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Vol. 17 No. 2
Pollution Panel Slated
“Pollution Prevention and
Control” is the topic of the second
of three panel discussions by the
Farm and Home Foundation at
7:30 p m. Thursday, December 9
at the Farm and Home Center.
All interested persons are
invited
Three speakers for the panel
are.
John B Moyer, director of the
department of Environmental
Resources, Harrisburg, on
“Pennsylvania’s program for
Pollution Control.”
N Henry Wooding, Penn State
No-Till Discussed
Com growers who used the no
till planting system in 1971 will
most likely do so again next year,
Penn State University Extension
agronomist at the annual Forage
and Seed Conference recently.
Dr. Willis L. McClellan pointed
Farm Calendar
Sunday, December 5
Annual meeting, American Farm
Bureau Federation, Conrad
Hilton Hotel, Chicago,
December 5-9.
Monday, December 6
8 p.m. Lancaster County
Poultry Association
board of directors meeting,
Farm and Home Center.
Lancaster County Farmers
Organization board meeting,
Farm and Home Center.
Tuesday, December 7
9:30 a.m - 3 p.m. County
Homemakers Christmas
meeting, Farm and Home
Center
Ipm Lancaster County 4-H
Beef Roundup, Stock Yards.
Ipm —Extension dairy feeding
meeting, Honey Brook Grange
Hall.
730 p.m Ephrata Young
Farmers dairy herd
management course,
agriculture department,
Ephrata Area High School
7-30 p.m. Garden Spot Young
Farmers meeting, agriculture
department, Garden Spot High
School
730 p.m Extension dairy
feeding meeting, Russellville
Grange Hall.
Wednesday, December 8
9 a.m Southeastern District 4-
H Beef Show and Sale, Lan
caster Stock Yards.
Thursday, December 9
5:30 p.m. Educational
meeting, State Represen
tatives, Brownstown.
7-30 p.m. Joint meeting of
Lancaster Chamber of
Commerce, Legislators,
agricultural leaders, Lan
-caster.
7:30p m. Educational panel on
“Pollution Prevention and
Control”, Farm and Home
Center.
Golden Harvest Holstein sale,
Guernsey Sales Barn
Friday, December 10
7pm Pennsylvania Egg
Marketing Association Ladies
Night, The Embers
Restaurant, Carlisle
University Extension ag
engineer, on “Agriculture and
Pollution Control.”
Robert A. Dye, president,
Lancaster County Supervisor’s
Association, on “Township
Government and Pollution
Control.”
Max Smith, Lancaster County
ag agent, panel moderator and
member of the Farm and Home
Educational Committee, stated,
“Pollution is a very important
subject and everyone is urged to
attend this meeting to learn more
about prevention and control.”
out that no-till corn planting will
work satisfactorily as long as
weeds and grasses are
eliminated. He explains that the
system involves planting without
any prior soil preparation such as
plowing and harrowing.
“Since soil conditions vary
from field to field, it is essential
that the planter is adjusted so the
seed is always covered with
inches or firm soil,” the Ex
tension agronomist said.
McClellan emphasized that a
fall application of rye in a con
tinuous corn rotation might
possibly make a contribution to
weed control and help rot the
corn stalks from the previous
year.
Commenting on seeding
legumes in the spring using the
no-till method, the specialist said
a system must be developed to
slow the growth process of the
existing sod so legume ger
mination can take place. No-till
legume seeding needs more
experimentation before it can be
adopted as a common practice,
he added
New Castle Is Topic
Seriousness of the recent
outbreaks of foreign New Castle
disease will be the topic at the
meeting of the Lancaster County
Poultry Association at 8 pm.
Monday, December 6, at the
Farm and Home Center
Speakers will be Dr Edward
Mallinson, Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture, and
Dr. Walter Hohlestein, U.S.
Department of Agriculture
Annual County 4-ff
Boot Roundup Set
The annual Lancaster County
4-H Baby Beef Roundup will be
held at the Lancaster Stock
Yards at 1 p m Tuesday,
December 7.
Purpose of the show will be to
pick 35 head of Lancaster County
animals for the annual Penn
sylvania Farm Show
On Wednesday, beginning at 9
a.m , the annual District 4-H
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 4,1971
Officers of the Lancaster County
Vocational Agriculture Teachers
Association for 1972 elected at a meeting
Thursday night are: left to right, seated,
Jesse Erway, Manheim Central High
School, president; Arba Henry, Solanco
Egg Fowl Bill Is Before Congress
Legislation authorizing the
Secretary of Agriculture to ac
tivate a program which would
adjust the number of commercial
egg laying fowl upon recom
mendation of an industry ad
visory committee has been in
troduced in both Houses of
Congress, United Egg Producers
(UEP) reported recently.
Senator Herman Talmadge of
Georgia and Representative John
Dow of New York introduced
similar bills, entitled “The Egg
Industry Adjustment Act,” in
their respective Houses
Representative Dow dropped
his bill into the hopper Friday,
November 19, prior to the House
of Representatives recess for
Thanksgiving His bill is num
bered H R 11913
Senator Talmadge introduced
his bill on Monday, November 22,
and it became numbered S. 2895
Senator Talmadge is Chairman
of the Senate Agriculture
Committee and Representative
Dow is a member of the House
Agriculture Committee and the
show will be held This will in
volve animals not going to the
Farm Show from Chester,
Dauphin and Lancaster Counties
About 125 to 130 head are ex
pected, according to Max Smith
Lancaster County ag agent.
A sale, sponsored by the
Lancaster Livestock Exchange
will be held at 1 p m at the
auction barn
sub-committee on Dairy and
Poultry.
James F. Fleming, director of
UEP governmental relations,
reported “indications of strong
support” among members of
Congress for the measure. He
said the final success of the
legislation, however, lay in the
amount of support egg producers
back home rendered
“Congress is receptive to the
needs of egg producers just as it
Gypsy Moth Hits Two Million Acres,
Including Half-Million in Pennsylvania
Gypsy moth caterpillars
caused light to severe defoliation
over about two million woodland
acres in nine Northeastern States
this season, the U S Department
of Agriculture (USDA) reported
recently
Connecticut was the hardest hit
with 655,000 acres defoliated,
according to officials of USDA’s
Animal and Plant Health Service
(APRS).
Gypsy moths also defoliated
more than 598,000 acres of trees
in Pennsylvania, 479,000 m New
York, 180,000 in New Jersey,
18,000 in Massachusetts, 8,000 in
Rhode Island, 3,000 in New
Hampshire, 800 in Maine and 700
in Vermont
Approximately 25 per cent of
the two million acres were
severely defoliated with trees
being stripped of from 70-to 100
per cent of their leaves Over 40
per cent were lightly defoliated
(5-to-60 per cent loss of leaves),
but infestations m these areas
may be extremely heavy next
year The two million figure is
High School, vice president; Charles
Ackley, Ephrata High School, treasurer.
Standing, Jim H. Hilton, Penn Manor High
School, county FFA advisor, and Richard
Thomas, Lampeter-Strasburg High School,
secretary.
is to other segments of the
national economy,” Fleming
said.
“Members will support the egg
industry in this emergency
legislation if the industry wants
it Congress has become disen
chanted with old-line government
control programs which call for
huge outlays of government
money and have become in
creasingly in favor of govern
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twice the acreage defoliated in
1970, and more than six times the
1969 damage
Gypsy moth populations in
creased significantly m recent
years, with spread occurring this
season south and west of infested
portions of the northeast aphs
entomologists trapped moths in
more than 80 new countries,
including numerous cateches
throughout the District of
Columbia, Delaware, Maryland,
and Virginia. Areas now being
invaded are those where forest
makeup is high—up to 95 per cent
in some areas—in oak and other
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In This Issue
Classified Ads 26, 27
DHIA Report ’ 12
Editorial Page 10
Holiday Feature 20
Market Reports 2,3, 4
Roadside Markets 6
Women's News 18,19,20,21
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