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Fords are up and going and were going with them to our new location at
in Perry Co.
Perry County In a project to
halt corn destroying moths,
it was announced by
Secretary Jim McHaie.
McHaie said information
gathered from the 15 sex
attractant traps will be sent
to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s research unit
which is investigating the
European corn borer, a
caterpillar that attacks ears
and stems of field and sweet
com.
McHaie said his depart
ment is also cooperating
with USDA on a study of the
cereal leaf beetle, a pest of
spring grains such as wheat,
oats and barley.
Henry F. Nixon, director
of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry, explained that both
pests are native to Europe
and were accidentally in
troduced into North
America.
European corn borer work
is being done in cooperation
with the USDA’s Corn Borer
Research Unit at Ankeny,
lowa.
Nixon said the object of the
1974 study is to determine
whether male com borer
moths in various regions
respond to different sex
attractants of the female
moths.
In the Perry County ex
periment, Nixon explained
that the number of male
moths attracted to different
combinations of sex' at
tractant chemicals will be
recorded twice each week.
“This information will be
useful in setting up traps
used to monitor com borer
populations,” said Nixon.
“Researchers and growers
will then be able to know
IMPORTANT NOTICE
Lancaster Ford Tractor, Inc.
1655 ROHRERSTOWN ROAD
NEW
Members of the Solanco FFA
Parliamentary Procedure team which
finished second in the regional
procedure contest at Lehigh Valley
Community College are: seated (left
to right) Marshall Trimble, sentinel;
Gordon Herr, president; Randy
Clark, vice president: and Glenn
when moths are first
present, permitting a timely
application of insecticides.”
the cereal leaf beetle
project is being done in
cooperation with the USDA’s
Cereal Leaf Beetle Rearing
Laboratory at Niles,
Michigan.
“This project,” -Nixon
said, “is to determine the
distribution of a tiny wasp
that was introduced in
several western Penn
sylvania counties to feed on
cereal leaf beetle eggs. We
want to know if this
beneficial wasp has spread
eastward and so our bureau
will be collecting cereal leaf
beetle eggs in seven eastern
counties.”
Nixon said both projects
will be under the direction of
Lancaster Stockyards
Initiates Pig Sales
Lancaster Stockyards will Trucks bringing pigs from
hold its first feeder pig sale out of state must be disin
on June 4 beginning at 1:00 fected and all pigs brought at
p.m.
All pigs consigned to the
sale must arrive that day
between 7:00 and 11:00 a.m.,
at which time they will be
state inspected for health,
state graded and sorted, then
weighed and penned.
Since ail pigs must be
tagged it is suggested that
the consignors tag their pigs
at the farm, thereby saving
25 cents per pig expense.
Tags for this purpose can be
Finley B. Negley. the pic |ed up JTwater m.
bureau’s chief entomologist, Dunlap & Sons office,
and bureau specialists Dr. -,
Alfred G. Wheeler and For further information
James F. Stimmel. call (717-397-5136).
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Lancaster
Tractor.
The Home of The Friendly People
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. May 25.1974—-1
Weidman, chaplain. Standing:
Warren Schmuck, treasurer; Randy
Ranck, secretary; David Hanks,
student advisor; and Jeff Rutt,
reporter. Eight top teams from the
state, two from each region, will vie
for the state title during FFA week in
June.
the sale must be loaded out
no later than midnight, June
4.
Ford
Inc.
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