—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. August 1,1970
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At Landisoilk Reseach Farm Crop Day August 5
Wide Variety of Data Available
The Fidel and Vegetable Crop
D*y at Penn Slate's Southeast
ern Field Research faim near
Landisville Wednesday. August
■» offers area fairncrs and gar
deners an opportunity to loam
more about one 01 moie crops
that interest them
Three or four qualified Penn
State educators -vs ill be on hand,
along with icseaich faim per
sonnel, to answei any questions
Goal ot me rese.iich faim is
to develop crop vai ie:ics suitable
to Southeastern Pennsylvania
and find out the pa' ticulai crop
practices which will lesult in the
highest yields The icsulls of
all this work aie available to
the individual farmer if he
will take the time to get it
The special field day August
5 will be held in two sesions,
from 1 to 4 p m and 630 p m
till dark.
49 Varieties
Work at the leseaich faun tins
vear, for instance, includes field
tests of 49 diffeient sweet com
varieties, including 42 yellow
hybrids and seven white hybuds
John Yocum, faim superinten
dent, explained that the lesearch
work in developing these vai
leties often takes 10 yeais and
can take as long as 25 yeais It’s
careful, detailed work to develop
a practical new vauety that
meets all the i equipments to
be successful, including lesis
tence to disease, stuidiness of
stalk, uniformity of growth, and
high yield
Some of the eaily corn varie
ties at the farm will be upe in
the next week or so and will have
completed production by the
August 5 field day; this will en
able visitors to see the gamut
of the varieties, from those
which have completed pi educ
tion to those in production and
coming into production Yocum
also promised yield statistics
will be available on the com
pleted varieties.
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Arnold Lueck, associate Lancaster County agent,
checks squash being grown at Penn State’s Southeastern
Field Research farm near Landisville. Lueck was at the
farm recently to help plan the August 5 Crop Day.
Several different combinations
of hci bicides aic being used to
control weeds in corn, with some
proving highlv effective on
tough weeds such as nutsodge.
Tobacco Research
It will be gelling neai harvest
time for tobacco at field day and
tobacco faimcis will have a
chance to see the icseaich
fuim’s tobacco and get up to date
mfoimation The reseaich faim
is the only place in Pennsylvania
vvheie tobacco icseaich is done.
\ ocum said Most of the tobacco
grown in the state is grown in
Lancaster County.
The lesearch fram does woik
on tobacco vaneties and most
aiea faimers grow a vauety de
veloped at the farm
Soybean Work
Seveial soybean \auelies also
aie being giown. Yocum be
lieves this crop, which has
giown veiy lapidly nationally,
may have some application local
ly Officials say few farmeis in
Lancastei County giow the crop,
although it is icported some
what more ponular in Lebanon
County
In paiticula’, Yocum believes
that a crop of soybeans can be
giown on giound aftei bailey is
hai vested Unlike some other
farm crops soybeans lespond
well to hot mid-summer weathei
and their glowing season is
relatively slioit. making it pos
sible to pioduce tw'o ci ops m one
yeai barley and soybeans
Soybeans also can be grown
eaily in the season and followed
with alfalfa, Yocum said.
The soybean-alfalfa combina
tion would tend to fit in better
with many local fanning opera
tions which need the alfalfa for
then dairying opeiations, he
noted
Vanous reseaich piojects are
undeiway on foiage, including
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Jim Dutt, Penn State extension horti- Landisville. Dutt is one of several Pern
culturalist, inspects some of the 49 varie- State extension officials who will be oi
ties of sweet corn being grown at the hand August 5 to answer questions aibou
Southeastern Field Research farm near numerous crops grown at the farm.
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