Wasps Released to Combat Cereal Leaf Beetles The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently completed the release of 850,000 tiny wasps, as part of an eight state biological program to control cereal leaf beetles~a pest WL3OS ALFALFA HAS ALL THESE DESIRABLE ADVANTAGES:- 1. RESISTANT TO BACTERIAL WILT, AN THRACNOSE, SPOTTED ALFALFA & PEA APHIDS 2. FINE'STEMMED & LEAFY 3. PRODUCES “TOP QUALITY" HAY 4T STRONG STAND 5. RAPID GROWING IN QUARRYVILLE AREA RED ROSE FARM SERVICE, INC. MAIM OFFICE N. CHURCH ST. QUARRWILLE, PA] 786-7361 of small grain crops. States covered in the program are Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. Red Rose Dealers Listed below Stocks a Complete Selection of Alfolfas - Clovers - Grasses - Seed Wheat and Barley TO FIT YOUR NEEDS IN FERTILIZER. WE OFFER AGRICO WITH A WIDE SELECTION OF ANALYSIS IN EITHER BAG OR BULK Truck or trailer spreading service available YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT RED ROSE DEALER MR. FARMER HAVE YOU TRIED WL 305 AIFAIFA IN YOUR ROUGHAGE PROGRAM? BUCK, PA. 284-4464 Leo G. K. Iverson, deputy administrator of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), explained that the wasps, about the size of a pinhead, are natural enemies of the cereal leaf beetle, but are harmless to man, animals, and other insects found in the United States. The cereal leaf beetle is a for eign pest that invaded this country in the early 1960’5. Iverson said that APHIS, cooperating with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), went to the beetle’s European homelands in search of its natural enemies, ' and found the wasps. WISCONSIN \-T77 rfii- @<x<xiecC \ IXf / ENGINES FROM 4t065 HP \ / ALUS CHALMERS & BRIGGS & \ / STRATTON ENGINES ' ENGINE and MAGNETO SERVICE BEAM L.P. GAS SYSTEMS PEQUEA BATTERIES AMOS L» FISHER l D No.l Box 108 Bird in Hand, Pa. 17505 6. FAST RECOVERY 7. SEMI- FALL DORMANCY -8. ADEQUATE WINTER HARDINESS 9. GOOD PERSISTENCE 10. HIGI+YIELDS BROWN & REA, INC. Under a cooperative state federal agreement, wasps are being reared in laboratories and field insectaries for release each summer throughout infested states. Hie wasps seAk out cereal leaf beetles. One wasp species parasitizes and destroys the beetle’s eggs, and three other species hill beetle larvae. “We are still evaluating the effectiveness of this wasp rearing and release program, which was initiated in 1967,” according to Iverson. So far, the wasps have been forming colonies suc , cessfully,- and appear to be spreading naturally. IN ATGLEN AREA ATGLEN.PA. 215-593-5149 Lancaster Farming, Saturday. August 1%^973 “Surveys have revealed wasps as far as 100 miles from their nearest release point' within the United States. And, although none of the has been released in Canada, they have been recovered 300 miles north of the U.S.-Canadian border. These results are very encouraging,” Iverson con cluded. Sewage Facilities Said Here te Stay Regional operation of sewage facilities “is here tq> stay”, ac cording to Donald Berman, dir ector of the Department of Wastes Systems Management of Allegheny County. In a speech before members of the Water Pollutipn Control Association of Pennsylvania, meeting in annual conference at Penn State University, Berman said that regional operation of sewer systems and sewage treatment plants isipaed on the needs of modern soqßfey. These needs include (1) The use and reuse of common water supplies by many cottununities in a given area, (2) of population into subuSim areas, (3) physical laws Ijaft- set up natural watersheds,,ijgoveming' the flow of water and wastewater, (4) the huge cost of* sewerage systems, rguuiring the economies of scale ffpvided by regional systems. Berman said that Allegheny County is already embarked on a program to expand its regional sewer collection system. The is now providing all or part of the wastes, from 77 municipalities. This service will be further extended hijthe future, to include other conmmities. Berman is a graduate of Camegie-Mellon with B.S. and M.S. degrees.'tte served for 20 years as engineer for Green Co. of Sewickley, aiSfl'was vice president of Greeh’s en vironmental engineering division. He is the first director of Allegheny County's new Department of Systems Management. Farm Women Calendar Saturday, AugUft 18 12 Noon - Farm Women Society 3 entertain - local 4-H Clubs, Covered Dish puncheon, Shady Grove. V- Sunday, August 19 Farm Women Society 31 Family Picnic, Mrs. Eleanor Kreider’s. Monday, August 20 6:30 p.m. - Farm WofAen Society 30 Family Picnic, Jhome of Mrs. Dwane Hosteler. Thursday, August 23 7:30 p.m. -- Farm Women Society 26 Fun NijSll, Sharon Brubaker, nostess. Saturday, August 25 1:30 p.m. - Farm Women Society 26 Fun Night, Sharon Brubaker, hostess. Saturday, August 25 1:30 p.m. - Farm Women Society 5 meeting, Amanda Holbein, hostess. 7-30 p.m. -- Farm Women Society 27 meeting, home of Mrs, Arthur Wenger Homemakers Camp, Camp Swatara, August 26 - 28. Iht Old lunu/t I/S\ -lka r . r “Punctualitj is a de>iee f<»r {letting some time to 33
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