Pa. Forest Department
Warns Of Fire Hazards
Ir the Spring a young man’s
fanc> turns to thoughts ot love
but on the less romantic side,
the adient of waim wealhei
represents for many Pennsyl
vanians a time foi a geneial
cleanup both inside and out
Unfoi tunately too often in
the piocess of cleaning up out
of doors the piopeity ownei is
lineale of the potential hazaid
he is creating as he begins bum
ing ofi fields, hedgeiovs 01 just
plain irash which has accumu
lated o\ er the past months
Consequently this is as fai
as Pennsylvania’s foiests aie
coccemed the dangeious time
of 'he year when a meie spaik,
waited aloft by a steady bieeze
car ignite a neighboring field
woodlot 01 tract of foiest land
For
each
ton
of
Beacon's
Get one set of these handsome, gift packaged
Americana insulated mugs FREE!
From now until May 10th, 1969 your Beacon dealer will
give you one set of these handsome, practical and durable mugs
free with the purchase of any combination of Beacon Swms Feeds
totaling one ton purchased at 1 one time.
This offer is being made to help introduce you to the
improved Beacon Life Cycle Swine feeding program designed
to get market pigs from birth to butcher with maximum gams in
minimum time.
So call your Beacon dealer today Beacon Swine Feeds
are palatable, efficient and profitable And the six Americana
mugs can be yours for trying just one ton!
GEHMAN FEED 0. KENNETH H. JACOB HOOBER
MILL, INC. McCRACKEN Intercourse
Denver Mauheuu
*• B -, G^™ LL EARL SAUDER, INC.
& SON New Holland
Strasbmg
and in minutes what took years
to produce may be ieduced to
a chained mass of blackened
tiee stumps.
This year, in paiticular, the
danger is extiemely gieat mas
much as Pennsylvania is below
pai in the amount of piecipita
tiou since the beginning of the
year
The noimal piecipitation foi
the Hanisbuig aiea fiom Jan 1
to Mar 18 was 706 inches, ie
poils the U S Weathei Buieau
but Pennsylvania has only had
thus fai, 3 10 inches of min din
ing that penod oi a deficiency
of 3 96 inches
With this fact in mind the
Division of Foiest Pi election
Department of Foiests and
Waters warns piopeity owneis
Improved Swine
you purchase
Ibeacon
FEEDS
Sectors Where Dog
Licenses Lag Subject Of
House-To-House Check
House-to-house checks to lo
cate unlicensed dogs have be
gun in various sections of the
stale, the Pennsylvania Depart
ment of Agi icultui e has an
nounced
Dog law officeis aic concen
trating their effoits in aieas
where iccoids show the sale of
dog licenses “are not what
they should be” accoiding to
T Luke Toomej. dnectoi of
the Depailment’s Buieau of
Dog Law Enfoi cement
to be extiemely caieful with
fne and reminds them that last
Spring, when similar conditions
existed, it was necessaiy foi
Gove Raymond P Shafei to
pioclaim a ban against smoking
and outdooi fires in aieas ad
joining Pennsylvania's foiest
lands
ft
Feeds
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STORE
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In homes where unlicensed
dogs are found,, charges are fil
ed against the violators, Toom
ey said He said the fine and
prosecution costs usually total
$l9 for the first oftense
A lap on a dooi 01 a push on
a dooibell usually bungs \ocal
evidence that dog is on the pi e
mises Toomev said Neighbois
aie also a good souice of mfoi
mation concerning who owns
dogs in a neighboi hood he add
cd
He said theie haie been in
stances in which homeoivneis
heided then unlicensed dogs
into cais and diove awai until
dog law officeis left the neigh
boihood
“This is an expensive method
of trying to evade the dog law ’
Toomey said "Aftei ail a dog
licenses costs onlv SI 20 to
S 2 20 ’
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The practice of topdressing
some of our crops with nitrogen
fertiliser early in the spring
needs attention at this time
Many wheal growers will top
diess with 30 to 50 pounds o£
actual nitiogen pei acie and
got good mci eases in yields
Redcoat wheat has the ability to
stand this extia feitih/ei and
will icspond piolitably The ap
lication should be made aboiP
the middle of Mai ch when vege
lalive giowth begins Wheat
that is to be undei seeded to a
legume should not leceive moie
than 25 to 30 pounds pei acie ot
actual nitiogen Glass pasluies
will also lespond well to eailv
nitiogen by pioducmg earlier
giazmg and moie of it With
nnxtuies of glass legume pas
lines the use oi a comp'cte fei
tilizei is lecommended foi best
lesults
LIGHT BULBS
7 s 1 ! 00
C||k Inside frosted
’pi to give you
better light
Less glaie
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yt 100 Watt
reg 25c each
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exotic tuberous
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