Bradford County Short On Fuel
A serious fuel shortage is
pending in Bradford County, Pa.
according to numerous reports
received by Eastern Milk
Producers, the county’s largest
milk cooperative, from dairy
farmer members in the area.
John C. York, the cooperative’s
general manager, announced last
week that Eastern will organize a
Citizens Committee to in
vestigate, develop and place in
force, a program designed to
alleviate the problem. He stated
that findings from such an effort
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An example of the precarious
fuel situation is that of Gordon
Seeley, Troy, Pa., who has been
servicing large numbers of dairy
farmers for 35 years and is
regarded as one of the most
reliable distributors of gasoline
in the county. He is unable to
obtain gasoline to service these
accounts.
Efforts made to correct this
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problem have been to no avail.
Last month, Seeley received only
two loads of gasoline. This
month, he hopes for one load.
“If these farmers are forced to
go to other sources for their
supply so urgently needed to
harvest hay crops, it will un
doubtedly be more costly, to say
nothing of the added difficulty,”
York stated.
In April of this year, the milk
feed-price ratio was 124, which
represents a decrease of 12.1
percent from the ratio of 141 that
prevailed a year ago. Index of
costs has gone up by 12.9 percent
from a year ago also. These
figures show the adverse effect of
spiraling costs of producing milk.
These conditions, compounded
by a fuel shortage which is
spreading across the Com
monwealth, could sound a death
knell for many farms, not only in
Bradford County but throughout
much of the heavy dairying
sections of Pennsylvania.
York called on all civic minded
citizens to make a special effort
to correct the problem. He said
that Lorton Blair, an Eastern
member from Columbia
Crossroads who first brought
attention to the problem might
act as Chairman of Eastern’s
proposed Citizens’ Committee.
At the end of the first two
years, the certificate is automatically
renewed for another two years
unless„you tell us otherwise. The
same thing happens after four
years. So, at your option, the
effective annual rate of 6% is
guaranteed for six years.
Of course, Commonwealth
has other ways to save —all useful,
each designed to fill a special
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2 quite simply, as good a deal on
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 23,1973
Corn Blight Fungus Grows
26 Hybrids In USDA Studies
A corn blight fungus that grows
on both normal hybrids and those
susceptible to southern leaf blight
needs to be watched carefully,
according to scientists of the U. S.
Department ofAgriculture
(USDA).
The fungus, called Helmin
thosporium “X” until completely
identified, produced symptoms
like southern corn leaf blight on
23 normal hybrids and three
hybrids carrying Texas male
sterile cytoplasm in greenhouse
and laboratory studies by
scientists of USDA’s Agricultural
Research Service (ARS) at
Ames.
Southern corn leaf blight swept
through the corn belt from south
to north in 1970 reducing the U.S.
crop by an estimated 15 percent
This blight is caused by a fungus.
Helminthosponum maydis, race
T. Hybrids bred from parent
corns carrying Texas male
sterile cytoplasm are especially
susceptible to race T. Hybrids
carrying normal cytoplams are
more resistant.
In June, August and September,
1972, Dr. Jack R. Wallin, ARS
plant pathologist, and Daniel V.
Loonan, technician, obtained 43
isolates of the different
Helmmthosporium fungus from
corn growing in Illinois, Indiana,
Nebraska, South Dakota and 17
counties in lowa
“Infection was light in fields
where the fungus was found,” Dr.
Wallin said. “No economic
damage was noted.”
The scientists tested H. “X” in
the greenhouse on hybrids of both
male-sterile and normal parents.
All isolates produced symptoms
typical of race T infection H.
“X” produced lesions (injuries)
more slowly than race T On
normal corn, however, it
produced spores (reproductive
bodies) more rapidly than race T
Under controlled conditions in
the laboratory, spores of H “X”
germinate more slowly than
those of H. maydis and appear to
require higher temperatures.
“This may be significant in the
development of the fungus in the
field,” Dr. Wallin said
Mr. “X” is darker than race T
of H. maydis and produces
clusters of four to five spores
where race T generally produces
a single spore.
The ARS scientists first
isolated H “X” in May 1972, from
a 1971 Connecticut corn leaf
lesion In June 1972, they found it
on normal cytoplasm corn near
Ames They did not conduct
statewide surveys m July and
conducted only limited surveys in
August and September.
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