Red Cross Safety Clinics With {he summer months for skilled volunteers a approaching, education in Safety Programs Clinic will water and small craft safety be held at Blue Mountain again becomes of great Camp, Port Clinton, Penn importance in our com- sylvania, on May 17,18, and munity, while first aid 19- The Clinic will be under training continues to be the supervision of Mr. essential year round. William Royer, Clinic To help meet the demand Director for Safety TROIAN POWER A HYBRIDS S* ... hybrids from TROJAN, with yield potential to help you to higher corn profits. Power hybrids with ripe ears on green stalks. Quality hybrids you can count on to perform in YOUR fields. CONTACT YOUR TROIAN DEALER " MARK G. LANDIS JOHN W. ADAMS Route 1 Box 147 Route 1 Annville, Pa 17003 New Bloomfield. Pa 17068 Phone 717-867-7291 Phone 717-582-2348 IRWIN W. MARTIN 1648 W Mam St Ephrata, Pa 17522 Phone 717-733-7434 AMOSK. BLANK Route 1 Honey Brook, Pa 19344 Phone 215-273-3182 CLIFFORD W. HOLLOWAY, JR. RD.I Peach Bottom, Pa 17563 Phone 717-548-2640 AMOS H. HURST Route 1. East Eal'l, Pa 17519 Phone 215-445-6551 VERNON KEEFER Route 1 Millersburg Pa 17061 Phone 717-692 4334 PAULE. KELLER Route 1 Shoemakersville Pa 19555 Phone 215-926 2938 CLARENCE R. NEFF & SON Route 1 Ronks, Pa 17572 Phone 687-6406 LEVI N. OBERHOLTZER Route 1 Richland. Pa 17087 Phone 717-933-8336 MARLINE. PAUL & SON RD Klmgerstown, Pa Phone 717-425-3480 ROYB STONER & SON Route 2 Lititz Pa 17543 Phone 717-626-8473 IVAN R. YOST Route 1 Christiana Pa 17509 Phone 215 593 5326 IRVIN N ZIMMERMAN Route 2 Fleetwood Pa 19522 Phone 215 944 9124 iugene G. Hoover Sales Supervisor RD3, Lititz Phone 717-569-0756 Trojan Seed Co. Scientists Will Spray For Oak Leaf Infestation This summer the lure of sex may prove the final undoing of a moth whose larvae have defoliated and destroyed over 70 million dollars worth of oak trees in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, West Virginia, Michigan and Ohio. Chemists and entomologists at The Pennsylvania State University will begin limited spraying of oak leaf roller in fested areas in northwestern Pennsylvania with an ar tifically prepared component of the female moth’s sexual attractant. The scientists expect the lure to confuse the male moths so that mating will not occur and the population will be depleted. The spraying program is the first major field test of the artificial compound (cis-10-tetradecenyl acetate) recently synthesized for the first time by Lawrence Hendry, assistant professor of chemistry, graduate student John Jugovich, and Ralph 0. Mumma of the department of entomology. The approach promises to be safe and inexpensive. Hendry says the compound is non-toxic and highly specific, at tracting only male oak leaf rollers and a few other insects of the same genus including some fruit tree pests. He estimates that it costs $6OO to synthesize 1,000 grams of the compound or enough to control the pest on 200 acres of forest land. In addition, he feels confident that industry will be able to mass produce the compound even more economically. Small-scale preliminary field tests last summer showed the compound to be extraordinarily effective in very small amounts. Hendry says, “We caught over 6,000 moths in traps baited with one ten-millionth of a gram of the compound in just a few nights.” Traps will also be used this summer although the emphasis will be on testing the compound as a confusant. Programs, Lancaster books, and all necessary County Chapter of the materials. American Red Cross. The Clinic is part of the The Clinic is being held in Red Cross Chapter’s con a determined effort to curb, tinuing community service with first aid training, the programs. “Skilled volun mounting toll in deaths and teers are needed as in injuries from accidents and structors and aides to fill the is aimed at further many requests this depart “waterproofing America” ment receives from various through instruction in community organizations for swimming, lifesaving, and assistance in swimming, small craft safety. small craft, and first aid Courses to be given for programs,” says Mrs. Ellen certification include Stan- Saunders, Director of Safety dard First Aid and Personal Programs, Lancaster Safety (lecture- County Chapter, demonstration method), Those wishing to register Multimedia Standard First for the Clinic, and for more Aid (film sessions combihed information regarding what with workbooks and practice' to bring, transportation, periods), Multimedia In- prerequisites (minimum structor and Instructor Aide, age, required courses Water Safety Aide, Senior needed, etc.) should contact Lifesaving, Basic Canoeing, the Safety Programs Office Canoeing Instructor and at the American Red Cross, Instructor Aide. Lancaster County Chapter, Review courses also will 430 West Orange Street, be given for Canoeing In- telephone - 299-5561. structor, Water Safety In- —F~: — structor, and Senior . * r “ a pe®««>cies t ifnoavinff A 10 - state federal study, done L “fzf avu ‘;’ ..... . between 1968 and 1970, found The COSt for this intensive significant iron deficiencies in safety education program some population groups. These will be $25 per person which ,na y ** ave * )een due to changes inrliiHoc meals snanks m diet and food preparation, such includes meais, snacxs, as use of non . iron eoo king sur lodging, insurance, text- faces Financial advice especially for farmers! 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This summer’s testing program represents the culmination of over three years of research during which Hendry, Mumma and their associates obtained the first samples of the attractant from moths caught in the field isolated and identified the active component, and then duplicated the substance in the laboratory. Hendry is still unsure of the role of the rest of the more thar 20 compounds in the natural attractant mixture but suspecU one of being a sexual excitant. Efforts to identify anc duplicate the excitant are still underway since he believes it may offer yet another route to oak leaf roller control. The current oak leaf roller infestation has been called “the worst disaster that Pennsylvania forests have experienced in this century.” Hardest hit have been Centre, Clinton, and Lycoming counties where over a quarter million acres of oak forest has been defoliated. 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