—Lancaster Farming, Saturday 112 The soil has been turned and another growing season is underway. So far it looks like its going to be a good year. By most any standard, it’s been an excellent Spring in southeastern Pennsylvania and neighboring areas. War on Johnsongrass begins ANNAPOLIS, Md. - With ipring here, the annual war igainst Johnsongrass >egins. It is estimated that in Maryland more than 100,000 acres, much of it prime agricultural land, are in ested with the weed which preads both by seed and mderground rhizomes, -ebbing soil of moisture and lutrients and making it ough to deal with ef ectively. A Maryland noxious week aw passed m 1970 set up the itate’s Johnsongrass irogram. An amendment >assed more recently allows or compliance with the law hrough a Johnsongrass ;ontrol agreement. The Maryland Department jf Agriculture’s Plant In lustries Division, Weed Control Section, coordinates ■with 20 counties a program iesigned to bring the weed. f;Ma; under control. MDA works through conty Johnsongrass committees, cooperating with farmers and land owners to attack the problem rather than em phasizing violations and prosecutions. Key to the program is the “Johnsongrass Control Agreement” which is worked out each year bet ween the famer, landowner, county authorities and MDA. This agreement states the property location, the amount of Johnsongrass infestation of the land and, most importantly, the methods of control that will be used to combat the weed. The agreement, besides assisting the farmer or landowner to comply with the state law, is also sort of a “roadmap” toward effective control. Each farm or piece of land infested may require a special plan to control 1977 which varies by the type of crop, chemicals that can be used, special tillage prac tices etc. First step toward a control agreement, says MDA’s I Johnsongrass control supervisor Jesse Crook, is to contact the county John songrass supervisor or a member of the county Johnsongrass committteee. Renters are urged to check with Johnsongrass authorities to make sure the ground tjiey till is under a control agreement, and not to assume that the owner of the land has already arranged this. TRY A CLASSIFIED AD! Convenience foods used by restaurants UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - People who tire of eating easy-to-prepare convenience foods at home and treat themselves to a meal in a favorite restaurant may be surprised to. know that that restaurant may also be using convenience foods. According to Extension consumer specialists at The Pennsylvania State University, many restaurants and institutions have switched to cenvenience foods instead of cooking from scratch because of the high cost of SCARLET SAGE The Harvester With Big Capacity To Match Your Big-Tractor Power Haylage or silage The Badger Forage Harvester han dles big chopping jobs with ease It's power-matched for tractors up to 175 hp Left-handed delivery mini mizes side draft Lets you operate with dual-mounted tires Choose from two models Multi-row crop heads and hay pickup attachments available See us for more information See Your Local Badger Dealer SHOW-EASE STALL GRUMELLTS FARM FISHER BROTHERS GO. SERVICE 136 W.High St. 523 WHm Rd. Mechanics Grove Ph m Lancaster, PA QuarryviNe, PA Ph. 299-2536 Ph. 786-7311 * CARL L SHIRK ISAAC W. HURST E* KREIDER RDS Lebanon, PA Ph. 274-1436 CECIL DAIRY SERVICE RDI-Rt.274 I Mi. South Rising Sun MD. PH (301)65^6923 labor, energy, equipment and individual food ingredients, and the scarcity of people skilled in preparing food from scratch. hi the restaurants and institutions surveyed by the United States Department of A|> the entrees RD2 East Earl, PA Ph. 1215} 445-5767 A. C. HEISEY FARM EQUIPMENT INC. RDI Jonestown, PA (717] 865-4526 accounted "lor nearly two fifths of the convenience items. Cakes and pastries ranked second, with side dishes third and .dinners fourth. According to the survey, the biggest users of convenience foods among institutions are schools and colleges, trailed by hospitals, feeding services in places of work, the military and correctional institutions. RD) Cochranviie, PA Ph.(215)932-4700 ’>
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