Borates Seem No Problem
For Effluent Irrigation
Despite the moeasim! use of Pennsylvania Slate University,
borates in laundiy dcteigcnts, it Five years of cxpeiimcnls at
is unlikely that the eastern Unit- Penn State showed th.il boron
ed States will run into ci op dam- did not accumulate in the soil
age from boron in sewage eill- enough to endanger plants
uent used for irrigation, it was jardine said electrostatic char
announced recently during meet- es in j ron oXlc jes and clays hold
mgs of the American Society of b oron to the surface of soils in
Agronomy in Detroit, Mich a “*y in g U p” process His studies
Where rainfall exceeds evap- indicated that the iron oxide
oration, there should be no content of soils was important in
problem from irrigating crops “tying U P” boron.
with sewage waste water contain- Rainfall in the humid east is
ing present levels of borates, de- helpful in leaching out some
dared James D. Jardine, research boron from the root zone of
assistant in agronomy at The plants, he pointed out Boron is
normally earned in solution un
til fixed in soils or taken up by
plants It can be a crop hazard if
allowed to accumulate due to
evaporation where rainfall is
limited as in California.
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Wolgemuth Bros., Inc.
Mount Joy, Pa.
Analysis of soils treated with
sewage effluent showed higher
concentrations of boron than in
soils not treated with effluent.
However, the concentrations
\ i-' not hazgidous even to
sensitive ciops
As part of these Penn State Ex
periment Station studies, plants
sensitive to boron weie exposed
to much higher applications of
plant poisoning occurred more
easily in soils lacking the ability
to “tie up” boron
More Moles On Forms
It comes as no great surprise
♦ o hear that America's farming
population is glowing older.
Recent statistics disclose that
23 pci cent of the nation’s faun
people aie 55 veai s old and older.
And it used to bo that a high
piopoilion of the faim popula
tion was made up of childien
undci 14 yeais old During the
past ten years the piopoilion of
young childien living on faims
has dropped fiom 33 to 23 per
cent.
One of the icasons for the in
crease in age of those men and
women composing today’s farm
population has been the continu
ed migration of young adults
from farms to towns and cities.
The attractions of town and
city life new adventures, high
er pay, 40-hour wook week, var
ied job opportunities, easier
ways of making a living have
induced entire families to abon
don farming and take a fling at
making a livelihood in ways
other than from the soil.
However, in several sections
ol the country, it isn’t tiue that
rural areas are peopled by older
folks
In the southern coal field aieas
in the tobacco and cotton coastal
plain section of the Carolinas
and in the Mississippi Delta area,
the aveiage imal age is undei 23
according to the Agucultural Ec
onomic Research Seivice of the
USD A
Despite heavy migrations fi om
Lancaster Farming. Saturday, December 20. 1960
Car Owners Reminded
Of Inspection Time
Passcngci c.u, liuck and mo- through January 31 and will ic
toicycle owncis whose vehicles ceive a Numbc’i 4 stickei sigm
aic subject to inspection dining f\mg inspection lequnemenls
the cm lent semi annual inspec- l, u vc been met
lion pcnod were lemmded today llany H Biameid. Commis
that the half-way maik has now S1011(;i 0 f Tiatfic Safety, said that
been leached in the Novembci- ai , l( i e f lo m noting the numcial
January checkup. on t be shekel, it is a simple
Both passenger and commcr- to deteimine when any
cial vehicles carrying a Number e 13 ue 01 ins P ec bon.
2 inspection sticker are due for owner has only to look at
their semi-annual check in the the inspection shekel on the
campaign which will continue win dshield, Biameid explained.
“Each shekel beais the begin
., , , , ning and expnahon dates for the
these rural areas to urban ccn- next ctlon campaign ..
ters, the average age remains Pennsylvania veh £ le “ are now
young because of highei bath about equally divided for mspec
rates> tion purposes through use of the
Speaking of ages, the average 1-st digit of the manufacturer’s
age for a Pennsylvania faim op- serial number to deteimme
eratoi is 50 9 yeais while the which fall into the odd and
US. average is 513 On Alaska, "hich into the even peuods for
where the weather ugors are 'inspection as designated by the
gieat, the average age is 36 6 numeial on the stickei
“The plan was designed to ease
It used to be that almost eveiy- jj, e vvoikload at official mspec
one lived on a faim As late as ( 10n s t a [ lons duung any thiee
-1890 the majonty of Pennsylvan- inspection campaign,
inns lived on faims Today an es Biaineid “Vehicle owners
timated 309,000 less than three cjn help avou i the last-minute
percent of the population live IUS h a t inspection stations by
on farms having the checkup made with-
But theie’s one faim aspect out fuithei delay”
that hasn’t changed the faim Vehicles beaung a Number 3
population is still predominately stickei aie not due for a' semi-
male.
On-the-faim sex ratio is 108 tion campaign getting underway
males to every 100 faim females on Febiuary 1
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