B— Lancaster Farming. Saturday, July 22, 1972
Don't Fight Nature Turf Experts Advise
Lush green lawns, the dream of
homeowners, can become
“biological nightmares” to
achieve and maintain, according
to Herbert Cole, Jr., and Joseph
M Duich, plant pathologist and
turfgrass breeder, respectively,
at The Pennsylvania State
University.
While not pessimists, they
observe that diseases of turfgrass
are constant threats, especially
during the growing season. In the
heat and humidity of summer,
foliar blight fungi can turn a
“living green carpet” into a
spotted ragtag remnant of its
former self In spring and fall,
leaf spot organisms, smuts, and
rust fungi may be active.
Most home lawns show that
human objectives and natural
systems are not always com
patible, the two scientists point
out in the Spring issue of
“Science in Agriculture,” the
quarterly magazine of the
Agricultural Experiment Station
at Penn State. They suggest
Horae Freezing Meeting
A meeting “Freezing Fruits
and Vegetables” has been
scheduled from 10a.m to 12 Noon
Thursday, July 27 at the Central
Presbyterian Church,
Dowmngtown, by the Chester
Extension home economists.
For those interested in at
tending the meeting on proper
freezing of foods, please pre
register by contacting Miss June
Wilke, 402 North Wing, Cour
thouse, West Chester, Pa. 19380,
or telephone 215-696-3500.
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Madison Silos
Div. Martin Marietta Corp.
1070 Steinmetz Rd.
Ephrata, Penna. 17522
PJI 733-1206
LOCAL DEALERS
Prank Snyder
Akron 859-2688
Caleb Wenger
Quarryville 548-2116
Landis Bros. Inc.
Lancaster 393-3906
Carl L. Shirk
Lebanon
867-3741
Sollenberger Farm Supply
living with nature rather than
fighting it. «
Drs. Cole and Duich suggest
procedures to help maintain a
healthy lawn. Keep the cutting
height of the mower at 2 inches or
higher to maintain strong root
systems The shorter the cutting
height, the greater the stress on
total plant system Root
systems become smaller and
weaker, drought injury will likely
be more severe, and children’s
play becomes more damaging.
Remove clippings at times of
rapid growth. Don’t grow organic
matter you can’t remove. AJI too
often clippings and plant debris
accumulate and the lawn is said
to be “thatched,” often so thick
that soil beneath a slope is
seldom wetted even in hard rains.
Thatch and clippings provide a
home for a multitude of disease
producing organisms on lawns.
To solve these and other turf
problems, plant breeders are now
searching for new genetic lines of
turfgrasses that will be com
patible with other strains of
grasses for many years. There
was a time when plant breeders
hoped for the one perfect grass
variety resistant to all diseases,
all insects, and suitable for
cutting to carpet height. Such a
goal, they found, is biologically
impossible.
Thanks for your Patience and Cooperation
The unbelievable destiuction, the magnitude of persona! losses,,
the teuifvmg power of tiopical stoim A.goes will be etched
in people's memories foi all time
Equalh memoiable has been the understanding of PPSX's
problems exhibited b\ oui customeis People despeiateh in
neetl of electuc service patientlv made do while oui crews
woiked around the clock to restore service We are
indebted to all who helped speed the job of lestormg service
under the worst possible conditions
Thanks go to othei groups which have lent a hand
battling the storm, local police and firemen, the
telephone companies civilian defense authorities.
the National Guaid municipal cleanup crews the Red Cross
the press and others Evervbodv has been just gieat
m seeing that our people got everv possible
assistance in getting electncitv back on the job
Restoration efforts are still under wav and will be foi a
while in some areas Manv of the electrical lepairs
made have had to b
requiring follow-up
Despite an unfimshi
“Thanks a million f<
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Pennfield Expands Plant
Ground was broken in
Fredericksburg, Pa., this week
for an expansion of the Pennfield
Poultry Processing Plant to
accommodate further processing
of prepared foods under the
“Pennfield Farms” and “Dutch
Treat” labels.
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C. E. Wiley & Son, Inc.
101 S. Lime St., Quarryville
786-2895
PEAXmVAX/A POWER 4. UCHT COMPANY
Buckwalter Construction of
Lancaster is the contractor for
the two story, 8,000 sq. ft, block
masonry and steel building and
loading dock which will be
completed in early fall.
“This will give us the room we
need to expand our prepared
frozen chicken division and to
develop other consumer products
A.B.C. Groff, Inc.
110 S. Railroad Ave.
New Holland
354-4191
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for supermarkets and in
stitutions,” noted A. Eugene
Bailey, general manager of the
firm's poultry meat division.
Pennfield’s processing plant,
which employs three hundred
workers and covers an area of
nearly 60,000 sq. ft., processes
over twelve million broilers a
year for the wholesale market
L N. Brubaker
350 Strasburg Pike
Lancaster
397-5179
Roy A. Brubaker
700 Woodcrest Ave,
Lititz
626-7766
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