Stauffer, Tate named
to new posts at Weaver
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NEW HOLLAND - Victor
F. Weaver, Inc. recently
announced the appointments
of Harold S. Stauffer,
Lancaster, to the position of
employment and training
manager in the personnel
department, and Allen E.
Tate, Lancaster, has been
promoted to the position of
public relations manager of
the New Holland food
processing firm.
Tate, a graduate of
Elizabethtown College, has
been with Weaver’s since
1969. An active member in
civic affairs, Tates new
position will include
management of Weaver
community affairs ac
tivities, corporate com
munications and public
relations, press relations,
employee relations, and
other public relations ac
tivities.
Stauffer, a graudate of
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Harold S. Stauffer
Franklin and Marshall
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staff in 1976. In his new
position, Stauffer will be
responsible for managing
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Various alfalfa pests
UNIVERSITY PARK -
Control of insects in alfalfa
can yield greater benefits
than meets the eye, says Dr.
Kenneth T. Leath of the U.S.
Pasture Research
Laboratory at Penn State.
He claims the interaction of
insects and diseases are not
apparent immediately.
Dr. Leath and associates
have found that Winter kill of
alfalfa, for example, can be
traced to stress on plant
roots from too frequent
harvesting or from insect
injury. Both lead to root rot
among weakened plants and
can result in Winter kill.
Pasture Laboratory
scientsist conduct research
for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
“Our experiments show
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 2,1978
studied
that stand appearance after
final harvest in the fall may
lead to the conclusion that all
is well when this is not the
case. Poor growth of alfalfa
in the Spring may result
from hidden problems the
previous year,” he affirmed.
Crown and root rot of
alfalfa, for example, product
the most disease when the
plants are under stress of
some kind. When alfalfa is
harvested too frequently,
root rot can become more
severe than otherwise.
“Perennial forages such
as alfalfa are subjected
throughout their hves to a
series of stresses that occur
sometimes simultaneously,
sometimes sequentially, but
always cumulatively,” Dr.
Leath declared.
He said a very serious
stress on alfalfa is caused by
the feeding of leafhoppers,
aphids, and other insects on
the leaves and stems. The
effects are obvious on the
tops of plants but are not
obvious on the roots.
“The interaction of insect
feeding with root and crown
rot is important, because it
Adams Co. sheep
CROSS KEYS - A crowd of
55 enthusiastic sheep
producers attended the First
Annual Adams County Sheep
Producers Association
Dinner recently held at the
Cross Keys Diner, Cross
Keys.
Certificates of Ap
preciation were presented to
Jarred Tyson and John
Schwartz for their
assistance to the association.
Newly elected officers for
the year 1979 are President,
Wallace Murdoch; vice
president, Mrs. Wallace
Murdoch; Secretary-Treas
urer, Mrs. Frank Darcey,
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points out the possible error
in considering insect in
festations and disease as
separate, distinct
problems,” Dr. Death ob
served.
Aphid and root rot ex
periments were carried out
in controlled-environment
chambers by Dr. Robert A.
Byers, entomologist with the
U.S. Pasture Research
Laboratory, and Dr. Death.
Aphids were caged on in
dividual plants, the roots of
which were inoculated with a
fungus causing root rot.
The amount of root rot
development was compared
with that growing in
inoculated roots of plants not
subjected to the stress of
aphid feeding. The most
severe root rot developed
when plants were inoculated
and under stress from aphid
feeding.
Later exneriments
featured a field insectary
used to test the impact of
leafhopper injury on root rot
development. Plants sub
jected to both root rotting
fungi and insect injury
developed the most root rot.
producers meet
An excellent film. The
American Sheepman-A Way
of Life narrated by Jim
Davis (now staring in the TV
series Dallas), was shown
and door prizes were
awarded.
A count was taken and
with those present, they
represented ownership of
approximately 800 head of
sheep in the County.
Anyone wishing further
information about joining
this progressive
organization may contact
Wallace Murdoch or Becky
Darcey.
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