22—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, June 21.1969 Hunting Aided By Wildlife Studies Studies of wildlife are helping to provide basic information needed for a balance between successful hunting and protec tion of foicsts and other resourc es. says James S Lindzey, leader of the Cooperative Wildlife Re seal ch Unit at The Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Lindzey and associates are conducting field experiments on the 6,800 acres of the University Experi mental Foiest in Huntingdon County. The woik is designed to aid in evolving new management pio giams that will increase wildlife habitat productivity while i educ ing conflicts between wildlife in terests and other human inter ests such as faim crops and tim ber production. Initial phases of several long range studies stress collection of information on behavior, physi cal characteristics, and harvest of game animals from selected sites. This is done, Dr. Lindzey explains, to examine productivity of sites, condition of animals, and recreational and economic im pacts. The area has provided consid erable recreation for hunters, with up to 10,000 man hours a year recorded for deer hunting alone A total of 930 deer have been harvested from the Experi mental Forest in eight years Hunters have been very helpful in providing information for the research team. The best deei Drowse has been found where openings exist in the forest An area including 2,000 acres of mixed oak wood land was found to pioduce enough browse for 58 deer if the deer ate nothing but browse the year around Wild turkeys spend most of their time in forests of mixed oaks, according to another study. A few wild turkeys have been trapped and equipped with radio transmitters to trace their movements Gray squirrel trapping has been earned out in the Shaver’s Creek section of the Expeumen tal Forest A recent phase of the study suggests that more than twice as many squirrels occupied uncut areas as compared to cut areas Squnreis in the cut areas traveled twice as far from their den tiees as those in the uncut areas Pioneer Announces New Alfalfa Variety The Pioneer Coin Company Inc, with seve 1 al leseaich loca tions in the Midwest and eastern United States, announces the naming and pioduction of a new 7 alfalfa vanety, namely 520 adapted to the Midwest and east ern United States This new vanety has daik green foliage coloi which should be of paitic ular mtei est to dehydiatois and others mteiested in pioducing high quality alfalfa 520 is a eight clone, wilt resist ant, wintei haidy synthetic varie ty adapted to the aieas wheie Vernal and Ranger are piesently grown 520 has averaged moie than 10 peicent moie hay per acre than Vemal or Rangei in tests conducted over a four year period in lowa, Illinois, Minne sota, Wisconsin, and Pennsyl vania It is more lesistant to downy mildew than either Ver nal or Ranger 520 represents a majoi improvement ovei other available alfalfas in resistance to the leaf spot caused by Leptosph aeruhna 520 produces somewhat more growth m the late fall per iod than does Vernal. Pioneer Biand 520 Alfalfa was favorably reviewed by the Na tional Certified Alfalfa Variety Review Board at its December. 1968 meeting and has been ac cepted for certification Final Action On Pesticide Label Wording Delayed Final action on a proposal to standardize meanings and uses of words, phrases, and symbols on pesticide labels has been post poned about two months, until Aug. 1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reports. Additional time is be allowed for industry to evaluate and pre pare comments on the proposal, which modifies Interpretation 18 of the Federal Insecticide, Fungi cide, and Rodenticide Act. Notice of the extension is to be publish ed in the Federal Register June 17 by USDA’s Agricultural Re search Service. “The proposed revision was originally published in the April 4 issue of the Federal Register and interested parties were given 60 days to submit comments,” ♦ * V. s Red Rose DAIRY SUPPLEMENTS Select from a variety of RED ROSE SUPPLEMENTS for that “nutritional balance.” Save money, too! JOHN DEERE SELF-UNLOADING WAGONS 125 Chuck Retire the unloading hook and silage fork...put John Deere Self-Unloaders to work for you. High volume Forage Wagons keep pace with modern foraga harvesters. Durable Chuck Wagons are built to taka year-round feedlot use. Stop in for the details. Wenger Implement, Inc. The Buck 284-4141 Shofzberger's 665-2141 Elm A. B. C. Groff, Inc. Landis Bros. Inc. New Holland 3544191 Lancaster 393-3906 explained Dr. Harry W. Hays, Director of ARS’ Pesticides Reg ulation Division “But the mod ification of Interpretation 18 is of such a sweeping nature that manufacturers requested addi tional time to study possible effects on their development, marketing, and advertising pro grams.” “The revision of Interpretation 18 will provide better consumer protection in the use of pesticid es,” Dr. Hays said. “At present, there is no standard working or phiasing for warning, caution, and antidote statements. Label information on similar products may be phrased many different ways, thus confusing and mis leading purchasers.” Persons desiring to submit written data, views, or argu ments relating to the proposal M. S. Yearsley & Sons West Chester 609-2990 should send them in triplicate to search Service, U.S. Department the Director, Pesticides Regula- of Agriculture, Washington, D. tion Division, Agricultural Re- C. 20250. age ling obs Wagon
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