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Chester County
Paid Workshops
A series of meetings for sewing
men’s fashions, specifically knit
slacks and jackets, will be
featured at the Coatesville YWCA
423 E. Lincoln Hwy., Coatesville,
in cooperation with the Chester
County Extension Service. A
small fee will be charged for each
course.
The meetings on Men’s Knit
Slacks will meet three Mondays -
June 25, July 9, and 16 - from 9:30
to 11:30 a.m. Techniques, fabrics,
and findings for men’s knit slacks
will be demonstrated in this,
course.
Men’s Knit Jackets, five
meetings in length, will meet
Wednesdays, June 27, July 11,18,
25, and August 1, from 9:30 to
11:30 a.m. This course will teach
how to make a man’s or boy’s
knit sport jacket using simplified
methods, not the conventional
tailoring techniques. The course
is designed for the person with
average sewing skills.
Registration is due by June 15.
For further information contact
the Chester County Extension
Service, Room 402 North Wing,
Courthouse, West Chester, Pa.
19380.
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farm structures and equipment
M. K. HOKE ESTATES
148 So. Main St.
Manheim, Pa.
Phone 665-2266
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NEWS AND VIEWS
ON FARMING
HAVING WEEDS IS NOT CORNY
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The title “King Com” is
more than appropriate for
America’s first food. Farmers
use more land for it than any
other crop; it provides more
food for animals and men
than any other crop; and, if
the more than four billion
bushels of it grown annually
in the U.S. were piled end to
end, the mammoth stalk
would reach Mars’
That’s why corn growers
in America are concerned,
and justifiably so, with trou
blemakers like crabgrass and
pamcum showing up in then
fields. New grasses are costing
growers more and more in
lessened corn yields. In fact,
it’s been estimated that weeds
cost farmers about $3 billion
a year!
Such weeds cut yields—
often drastically—by stealing
essential moisture and soil
nutrients from the com. Most
weeds can be controlled with
early herbicide treatments, but
if unforeseen conditions allow
weeds to get too far out
of hand, they can get thick
enough to stop a picker right
in its tracks.
A serious infestation would
require several cultivations for
even minimal control, and
most farmers cannot afford
to give up the time this
would take. Further, if bad
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very little crop at harvest
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So many corn growers are
turning to the use of Evik SOW
corn herbicide, which has been
used in several southern states,
but now can be used in all
corn-growing areas, since reg
istration has been extended
by the Environmental Pro
tection Agency.
Evik SOW is a contact her
bicide for use as a post-emer
gence, directed spray on corn
at least 12 inches tall. It
provides effective control of
a wide spectrum of broadleaf
and grassy weeds such as Texas
pamcum, fall panicum, crab
grass, foxtails, cocklebur, vel
vetleaf and a number of other
problem weeds in this area.
Leaf lifters or carefully ad
justed drop nozzles can be
used with Evik SOW to help
avoid injury to corn plants
So start “Evik-t'on” proceed
ings right now!
The use of chemicals to
control weeds has a long his
tory, but more has been
learned about this science in
the last two decades than in
the entire previous history of
mankind Thanks to this,
corn can remain “king”
forever
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W. Europe Still a Big
Farm Products Buyer
U.S. agricultural exports to
Western Europe totaled $3.4
billion in 1972, a 16-percent gain
over 1971, according to the U.S,
Department of Agriculture.
In its annual review and
outlook report on agriculture in
Western Europe, USDA’s
Economic Research Service said
that the. gain was due to in
creased exports of feedgrains,
oilseeds and oilcake, meats,
cotton, tobacco, and fruits and
vegetables. Preliminary- data
indicate that much of the in
crease was due to higher prices.
Western Europe continues to be
a major U.S. market for farm
exports, accounting for more
than a third of total U.S.
agricultural exports in 1972. The
European Community (EO--
including the new members as of
January 1 (the United Kingdom,
Comparing Food Prices
The Foreign Agricultural
Service of USDA has compiled a
survey of retail food prices in
selected cities around the world.
The results speak for themselves
in showing how the American
farmer and American
agricultural technology compare
most favorably with farmers
around the world. Some of these
findings are:
Sirloin steak-lb.
$2.45
1.88 -
1.68
2.79
1.69
City
Brussels
London
Ottawa
Rome
Washington, D.C.
Ireland, and Denmark)-takes
most of our agricultural ship
ments to West Europe.
The report said that EC ex
pansion is likely to adversely
affect certain U.S. exports to the
Common Market, including
grain, tobacco, lard, and fruit
and fruit preparations. Inflation
and the recent currency crisis
were cited as major factors
contributing to uncertainty in the
economic outlook for 1973.
A copy of “The Agricultural
Situation in Western Europe:
Review of 1972 and Outlook for
1973,” ERS-F 352, is available
free on postcard (please include
zipcode) or telephone (447-7255)
request from die Division of
Information, Office of
Management Services, U. S.
Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. C. 20250.
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Brussels
London
Ottawa
Rome
Washington,
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Ottawa
Rome
Washington^D.C.
These prices are based on the
week of March 3-11, 1973, and
were converted at current ex
change rates.
Butter-lb.
$1.40
.57
.72
1.98
.85
Eggs-dozen
$0.94
.71
.68
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