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In this issue
Markets 2
Rural Route 10
Nixnutz’s Corral 10
Farm Calendar 10
Red Rose beef club 16
Classifieds 22
Country Corner 42
Homestead Notes 42
Cholesterol opinion 45
Home on the Range 47
Pork Queen 52
South American ag. 57
Soil management 58
Life on the farm 64
Dairy farm feature 70
Alfalfa management 98
Public Sales Reg. 99
Sale Reports 113
)ne of the heaviest snows of recent years fell on
>ch of the Northeast this past week, bringing an
d to the unseasonably warm weather of the past
veral weeks.
Serving The Central and Southeastern Pennsylvania Areas
Agricultural future is bright
By DIETER KRIEG
SCHAEFFERSTOWN -
“There’s a new awareness of
agriculture sweeping across
tba country ... I am ex
tremely optimistic about the
future of agriculture,”
James Beattie, Dean of the
College of Agriculture at
Disease confined outside state
By MELISSA PIPER
LANCASTER - After a
two-week battle with hog
cholera, USDA task forces in
New England and New
Jersey have been en
couraged by no new con
firmations of the disease in
Nitrogen stabilizer developed
Editor’s Note: A nitrogen fcrtiilier additive which a
Purdue university plant specialist describes as a product
which “will open a whole new ball game in agriculture, : ” was
recently introduced by Dow Chemical Company. The result
of more than a dozen years of research at Dow, as well as
several agricultural colleges, the product N-Serve was
unveiled to 50 agricultural editors and broadcasters at a
press conference in Bollywood, Fla. Lancaster Farming was
represented and a summary of Dow’s report follows:
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. “N-Serve,” which boosted crop
Dairy management reviewed
By DIETER KRIEG
LANCASTER - Lan
caster County’s 'annual
Dairy Day, held here at the
Farm and Home Center
recently, drew a steady
crowd of visitors throughout
a day which was marked by
cool temperatures and
nearly constant drizzling.
By MELISSA PIPER
LANCASTER - Two bam
fires within a three mile
stretch of the Elizabethtown
- Manheim Road resulted in
$70,000 worth of damage and
losses this week.
On Saturday evening,
firemen from Elizabethtwon
Vintage Sales Stables are sold
VINTAGE Controlling
interest in the Vintage .Sales
Stables changed hands here
this week when Mr. and Mr.
and Mrs. L. Robert Frame of
Uwehland (Eagle), Chester
County, purchased shares
formerly belonging to
Harold Hess and John
Huber.
A stockholders’ and board
of directors’ meeting this
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. March 13,1976
Fire destroys two bams
Penn State, told ap
proximately 300 people at a
dinner here on Thursday
night. The occasion was the
SOth annual meeting of the
Lebanon County Cooperative
Extension Service.
“In the past ten years,”
the Dean began, “the
Hog cholera update
those areas, hi a phone in-'
terview with Werner Hiet
seb, USDA information
specialist late this week, the
official noted that restric
tions on movement of hogs
had eased and that swine
going directly to market had
Five major management
topics were presented by
specialists from Penn State,
and enough agri-businesses
showed up with exhibits to
completely surround the
auditorium. Several larger
pieces of equipment, such as
manure spreaders and
pumps were on display
and Rheems responded to a
bam fire at tee Clayton
Rlsser farm, Elizabethtown
R 3. The Risser family had
called in tee alarm but as
firemen readied the scene at
11 p.m. the bam was already
engulfed in flames.
Although the cause of the
past Wednesday evening
declared that Frame would
take over as tee new
manager of the market,
while his wife, Elaine, would
became tee new secretary
treasurer. Marlin Irwin was
selected as the new vice
president
Frame is no newcomer to
the business. He told
LANCASTER FARMING
amount of man power
needed for food production
has decreased by 35 per cent,
and the termors' produc
tivity has gone up by 16 per
cent within, that time. The
costs of food takes less than
17 per cent of tee average
consumer’s disposable in
been allowed to move in New
Jersey except in the
Glouchcster County area.
In Massachusettes
movement of slaughter hogs
had also begun by Wed
nesday in all areas of tee
state except four counties
yields for more than 100 growers in a trial program during
1975, will become plentifully available for the first time this
year in about July soon enough for its Fall application
which has already proved to be uniquely valuable in the Corn
Belt.
Shortly after mid-year, Dow Chemical U.S.A. will place
“on stream” a new plant to produce N-Serve, a nitrapyrin
fertilizer additive. N-Serve reduces naturally-occurring
losses of nitrogen from the soil. Consequently, when applied
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outside. A summary of
highlights from the 6-hour
program follows:
COOPERATIVES
The need for farmer
cooperation was pointed out
by tee presentation of a
movie entitled “Chaos or
Cooperation,” which showed
news reels from past
fire is still under in
vestigation by county fire
officials, it is believed teat
stored hay in the bam fueled
tee flames.
Robert Zeager,
Elizabethtown deputy chief
also noted teat tee “slate
roof on tee barn held the heat
this week that he and his wife
had at one time owned and
operated the former Bxton
Livestock Market. Upon
acquiring it, they changed
the name to “Whitford Sales
Co.” The livestock auction
went out of business in 1965
due to expansion of nearby
metropolitan Philadelphia.
The Frames, however,
remained in business by
$3.00 Per Year
come.” Acknowledging dial
the American housewife baa
bid to pay more for mort
items in the super market,
Beattie explained that it was
due to the world-wide
demand on American food
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which were under federal
quarantine.
No newly confirmed cases
of bog cholera bad sparked
the movement of slaughter
hogs although under strict
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decades and illustrated the
involvenemt of modern-day
farmer cooperatives. Hectic
marketing situations which
occasionally resulted in
brawls and milk dumped
onto streets, could possibly
have given viewers the
impression that things have
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in,” adding to problems in
fighting the blaze. Several
firemen receved minor in
juries from falling debris
and one volunteer, Barry
Reem of Mount Joy, fell and
suffered a sprained ankle
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operating a sales company
by the same name (Whitford
Sales €o.) which specializes
in farm sales mid auctions.
They are continuing*'that
business wbile assuming
controlling interest at the
Vintage market.
“I want to continue this
livestock auction and im-
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