READ LANCASTER FARMING FOR FULL MARKET REPORTS NITROGEN AVAILABLE; • ANHYDROUS AMMONIA 1 Ideal for side dressing • LIQUID NITROGEN ! Apply after planting with herbicides : • UREA • ALFALFA • Top dress with fertilizer and spray for » weevil after first cutting COMPLETE • FERTILIZER for Broadcast or Planter PROFESSIONAL CUSTOM APPLICATION OFFERED ON ALL MATERIALS. f BULK BLENDS 1 ORGANIC plant • [ANHYDROUSAMMONITj FOOD CO. 2313 Norman Rd.. Lancaster, PA Phone 397-5152 TRAILERS Trailers for every purpose at low factory outlet prices! u ~ nn , Save now on the best trailers on the market today! Capacities from 1000 to 30,000 lbs. Model 907 • 1, 2 or 3 cycles • Frame 6 4" * 49” • Two T long cycle rails • 1180 to 1430 lbs • Loading ramp • Extra cycle rail (optional) SALE! SAVE ss! GENERATOR TRAILERS • Jack stand w dolly wheel • 48" to 60" widths • 91" to 144" lenfths • Safety tread plate deck and fenders • Single and tandem axles • 35 gal to 100 (aI fuel tank (optional) SALE! SAVE «! 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Art contest slated NELSON WEAVER & SON Box 152-R2 Lititz, PA 49% SOYBEAN MEAL BULK or BAGGED PHONE 717-626-8538 Beetle slated A significant battle will take place in Pennsylvania next month when federal and state agents launch their biological control campaign against the cereal leaf beetle, a destructive pest of small grams. The three agencies in volved - the U S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and the Cooperative Extension Service of the Pennsylvania State University - will hold a Cereal Leaf Beetle Parasite Field Day June 16, as the campaign gets underway. Early that morning, representatives of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Plant Industry will collect cereal leaf beetle parasites at an insectary on the grounds of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, Model 9165T6 F8217968FR 15 HEAVY EQUIPMENT TRAILERS • 8 ft width • Bed lengths 12 6" to 27' 0” • 6000 to 30,000 lbs wt cap • Pintle eye or goose neck hitch • Single, tandem or tn axle • Loading or flip up ramps SALE! SAVE ss! GN21694D8 20 GRAIN TRAILERS • Removable 300 bu (ram box • Wt capacity 20,000 lbs • Overall length 24' 2" • Dump bed • Tandem axles • Bed lenfth IS' O'' SALE! SAVE SJ! Lancaster Farming, Saturday. May 22,1976 control program for June Pymatuning Wildlife Refuge, in Crawford County. The Game Commission has been managing the in sectary since it was initiated in 1972. This involves planning, provision of seed, plowing, and general maintenance Without the Commission’s cooperation, activation of this insectary field day would not have been possible. After they have been collected, the parasites will be flown to designated airports around the state where county agents will be waiting to pick them up. Later that same day, the agents will release the parasites in preselected fields infested with the cereal leaf beetle. Tiny wasps unported from Europe, which attack only the cereal leaf beetle and do not sting, are the key to the federal-state biological control program for this pest. The wasps seek out the beetle’s eggs or larvae (the growth stage following the egg stage) and lay their own eggs inside. When the parasite eggs hatch, the young eat their way out, destroying the cereal leaf larvae in the process. This beetle is primarily a European-Asian pest that was first identified in the United States in 1962 in southwest Michigan. A flying pest, the beetle has since spread via prevailing winds to the east and the south, including all or parts of Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Penn sylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Both adults and larvae of the beetle damage wheat, oats, barley and other small gram crops. They fed on leaves, chewing out long strips between the veins. Heavy feeding gives plants a white, frosted appearance. The cereal leaf beetle parasitization program is a cooperative federal-state effort to reduce the use of pesticides in controlling and eradicating plant pests. The in Pa. motivating force behind this shift to biological pest control is a growing concern over contamination of the environment. Economics is also a consideration. A significant economic feature of biological control is its moderating influence with respect to new in festations. The program does not have to be repeated yearly, as is the case with chemical sprays, according to Henry F. Nixon, Director of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Plant Industry. The parasitic wasps were imported from Europe several years ago under a cooperative agreement with APHIS, USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS), and several states with cereal leaf beetle in festations. APHIS and ARS screened the wasps and found ways to raise them either in the laboratory or in field insectaries, such as the one in Crawford County. “Our research showed us that in Eurpoe where these wasps are part of the natural environment, the cereal leaf beetle is not a serious problem for farmers in most years,” Mr. Ed Eckess, District Director of APHIS’ Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) Division, said. “For our use here, we needed to find a species of the parasite that could survive and colonize in our climate and be harmless to everything except the cereal leaf beetle. “We finally chose four parasite species; three larval parasites and one other which attacks the cereal leaf beetle in its egg stage,” Eckess said. “Successful parasite colonization in Michigan and Indiana over the past four to five years has encouraged us to implement the program in Pennsylvania and neigh boring states,” he added. For more information about the June 16 Cereal Leaf Beetle Field Day contact James Memigham, Officer-in-Charge, PPQ programs, APHIS, USDA, Room 118, P.O, Box 596, Meadville, Pa. 16335; telephone (814) 724-3114. 63
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