CX £J - ■ -0 r £r^ *'' we FARMER THAT (4AD SOME COTLS KUSTIEV> ?" Pesticide applicator test given HARRISBURG - Examinations for com mercial pesticide ap plicators will be given m July in York, Adams and Franklin Counties, it was announced today by the P. L ROHRER :t CRO, INC. I I I SMOKETOWN, PA Phone Lane. 717-299-25?! , '/ .vsW Commercial a. Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. The examinations are scheduled for July 20 at the Adams County Extension Office, R 3, Lincolnway West, Gettysburg; July 21 at the * I I i I i i, 1 h ~ fr iicators Franklin County Extension Office, 191 Franklin Farm Lane, Chambersburg; and July 22 at the Farm Credit Building, 3301 West Market St., York. All sessions begin at 1:00 p.m. and will be strictly for the ad ministration of exams; no instructional or educational program will be presented. Examinations will be offered in all commercial categories. Individuals may be tested in as many areas as tney desire. Study materials are available and may be pur chased from the Penn State University as an aid in preparing persons for these examinations. These examination sessions are being coor dinated by Donald Lott, pesticide inspector for the Department of Agriculture. Anyone requesting ad ditional information or who plans to attend any of the sessions is advised to contact Lott at the Region VI Office, Box 419, Summerdale, Pa. 17093, or their local county agent’s office. Registration in advance is necessary so that proper preparations can be made. TRY A CLASSIFIED AD! I <sCSI * v 4 *v * V. * * :. ' v TesS»*",,» j » - # s> >* «v. *** * - ♦ 1 > > 1 . % ** \a* * * ' <44 ! , 5 *&F* I.l' jJS* ' li‘ Ij, <|>* ;%•# 1%?/ i*. 4l^rl^4V Summer on the farm is represented by hay and grain fields and the pleasant aromas released by those crops. Warm weather, clear blue Vegetables up at PSU show UNIVERSITY PARK - Extensive vegetable variety trials and weed control studies are underway at the Horticultural Research Farm of The Pennsylvania State University, nine miles west of the campus on Route 45. Of interest to home gardeners and commercial vegetable growers, the field experiments will be featured during the annual Ag Progress Days August 25 and 26. All America selections are included in the trials, one aspect of experiments at the Rock Springs Agricultural Research Center, site of Ag Progress Days. The variety trials will feature sweet com, tomatoes, snap beans, muskmelons, cucumbers, and watermelons. Other crops in the trials are cab bage, pumpkins, peppers, and winter squash. Weed control studies are in progress on snap beans, lima beans, kidney beans, tomatoes, cabbage, beets, carrots, onions, sweet com, cucumbers, and asparagus. Herbicides are applied in several ways preplant incorporation, preemergence, delayed preemergence, and postemergence Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 10,1976 — Ag Progress Days will also feature plots of a Penn State experimental high sugar sweet com hybrid. Sugar is retained in the kernels of this experimental hybrid for longer periods of time after harvest than for standard sweet com types. Ears can be harvested over a seven to eight day period as a result of the higher sugar content. Elsewhere August 25 and 26, the effects of fumigants and plastic types on vigor and weed control will be shown for tomatoes, pep pers, eggplants, and Gehl dealer named LITITZ Binkley & Hurst Bros., 133 Rothsville Station Road, Lititz, has been named the franchised dealer for Gehl farm machinery m this area. The announcement was made jointly by Gehl Company officials at West Bend, Wisconsin, and their representative m this area, Don E. Powell, 253 S. Jackson Street, Strasburg. The Gehl Company specializes in forage har vesting, handling and feedmaking farm machmery -'V* ■ ,/# e* skies, and the hypnotic rumble of machinery are part of the season too. It's the height of summer. watermelons. Plantings will be compared through both clear and black plastic in untreated areas and areas fumigated with either chloropicrin or a mixture of methyl bromide and chloropicrin. A direct-seeded cabbage variety trial will feature over three dozen varieties and unnamed selections from numerous seed com panies. These plots will be seeded late in the season to rate varieties for damage by black speck (pepper spot) in addition to table qualities. According to Powell, Binkley & Hurst Bros, was chosen as Gehl dealer for this area because “it is best qualified with personnel and facilities to handle the sales and service opportunities of the established and ex panding Gehl farm machinery line.” Spokesmen at the dealership express their confidence in the Gehl Company, and mvite all to stop by and see the complete machinery line now on display. 11 /V' \IJ *.i i 1 *
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