Yoder Herd Cited
Milk and buttcrfat
production levels established
by Registered Holstein cows!
in this area have been
■eported by Holsteln-
Friesian Association of
America. All cows are from
.he herd of Jefferson D.
Voder, Elverson RDI,
enrolled in the DHIR official
nesting program.
Cows recognized for their
exceptional food producing
ability are:
Rocky-Side Star Lida, age
1-5, 23,000 pounds milk, 961
oounds fat, 4.2 percent test in
551 days.
Rocky-Side Apollo, 7-4,
24,080 milk, 939 fat, 3,9
jercent test in 305 days.
Rocky-Side Fond Hope, 5-4
21,610 milk, 905 fat, 4.2
aercent test in 305 days.
Rocky-Sida Star Lida, 4-5,
21,680 milk, 894 fat, 4.1
percent test in 305 days.
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Alfalfa Anthracnose Fungus Penn. Egg
Spreads Via Farm Machinery p F mT p Z
The fungus causing anthracnose, a potential threat to
alfalfa, can be spread from dry alfalfa debris on machinery
stored in sheds over the winter, a plant pathologist at The
Pennsylvania State University reported today.
Fungal spores in debris clinging to alfalfa harvesters,
choppers, or balers could be a major means of spreading
anthracnose to this year’s crop, declared Dr. Felix L.
Lukezic, associate professor of plant pathology at Penn
State.
He urged farmers to clean their alfalfa harvesting
equipment before moving it any distance this year. The
fungus can remain alive for several months in debris on
machinery in storage.
The fungus causing anthracnose can be spread. Dr.
Lukezic and associates found, from equipment used in in
fected fields and then moved to other fields the next season.
Such contamination was observed first hand last summer.
Anthracnose was carried in debris on a machine used in an
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State.
infected field and then moved 100 miles away to another field
where there was no anthracnose in the area.
Anthracnose is one of the most serious problems facing
alfalfa growers. A few varieties have some resistance to the
disease-the varieties Titan, WL3-5, and Team. Within two
years, however, varieties with imporved resistance should
be available. At this time, spraying for anthracnose control is
not recommended.
Anthracnose weakens alfalfa plants, making them subject
to winter injury. Of 46 diseased plants at one variety trial
location last year, only 25 plants survived the winter. Field
losses from winter kill can be severe, wiping out as many as
one-fourth of the plants. Damage can also be extensive
among seedling plants, sometimes killing one-fourth of the
young plants during the summer or fall. Protein content of
alfalfa is also reduced.
The Penn Staters found that the fungus causing the disease
can survive in alfalfa stems for 100 days in a field. This
suggests that infected plants can be important sources of
secondary infection.
If anthracnose survives the winter in fields, it does so at a
very low level in the Commonwealth, Dr. Lukezic affirmed.
His findings were supported in earlier experiments at Penn
State and by other studies at Cornell University and the
University of Maryland.
The disease usually spreads in a circle from one infected
plant. The spores are carried by splashing rainfall.
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Pennsylvania layers
produced 301 million eggs
during January according to
the Crop Reporting Service.
This is slightly above last
month but 4 percent below
January 1973.
The January average of
15.2 million layers in flocks
was 1 percent above last
month’s average but 2
percent below January 1973.
Egg production per 100
layers during January
totaled 1,975 - down 1 per
cent from last month and 2
percent below a year ago.
Nationally, the 5,651
million eggs produced
during January was down 1
percent from January 1973.
Layers on hand during
January averaged 295
million, 2 percent below a
year earlier. The average
rate of lay during the month
was up 1 percent from a year
earlier and partially offset
the fewer layers.
Adult Farmers
Set Farm
Planning Meets
A farm buildings course
will start on Tuesday
evening, March 5 at 7:45
p.m. in the Ephrata Senior
High School ag department.
The topic to be discussed at
this first session will be
“Farm Building Layout and
Foundation Construction.”
A meeting scheduled for
March 12 will feature a
special session for farmers
establishing a new farm plan
on revising their present soil
conservation plan. The
purpose of this meeting is to
accommodate the large
number of requests for plans
by area farmers who want to
conform to the new soil
conservation practices and
pollution prevention stan
dards established recently.
Mr. Orval Bass, Lancaster
County soil conservationist,
will discuss this topic and do
some basic planning on a
group basis.
Money And Friends
Money may not be able to buy
friends - but it sure can rent them
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