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By Cindy Wendler
The Saddle Cinches 4-H Horse
and Pony Club held their first
official meeting Friday, March 20
at the home o£ Bill Bougherty,
Manheim RD4
Election of officers was held
and they are as follows: presi- Penn Manor 4-H Community
dent, Kendace Borry; vice presi- Club recently elected the follow-
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dent, Lori Zerphy; secretary.
April Borry: treasurer, Margaret
Keeney and club news repoiter,
Cindy Wendler.
All are invited to attend the
next meeting which will be held
Friday. April 17 at 7:30 p.m. at
the home of Judy Sheetz, 14 E
Main St, Mount Joy.
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Penn Manor 4-H
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ing officers: Judy Thomas, presi
dent: Steve Breneman, vice pres
ident; Doug Smith, secretary;
Nancy Barley, treasurer; Patty
Barley, news reporter
Doug Mull and Debbie Shenk,
song leaders; Cindy Smith and
Daryl Hershey, game leadeis;
and Donnie Thomas, Nancy Bar
ley and Breneman, county coun
cil representatives
The next meeting will be held
Tuesday, April 28
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 28.1970
U.E.P. Wins Suit
Interstate Egg Price Acts
U.E.P. and other plaintiffs
bi ought the induction suit as a
class action Still pending in this
same action are damage claims
by the same plaintiffs against
Bauer and Bauer International
for $l5 million.
U.E.P, claimed that Bauer is
sued “false and misleading” press
to Stop
releases which affected the price
of eggs in interstate commerce.
In his opinion. Judge Bonsai
found that there weie four false
press releases issued by Bauer,
and that the releases did in fact
affect the price of eggs in inter
state commerce
Bauer issued press leleases in
December, 1969 and January,
1970 which said that his firm was
importing 425.000 cases of eggs
from Spain
A favoiab'e decision in a pre
liminaiy injunction suit, charg
ing violation of the Commodity
Exchange \ct, was granted to
United Egg Pioduceis and seven
othei plaintiffs iccentlj by Judge
Dudley Bonsai of the US Dis
tiict Couit foi the Southern Dis
tucl of New Yoik
The suit was bi ought against
John P Bauei and Bauei Intel
national Cmpoiation foi a pie
'iminaiy injunction restiaming
them fiom fmthei misleading
actions aftecting egg puces m the
Jnited States
Insects Can
Kill Weeds
Weed-eating insects may be
the next step in conti oiling
harmful plants, according to the
USDA, which says the poten
tial of this method has received
only scant attention.
Outlining the position of the
USDA’s Agriculture Research.
Service, Dr Lloyd A Andres, an
entomologist said, “If one con
siders that almost half of the
540 major weed species in the
United States are introduced
plants and that 13 out of the 15
top weed species originated in
other countries, the use of their
natural insect enemies obtain
ed from abroad will continue to
offer a fertile approach to bio
logical weed conti ol ”
Emphasizing the importance
of this method of control. Dr.
Andres stated, “In the U.S the
losses caused by alien and na
tive weeds are believed to equal
the combined losses fiom in
sects and diseases and to rank
second only to those caused by
soil erosion ”
Experiments already have
been conducted in this area, ac
cording to Dr Andi es, who said
that imported insects were
brought here for release only af
ter it was determined that the
insects would not hai m ci ops or
ornamental plantings
One of the gieatest successes,
he said, was achieved in the
weed-choked Flonda wateiways,
wheie m 1964 a beetle imported
from South Ameuca was intio
duced
“Within a yeai, hunch eds of
thousands of the beetles de\ el
oped and the lelease site be
came essentially fiee of alliga
tor weed ”
Andres described present con
trol methods heibicides and
land management techniques
as a “treadmill” appioach which
requires spending more and
more money and time
He said that a biological un
derstanding of the weeds and
their natural enemies may re
sult in an alternative and less
costly solution to weed control.
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