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
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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