—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 21, 1977
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British farmers
LANCASTER - Thirty of particular interest as well.
British farmers toured The British fanners came
Lancaster County last over on a tour which was
Saturday and were “quite organized by Ciba-Geigy
impressed” with what they Company of Britain. P.L.
saw. Capturing most of their Rohrer and Sons,
enthusiasm were the Amish Smoketown, hosted the tour
families and farms which here for the visitors from
they visited. They were Europe. Acting as guide was
fascinated by the methods of Ivan Baughman a retired
fanning employed by the farmer who is now a
Amish and amazed at salesman for the Lancaster
results. Tobacco raising was County seed firm.
Wood
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.
- Wood is a fairly complex
material, being made up of
various types of cells - tiny
needle shaped wisps about a
seventh of an inch long and
several thousandths of an
inch thick. The single cell
exhibits surprising strength
and when it unites with
millions of other cells, the
collective strength is
astonishing.
Each tree produces a
different fine structure from
wood cells resulting in
surface grain, color, luster,
texture, hardness, weight,
and odor that can be
recognized with practice.
Although all woods are
basically similar, each piece
shows variability that gives
wood its unique character.
Cells vary in size and
shape and are (with the
exception of pores or
vessels) closed at both ends.
The relative size and
arrangement of wood cells
are fairly constant in the
wood of each species but
vary between species, and
World eating more meat.
U.S. consumption declining
WASHINGTON, D.C. -
More than half the countries
in the world reporting per
capita consumption of red
meat reported increases in
1975. Only 25 per cent of them
- -including the United States
- - reported decreases. This,
according to a USDA
Foreign Agriculture Service
Circular issued last week.
As a result, the U.S. has
dropped from its traditional
3rd place position in per
capita meat consumption to
sth place.
Through per capita con
sumption of beef and veal in
the U.S. increased from 54
kilogram (119.0 pounds) in
1974 to 56 kilogram (123.5
pounds) in 1975, consumption
of pork decreased from 30
kilogram (66.1 pounds) to 25
kilogram (55.1 pounds) and
over-all red meat con
sumption decreased from 85
kilograms (187.4 pounds) to
Egg marketing assn.
meets in Lancaster
LNACASTER, Pa. - The
Pennsylvania Egg
Marketing Association met
at the Sheraton Conestoga,
Lancaster, on Friday, May
13. The main speaker for the
meeting was Steve Fetrow
from IBM Corporation. The
topic was “The Growing
Need for Computers in the
Egg Business.”
The next scheduled
meeting will be held on June
10, 1977. Interested in
dividuals can get more in
formation by calling Paul
Hess. Jr. at 717-«65-3511.
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identification tests most of your senses
thus form a reliable means
of distinguishing one wood
from another.
Each year a tree adds a
layer of wood consisting of
these small cells on the
outside of previously formed
wood. In our temperate
' climate, cells formed at the
beginning of each year’s
growth '(springwood) are
larger than those formed
later in the growing season
(summerwood). A distinc
tive boundry is thus formed
for each year’s growth. In
cross section, these layers of
springwood and sum
merwood appear as con
centric bands called annual
rings.
The end surface of a piece
of wood shows a cross sec
tion of annual layers of
growth. This cross section
shows size and arrangement
of cells better than any other
surface and is the principal
surface used in wood iden
tification. When wood is cut
lengthwise through the
center of a tree, the exposed
surfaces are called radial or
82 kilograms (180.8 pounds).
Meanwhile, both Australia
and New Zealand moved
ahead of the U.S. with total
red meat consumption up to
101 kg. (222.7 lbs.) in
Australia and 95 kg. (209.4
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impressed with Lancaster County
The varieties of food
served at Lancaster
County’s well-known eating
places raised a few eyebrows
as well, according to Jack
Beideman, Ciba-Geigy sales
representative for this area.
The British, known for
their proper manners, left
the farmers they visited with
framed prints of Cambridge
University in England, a
quartered. A longitudinal
surface which does not pass
through the tree center is a
tangential surface.
The end surface of a log
shows an outer lighter
colored region called sap
wood and an inner darker
core, the heartwood.
Pores are hollow tubes
resembling exaggerated
drinking straws. They are
composed of larger cells
with open ends, set one
above the other. Pores are
confined to hardwoods.
In course-texture hard
woods some pores are
plainly visible to the naked
eye. In fine-texture woods
pores are visible only with a
good land lens. In some
hardwoods, pores are larger
at the beginning of each
annual growth ring,
decreasing in size toward the
summerwood. These woods
are classed as ring porous.
In other hardwoods, pores
are relatively uniform in size
throughout the growth ring
and are called diffuse porous
woods.
lbs.) in New Zealand.
Uruguay, with 104 kg. (229.3
lbs.) and Argentina, with 98
kg. (216 lbs.) continued to
lead in total red meat con
sumption.
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convinced that the Deutz air-cooled
diesel-powered tractor leads the field in
fuel savings—up to 34% over some
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gesture which was im
pressive to the Americans.
Amish farmers in the In
tercourse area and the Ken
Hershey farm near Gor
donville were among the
stops the group made while
in the County.
The visitors were a group
of mostly grain farmers -
rye, wheat and barley -
although a few dairymen
Kays are narrow bands of
cells aligned radially in a
tree, extending at right
angles to the grain from the
bark inward. Some rays are
wide and give the attractive
ray-fleck found in some oak
furniture. In the cross
section of some woods, rays
are so fine as to be in
conspicuous without a hand
lens. The width of rays is
often an important feature in
distinguishing one wood
from another.
m
but
were along as well. They
stopped in Lancaster County
for a day, and then continued
on to the Midwest.
A few crop comparisons
were made, and it was
learned that significantly
higher yields per acre are
accomplished in England
due to the more intense
farming methods. It’s not
unusual, for example, to
harvest 80 bushels of wheat
Many woods give off a
characteristic odor when
cut. Woods should be
whittled'and the freshly cut
surface held dose to the
nose. Since it is more dif
ficult to describe odor than
color, known samples are
often used for comparison.
Wood identification tests
most of your senses and is
one more skill which will
help you get to know Penn
sylvania’s forests.
per acre. Britain’s greater
population density mandates
intense farming practices.
In concluding tbeir visit,
the Britains left it be known
they were fascinated by
everything they saw.