Experimental com plots By NEWTON BAIR Lebanon County Agent LEBANON • Good weather favored the job of harvesting Dr. Joseph McGahen, the commercial com hybrid Penn State ' Extension variety plots in southeastern agronomist and corn Pennsylvania this week, medalist, says that the long This year’s official test plots season, Zone m and IV, in Lancaster, Lebanon, York hybrids which are grown in and Dauphin Counties were this part of the state may among the first of the many _ produce some record yields Spattered paint removed easily NEWARK, Del. - If paint has spattered on wooden furniture, try to get it off before it dries. If a wood finish has been protected by paste wax, the paint color may not have been absorbed by the clear finish. To remove paint spatters before they harden, dip fine steel wool into a liquid wax, says Maryetta Duffner, Delaware County Extension Home Economist. For dried paint stains, apply linseed oil, let it stand until New name given to 4-H club FLEMINGTON, N.J. - Udder-Joy Kids is the name of the dairy goat club led by Mrs. Joan Dinkelo, Stockton, and Mrs. Thelma Kostak, Flemington. The new of ficers are, Alan Dinkelo, president; Mike Kostak, vice president; Donald Moody, treasurer; Renee Kostak, secretary; and Steven' Dinkelo, corresponding secretary. 4-H’ers give presentation. FLEMINGTON, N;J. - Members of the Hunterdon County 4-H Seeing Eye Club gave a presentation on September 20 to, the Delaware Valley Weimaraner Club. Gloria Jakubco, 13, .Flemington, Barbara Hartsell, 13, Race'Street, Pittstown, spoke about the Seeing Eye Dog program. 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If any paint remains,- use a treatment that com bines rottenstone and oil. Get an ounce of rottenstone from a paint or hardware store and keep it in an old salt shaker. Place a few drops of lubricating or salad oil on the paint and shake on enough rottenstone to make a paste. Rub with the grain of the wood using a soft, dean cloth. As a final step, polish with a quality wax. Club members voted to enter three games for 4-H Carnival Night, at the Hunterdon County Extension Center. They entered an exhibit and bad a bake sale at the Clinton Museum. At the next meeting, club members will discuss fund raising, selling candles, and calendars. starting from the histbiy of the program to what hap pens when 4-H Club mem bers give the Seeing Eye dogs to professional dog trainers in Morristown. The discussion included what the club members have to teach the pups. Mrs. Elaine Jakubco, the leader of the club, took these girls to the Weimaraner Club meeting. / *— - this year. Growing con ditions were nearly ideal this past Summer and there were no major storms to cause excessive lodging of the stalks. Some insect damage is evident in most of the com harvested. European com borer and com stalk borers are present in all varieties, but breakage and lodging is noticeably variable, depending upon the resistance or tolerance of individual varieties to the borers. Each .variety was evaluated for resistance to breakage before harvest. Scone damage was noted also from Japanese Beetles and the adult com root worms. These insects chew the silks on the com ear at pollination and can prevent some ears from developing grain at the ends of the cob. The com variety trials in Lebanon and surrounding counties are conducted on the standards of actual research plots. Each variety is replicated three times, at random through the plots. Thus, a 42 variety test will contain 126 separate plots of com, 30 feet in length, each to be evaluated throughout the season, and checked for yields at harvest time. Replication of each variety in the plantings reduces the possibility of error due to chance in a single plot. After all the plots through the state are harvested, the yields, moisture at harvest time, barren and broken stalks and other pertinent information is tabulated and published lot use by com mercial cbm breeders "and com growers. The Penn sylvania State University Extension Serviceperforms an unbiased screening and evaluation of all promising experimental and com mercial hybrids used in Pennsylvania. The results of the 1978 tests will be available to farmers in time for the mid-winter com and ~ ’•"’V „ -> ✓ , < .STATE : ZIP. Denis Hoke, Lebanon County Extension agent, discusses the harvest of thfcv • corn variety plots on the Etam Zimmerman farm, Lebanon, with Dr: Josej)** McGahlen, Penn State agronomist. The plots are harvested with a single row shelter, specialty adapted for small plot research. agronomy meetings. Local providing the land, Lebanon County tests were farmers in the various- preparing the soil and ap- on the farm of Mr. Elam counties cooperate with the plying the fertilizer for the Zimmerman, Lebanon R 7 on Extension Service in research plots. This year’s Duffield-Hagerstown soil. BEFORE CUSTOM SCIENTIFIC GLASS, INC. 2*9 S. BRIDGE ST. . ELKTON. MARYLAND 21921 (301)398-0505 AMERICAN BREEDERS SERVICE PRESENTS MORRIS EWING ABS SENIOR SIRE ANALYST Morris Ewing, Senior Sire Analyst at American Breeders Service, heads the program in a series of meetings spon sored by its local Representatives.” Morris will discuss the Dairy bulls-and programs at ABS. Morris brings extensive experience in the A.I. industry. He has a Masters Degree from Kansas State University, and was formerly in charge of the Dairy Progeny Testing Program involving 90,000 cows for ABS. All ABS Customers and interested Dairymen are cordially invited to attend a meeting near you. ★ NOVEMBER 8 at 7:15 P.M. York Co. Nashville Fire Hall. if NOVEMBER 9,at 11:30 A.M. Lebanon Co. Treadway Inn. ★ NOVEMBER 9 at 7:15 P.M. Berks Co. Berks Co. Ag. Center. --★ NOVEMBER 10 at 11:30 A.M. Lancaster Co. Bird-in-Hand Restaurant. A. I. Schools are coming up-remember the dates: November 13th through the 17th - Russellville, Pa. December 4th through the Bth ■ Mt. Airy, MD AFTER iRE AFTER & n
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