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EPHARATA - A compact 6*B” high, solid-core
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featuring a gambrel roof Wickcs Building Sales and
configuration has been in- Construction Center, High
troduced by Wickcs way 222 North, Ephrala,
Building, a division of The Pennsylvania 17522.
Wickes Corporation. Named
the ‘Town & Country’, the
new structure combines
beauty, efficiency and
economy in an all-purpose
storage building that will
enhance any homesite -
suburban, ranch, farmstead
or vacation property.
According to Stan Kline,
Wickes Buildings manager
for this area, the pre
engineered gambrel roof
design also offers many of
the practical advantages of
conventional clear span
construction, including
plenty of unobstructed space
for vehicles, workshop or
equipment storage.
Basic building size is 30’
wide x 40’ long, with longer
building sizes available
through addition of modular
units. Standard festure in
clude heat-reflective
aluminum roof and choice of
white or color aluminum
siding with contrasting trim.
Building is also standardly
equipped with 9’2” high, 10’
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VORIS VIGOR-PROVEN
V-2662 - 125 Day Maturity
Very Dependable, Large Ears, Heat & Leaf
Disease Resistant, Deep Kernal.
V 2642 - 119 Day Maturity
A Champion. Short-stalked, upright leaf, with a
really high yield and potential. Moderately high
population
V 2562 - 113 Day Maturity
Tall, stiff stalk, excellent standability, good
disease resistance but most of all an out
standing yielder
V 2442 ■ 103 Day Maturity
Best adapted to combine harvest, very healthy
hybrid but fast drying Excellent standability
compared to other hybrids in its maturity class
Top yielder.
V 2402 - 102 Day Maturity
Large, long ears tolerates high population very
well; will sucker under excellent early growing
conditions.
V 2382 - 99 Day Maturity
95 day hybrid of excellent dependability, very
stiff stalk, large ears Excellent seedling vigor.
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Mt. Joy, Pa. Phone 653-4121
Bicentennial Ag Book
FORT ATKINSON, WIS.
The Growing of America
... 200 Years Of U.S.
Agriculture has been
published by Johnson Hill
Press, Inc., Fort Atkinson,
Wisconsin, in cooperation
with NASCO, also of this
city.
the attractive, 144 page
hard-bound volume, with
over 200 photographs and
illustrations, follows the
development of agricultural
practices, government farm
policies, organizations,
equipment, livestock,
poultry, and crops from
Colonial Times to the
present.
Highlights in The Growing
Of America include
frustrations and successes
with early farm equipment;
government recognition of
the importance of
agriculture following the
Civil War; the settling of the
West; the organization of
farm groups including
measured accurately with a
built-in, calibrated sight
gauge. The label and an
instruction booklet arc at
tached to the side,
cooperatives; the Dust Bowl Three years of research
and realization of the need including a season of test
for soil conservation; and marketing have gone into
the contributions of development of the new
America's rural residents container, according to
during both World Wars. company researchers.
The authors summarized
the goals, purpose and scope SORGHUM SEED
of this book when they OLIVIA, MN. - "Trojan
stated: “As our country brand hybrid sorghum is
approaches its Bicentennial, now available forsale for
no industry deserves more planting. Thats the
recognition for its role in the wor d rom Murray Robin
development of the U. S. son > Director of Marketing,
than agriculture. Farmers Pfizer Genetics, Inc.,
led the American headquartered here.
Revolution, fought its bat- The addition of sorghum to
ties, supplied its food, and the lineup of products
went on to new frontiers, available from Pfizer
New challenges continue to Genetics is the first of
be met boldly by American several expected product
farmers, and on the eve of additions in the area of seed
their country’s Bicentennial, genetics, Hybrid sorghum,
they can feel pride in as well as hybrid seed oern,
agriculture’s contribution to will be sold by Pfizer
the quality of life in the Genetics, Inc. under the
United States.” Trojan brand name.
Copies of The Growing Of (Pfizer Genetics, Inc, is a
America will be available new company fromed as the
from participating local result of the' merger of
Future Farmers of America Trojan Seed Company,
(FFA) Chapters at high Olivia, Mn; and Clemens
schools across the country, Seed Company, Beaman,
and from NASCO, 901 lowa. Soybean and oat seed
Jamesville Avenue, Fort will be sold under the
Atkinson, Wisconsin 53538. Clemens brand name.)
NASCO began 35 years ago Trojan brand hybrid
with a direct mail offering of sorghum is currently being
equipment and audio visual contract-produced for Pfizer
materials to agricultural Genetics, Inc. The product
schools. Today the firm will be available for sale
supplies products for through the established
agriculture and education Trojan brand seed corn
throughout the free world, dealer network. As expected,
Johnson Hill Press, Inc., the major marketing effort
specializes in the editing, for the new hybrid sorghum
design, production and lineup will be concentrated
mailing of printed com- in grain sorghum areas
munications and produces a primarily in the western and
wide range of agricultural southern Combelt.
publications. Explains Robinson, “We
have been looking at the
addition of this seed line for
Ciba-Geigy Changes quite some time, and for the
Aatrex4L Jug Design P ast sev f al have
Ciba-Geigy Corp. says it been working hard at die
will replace its one and five- planning and developmental
gallon plastic jugs for sta B es in preparation for
AAtrex 4L liquid herbicide en * r y
with a two-and-a-half gallon sorghum market. We have
plastic container for the 1976 an exceUent initial lineup of
sales year. sorghum hybrids.
The new jug reportedly is Currently available for
easy to carry and pour, booking are five grain
Growers can empty the two- sorghum hybrids, one forage
and-a-half gallons smoothly sorghum hybrid, and one
and completely into spray- sorghum-sudangrass hybrid
rig tanks in about 13 seconds. - all carrying the Trojan
Contents of the jug can be »> ran< l name.
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Sugar Beet Industry
Got Off to Sour Start
Napoleon wasn't the only
casualty of Waterloo When
he met his match that June
day in 1815, Bonaparte saw
shattered not only his dreams
of empire, but an infant beet
sugar industry, although
sugar beets were very likely
not the most pressing
thoughts on his mind as he
whiled away the exile years on
Elba
Sugar was a scarce com
modity in Napoleonic France,
and it was with special glee
that the emperor visited Ben-
jamin Delessert’s small fac
tory in the hamlet of Passy in
March of 1811 Delessert had
developed a practical process
for producing sugar from
beets, and when Napoleon saw
the results of his country
man’s work, he ripped the
Cross of Honor from his im
perial chest and pinned it on
the startled Delessert A week
later, Napoleon signed a de
cree that allowed one million
government francs to be spent
on sugar beet research, and by
1813, there were 334 small
beet sugar factories in France
It’s perhaps fitting that
Napoleon should have figured
so prominently in the history
of the sugar beet In both
Europe and America, the
sugar beet industry has tune
and again found itself facing a
seeming Waterloo
It seems quite possible that
the first to use beet sugar in
America were West Coast In
dians who used species of wild
sugar beet that grows in cen
tral California In 1775, Pedro
Pages, a Spanish captain who
explored parts of that state
wrote, ' The tribes of the
Sierra made also quantities of
molasses, candy, and sugar,
that is not unworthy of the
fame of these people, and it is
extracted from certain species
of vegetables
The first recorded effort at
establishing an American
sugar beet industry began in
1830 James Ronaldson, the
first president of the Franklin
Institute, organized a group
of his Philadelphia friends into
the Beet Sugar Society of
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ncaster Farming. Saturday, Oct 11.1975
Philadelphia In 1836, the so
ciety sent one of its members,
John Pedder, to Europe to
make a thorough study of the
industry in France
Pedder sent back 600
pounds of beet seed which was
planted Unfortunately, it was
planted too late in the season
to develop a crop, and the
principal accomplishment of
the Society was publication of
Pedder’s glowing report on
the possibilities for a beet
sugar industry in this count
ry
In 1838, Edward Church
and David Lee Child produced
some 1300 pounds of beet
sugar in them Northampton,
Mass , plant Economic diffi
culties closed this plant in
1841, but it did produce the
first beet sugar in America
Many miles to the west, at
White Pigeon, Mich , a group
of farmers and townsfold or
ganized a beet sugar com
pany They built a factory in
1838, but even with a $5OOO
loan from the state of Michi
gan, the venture failed
These early failures, and
many subsequent ones, were
doomed from the start by a
lack of technical knowledge
and skill The extraction of
sugar is a rather complicated
process which even then
hinged on chemical extraction.
Modern day beet sugar plants
cost a minimum of $3O million
to build
The Mormons in Utah were
the next to attempt the man
ufacture of beet sugar They
bought a plant in France m
1852 for $l2, 500 They took it
to Utah by boat, barge and ox
team, and produced only an
inedible syrup for all their
labors
In fact, between- 1838 and
1879, 14 sugar factories were
erected on American soil - in
Maine, Massachusetts, Del
aware, Michigan, Illinois,
Wisconsin, Utah and Cali
fornia All failed
In 1879, E H. Dyer took
over a bankrupt sugar plant in
Alvarado, Calif , and turned it
into the country’s first suc
cessful beet sugar enterprise.
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