SECOND SECTION Only Part of Seed Com To Be Blight Resistant Officials of firms that produce of hybud varieties that they about 80 per cent of the Na- did last year, there will he tion s seed corn told Secretary enough total seed for the 1971 of Agriculture Clifford M crop,” D D Walker, Fiesident Hardin recently that supplies of the American Seed Trade of seed for the total 1971 corn Association, told'Secretary Har erop could be tight. din and other Department of At the same time, they pledged a special effort to in sure that all available blight resistant varieties be used in planting the 1971 crop, rather than having one-fifth of such varieties left in normal distri bution trade channels. ‘‘lf farmers plant only the same amount of corn acreage as 1970 and use the same amounts of the various kinds Women's Group N-Cytoplasm variety, 38 per Uftmc rlaftlAH) cent partially-resistant blend liVIUS HCLIIUIB varieties, and 40 per cent of the T-Cytoplasm variety, which The Women’s Committee of proved susceptible in varying the Lancaster County Farmers degrees to the new strain of Association Tuesday reelected Southern corn leaf blight. The Mrs. Jesse Wood, Nottingham blight, coupled with drought, RD2, -chairman. reduced the expected size of the Others reelectdd .were: Mrs 1970 corn crop 15 per cent tae- Clarence Stauffer, - Ephrata' low-the. July forecast. _ RDl Brook tion Four indicates a cow has Lodge Ovation Leader 1288515 maintained this “Excellent” The classification rules con classification scoung 90 points cermng the multiple “E” desig or more on four different oc- nation became effective in Jan casions as she grew older. uary 1966. Over 87,000 Register- Redgate Leader Victo r i a ed Holsteins were classified 4722515 was- classified “Excel- last year. Each year less than lent” for the fourth time last two per cent of the total are Agriculture officials “But,” he added, “there will not be sufficient resistant varie ties for everyone.” The Department and seed officials said that although there will be about one billion pounds of seed corn available for 1971 planting, there will be insufficient blight resistant varieties £0 fill the need. Of the 80 per cent of seed supplies reported by the com- panies Represented at the Wash ington meeting, 22 per cent would be of the blight resistant Agway Holds Annual Tobacco Meeting Leonard Ford, federal tobac- txon meeting at New Holland starting date of tobacco buying, co grader, addressed about 100 Fire Hall Monday on prepara- Mark Hess, Agway Garden Spot farmers attending the Agway tion of tobacco for marketing Unit Managei, said, “There is Tobacco Marketing Orgamza- Bales of tobacco marketed by no indication of an early buy local farmers through Agway in S Ibis season Last year most in previous years weie examm- °f the tobacco was sold by this ed and suggestions were made time, he noted for improvement of tobacco handling Particularly in the X-l giade, the top giade of stiaight stup ped tobacco, faimeis weie uig ed to be moie caieful to le move duty, weathei beaten and trashy leaves The impoitance of good bum mg qualities foi cigai tillei to bacco was stressed The key here is to use fertilize! s identi fied as tobacco feitilizeis, which contain sulfate of potash lathei than muriates of potash Mini ate of potash contains chloime which reduces burning quality, farmers weie told Farmers questioned why price of Wisconsin tobacco has increased, while the price of Pennsylvania tobacco has ic mained relatively stable It was explained that the Wisconsin tobacco is used pn- T v , . _ _ „„ . „„ . , In other business two farmers manly as a chewing tobacco ree i e tced to three vear which commands higher prices ' e r , r K terms on the board of directors than the cigai tobacco giown « A , ~ lA „ 11ir T x . . , Al t *l, 4 of the Advisory Board for Mar locally It was pointed out that , x £ j • SfSirm cents fir S cigars a low E Tei ™ profit margin which virtually Eshelman ’ Washington rules out price increases to farmers unless cigar prices are Arthur Cochran, Agway area increased manager, reported on the over- Tobacco Buying Late all Agway operations in 12 Asked about the probable states price of com next year affect their planting plans 9 How will the new faim legislation, lecently passed by Congress, affect their planting plans? In announcing that a special effort would be made to use all available blight resistant seed varieties in the 1971 plantings, Walker said that ordinal ily, a substantial proportion of the seed available in any one year remains in trade channels and never gets planted Normally, more than 20 per cent of the seed may go unused, he said. “This year, the seed com panies in response to recom mendations of the USDA will try to allocate their available blight-resistant seed and sell it on terms which will make cer tain that the supplies are as fully utilized as possible,” Mr Walker said In this way, he indicated, companies hoped to cut the unused blight-resista it seed to less than three or four per cent Take Take toy buying seriously reminds Sandra M Eaton, Many worthwhile and safe and choose toys that are made Chester County associate Ex- toys are available, and many of well and safe and made well, tension home economist. them will last for years How- Many toys available in toy ever, parents must take toy buy- Ephrata Farmers, Wives Meet depaitments today are just not mg seriously and sift through made well Unfortunately, the toys offered, choosing those The Ephiata Young Farmers many well-meaning and innocent that are made well and aro will hold its annual special parents will spend large sums safe, she concluded meeting with wives of members of money this Christmas on toys at 7:30 pm Tuesday, Decembei that are unsafe and fragile 15 in the vocational agriculture Any parent would bene f lt Tahn**# room, Ephrata High School. flom a tnp to a toy department IOUIUf The piogram will include j- 0 examine what is being offei- mm # slides by Donald Rock on hunt- ed The person who consideis |h|aAT|||(| mg and fishing in the North buying any toy ought t 0 think VWIII wes *- carefully about how long the batteues The usei n |'-ist ex Qunt agricultural agent, and , „ f> . , , erciK extierae care so that the S hirk. assomte agent scored Excellent and only a toy doesn t get ben. oi the tiny has Med that there 1S much inaction of these receive the wires distui bed The f ild aboUt both com multiple “E” designation very well end P tong so caie- diseases msect incJuding No Registered Holstein female ful with his toy that he doesn t corn bllght . stalk 10t> root worm may be scored “Excellent” (90 enjoy it , boreis All these will points or above) until after she Miniature appliances and pow- d d alon g with th “ has dropped her second calf Ad- ei tools are not made .o last 01 f “What ic likelv ditional “E” designations may to lt \ h L^'how carefiU to happed in 1971 and how wiU be made upon reclassification at child Adults know how caietui „ " ~ 90 points or more within the fol- they must be with real-life ap- y • y • lowing age brackets. 6 thru 8 pliances and tools Even these A similar meeting was pre years, 9 through 11 yeais, and break or do not function prop- viously announced for Lancas -12 years or over No more than erly A child isn’t that careful ter County at the Farm and one “E” designation may be and shouldn’t be expected to be Home Center at 7:30 p.m. Wed assigned in any one age bracket, that careful. nesday (Dec. 16). Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 12,1970 —IT Seriously particular toy will last, the Ex tension home economist le mmds Some plastic toys aie very fragile and are not suitable foi eveiy age child A child is likely to bieak oft a part of the toy and place the small plastic piece into his mouth or eai Other unsate toys on the mai ket include tiny race cars that can be dangeious as they move rapidly aiound a track If a child attempts to get an eye level view, one of the cars could easily lump the track and injure his eye Toys for young childien often are not secuiely put together and loose parts can find then way into mouths, ears, and noses Another group of toys is veiy complicated and opeiates on Hess said he thinks the pri mary leason foi the hold-up in buying is the lack of uniformity in quality of the late tobacco ci op He said the late planted tobacco ran into a penod of dry weather before haivest that re sulted in a highei than average amount of pool quality tobacco. He explained that this poor quality, howevei, occuued in some late stands of tobacco but not in otheis Because of the lack of uni formity, Hess believes it is m the “best interest of all con cerned that the market doesn’t open until well into the new year” after the tobacco has bee* stripped. This will give a more precise indication of the quality of the individual farmei’s tobac co, he indicated A meeting to discuss the growing disease and insect menaces of the local corn crop has been slated in Chester County at 730 pm Thursday (Dec 17) Sponsored by the Chester County Cooperative Extension Service, the meeting will b» held at the Central Chester County Technical School, Coat* esville, located along Old Busi ness Route 30 at the entrance to the Veteran’s Hospital, Three Penn State Extension specialists will lead the discus sion Dr Joseph H. McGahen, agronomist, Dr Donald H. Petersen, plant pathologist, and Dr Robert S Tetrault, entomo logist. In announcing the meeting, Robert A Powers Jr, Chester