Hours Extended For
Legislative Aid
Ron Reedy, field representa
tive lor Congressman Edwin D
Eshelman, will hold office hours
in 16 area post offices during
1970 Previously Reedy had serv
ed four post offices in Gap,
Quarryville, Denver and Mt. Joy.
Reedy will be available on
Saturday mornings to hear peo
ple with problems or opinions
that they would like brought to
the attention of their Congress
man. Two post offices will be
visited every other Saturday be
ginning on January 17. On that
day, Reedy will be in the Ephra
ta Post Office from 9 a m. to 10
a.m. and in the East Petersburg
Post Office from 11 a in. to noon
Other post offices to be used
for this service are Quarryville,
Millersville, New Holland, Lan
disvillt Elizabethtown, Lititz,
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AHNOUNCCUINT
DR. G. PORTER
Blue, White, And Brown Eggs
Used In Exhibit At Farm Show
HARRISBURG One of the
new ideas at the 54th Pennsyl
vania Farm Show was the Penn
sylvania Egg Marketing Asso
ciation’s exhibit in the poultry
division. The display contained
5,400 hardboiled eggs and
weighs about 510 pounds.
It is the product of the com
Christiana, Leola, Willow Street,
Mount Joy, Denver, Manhehn.
Columbia and Strasburg. Reedy
will sit in each town three times
during the year.
The specific dates and hours
for Reedy’s sittings in each town
will be published during the
week prior to his visit. In addi
tion, the postmaster of the
offices involved will have a sch
edule of visits in advance
can add more cows when you
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AGWAY DAIRYMAN'S DAY
Wednesday, January 28, 1970
Lancaster Farm & Home Center 9:30 A.M. - 4 P.M.
Director of Dairy & Livestock Management
Graduate of Umv of Mass, Umv of Conn & Penn
State Umv
Also Ernie Charron, Manager Farm Planning and Development
“Management Science Comes Of Age”
Contact your Agwa> Representative, Store, or Salesman for a ticket.
“Today, Tomorrow in Dairy Management”
Dr. G. Porter
“Weed Control for the Seventies”
Nick Ferrant, Jr
Agway Crops Specialist
Giaduate of Rutgeis Umv
bmed labors of Kernnt Birth and
Floyd Hicks, both poultry exten
sion specialists at Penn State and
E. J. Lawless, chief of poultry
and egg marketing in the Bur
eau of Markets of the Pennsyl
vania Department of Agricul
ture. The eggs, glued on with
flour and linoleum paste, are ar
ranged on the four-sided display
to emphasize the Penn State
football team, education, poultry
production, and quality control
The football supremacy side of
the exhibit shows a large white
map of the Commonwealth out
lined with blue eggs It has a
blue “No. 1” egg at the location
of State College and a brown egg
at Harrisburg
Sitting on top of the exhibit is
the fiberglass statue of Miss Nu
tria Egg who was named at the
Farm Show several years ago bj
a Somerset County woman In
cidentally, the woman’s pi ize foi
naming the statue was two doz
en eggs ner week for an entire
year, half of which she gave to
an orphanage
On tables at the base of the
exhibit are all of this year’s
competitive egg exhibits at the
Farm Show. Two of the tables
display the 154 entries in the
producer-dealer class Interest
ingly enough, all 154 of this
year’s entries received a blue
ribbon.
Census Taking
The 1969 agiicultural census
will be taken this year by mail
and most farmers have already
received the questions. We urge
all farmers to cooperate with
the Bureau of Census by filling
out the papers as accurately as
possible, and returning them as declared here today at the 54th Qesell hasized that system .
requested The agricultural cen- Farm Show ICS have been helpful in control
sus reflects the picture M agn- Speaking at a meeting of the hng aphids and thnps on cole
culture in our country and is Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers crops; leafhoppers and aphids
very useful I recognize the time Association, Stanley G. Gesell on green and lima beans; and
required to complete the census s2 j ( j t b e use 0 f systemics for the aphids on leafy vegetables,
forms but realize the value of a contro i 0 f SU ckmg insects is us- He pointed out that several
good census and tterrfme feel ually good but norma u y 1S poo r promising new systemics are be
that farmers should comply with on dewing insects Soil mois- mg developed for commercial
this request ture and transpiration are im- use.
mm/vrfi&tDM
Systemic Insecticides
Not Always Successful
HAERISBUEG Many Penn-
sylvania vegetable growers ex
pected too much from present
day systemic insecticides and on
a number of occasions were dis
appointed with their results, an
Extension entomologist at the
Pennsylvania State University
portant in the rate of uptake and _____
the C s e an ratlQn ° £ toXlCant “ The difference between a sal
-1 p ‘ ary and a commission is what
He pointed out that systemics the salesman gets after the sales
are those insecticides applied manager gets his salary
primarily in the root zone of the
plant Foliai application of sys
temies have had minor use
“The Coloiado potato beetle is
NICK FERRANT, JR.
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. January 17.1970—1
rapidly building up in the east-
ern half of the state and poses a
serious threat to potato and to
mato crops,” the Penn State en
tomologist said. “Two systemics,
Di Syston and Phorate, have not
effectively stopped the spread
of the potato beetle.”
WITH
FUNK’S G
SILAGE
For 3 straight years, 1967)
1968, 1969, in the annual com
petition at Pa. Forage Pro
gress Field Days, Funk’s-G
has won over all others. Dra
matic proof of Funk’s silage
superiority! Another reason
why so many dairymen and
cattle feeders are using
Funk’s-G Silage Hybrids.
A. H. HOFFMAN
SEEDS, INC.
Landisville, Pa. 898-2261
Woffmant
t/ farm seeds
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