—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 17, 1976
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Multiflora rose
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - If
you see a sower going out to
sow in Maryland or Penn
sylvania pasture lands this
summer, the hand-scattered
“seed” may appear
somewhat similar to or
dinary wheat kernels.
However, close inspection
might reveal cylindrical,
extruded pellets that
dissolve faster when
moistened than a sugar cube
m hot coffee.
And when the “seed” falls
“among thorns,” it will be
the thorns - not the seedlings
- which wither.
The picutre just portrayed
is no pastoral parody,
declares Dr. James V.
Parochetti, Extension weed
control specialist for the
agronomy department at the
University of Maryland in
College Park.
Although it will be seen
only a limited scale in 19
states this year, it is a
realistic description of a
limited and restricted weed
control program which will
Tractor pullers compete
THE BUCK - The high
powered tractors roared
down the track on the eve of
the Fourth of July, making
plenty of noise and even
spitting some sparks and
fire. Following are the
results for the pulls held on
July 3.
7000 Super Stock
1. Mark Stauffer, Ephrata,
Deutz 9006, 288 feet, four
inches; 2. Marlin Brubaker,
Quarryville, AC D-21, 256-10;
3. Craig Leggett,
Boonesboro, Md., JD 4020,
244-3.
7000 Modified
1. Lester Landis, Lititz,
241-2; 2. Richard Zim
merman, Mt. Joy, 231-1; 3.
Lester Houck, Kinzer, 210-8.
9000 Super Stock
1. Mike Wright, New
Freedom, IH 1066, 268-11; 2.
Harry Savage, Damascus,
Md., JD 4010, 259-11; 3.
Clarence Leggett, 256-5.
5000 Super Stock
1. Tim Stauffer, Ephrata,
Deutz 9006, 256-11; 2. Dale
Smoker, Cochranville, AC
180, 248-6; 3. Dave Moore,
Boonesboro, Md., JD 4010,
240-4.
9000 Open
1. Mike Wright, 281-11; 2,
Penn
Willow 4-H
The Penn Willow 4-H Club
held its monthly meeting at
the Conestoga Elementary
School on July 9. This
month’s meeting was an
educational meeting. The
scheduled speaker was
Officer Reis, a state police
officer, who told the club
good bike safety rules. Af
terwards he demonstrated
his equipment and car.
For the second half of the
meeting the Conestoga
Ambulance was present and
demonstrated to the club the
equipment used and a few of
the procedures,
A topic discussed was the
next meeting which will be a
round-up on Aug. 11, 1976. A
place and time will be given
at a later date. Also
discussed was a splash party
to be held August 13 at the
Conestoga Community
Swimming Pool. A rain date
permit some farmers to
recover pastureland being
choked out of useful
production by the spread of
multiflora rose.
Still considered a useful
roadside safety barrier and
fencerow beautifier, this
typically white-flowered,
early summer-blooming,
multi-stemmed shrub can
reach heights of eight to 10
feet. Since it has turned into
a pastureland pest in recent
years in many areas, it is no
longer being planted by
state highway crews in
Maryland and several other
states.
In fact, there have been
efforts, in Maryland and
elsewhere, to have
multiflora rose declared a
noxious weed. But nursery
men have successfully - in
most cases - argued at public
hearings to block this move
because of the shrub’s
continued importance as an
understock in the com
mercial rose businesss.
(West Virginia and Ohio
have recently passed
David Becker, Mt. Joy, 277-
2; 3. Lester Landis, 265-0.
5000 Modified
1. Coleman Wheatley,
Bethel, Del, 284-11; 2. Galen
Spickler, Elizabethtown, 251-
10; 3. David Becker, Mount
Joy, 249-1.
12000 Open
1. Mike Wright, 258-3; 2.
John Terry, Westport Mass.,
257-6; 3. Harry Griest,
Coatesville, 257-2.
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They're not as restless. And they’re easier to
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Try new Sow Limited from Master Mix.
Because happier sows could mean fewer
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Master
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control started
legislation which, in effect,
places multiflora rose in the
noxious weed category.
There are special exemp
tions for nurserymen.)
To meet the needs of
livestock producers,
however, the Maryland
Department of Agriculture
approved on April 21 a
“Special Local Needs
(SLN)” state label sub
mitted by the Dow Chemical
Company for its herbicide
formulation bearing the
trade name, Tordon 10K
Pellets.
Similar action was taken
by the Pennsylvania
Department of Agriculture
m early June. And Ohio is
gearing up for a statewide
control or eradication
campaign against multiflora
rose to begin, hopefully, in
1977.
The U.S. Environmental
Protecjijpn Agency (EPA)
had previously granted a
federal label authorizing use
of Tordon 10K Pellets in
pastureland situations in 17
states. This group included
Virginia and West Virginia
at one end of a crescent
shaped band of states
sweeping through the South
and ending in New Mexico
and Colorado.
But Ohio, Maryland and
Delaware - and the entire
Northeast, including Penn
sylvania - were not included
on the list.
The “Special Local
Needs” label granted by
Maryland agriculture
department officials for
control of multiflora rose
represents a new type of
interim registration for a
pesticide in states n6t in
cluded under a federal label
for its use. The Maryland
action is subject to review by
the EPA. But final approval
can be assumed, unless the
EPA expresses disapproval
within 90 days of the April 21
filing date.
So reported the University
of Maryland’s Dr. Parochetti
at two “centers of influence”
educational meetings on,
successive days during mid-
June in Frederick and
Easton.
The label is unique, he
said, because it requires the
user to be trained before the
chemical can be applied. A
similar requirement has
been established for the state
label in Pennsylvania.
The Cooperative Ex
tension Service at both Penn
State and the University of
Maryland has accepted
primary responsibility for
the training program in the
respective states.
And the two state
organizations of the U.S.
Department of Agriculture’s
Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service
(ASCS) will function as a
possible source of cost
sharing payments - up to 50
percent of the toal expense -
to farmers who purchase and
apply the Tordon 10K Pellets
for multiflora rose control on
pastureland.
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