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VOL. 1G NO. 16
Farm Calendar
Saturday, March 13
■Hydetown, Crawfoid County
State Grange Regional Institute,
Monday, March 15
730 p.m —New Holland Com
munity 4-H Club reorganiza
tion meeting, home ol Mrs
Woodiow Good, 568 W
Main St, New Holland
7.45 p.m —Chester County Dairy
Nutrition and Feeding meet
ing, Owen J Roberts High
School vocational agriculture
room
7.45 p.m Regional Young
'Farmers Volleyball tourna
ment, Manheim Senior High
School
8 p.m. Grange meeting ,on
County roads, Fulton Graiige
Hall
Tuesday, March 16
12 noon—Lancaster County Ag
ricultural and Home Econ- -
-omaes Extension Association
luncheon meeting,' J Willow'
- - Valley : Restaurant.
f 7;3OT.j»J»5r-|Lin.coln,
rrm: < Club' - frebrgariization'.!
7;3ofplmt^ ; *Ffrm and "'Home v '
-Foundaupn fbpard' meeting,
Firm and Home” Center.-
7:30 piih -- Lancaster. County *
A SC? Committee information—
- al ■ meeting. Production -
Credit building, 411 W Rose
ville Road, Lancaster
7:30' p.m—Elizabethtown-Done
‘gal Community Club organ
izational meeting, Donegal
High School
7:30 p.m. Epluata Young
Farmers Morthij meeting,
“Modern Fertilization”, Vo
cational Agriculture depart
ment, Ephrata Area High
School
8 p.m—Da.ry held health edu
cational meeting. Farm and
Home Center
Wednesday, March 17
8 p.m.—4-H Club Skating Party, <
Rocky Springs Park. i
31st Annual PENB membership 1
meeting, Ramoda Inn, (
O’Hare, Chicago, March 17- ,
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Rob of March's Vaccine in Poultry Industry Emphasized
Marek’s vaccine, which was
just started in Pennsylvania
January i, as lust the beginning
in terms of flock protection in
disease, speakers said Thursday
night.
Speaking at the Farm and
Home Center to a large turn
out of about 110 Lancaster
County poultrymen and allied
industrymen, Dr Dwight Sch
wartz. Penn State Extension
veterinarian, said that Marek’s
disease befoie this yeai had
cost the national poultry in
dustry $300,000,000 a year
% Noting that Marek’s research
started back in 1938, Di. Sch
wartz emphasized that the new
vaccine which has finally been
developed and approved is 90
per cent effective.
He projected that side bene
fits may eventually prove to be
Several persons gather at the base of the new flagpole
at the Farm and Home Center Tuesday afternoon shortly
after the flagpole was dedicated to the memory of the'late
Victor Plastow. Plastow was the associate Lancaster
County agricultural agent in charge of dairying for many
years until bis death last .year. The dedication occurred as
hundreds of dairymen gathered at the Center for Dairy Day.
(Photo and Dairy Day articles on page 9.) ,
Dr. Dwight Schwartz
‘Marek’s Is 80% Effective’ *
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 13, 1971
more important than just stop
ping poultry mortality.
These side benefits include
increased productivity of birds,
increased immunity to other
diseases, and even increased ef
fectiveness of other vaccines
These benefits stem largely
from the fact that Marek’s vac
cinated birds are more vigor
ous and healthier, he said
In the past, much of the
loss from Marek’s has been in
the foim of weakened birds
which did not gain efficiently
and were readily subiect to
othei diseases
The improvements in poultry
because of Marek’s will be
most beneficial to commercial
laying flocks and breedei flocks
and to pullet rearing opera
tions, Dr. Schwartz said
Both Dr Schwartz and Dr
Floyd Hicks, Penn State Ex
tension poultry specialist, em.
Penn State Releases. New Seed
Varieties to Commerkal Dealers
Seed is now available fiom
commercial seed dealeis foi
several of the newer varieties
of plants developed and releas
ed by the Agucultuial Expeu
ment Station of Pennsylvania
State University
Pa 604, a doublecioss field
corn hybnd, is about the same
height and maturity as Pa 602 A,
a popular hybrid, but is superi
or in grain yield Silage yields
of Pa 604 and Pa 602 A ai e com
parable
Pa 604 is competitive in yield
and performance with any of
the commercial corn hybrids in
its maturity class
Pa 870 S, a singlecioss field
corn hybrid, has shown superior
peiformance in yield trials and
-has exhibited good drought
.tolerance Pa. 870 S is slightly
. * shorter in height than Pa. 890 S,
released, in 1966, and slightly
earlier ip maturity, . , -
870 S excelleht
.wancer Ut ' compares- 1 favorably
ft;with the -ibetter' ’commercially
available singlecross hybrids.
- Pa 8703, a modified three-way
cross field corn hybrid, is simi
-lar to Pa 870 S in yield and
standability, comparing favor
2 Dairy Meetings Set
Educational meetings ror
dan >men have been scheduled
at the Farm and Home Centei
March 16 and Match 25 Both
meetings stait at 8 pm
At the Tuesday. March 16
meeting, Dr Richard Adams
Penn State dairy Extension
specialist, will speak on “Nutri
tion and Disease” and Dr Rob
ert L Gutzwiller, Lancaster,
will speak on "Herd Infertility
—Causes and Correction”
At the Thursday, March 25
meeting, Donald Ace, Penn State
dairy Extension specialist, will
phasized that Marek’s vaccine i<
“not the final answer but will
suffice until something better
comes along.”
They both commented oft
moves toward development of
an effective and efficient an
filtration system for use in
farmer poultry houses
This filtration will greatly re
duce the dust particles and the
downy feathers which are in
poultiy houses and are carneis
of bacteria and germs, they
said
Research at the University of
Georgia has shown that filia
tion, similai to hospital filia
tion systems, can reduce
Marek’s disease and other dis
eases The research shows that
the longer disease is kept fiom
birds, the more resistant and
vigorous they are.
Filtration serves to keep dis
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ably with the best of the com*
meicially available field corn
hybrids
Pennbel pepper is a high
yielding early variety of sweet
pepper The fruits are uniform,
3 to 4 lobed, and blocky. Plant*
of Pennbel pepper are medium
in size and compact The flesh
is sweet and mild
Pennbeauty eggplant is k
mid early, highly productive
variety of eggplant The fruits
are umfoim in shape and size.
Both Pennbel pepper and
Pennbeauty eggplant were de
veloped by Dr M L Odland, of
the Department of Horticulture,
who is now retired
Pennstar Kentucky bluegrass
produces a dense fine turf
which recovers well following
dry periods. It maintains a
leafy, high quality turf when
many other bluegrass sods.,he*
come jthin and ..stemmy., ;
-is resistant to leafspol
i"“and^rulL J*
Merish •fiesksSy -£Jc£grSSS-4i
this respect. Pennstar requires
medium to medium high fer
tility Dr J M Duich, of the
Department of Agronomy, de
veloped Pennstar
speak on “Rearing Healthy Re
placements" and the topic of
Di Samuel Gass, Penn State
Extension veterinarian, will be
“Internal - External Parasite
Control ”
In urging dairymen to attend.
Max Smith, Lancaster County;
agricultural agent, stated, “f
would like to call your attention
to the importance of these sub
jects I’m suie that the speak
ers will deliver many helplttl
suggestions for the dairy pro
ducer We hope that you wiR
be interested m attending both
of these meetings.”
Dr. Floyd Hicks
‘Air Filtration Coming? --