40—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Mar. 9, 1974 Kutztown Grange Hears Readinger The energy crisis, with its deprive rural areas and confusing and contradictory rural residents of adequate actions, could seriously representation in the State cripple food production in Legislature, the United States, A. Wayne Readinger also told of- Readmger, master of the ficers of Subordinate and Pennsylvania State Grange, Pomona (county) Granges in warned during a regional this area that a new conference held at Kutztown Keystone Exposition Center Grange Hall recently. is “vitally needed” to The proposed reduction in replace the antiquated Farm membership of the General Show building. He also Assemply was criticized by discussed important the State Grange master as a legislation pertaining to the step backward toward taxation of agricultural and “taxation without open space land, state and representation.” The federal pesticide proposal, he said, would regulations, highway fun- JAMESWAY VOLUMATIC J Silage Distributor-Unloader { i as” I j FOUR-BLADE (/ \\ j j IMPELLER | | | i Throws Out Silage Fast B* Power Circle Drive * True Three-Point Suspension * Two Machines in One I Stop In Today for Free Catalog. YOU CAN COUNT ON US ■ M. E. SNAVELY ! : 445 South Cedar St, Lititz, Pa. 17543 . ■ Phone: 717-626-8144 ! ding and secondary road inunities, repairs, and the Penn- He also outlined Grang sylvama Milk Marketing program and objectives tor Board. 1974, and ritual and *■ Attending the conference parliamentary procedures at were local and county Grange meetings. Grange Masters, lecturers. Membership goals and secretaries and heads of suggested plans for state an women’s activities and national Grange mem membership committees, bership awards were During the workshop outlined b\ Mr. and Mrs. period, Readinger discussed John Cressman, sta e the national farm program, membership assistants, and the Rural Development Mrs. Ross Metz, women s Act of 1972 and how it applies activity chairman. em to Pennsylavnia com- Phasized the national Destroy Gypsy Moths Now Now is the time for homeowners in the nor theastern United States to seek out and destroy moth egg masses, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recommends. From now until mid-April, leaf-eating gypsy moths are in the egg stage-buff colored, velvety egg clusters. On homesites, egg masses appear on the un dersides of tree branches, lawn furniture and attached to stationary objects such as recreational vehicles. In the woods, they are in bark crevices or on the undersides of tree limbs, rocks and other objects. All egg masses should be painted with creosote or completely scraped off into a can of kerosene. “Since each egg mass contains 200 to 800 potential leaf-stripping caterpillars, destroying egg masses now is much more efficient than trying to kill individual caterpillars when they are feeding on the leaves in the spring,” says Leo G. K. Iverson, deputy ad ministrator of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). “We recommend that egg mass hunting be a neighborhood or area project. Otherwise, in dividual homesites will be ‘cleaned up,’ but caterpillars will move back into the same area in the spring from adjacent infested proper ties,” Iverson said. Gypsy moth egg masses now can be found in the in fested areas of eleven nor theastern states-Maine. Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. Gypsy moth caterpillars hatch in mid-April and May. In this stage they damage and kill trees by stripping them of their foliage. The insect pest was introduced into Massachusetts in 1869 and annually strips thousands of acres of trees in forests, homes, parks and recreational areas. During the summer of 1973, about 1.75 million acres were partially or entirely denuded. Try A Classified Ad If Pays! si<j Dutchman high PERFORMAHCE BROODERS ★ EASY ASSEMBLY ★ RELIABLE SAFETY SHUT OFF ★ ONE PIECE CERAMIC RADIANT ★ cano!^ e spun ALUMINUM ★ 36,000 BTU SINGLE JET BURNER HERSHEY EQUIPMENT CO. 215 Diller Ave Grange sewing contest now duties of lecturers (program under way. chairmen) at the local and Miss Mildred Shultz, state county levels, lecturer, discussed plans for J. Luther Snyder, state the leadership school to be secretary, told the group of held at Gettysburg June 25- the Grange award program 27 and for talent contests to for secretary’s, and outlined be held in 1974. the duties of secretaries of She also described the local and county Granges From Our Factory to your Farm, Ho Middleman Involved We help fight inflation by manufacturing our own paint. Over million gallons of our products sold . in Lancaster and surrounding counties. BARN SPRAY PAINTING 26th Year John F. Tout Estimate Mfg. of Weatherout Products QUARRYVILLE. PA. 717-786-2061 New Holland, Pa Phone (717)354-51680r (717) 872-5111 AUTHORIZED 5i (\ Putchman. DISTRIBUTOR
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