Apple Growers Vote To Triple Assessment Pennsylvania apple growers have voted to triple the amount of money they Harvest more hay per acre...more digestible nutrients per ton. H. JACOB HOOBER RHOADS MILL, INC. EARL SAUDER, INC. INTERCOURSE, PA. Selinsgrove. Pa. NEW HOLLAND, PA. H. M. STAUFFER & SONS, INC. 0. KENNETH McCRACKEN & SON VAN-MAR FEEDS LEOLA.PA. MANHEIM, PA. LEFSPORT, PA. Beacon Reps. Ted Belefski Chester Weist R. E. Rudisill Ph. 523-9173 Ph. 741-2600 Ph. 854-2281 Beacon Feeds, York, Pa. Phone 717-843-9033 assess themselves for promotional purposes, Secretary of Agriculture Jim Hay Pre-Serv McHale said today. In announcing the results of-a special referendum which ended Wednesday, May 29, Secretary McHale said 54 percent of the Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 8,1974 growers casting ballots of growers who plan the voted in favor of the in* program and spend the crease. They represented 61 money.” percent of the production a total of 188 ballots were volume of the those voting, cast, with 92 in favor and 77 As a result, state apple against. A total of 19 were growers with 500 or more declared ineligible. The trees of all ages will pay into volume of production a promotional fund five cents represented by the af per bushel for apples sold for firmative ballots totaled the fresh market and two 3,934,682 bushels out of a cents per hundredweight for of 6,457,850 bushels. The apples sold for processing. Teller Committee was made “This' will result in an up of Ralph W. Tyson, annual budget of about Gardners; Richard H. $150,000 for promotional Mattem,Hollidaysburg; and purposes,” Secretary Stanley E. Brown, Logan* McHale said. “The previous ville, all apple growers, assessment rate brought in The new assessment rate only about $50,000. The will be effective with the 1974 growers are to be harvest. The old rate congratulated on amounted to three cents per recognizing the need for hundredweight for fresh greater promotional ac* apples and one cent a hun* tivities in order to increase dredweight for processing apple demand. The vote also apples, reflects the confidence the The referendum was industry has in the Apple requested by the State Marketing Board, made up Horticultural Association. Gypsy Moth Traps Set Special “sex” traps will be scattered throughout the continental United States this summer to catch the destructive gypsy moth, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced. Leo G. K. Iverson, Deputy Administrator of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), explained that the traps will be used to detect the spread of these leaf-eating insects. Gypsy moth caterpillars have recently hatched throughout Northeastern states. Only the leaf-eating caterpillar stage is destructive. Evergreens may die after one complete defoliation. Severe suc cessive defoliations may kill birch, oak, and other hard wood trees. At present, the main gyspy moth infestation covers much of the Northeast, where 1.7 million acres of woodlands were defoliated in 1973. However, since 1970, this pest has spread outside the Northeast resulting in scattered, isolated in festations as far south as North Carolina and west to Michigan. This summer’s trapping SECRET Let’s face it: You’ve got more enjoyable ways to spend your time than asking for a personal loan. We know that, and we try to ease the pain as much as possible. For one thing, you deal with just one person, a specialist, our loan officer. His service is speedy, our form is simple, and your business is held in strictest confidence. And we’ll let you in on a little secret. Because banking is our business, when you ask for a loan, ybu’re doing us a favor. We never forget that. Commonwealth J W National Bank Offices throughout south central Pennsylvania program will use a synthetic sex attractant disparlure—to draw male moths to sticky traps. About 60,000 traps will be in place by mid-June. In September, they will be picked up and turned in to APHIS and state en tomologists for in dentification of insects caught. APHIS and cooperating state agencies are currently distributing the traps. Special training sessions are being held for members of the National Campers and Hikers Association (NCHA)—a national con servation - camping organization which is helping with the trapping program again this year. “Last year was the first time we had the voluntary participation of an organixation like NCHA in the federal-state trapping program,” Mr. Iverson said. “Because of this assistance we were able to supplement our program and increase coverage. In fact, NCHA trapped moths in a number of areas where we didn’t expect to find the pest.” 9
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