—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 15. 1973 38 Disease Pennsylvania’s Fruit Tree Improvement Program, initiated only four years ago, will soon be supplying the Commonwealth’s fruit tree nurserymen with disease-free propagating material, according to State Sec retary of Agriculture Jim McHale. The first disease-free crop, to be released this fall, will be the Montmorency sour cherry. Trees produced from this material will be available to fruit tree nur serymen next fall. “In the next few years,” said Henry Nixon, director of the Bureau of Plant Industry, “we will be releasing a total of forty disease-free materials, including 30 varieties of peaches.” The Fruit Tree Improvement Program was intitiated because a virus disease, capable of being transmitted in propagating material, had been causing serious losses in the fruit tree industry. In 1967 damages in Pennsylvania alone were Export Pacts On Grain Fall Export contract totals for wheat, corn and soybeans declined slightly in the week ended August 17 but were still above levels earlier predicted, the Agriculture Department says. The new figures, made public Tuesday, may strengthen the hand of administration officials who have been resisting pressures from bakers and others to limit exports to conserve stocks for U. S. use. Tuesday’s report said un delivered wheat export sales as of August 17 totaled 1,136 billion bushels, down 37.8 million bushels from an August 10 report. Undelivered corn exports were put at 1181 billion bushels, down 23 million from the quantity listed August 10. Soybean export contracts were put at 586.2 million bushels, down seven million from the previous report. A MILKMOVER SYSTEM gets you out of the ham sooner-with more money in your pocket! It. saves your lugging heavy pails of milk from bam to cooler. • HAS MORE MILK CAPACITY • PERMITS FASTER MILKING • ELIMINATES EXTRA HELP • PROTECTS MILK QUALITY • IS tOO% SELF-CLEANING • HAS ELECTRIC CONTROLS • FITS INTO ALL BARNS • EASILY INSTALLED Available thru your local dairy equipment dealer or call the factory collect to arrange for a free demon stration on your farm Manufactured by d/oug m INDUSTRIES, INC WOHNSON P O lOX 113 ELRTON MO 21»21 Phone 301-398-3451 Free Fruit Aim of PA. Dept, of Agriculture estimated to be almost a million dollars in diseased peach, nec tarine, plum and apricot trees. “Since the inception of this program,” explained Nixon, “the percentage of loss in Penn sylvania nurseries due to a stem pitting disease in peaches has dropped from 30 percent in 1969 to 0 degrees in 1973. Consumers will benefit from this program because of very few losses by fruit farmers. Hence, the costs of SEPTEMBER SPECIAL SUES Sept. 20—State Graded Feeder Yearling Sale Sept. 27 —State Graded Feeder Calf Sale Sponsored by MARSHALL FEEDER CATTLE ASSOCIATION AUCTION every 6,000 HEAD FOUR WINCHESTER FEEDER CATTLE SALES Farmers Livestock Exchange, Inc. Winchester, Virginia State Sponsored—Graded—Uniform Lots—All Breeds MARK THESE DATES ON YOUR CALENDAR: FALL YEARLING SALE —Friday, September 21,1973 1 P.M. FEEDER CALF SALE & SHOW FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1973 IP-M. (Show 10 A.M.) (Sale l P.M.) 2nd FALL YEARLING SALE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19,1973 IP.M. 2nd FEEDER CALF SALE—Friday, October 26,1973 1 P.M. j Calves vaccinated for BLACKLEG MALIGNANT^ [ EDEMA HEMORRHAGIC SEPTICEMIA. All cattle j eligible for interstate shipment. Guarantee “No Bred I or Stags” in feeder calves only. j Morris Fannon, Auctioneer P. T. Mclntire, Sale Manager Write or phone: 703-662-2946 - office 703-837-1254 - home NORTHERN VIRGINIA LIVESTOCK, INC. , Box 440 - Winchester, Virginia 22601 PUBLIC SALE OF 65 HEAD REGISTERED & GRADE HOLSTEINS from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Canada. Plus Good Local Cows. 10 to 15 Rea | Showy Cows . at Black and White Holstein Farm, Lancaster, Pa. across from the Comet Drive-in Theatre or V* mi. west of breeding unit Ofl_ FRIDAY NIGHT SEPT. 21 jA 8 o’clock Selling Purebred Holsteins of large size, good type and lots of milking quality. All cows fresh or Close-up springers. Farmers and dairymen, if you are in the need of top quality herd replacements these are the kind you have been looking for They are all purchased first hand from farms where they were raised by some of the best judges of dairy cows in the business. If you need a can of milk per day of 100 lbs. per day we have the cows for you. Just by all means get to this sale. CHARLES C. MYERS OWNER Abe Diffenbach: Auct. Henry Kettering: Pedigrees Park Myers, Sales Manager fresh Pennsylvania fruit will be kept to a minimum.” This program, designed to collect, multiply and distribute disease-free propagating material, is financed by the Agricultural Research Funds derived from (fee Com monwealth’s harness racing paramutual betting returns. To expedite the release of additional progagating material, a modern screenhouse- greenhouse has recently been erected at the rear of the main Agriculture Building in Harrisburg. The 2,300 square feet structure will be used primarily for propagating and maintaining virus-free plants used in con PUBLIC SALE OF MARI-EON DAIRY HERD DISPERSAL THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1973 at 10:30 A.M. located 2 miles east of Bernviile on Bernvetle - Garfield Rd., Berks Co., Pa. HERD CONSISTS OF 85 HEAD OF HOLSTEIN CATTLE 60 milking cows in various stages of production, 10 close heifers fresh from now to sale date, and 15 heifers ages 3 mo. to breeding age. Herd is' Vz grade and Vz registered including: 15 head from Plushanski Chief Fury, 2 head from King Pins, and 12 head from Man-Eon Arlinda Pony. Herd average for past 3 yrs. -14,600 lbs. of milk and 525 lbs. fat, with high producers up to 21,000 lbs. milk & over 700 lbs. fat. Herd is certified & accredited in Bangs & TB. Sale for Leon & Mary Kirkhoff Mari-Eon Farm Terms - Cash Aucts. - Ralph W. Zettlemoyer (215-285-4616) Alvin Horning Paul Bixler ill, Virginia PUBLIC SALE Farm Machinery, Hog Equipment and Household Furnishings SATURDAY, SEPT. 22,1973 ' 11 O’CLOCK A.M. Sale to be held at Halpeny Valley Farms, 3 miles west of Christiana to intersection of Rt. 372 & White Oak Road, V* mile South of Smyrna Chapel on White Oak Road, Sadsbury Twp. Lane. Co., Pa. Farm Machinery & Hog Equipment consists of MASSEY HARRIS NO. 30 TRACTOR AC Dl7 SERIES 4 TRACTOR. AC'crimper, 2 Farmhand forage wagons, 2 Hay Wagons, NH forage harvester, AC 2 row corn planter, rake 3 bottom 14” plow, Oliver grain drill, JD hay tedder, NH manure spreader, heavy duty box wagon (7V 2 x 19’), 18 ton 3 section outdoor metal feed tower, 5-8 hole Smidley hog feeders, 2 6 bushel metal hog feeders, 3 pig creep feeders, 12 Fairfield individual “Economizer stall sow feeders, 2 Aerovent venti-pack barn fans, 2 portable barn thermostats, Hypromatic steady flow portable electric water pump (nearly new), several metal fence posts & fencing devices, several twist tight windup corner posts snow fence, 100 quick fence oak panels with loops for instant fencing (12’ & 6’ lengths), metal frame barn win dows, other bldg, materials, individual litter creep feeders, hog waterers, other aids used in pig business, John Wood space heater (nearly new), circular saw, concrete blocks, Int/ fen cer, 100 ft. roll new screen wire, small tools and many other articles. 6 TON OATS STRAW 1969 CHEVROLET PICKUP, V 4 Ton with Cap for sleeping, 292 cu. in einge, automatic shift, power steering, radio (good hunter’s unit). Household Furnishings consist of platform rocker, bookcase, end tables, 2 clothes racks, dinnette set & 4 chairs, metal cabinet bedding, linens, dishes, cooking utensils, electric fans, gas stove, 2 electric room heaters, gas 42 gal. water heater, electric 42 gal. Westinghouse water heater, and other articles. Sale by Halpeny Valley Farms, Inc. Harold Graham, Manager and Mrs. William Chapman Lunch available . *» Kersey A. Bradley, Auct. Kirk & Eschbach Clerks junction with the Fruit Tree Improvement Program. The Department’s Bureau of Plant Industry operates the program under the supervision of Plant Pathologist David M. Soulen. Successful because of its cooperative design, the program is advised by a board comprised of representatives from the fruit tree industry and experts from Penn State University.
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