Ami
icunts of pesticides in the
■ican consumer’s diet re
al low, safe levels, the
and Drug Administration
ies. The fourth “total diet”
r by FDA showed no signi
t change from previous
5 in the dietary intake of
tn
SUTAN
Available at
HempfieM
Mills Inc.
Manheim, R. D. 1
For corn growers
who want the
broadest weed
control program
' < O'l '<■ ■
Sutan, the new “grass-getter”
in corn, provides highly effec
tive control of annual grasses
including giant foxtail, plus
that perennial troublemaker
... nutgrass (purple and yel
low). And does it without
leaving harmful soil residue
carryover when used as di
rected.
pesticides. In every case, resi- # CmrmaX L*n(
dues were found to be within 9 r cnnt® nld n
acceptable daily intake levels (Continued from Page 1)
established by the World Health
Organization and the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations
Armour Fertilizer
& Chemicals
Available at
Heisey Farm
Service Inc.
Lawn, Pa.
Ph. 964-3444
Mt. Joy 653-5718
nse a tank mix of
SELECTIVE HER lICIIE >
@
P. L. ROHRER & BRO.; INC. Smoketown, Par
SPREAD EAGLE FARMS Klingerstown, Pas
When both annual grasses
and broadleaf weeds are a
problem, a tank mix of Sutan
6-E and Atrazine SOW con
trols more grassy and broad
leaf weeds than either mate
rial will control alone.
A combination of Sutan
and atrazine can be applied
and mixed into the soil before
Armour Fertilizers and Pesticides from
Agri-Chemicals, Inc.
ENOS BUCKWALTER Lancaster. Pa.
Bureau of Plant Industry, and
the Plant Pest Control Division
of the U.S. Department of Agri
culture.
Personnel of these agencies
will inspect winter and spring
grain fields in these counties:
Adams, Bedford, Blair, Bradford,
Cambria, Cameron, Centre,
Chester, Clearfield, Clinton,
Cumberland, Elk, Franklin, Ful
ton, Huntingdon, Jefferson,
Juniata, Lancaster, Lycoming
McKean, Perry, Potter, Somer
set, Tioga and York. If time per
mits, the survey may be extend
ed into adjacent grain produc
ing counties.
Two methods will be employed
to inspect grain fields, by trap-
atrazine
planting. Since lower rates of
atrazine are used, the poten
tial hazard of atrazine resi
dues affecting certain suc
ceeding crops is reduced.
Be sure to ask us for full
details on the SuTAN/atrazine
tank mix . . . your broadest
and most effective weed con
trol program for corn.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 26,1969—7
Food Donations For Needy
Persons Up Nearly 40 Percent
Foods donated to the States
by the U.S. Department of Agri
culture to improve diets of
school children, needy families,
and needy persons m charitable
institutions totaled nearly 921
million pounds in the first half
(July-December 1968) of this
fiscal year against some 894
million pounds for the same
period a year earlier.
The USDA food donations
for needy families during the
ping insects in sweep nets, oi
by visual observation to detecl
beetles or larvae on plants.
July-December 1968 pcnocl
amounted to 476 4 million
pounds and cost $93 6 million
dollars. These are 40 percent
and 59 percent above the ics
pective figures for the same
period a year earlier More and
better food mostly accounts for
these increases as foods avail
able from USDA climbed to
some 36 pounds per person per
month, and needy persons bene
fited further from the new,
highly nutritious foods added to
donation lists during July-
September 1968 Also, more
people took part in this family
food-aid program during this
six-month period, and USDA
started a supplementary food
program to reach mothers, in
fants and small children mosl
vulnerable to nutritional de
ficiencies
Other USDA food donations
during July-December 1968 in
cluded 375 4 million pounds to
schools, and 69 1 million pounds
to charitable institutions The
school totals are in addition to
foods purchased by USDA’s
Consumer and Marketing Ser
vice especially for schools m
USDA’s National School Lunch
Piogram
In December 1968, nearly 3 7
million needy persons in fami
ly units m 43 States and 4 terri
tories benefited from the in
cieased food Another 2 8 mil
lion in 42 States and the Dis
trict of Columbia took part m
USDA’s Food Stamp Program,
icceiving more than $lB million
worth of extra food-buying pow
-1 er Thus, at the end of Decem
-1 ber 1968, 6 5 million person*-
Iwere benefiting fiom the two
IUSDA family food-help pro
grams compared with about 5 5
million a year earlier
The U S Department of Agri
culture acquires some of the
food through its pnee-suppoit
activities, and through other
purchases to help needy per
sons and others enjoy a sub
stantial and varied diet The
food is processed, packaged, and
shipped to the States and teni
tories for use in their school
lunch, needy family, and other
food-aid programs. Any donated
food in these distributions chan
nels may be diverted for imme
diate use to aid victims of na
tural disasters
Pennsylvania vegetable glow
ers intend to plant 1.800 acies
of late summer cabbage, 100
acres less than last year Most
of the crop is for fresh market
and the i eir.avnder for saner
kiaut
Spung spinach pioduction ia
forecast at 450 acres, the same
as m 1968.
Vegetables conti acted for pro
cessing (canning «nd fieezmg)
also show declines from last
year. Snap beans at 8,300 acies
will be down by 19 percent, and
sweet corn at 8,200 acres, 1 3
down 40 percent
The prospective crop figures
are the result of the first sui
vey of state growers by tho
1969 season.
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