-Lancaster Farming. Saturday, August 8.1970
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Penn State Research Farm Field Day
Skoog bags some of the tobacco seed
heads at the Penn State Research Farm
near Landisville this week.
Only a small percentage of the heads
are bagged to obtain seed for breeding
purposes. Diseased or inferior plants are
rejected.
Through this process of selection and
elimination with some 51 varieties and
State 4-H Days
Some talented 4-Heis fiom
Lancaster County will be among
those from all ovei the state
headed foi State 4-H Days at
Penn State Umveisity August
10, 11 and 12
The bus will leave at 1 pm
August 10 and leturn at 3 pm
August 12 Those attending from
Lancaster County, leports Miss
Joan D Lucas, assistant exten
sion home economist, aie
Senior Livestock Judging
Team—Ed Donough, Gaiy Dean.
Burnell Buchen, and Claik Stauf
fer
Dairy Judging Team Jesse
Balmei, David Wanner, Sue
Kauffman, and Raelene Harbold
Junior Livestock Judging Team
—Joseph Lefever, Ed Hess, Mike
Giube and Jeffiey Gi eider.
Horse Judging Team Joyce
Hinerdeei, Cathy Remhold,
James Watts and Kirk Bussell
Tractor Dnvmg—Darryl Bol
linger, Consumeiama Sue
Buckwalter, Nancy Barley and
Peggy Hamilton, Demonsti ations
—Nancy Yunginger, Cindy Hess
and Cynthia Smith
Chaperones will be Mrs Dons
Thomas and Robert Kauffman
Box Social and Dance
The Lancastei County 4-H
Council will hold a Box Social
and Squaie Dance Wednesday,
Septembei 2 at the Farm and
'Home Centei to honor new 4-H
Queens
The social will start at 6 30
p m with dancing at 8.
New Holland 4-H Club
by Diane Herr
The New Holland 4-H Com
munity Club held its monthly
meeting at the home of Elmer
Lapp on August 3
The meeting was called to
older by president, Elvm Lapp.
The club was urged to help clean
the four leaf clovei every week
at the Holland Post Office
The next meeu«g will be held
at the home ot Maiy Lou Fishei
at 7 30, Septembei 21 A ie
cieation night is planned
strains of tobacco, researchers hope
eventually to develop one or more new
varieties of hardy, disease resistant and
productive tobacco for use by local
farmers.
That the process is a long and trying
one is indicated by the fact that many of
the 51 varieties and strains already have
undergone six to eight years of research.
H. A. Skoog, federal research agronomist, strips down
the seed head of a tobacco plant before bagging it to insure
against cross pollination with other plants. He also removed
any open flowers which may have already been cross
pollinated.
Object is to obtain a pure strain of seeds and eventually
—if the researchers at the Penn State Research Farm near
Landisville are lucky and successful —a new and better
i anety ot tobacco for Lancaster County farmers.
Skoog demonstrates the type of tobacco leaf (right)
researchers are trying to obtain, as opposed to an undesir
able leaf (left).
The larger one is longer and wider and smoother; the
smaller one lacks both length and width to insure high
yield per acre. The smaller also has a puckered surface
which detracts from the appearance of the cured tobacco
and cuts down on its acceptability to the trade.
New endgate makes
a nigged spreader
extra-tight!
A hydraulic endgate of corrosion
resistant steel matches the rugged
ness of our New Holland spreaders.
Rubber seals keep sloppy manure
in. Linkage lifts endgate clear of
heaped loads. Endgate is avail
able for 130-, 163-, and 205-bushel
single-beater spreaders. See them
on our lot today!
JL
nr j\EW HOLLAI\D
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