarence F. Man
beck, and Henry C. Kennedy,
Jr., manager of the Commercial
Department of the Harrisburg
Chamber of Commerce, present
ed the products to Charles
Ratchford and Cynthia Wilson,
children who represented Syl
van Heights.
Among the products which
were donated by poultry pro
cessors from various sections of
Pennsylvania, were out-of-thc
ordinary items such as phea
sant, partridge and wild luikey.
The products also included
whole birds fresh and frozen
cut-up friers, batter-dipped
chicken, chicken and turkey
rolls and chicken and turkey
scrapple.
Last Appearance
. George Washington made his
last military appearance in Cum
berland, Md. As president, he
here, in 1794, reviewed troops
called out to suppress the Whis
kj Rebellion.