6th Wine Conference Held at Penn State
“Penn State is now beginning
to aciueve the type of research
foundation needed for the new
wine industry in Pennsylvania,”
declared Dr. James M. Beattie,
Dean of the College of
Agriculture at The Pennsylvania
State University, during the sixth
Wine Conference held recently at
University Park.
Dean Beattie said the initial
phase of research at Penn State
sought to determine what grape
varieties could become,
established to the point of -
commercial productivity in the
traditional grape center of
Pennsylvania, Erie County.
These experiments were started
in 1967.
• The second phase of research,
he reported, is underway to
determine whether certain grape
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varieties can consistently
produce satisfactory yield with
the quality needed to process a
top grade wine over a long period
of time.
The third phase of wine grape
research at Penn State stresses
enology, the science of wine
making. This science, he pointed
out, deals with wine quality
evaluation and technology to
produce sound, high quality
wines consistently from year to
year. Initiated in 1970, these
experiments have produced some
excellent -quality wines, Dean
Beattie stated.
He addressed a capacity
audience at the Wine Conference
banquet. Attendance at the two-
day event was the largest in it’s
six year history with 150 persons
registered in the Keller Con-
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The Deputy Secretary of
Agriculture for Pennsylvania,
Mrs. Jane Alexander, said the
United States leads the world in
wine research. She indicated the
Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture made a research
grant m 1967 providing $75,000
over a 10 year period, $7,500 per
year, for wine grape research by
the Agricultural Experiment
Station at Penn State.
As Deputy Secretary of
Agriculture, Mrs. Alexander
pledged the cooperation of the
Department of Agriculture in
Belt Maintenance
for Idle Units
Farm machinery belts will
keep their zing only if properly
maintained, especially between
farming seasons.
Burt A. Dundas, general
supervisor. Sales and Marketing
Operations, Allis-Chalmers Corp.
Agricultural Equipment
Division, has some advice about
belts. If they are not properly
maintained in storage,
deterioriation will accelerate
resulting in downtime at critical
production periods. Combines
are particularly susceptible to
maintenance orientated belt
failure, he said.
When the harvest season is
over, many of the big combines
are parked outside without any
cover, exposed to weather. Belts
remaining on the unit are under
tension and develop flat spots
where they contact the sheaves.
The once smooth and shiny
sheaves begin to rust and
deterioriate.
When the combine returns to
the field, the exposed belts will
most likely perform poorly under
load or fail completely. As a belt
moves from one sheave to
another, the flat spots pound like
hammers on the sheaves and
bearings. In addition, the rusty
sheaves work like grinding
compound on the belt sides,
More and more local dairymen are proving that a small extra
investment in heifer feeding can pay off when heifers freshen and
begin contributing to the milk check.
And research has proved that heifers which produce well in the
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helping to develop the wine in
dustry.
She credited the State Grape
Marketing Advisory Council for
being the impetus behind the new
wine industry of the Com
monwealth. The industry was
made possible with the passage
of the Limited Winery Act of 1968.
Mrs. Alexander said some of
the most progressive wine grape
producers in Pennsylvania were
in Europe with the armed forces
during World War 11. These
people brought back the desire to
produce high quality grapes and
wines in the Commonwealth.
She observed that some of the
constantly grinding the
protective surfaces.
Result: premature belt failure
in the field caused by lack of
simple preventive maintenance
while the unit is idle.
Many of these failures can be
avoided by following a belt
maintenance program at the end
of the season, according to
Dundas. Belts have to be
properly aligned, run With
recommended tension and be on
proper sheaves during season.
After the season, continued
maintenance and proper storage
is essential.
Dundas suggests the following
four simple maintenance steps at
the end of season for added belt
life, even if the unit is under
cover:
1. Remove all belts,
2. Coil belts in a loose coil so
that they are not kinked.
3. Store belts in a dry, cool
area.
4. Oil belt contact surfaces on
the sheaves to prevent rusting.
The result, according to
Dundas, will be prolonged belt
life, less chance of downtime and
added harvest profitability. The
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Dr. Carl W Haeseler, hor
ticulturist at the Erie County
Field Research Laboratory at
North East, claimed good
management of wine grape vines
is the key to high yield and
quality fruit.
Dr. Haeseler described ex
periments to determine grape
yields, vine vigor, and fruit
quality where grape plant
thinning ranged from no thinning
to one cluster per shoot. The
varieties DeChaunac and Vidal
Blanc were tested at two dif
ferent locations.
With De Chaunac, yields of
grapes have been more con
sistent for the two years of the
study where vines were thinned
to one cluster per shoot. Clusters
were also heaviest in both years
on vines thinned to one cluster
per shoot. Juice quality was
likewise most consistent where
vines were thinned to one cluster
per shoot _
Plant vigor was highest on
vines likewise thinned to one
cluster per shoot. Acidity of De
Chaunac was not affected by
cluster thinning. Dr. Haeseler
and associates obtained the same
first-year trends with the variety
Vidal Blanc as observed with De
Chaunac.
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