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These grape vines were planted about a year ago at the
Southeast Research Center near Landisviile. In the
background it can be noted that the hybrid varieties are
larger and more evenly spaced while those in the
foreground, known as tender varieties, have not grown as
tail and there are more empty spaces between growing
plants.
Wentink Elected Vice President
Of National Poultry Group
Hendrik Wentink, a resident of
Wyomissing and assistant to the
president of the Pennfield Cor
poration, was elected vice
president of Associated Poultry
and Egg Industries at the
national organization’s annual
meeting in New Orleans last
week.
Associated Poultry and Egg
Industries is a Federation of
state, regional and national
poultry trade associations. Its
principal purposes are to coor-
Hendrik Wentink
4-H Calendar
Tuesday, April 25
6:30 p.m. 4-H Tractor Club
tour, Caterpillar plant, York;
meet at Farm and Home
Center.
8 p.m. Southeast District 4-H
Beef Show and Sale planning
meeting, Lancaster Stock
Yards.
Wednesday, April 26
7:30 p.m. Officers Training
and New Leader Orientation
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
Thursday, April 27
7:30 p.m. Lancaster County 4-
H Holstein Club, Farm and
. , Hpjne Center, ~, ,
dinate legislative and regulatory
matters among its member
associations as well as to provide
liaison between the poultry in
dustry and the various branches
and agencies of the Federal
Government.
Elected to serve with Wentink
were Hugh Purnell of Tupelo,
Miss., president; Don Turnbull of
Kansas City, Mo., secretary, and
Harold Williams of Chicago, 111,
treasurer.
Wentink is also vice president
of the Northeastern Poultry
Producers Council, a fourteen
state regional poultry trade
association, and serves in that
capacity as a delegate to
Associated Poultry and Egg
Industries.
Farm Calendar
Saturday, April 22
8 p.m. District E Pomona
visitation meeting, Honey
Brook Township Grange Hall.
Monday, April 21
7:30 p.m. Soybean meeting,
“How to Raise and Use
Soybeans”, Farm and Home
Center.
Fulton Grange meeting, con
ferring degrees, Oakryn
Grange Hall.
Wednesday, April 26
7 p.m. Ephrata Young Farmer
recreational night, Ephrata
Recreation Lanes.
Poultry and Egg National Board
annual membership meeting,
Regency Hyatt House,
Chicago, April 26-27.
Thursday, April 27
10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Chester
County Homemakers Day,
Kimberton Fire Hall.
Lancaster County Swine
Producers board of directors
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
Saturday, April 29
Tri-County Relief Sale, Twin
Slope Farmer’s Market,
Morgantown.
55th Little International
Livestock Exposition, Penn
State University.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 22,1972
Grape Growing at a Glance
Inquiries by countless
Southeastern Pennsylvanians to
the Research Farm in Erie
County on grape growing led to
exploratory plots being started at
the Southeast Research Farm at
Landisville last year. The Erie
Research Center is mainly
concerned with grape research,
since grapes are a vital crop in
that area.
The growth of grapes here
versus grape growing in Erie will
hopefully answer many of the
questions directed to the
Research Center. Home owners,
small farmers, and bigger
raisers, want to know what types
of grapes will do well in our area,
what diseases may attack the
plants or the fruit, what our
winters will do to the vines and
the potential crops, the initial
costs, and the projected returns.
Following recommendations
made by officials from the Erie
Research Center and many trips
to the Southeastern Pennsylvania
area, research units were set up
in Lancaster, Adams, Nor
Elementary school children help the
Solanco FFA members plant Christmas
Earth Week With Solanco
Earth Week activities are in
full swing throughout the nation
as young people and old get it all
together for good old Mother
Earth. More and more people are
cleaning up the air, water and
eye pollution that we have made.
But they are also studying their
environment, trying to un
derstand its various components
so that they might better take
care of this world. One of the
most fruitful! ways of doing
things is to set up an ecology lab.
An ecology lab must be out
doors. It must be found in a
location where an abundance of
nature’s variety is found. Such a
lab exists in southern Lancaster
County immediately adjacent to
the New Providence Elementary
School. The lab is a project of the
thampton, and Franklin Coun
ties
At the Southeast Research
Farm last year, nine rows of root
stalks 20 feet in length were
planted to various varieties
about one-fourth acre
According to John Yocum,
research specialist at the
Research Farm, the root stalks
can be one, two or three years of
age when planted The price of
the root stalks will be dependent
on the age of the stalks, the
greater the age, the less potential
plant failure, the higher the cost
There are eight varieties being
tested at the Research Farm The
varieites are - Gewarz Traminer
-3309, a white grape; Cabernet
Sauvignon, a red grape; Pinot
Chardonnay-1613 and Pinot
Chardonnay-Rip, both white
grapes. These four varieties are
called a tender variety by grape
specialists.
Four other varieties being
tested are hardier, more
vigorous, hybrids. These are;
Dutchess, a white grape har-
Science department at Solanco
High School and the Solanco
FFA. It’s located on a four or five
acre tract of land that has plenty
of thick underbrush, lots of trees
and a stream. In otherwords, its
the perfect spot for an ecology
lab.
The week, Earth Week,
members of the Solanco FFA
were busy planting Christmas
trees. They have been selling
trees as a project for a number of
years now and this lab location is
perfect for their project. On
Thursday over six hundred
elementary school students from
the Solanco school district par
ticipated in the planting ac
tivities. Somewhere between 800-
1000 trees were planted. The
. school children also got to seethe
vested about mid-October, Roch,
a red grape, and R-51 and S-7053
Some of these grapes are market
varieties, some wine varieties.
Yocum stressed that of the
varieties planted, these may not
necessarily be the recommended
variety for this area
The labor factor for young
plants may be time consuming
The root stalks are planted at a
depth of 10 inches to one foot
Trellises must be installed, but
with the aid of a post hole digger
this job is lightened Wire must
be strung, then the young vines
trained (tied) to the wire
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trees as part of Earth Week activities at the
ecology lab.
Ecology Lab
ecology lab and saw the boys
cleaning up debris which had
accumulated near the stream.
They got to see how the FFA
members learned how to judge
the soil. Land judging is an im
portant part of what an FFA
member must leam. If he can tell
what is wrong or right with land,
he, of course, can be a better
farmer.
In theory, the ecology lab
works like this The area is
surveyed and charted for plant
life, insect life, the varieties of
trees, grasses and so on. The soil
is also tested as is the stream. Bv
constant re-examination those
using the lab should be able to
discover what plant life grows
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