USDA Urges 2% Drop in Summer, Fall Vegetable Output Acreage-marketing guides for Nationally, fall vegetable (Editor’s note. The USDA peppers, tomatoes, late canta the 1971-crop summer and fall growers are advised to plant previously called for a 10 per loups, and late watermelons. vegetables and summer melons two per cent below last year’s have been released by the US. level A three per cent decrease Department of Agriculture’s was recommended in total 1971 Consumer and Marketing Ser- acreage for principal summer vice. vegetables. HEALD MINI BRONC Get in on the fun now 4 HP 4 cycle Tecumseh Engine, 150 cc variable speed Torque Converter Drive. Frame blue, engine & fenders white, front and rear 15x600x6 stud ded tires, alternator, lights, froift shocks optional. Do it yourself kit $178.00. Assembled ready-to-go $2OB. A. L. HERR & BRO., Quarryville, Phone 786-3521 or STEVE HERR, Kirkwood, Phone 529-2367 Try These NEW VEGETABLES for FLAVOR and HIGH YIELD NIAGARA 773 Green Bean. 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Since 1870 Phone 786-2500 We Give M or^c^B INTERCOURSE, PA. 17543 PHONE (717) 768-8451 » k cent increase in acreage of pnn- Acreage recommendations for cipal vegetables used for can- crops grown in the North nmg and freezing. For details, east are see page 22 of Lancaster Farm- a 5 pgr cent increase for early mg s April 3 issue.) cauliflower. Acreage recommendations for A 5 per cent decrease for early summer crops grown in the cabbage Northeast are: No change for early snap A five per cent decrease in beans, broccoli, early carrots, acreage for late carrots and late and early lettuce onions and a 2 per cent reduc- These recommendations are tion for sweetpotatoes. designed to help growers plan No change in acreage for snap for a balance between produc beans, cabbage, cauliflower, tion and market requirements celery, sweet corn, cucumbers, for each commodity. 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For tank mix instructions about Lasso plus atrazine see Your Farm Chemical Supplier Now Pennfield Corporation 711 Rohrerstown Rd., Lancaster Ph. 392-2145 Lincoln & West Sts., York mmM MoBS3*^ J “** ~*>*^ Monsanto St Louis, Missouri 63166 Ph, 854-7867 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 24,1971 Mclntire was accompanied at the- hearing by Boswell Stevens, president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation and a member of the AFBF Board of Directors, and Richard Mc- Guire, president of the New York Farm Bureau. Mclntire said Congress faces a serious problem of how best to develop constructive pesti cide legislation. “It is extremely important that there be greater under standing of the reasons pesti cides are used,” he said. “Pesticides not only deter mine the essential ecoriOmic factor of our ability to have certain products, pesticides al so are essential to managing the pollution of all types of vermin and disease organisms within our homes, schools, public places, business offices in fact every element of our daily living.” The Farm Bureau spokesman emphasized that both domes tic and foreign consumers are dependent on the capacity of the American farmer to adopt new metlfbds, meet large demands for capital, adjust to less help on the farm, and meet higher de mands for quality in both fresh and processed foods. “The capacity to do this has taken America over the thres hold to an abundant supply of food of the highest quality and safety in the history of any nation,” he said. that if production is in line with these guides for the coming season and if harvests follow a normal time sequence, supplies should be in balance with mar ket requirements More detailed reports, “1971 Acreage-Marketing Guides, Sum mer and Fall Vegetables, Melons, Sweetpotatoes,” will soon be available from State and County Agricultural Extension Service offices in the vegetable produc ing areas. The guides will also be avail able from the Information Divi sion, Consumer and Marketing Service, U S Department of Agriculture, 26 Federal Plaza, New York, N Y 10007. v Farm Bureau Stresses Role of Chemicals The American Farm Bureau Federation has asked Congress to give “very careful study” to proposed controls on the use of agncultui al chemicals before approving new legislation in this area. In a statement prepared for presentation at a House Agri culture Committee hearing to day, Clifford G Mclntire, direc tor of AFBF’s natural resources department, defended “the care ful handling and effective use of pesticide materials by thou sands of farmers, ranchers, and woodland managers on millions of acres of land across Ameri ca ” 33
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