Southeastern Pennsylvania AredS - Also Maryland, New Jersey and Delaware VOL 22 No. 30 Therries are ripe iy JOANNE SPAHR IiCASTER, Pa. - The ft cherry harvest has I in many parts of taster Farming’s |age area, and from all Its, ardent home Irs should be Idering getting their b early. Nearly every Leaf beetle stung By DIETER KRIEG Incaster - h you have I in your field - more ifically cereal leaf es - there’s a way of Ig your property of the which involves neither picals nor fly swatters. vredit law scored ■ By JOYCE BUPP H York Co. Reporter B)RK, Pa. Where’s the Best wastebasket? * Bat’s the number one B|ion a fanner might ask B) confronted with the Bes of paperwork he must B and keep when Bowing money for his Drought was coach Py DIETER KRIEG |RNVILLE, Pa. - A pership of three brothers F ibis Berks County pnunity is recording P strong gains in milk Paction, and they’re P 8 part of the credit to perries bring $5O I JOANNE SPAHR ■ANC'ASTER, Pa. - “I’m that my $6O gets me ■Lk advice on growing ■berries,” quipped Sam Marietta, after paying ones f °r a quart box of EL Buddy” Shenk’s Jyinnuig Jersey Belles [ Wednesday. pig prize offered least R ’ Pa ' ' BotoSn,- Stoc * yards ■j I ® l fills week it will K ho a * 1 > 000 savings bond ■»(Lk onsigner of th ® ■for .animal to be sold cau, at the opened on April Kjv’ n since then nearly head of cattle have W by meat orchardist spoken to in Lancaster, York, Adams, Chester, and Berks counties report having a “light” crop this year, mainly due to two damaging frosts which hit during the month of April. The quality of the cherries, on the other band, has been termed “very good” to An imported parasitic wasp will do the trick. According to Lancaster County Agent Arnold Lueck, the cereal leaf beetle appears to be firmly established in all sections of the County, with the operating.yndetthfi.present Truth - regulations. Production Credit and Federal Land Bank organizations across the country are preparing testimony for hearings on Senate Bill 1312, the “Truth in Lending Simplification having learned bow to farm during file dry years of the 1960’5. “The dry years of the mid- Sixties is what made us farmers • we learned to feed with nothing,” commented Jim Yost, eldest of the three Shenk’s berries were the grand champions of the Rotary sponsored Lancaster County strawberry round-up held during the Rotary Club’s weekly luncheon at the Farm and Home Center, here. Reserve champion honors went to, Jim Stauffer, packers at the Monday and Wednesday auctions. Stockyard officials estimate the 1,000,000 th animal will pass over the pavilion scales sometime in June. William G. McCoy, Stockyards president, said, “We feel a $l,OOO savings bond is a fitting way to celebrate another milestone at this historic site where Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 11,1977 “excellent” because of the dry weather Pennsylvania had been experiencing prior to this week. According to growers, the small amount of rain keeps the cherries from swelling, causing a more concentrated sugar content per individual fruit. I Continued on Page 36| northern and eastern*3reas having the greatest numbers. Lueck was out Wednesday afternoon introducing the biological killer into fields in the area. It’ll take a couple of years IConlifflied on Page SSI and Reform Act,” scheduled in Washington for June 27, 28, and 29. Senator William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, has set up hearings on the proposal which would (Continued on Page 35] brothers who main responsibilities concern field work. The Yost Brothers, whose 200 acres of jointly owned land goes under the name of “Tri Y Farms,” cultivate a total of 550 acres (Continued on Page 26] Lancaster, a member of the Penn Manor 4-H Community Club. Stauffer also showed the Jersey Belle variety, and received $lO a piece for bis quart boxes. This is the second year in a row for 15-year-old Shenk, the son of Mr. and Mrs. (Continued on Page 33] cattlemen and buyers have traded since 1895.” Stockyard officials point out that steers, bulls, heifers and cows are being counted toward the 1,000,000 th head. To qualify for the $l,OOO savings braid, cattle shippers must sell their livestock through one of nine commission firms operating on the Stockyards. --Um-m-m boy! There’s nothing quite like a fresh sweet cherry on the first day of the season. If Jennifer Shertzer, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Shertzer, Lancaster R 6, didn’t know that befjjflfTSWnflftbws it now. Jenny lives right across the road from Cherry Hill Orchards, New Danville Pike, Lancaster, so she’ll be getting her fill of that delicious fruit this season. Glenn “Buddy” Shenk prepares to hand his $5O quart of strawberries over to their new owner Sam Zuck, Marietta. Zuck bid the $5O during the Rotary Club - sponsored Lancaster County strawberry roundup and came up a winner. In this issue Farm Calendar 10 Editorials 10 Letters 10 Medicine &Mgmt. 16 Homestead Notes 42 Joyce Bupp 43 My Thoughts 45 Ida’s Notebook 45 News Nutrition 46,48 $4.00 Per Year Doris Thomas 47 Home on the Range 50 Jr. Cooking Edition 51 LileontheFarm 58 Classifieds 64 Portable Milk Processor 90 Pickle Problems 98 Sale Reports 113 Public Sales Register 114
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