sd—Lancaster Firming, Saturday. March 29,1975 U.S. Food Sales to India May Top $ 1 Billion in ‘75 IConttnuad trow fin 55) 121,5 million, and may hit |4O million in fiscal 1975. However, these volumes are still well below the record 152,000 tons shipped in 1071, U.S. exports of soybean oil to India in 1974 were an estimated 600 tons under the 1973 level of 23,000, but higher prices boosted their value to 117.4 million from 110.7 million in 1973. India might also purchase some U.S. cotton in fiscal 1975, resuming a trade that flourished until 1971, when shipments of cotton to India under P.L. 480 ended. However, the future of such trade will depend largely on foreign-exchange arra ngements. India’s own cotton output has improved in staple length with the use of better varieties, and production will be a little higher this season. However, imports of 360,000 bales still will be needed to meet a rising demand for Indian textiles. This demand is being pushed up domestically by an ever increasing population, Converting Forest Low. quality oak forests in central Pennsylvania can be successfully converted to improved pulpwood species such as Japanese larch while maintaining wildlife food and cover, according to a 10- year experiment at The Pennsylvania State University. The technique involves the underplanting of 2-year-old Japanese larch seedlings beneath a canopy of low grade oaks and then “releasing” the seedlings by removing the undesirable trees with herbicides or by cutting with an axe or chainsaw. . Successful conversion of oak-hickory stands to Japanese larch was reported recently by Dr. Robert D. Shipman, forest ecologist, and Jeffrey B. Schmitt, graduate student from Philadelphia, both with Penn State’s School of Forest Resources. They suggest that lan downers wanting to convert existing forest stands to another species can do so by one of two methods. If there is a market for the low-grade oaks, all or part of the trees can be harvested by chainsaw or axe for a small return on the cost of con version. If no market- is Equine Mortality Insurance Available Morgan Horse owners throughout the nation can reap the benefits of a recent agreement between the American Morgan Horse Owners Association and the Rhulen Agency, Inc. The AMHA, according to Albert Drowne, association Ad ministrative Vice-President, has endorsed the Monticello, New York based specialty insurance firm’s mortality coverage program for its membership. Under the plans of the program, all association Morgan Horse owners will be eligible for Equine Mortality Insurance at a special discount rate. Morgan Horses owned by association members, can’be covered up to $lOO,OOO per animal under the new plan. although Indian per capita consumption of textiles remains very low. In ad dition, India has had con siderable success during the last year in the textile export market, reflecting its low prices - under those of Far Eastern exporters. The country still needs extra-long staple cotton and recently authorized imports of 33,000 bales from Egypt, but this is far short of the 287,000 bales imported from that country and the Sudan in 1972-73. Now that trade relations have been renewed with Pakistan, some 200,000 bales of medium-staple Pakistani cotton are ex pected in 1975 from this source. India is also a small, but growing, cash market for Ui>. tobacco, baby chicks, frozen poultry, and canned foods. Besides the United States, the USSR is a major agricultural supplier to India, in calendar 1974 ac counting for about 15 percent of the country’s total farm imports - shipping 100,000 available, the trees can be killed with herbicides and left standing and later used for firewood. Underplanted seedlings must be able to survive and grow rapidly, Dr. Shipman affirmed. The species to be planted must be relatively resistant to deer browsing. Both of these requirements were met during the 10-year study with Japanese larch. The larch grew rapidly when freed from competing low-grade oaks. Deer browsed the larch, but this did not unduly affect the form or rate of growth, in height and diameter. The species is not preferred .by deer. Ability to resist deer damage is exceedingly important in Pennsylvania oak forests, Ur. Shipman Eointed out, since over rowsing by deer can alter the composition and growth of new stands. Herbaceous and woody plants developed abun dantly. This included species such as teaberry, bracken fern, whorled loosestrife, blackberry, wild sar saparilla, and hay-scented ferns. These supplied deer with needed browse during the stand conversion process. Removal of the oak “In addition to serving the Morgan Horse Association, the Rhulen Agency,” notes Peter Rhulen, agency Vice- President, “is endorsed by such associations as the American Paint Horse Association; the Quarter Racing Owners of America; the American Hackney Horse Society and the Peruvian Paso Horse Registry. The Rhulen Agency’s AMHA endorsed livestock mortality program will cover all qualified and medically accepted Morgan Horses between the ages of ninety days and 'twelve years. Older horses owned by association members can be covered at special rates. The program coverage wiL bale* of cotton; 1.5 million ton* of wheat, including 409,000 tons transshipped from Australia and Canada; and some sunflowerseed oil. The Soviet Union also provided vegetable oils and some other food items purchased in other countries for delivery to India. Canada, Argentina, and Australia were the other top suppliers of cereals, while Bangladesh was an im portant supplier of Jute, vegetables, and various food items. India also has been a major market in recent years for Afghanistan! rais ins, fresh grapes, and almonds - shipped under trade agreements, in ex change for larger Indian exports of tea and industrial products to Afghanistan. In addition, Indian imports of palm oil from Malaysia have risen, helping compensate for sharply reduced imports of U.S. soybean oil, and the European Community sharply increased shipments of preserved milk to India in 1974. Stands “overstory” by cutting or by treating with herbicides resulted in a very noticeable increase in tree and shrub species. In fact, the number of species on cut areas nearly doubled the number found on untreated or “control” plots, Schmitt reported. Dr. Shipman said a pelleted herbicide called fenuron killed undesirable trees over a 5-year period while enabling the 2-year old Japanese larch to grow 8 to 10 feet tall. In contrast, larch seedlings planted in uncut areas not treated with fenuron were only 18 inches tall in 5 years. Similiar growth responses were obtained on cut areas not treated with herbicides. The investigators con cluded that forest con version; when properly applied, can improve the compatibility between ex cessive deer browsing and growth of new forests in Pennsylvania. Additional studies are underway to determine the effects of stand conversion on yellow poplar, one of the high quality hardwood trees often planted on good sites in the Commonwealth. extend to all AMHA mem bers anywhere in the con- tinental United States and Canada and will include horses used for pleasure, show or breeding purposes. The policy will provide in surance protection from any cause including the destruction of the covered animal by accidental injury. The program will also protect the owner from loss due to theft. As a leader in the in surance specialty field, the Rhulen Agency, Inc. has covered a wide range of exotic animals such as pandas, rhinos, myna birds and spiders; race, show and pleasure horses and cattle of all breeds. The firm has been insurance specialists serving the livestock industry for over 40 years. For additional detailed information about Morgan Horse Mortality Insurance, write to: the Rhulen Agency, Rhulen Building, Monticello, N.Y. 12701. Youths Invited To Judge At PSU Dairy Expo Dairy cattle Judging, first event of the 50th Annual Dairy Exposition at The Pennsylvania State University, will be held Saturday, April 12, at the Dairy Production Center, University Park. The contest will feature 4-H and FFA members, along with Penn State students. Contestants will compete for 12 awards and 5 rotating trophies. The high individual overall in 4-H and FFA, and the high individual for each breed in 4-H and FFA, will receive awards. Invitations to compete have been sent to FF A and 4- H clubs throughout the Commonwealth. The rotating trophies will be given to the high 4-H team, file high FFA team, the high individual amateur, the high individual professional overall, and the high in dividual professional in oral reasons. This year’s contest is under the direction of co chairmen Steve Lyon from Troy and James Bates from Jamestown. The annual Dairy Exposition is presented - by the Dairy Science Club at Penn State. FFA and 4-H members will compete in separate classes and Penn State students will take part in amateur or professional classes. The latter includes Penn State students who have taken a course in dairy cattle judging or have competed in intercollegiate judging. 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TRACTOR CO. 949-6502 Buffalo Springs Route4l9 Between Schaefferstown & Cornwall Lebanon County Judging classes will be held in the morning and oral reasons will be given that afternoon in Borland Laboratory. All scores will be tallied that night and the respective winners will be notified. Awards will be presented at a banquet on May 3. The Penn State Dairy Exposition will include a Dairy Princess Contest on April 23 and will be climaxed with “show day” on May 3. Events of May 3 will include a dairy cattle fitting and showing contest, a celebrity milking contest, a sorority milking contest, a fraternity milk “chugging” contest, and a calf dressing contest. Three Retire At Sperry H. Raymond Good, 63, of 344% E. Main St., New Holland, ■ will retire from Sperry New Holland on April 1 after 23 years with the company. A production assembler, Good joined the company in March, 1952, as a bench hand and has since worked as an assembler in special products. John W. Shirk, 62, of East Earl Rl, will also retire April 1. He has worked as a plant servicer since joining the company in 1971. Robert L. Bishop, 62, of 126 Stony Battery Road, Salunga, retired March 1 as a maintenance mechanic. He had been with Sperry New Holland since 1956. PennAg Names New VP At a recent meeting of the PennAg Industries Association board of directors William E. Ryan, President of Jesse C. Stewart Co., Pittsburgh was elected third vice-president of the association to fill a vacancy created by the resignation of Paul E. Homan of Greenville. Homan' is leaving Penn sylvania. To fill Ryan’s unexpired term as a director, the board also elected Warren W. Elfrank, area director of operations for Ralston Purina Co., Camp Hill. PennAg Industries is a state-wide trade association of agribusiness firms which buy from and sell to farmers. Money Management Printed as a public service by the Lancaster Farming and the Pennsylvania In stitute of Certified Public Accountants. For years, savings and loan associations have been talking about variable-rate mortgages, won which the interest rate rises or falls with the prevailing cost of borrowing. Now the variable-rate mortgage is being given a big test in California, its backers hopeful that prospects for shrinking interest rates in months to come will attract home buyers. For the present, federally chartered savings and loan associations can’t make such loans, but the California test could change that rule. 949^6502
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