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Expect shipments to start Sept. 27
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About all you can say about the
Purina Calf Growing Program
* it leaves you all your milk to sell
* it grows heifers fast
* it gets them ready to breed early
But then, that says a lot.
Purina’s six-month Calf Growing Pro
gram combines fortified and medicated
Purina Nursing Chow®, high-energy Calf
Startena®and Purina Calf Growena® into
a program geared strictly to fast, efficient
growth.
Heifers grow faster and reach breeding
weight earlier. In fact, you can have your
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Ph; 4424632
Paradise
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Formers Assn., Inc.
Ph: 464-3431
West Willow
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Federal agricultural
quarantine and plant pest control
activities were consolidated Sept.
3, into a single, cohesive unit of
the. U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service
(APHIS).
The merger joins together the
former Plant Protection Division
heifers in the milking barn—producing—
months ahead of many other heifers.
And that means you can sell all your milk.
Want the details? Stop by our Checker
board store. Let us show you what the
Purina Calf Program can do for you—
and your heifers.
James High & Sons
Ph: 354-0301
GordonviUe
USDA Merges Pest Control
And Quarantine Functions
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Wenger's Feed Mill
Inc.
Ph: 367-1195
Eheems
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 16,1972
and the Agricultural Quarantine
Division and the Agricultural
Quarantine Division of APHIS
into a single Plant Protection and
Quarantine Program under
Deputy Administrator Leo G.K.
Iverson.
The change, which has been
in the planning stage for some
months according to APHIS
Administrator Dr. Francis J.
Mulhem, “will greatly improve
our ability to marshall manpower
and resources when and where
they are needed to combat the
introduction and spread of
agricultural pests and diseases.
As a result, we will be able to
make more effective use of our
total staff of quarantine in
spectors at ports-of-entry and
plant protection specialists
located throughout the U.S.”
Functions of the newly con
solidated unit include;
- Cooperative programs with
the 50 States, Mexico, and
Canada for the control and
eradication of such plant pests
as: gypsy moths, fire ants, pink
bollworms, grasshoppers, etc.;
- Monitoring the impact of such
pest control programs on the
environment;
- Promoting safe and effective
use of pesticides;
- Preventing the importation
and exportation of pests and
diseases that are injurious to
plants and animals;
- Preventing the transportation
and spread of “hitchhiking”
pests in interstate commerce;
and,
- Certifying plants and plant
products for export when they
meet the requirements of im
porting countries.
Deputy Administrator Iverson
said that the newly consolidated
headquarters staff located at
Hyattsville, Md., has been
converted into * a program
Development and Planning Staff
headed by Donald R Shepherd.
Field operation of the two former
divisions have also been con
solidated, with new regional
headquarters located at
Moorestown, N.J. (Northeastern
Region); Gulfport, Miss.
(Southeastern Region);
Brownsville, Tex. (Southwestern
Region), and Oakland, Calif.
(Western Region).
The new alignment will not
affect the current location and
staffing of agricultural
quarantine inspection at ports-of
entry, or the plant protection
State offices. Likewise, no
change is being made in the
Mexico Region of the plant
protection activities, Iverson
explained.
Greenhouse Training
Program Scheduled
The Penn State Cooperative
Extension Service has announced
that it will conduct a training
program for greenhouse em
ployees and formen. The
program will be conducted one
day each week for five weeks at
the Penn State Graduate Center,
Gulph and Henderson Roads,
King of Prussia. The course will
cost $2O.
Classes will start at 9 00 a.m.
and end at 3:00 p.m. Subjects to
be covered and the dates are;
Sept. 27, plants and their growth;
Oct. 4, principles of fertilization;
Oct. 11, fertilizer practices; Oct.
18, plant propagation; Oct. 25,
greenhouse structures.
Closing date for registration is
September 22. Any greenhouse
employee who wants to register
can do so by sending a check for
$2O (payable to Bucks County
Cooperative Extension Service)
to James K. Rathmell, Jr.,
Floriculture & Nursery Agent,
400 Markely St., Norristown, Pa
19401.
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