Lancaster Co, Poultry Assn.
position on ■Dietary Goals ■
LANCASTER, Pa. - On
August 9 a five member
delegation from the Lan
caster County Poultry
Association will be traveling
to Washington D.C. to meet
with Pad Cooksey, ad
ministrative assistant for
Senator Richard Schweiker,
R. Pennsylvania. The group,'
representing an 80 million
dollar poultry industry in
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Lancaster County, will be
presehting their views on the
controversial government
booklet “Dietary Goals for'
the United States,” recently
issued by the Senate Select
Committee on Nutrition and
Human Needs.
The poultry industry, on a
whole, has united in opposing
bn recent testimony before
the Senate Select Committee
R.D. #5 Lebanon, Pa. 17042
Phone (717) 274-2327
on Nutrition and Human
Needs 26, Dr. Robert
E. Olson, professor and
chairman of the department
this publication which
cracks down on cholesterol
in general, and guidelines
the reduction of eggs in the
diet, in particular,
of biochemistry and
professor of medicine at St.
Louis University School of
to assert
Medicine said;
“I cannot support adoption
of these dietary goals as
published. I don’t agree that
diet is a chronic problem,
and we can’t prove that
adoption of these dietary
goals will achieve the stated
Robert Marvel, right, points out some of his
management practices on Frey’s farm market near
Campbelitown. Lebanon and Lancaster County
vegetable growers toured the Risser farm, as well
as the Harold Frey vegetable farm south of
Lebanon, during a recent twilight meeting.
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acquired “a good bit of
resistance” to all in
secticides which are eligible
for use against it. Controlling
the cabbage worm can also
be difficult.
A pest which was
especially strong this year,
and is now fading out of the
„ picture, is the Japanese
' beetle. Tetrault figured the
beetle would be gone by the
end of next week, although it
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August6.l977
objectives. I recommend you
make major changes in
these goals or that they be
withdrawn.”
According to Ed Moshier,
Lititz, the president of the
Lancaster County Poultry
Association, “Dietary
Goals,” is scheduled for
reprint on August IS and for
final edition on September
15.
“Time is of the essence,”
he stated. “We’re going to go
to Washington with specific
may still feed on corn silk'
and disturb pollination.
How a grower bandies his
sweet corn is really
significant, according to
Tetrault. The harvested crop
loses sugar three times as
rapidly at 50 degrees
Fahrenheit as opposed to 32
degrees F. He suggests
farmers harvest their sweet
corn early in the morning
and then keep it reasonably
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goals. We need to gain the
Senator’s ear because TieT
not listening to us, and that’s
our main purpose.”
The five member group
representing the Poultry
Association will be Ron
Meek, Denver; Jack Huber,
Lititz; Martin Pflieger,
Manheim; Vernon
Leininger, Denver; and Ed
Moshier, lititz.
cool throughout the day. To
be really good and tasty, the
ears should go from “field to
belly” in three hours, he
affirmed.
Tips on the thinning of
strawberry patches were
also given. Such renovation
is known to give the
remaining plants additional
vigor. The thinning
procedure can be done by
tearing out the center por
tions of each row, thus
removing the oldest plants,
or narrowing the rows on the
edges until they’re about
eight inches wide. With this
method, it’s also advisable
that the rows be thinned
crosswise as well.
Vegetable crops in
southeastern Pennsylvania
look generally good,
depending on how much rain
fell in given areas. Dry
regions, as would be ex
pected, don’t have the crops
that other areas have where
rainfall was adequate.
Potato fields which weren’t
irrigated were especially
hard hit and just about
“cooked” in the soil.
Lancaster County Ex
tension Agent Arnold Lueck
and his counterpart in
Lebanon County, Dennis
Hoke, agree that the
vegetable outlook this year is
pretty good. Good yields are
being harvested or are being
expected, with predictions
being that ample supplies of
good quality vegetables -will
Be~"available. Cantalopes
look especially - promising,
according to Lueck.
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