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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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