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<vfee chairman^ Mrs.-Lewis The Department and seed of-
Bixler, Marietta RDI, secretary, f ic j a i3 a g re ed that there were a
and Mrs. James Kreider, num ber of “imponderable” fac-
Quarryville RDI, treasurer. tors in the 1971 corn crop situa-
Other members are Mrs tlon These mcluded;
Robert Kauffman, Elizabeth- _ . . . . , ,
town RDI; Mrs. Robert Groff, . “ Extent °* far “ er f de ™ a " d
Quarryville RD3; Mrs. William for ® eed su PP he s that will be
Guhl, Oxford RD2; Mrs. Reid [ es f ant *° the Southern corn
Wissler, Ephrata RD2, Mrs. leat
Clyde Wivell, Colombia RDI; Response of farmers in
Mrs Ralph Hostetter, Manheim terms of total acreage of corn
RD2, and Mrs. William Ends- they will plant based on then
low,, Marietta RDI experience with corn leaf blight
Besides election of officers at that is, will they plant corn,
the meeting at Rhoads Restau- or S° to some other crop, like
rant there was a summaiy of sorghum’
the year’s activities. How will the expected
PFA Region / Directors Meeting Tuesday
The Pennsylvania Farmers County president, said he ex- Individual meetings in the
Association will hold a training pects about 25 to 30 members to afternoon will be directed by
conference for county commit- attend from Lancaster County, the following Charles Mohn,
tee members in Region 1 count- The meeting will include a board of directoi s, Charles R
ties next week general session in the morning, Ord, county presidents: Fran-
Among several counties m- followed by break down into ces Yohe, county secretary, J
volved are Lancaster, Chester, several smaller groups to ex- Wessley Haer, women’s com-
Berks and Lebanon plain the role of the various in- mittee; Richard L Prether, ad-
The meeting is scheduled for dividual offices in the after- V isory council; Roy Battles, in
-35* t P m -r, "f u ® sday a 5 n °° n . formation, Chester Heim, legis
the Holiday Inn, Pottstown, at Speakers in the morning ses- , .
the intersection of Routes 100 sion include William A. Moore, atlve The meetm S W 1“ con '
and Old 422. Charles R Ord, Roy Battles, and clude Wlth a half hour 2 rou P
James G Kreider, Lancaster Eugene G McDowell. session headed by McDowell
York County Holstein Makes 4E
A Registeied Holstein cow in month at the age of 12 yeais
the herd of Paul R King, Delta, “Victona” completed hei high-
York County, has joined a select est single lecord at the age of
group of 28 other cows of the 7 years 9 months when she pro
bieed to be designated “4E”. duced 20,470 pounds of milk and
The “E” designation indicates 974 pounds of butteifat in 365
excellence in body confoima- days. She was sired b> 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