sd—Lancaster Firming, Saturday. March 29,1975
U.S. Food Sales to India
May Top $ 1 Billion in ‘75
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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.
The contest will begin at
9:30 a.m. April 12 at the
Dairy Production Center.
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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.
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