42 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 4,1979 SHREWSBURY - An epidemic of cattle rustling has again broken out in southern York County. Sometime early Monday morning, between 12:30 a.m. and daybreak, thieves brazenly walked into the dairy tie-stall bain of Ray Keeney, New Freedom R 2, and stole the first cow inside the bade bam door. Having parked their getaway truck almost a quarter mile away, on the storage and equipment lot of Penn Dot, located at Exit 1 of Interstate 83, the culprits then dragged the mature cow that far to load her up. Apparently, she didn’t go meekly. Abundant tracks and evidence in the damp soil of the fields showed her valiant struggles, including attempts at breaking away from the farm lane and falling to' her knees in resistance. Plant propagation course offered UNIVERSITY PARK - For a new Fall project, one may want to propagate some of his favorite evergreen or namentals. Yews, rhododendrons, firethorns. jumpers, euonymous, pachysandra are some of the evergreen or semi evergreen plants suited to Autumn propagation, ac cording to a correspondence course from Penn State on the propagation of plants. One should take cuttings of terminal shoots six inches long. The foliage is stripped from the basal two-thirds of the stems. A person should dust the base of the cuttings lightly with rooting hormone and insert in rooting media. Sand or sand and peat moss Cattle rustlers active in York County Keeney and his son spent Monday checking and calling area livestock auctions. At the Lancaster Stockyards, he was directed to a representative of the state’s Department of Agriculture, who listed the cow’s eartag number on a computer list. Any attempt at applying for health charts to sell the animal would result in a computer pinpoint of the thieves. That was only the latest incident in at least three livestock thefts in the last two weeks occurring within a few miles of each other. Wednesday, July 25, Glen Rock R 1 dairymen Carl Close had a heifer freshen out in the heifer pasture. He found the calf. The heifer was gone. Close also spent the next two days checking area livestock auctions and alerting his neighbors to be are good. One moistens the media and places the cut tings, with container, in a large plastic bag in a well lighted (not full sun) spot over bottom heat. The plastic allows exchange of air but retains moisture. and In coldframe propagation, one should take cuttings in early Autumn. Roots do not form until the following spring or early summer. Do not transplant the rooted plants for growth until late Summer or the second Spring. Two or three growing seasons are needed for the plants to be large enough to have ornamental value. Evergreen cutting propagation requires patience. It is, however, a source of satisfaction to on the lookout Friday night to the family’s amazement, the heifer was returned to the pasture. The hide on her tail had been rubbed raw and dean of hair, which Close figures came from the tailgate of a truck. And, just a few days previous, during the very early hours of Sunday, July 22, livestock dealer and feedlot operator Clarence Warner was also hit. Warner operates Century Livestock, located just in side Pennsylvania at the Mason-Dixon line crossing at Lineboro,Md. Six 1000-pound ready-for market steers were loaded up right at the feedlot chute from a pen containing eleven bead. Warner added that the thieves loaded the tamest of the steers and left the wilder animals behind, gate standing open. Four head greeted him at feeding time the next morning; the fifth watch a 6-inch piece of stem grow into a valuable shrub. To learn more about how to increase one’s plants, a person can send for Penn State’s course. One gets the complete course by sending $5.50 plus 25 cents postage to Plant Propagation, Box 5000, University Park, Pa. 16802. One should make check payable to Penn State. has been seen but remains at large. “They could have done it in three minutes flat,” ob served Warner. He speculates that stolen animals are whisked im mediately to an illicit slaughterhouse operation, skinned out and ground up into hamburger by morning. Hamburger is the lone meat THE NEW BLUE a because I got more for my money” "* . tv-* i * ■T V' , S ■ fX *£ * t <. * -< . - XvlTr* 1 ?. - ' V?.. VERNON J. LEININGER Owner: KO-KA-LE-KO Beef & Egg Ranch FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION: PENN-DUTCH FARM SYSTEMS 2753 CREEK HILL ROAD Phone - 717-656-2036 LEOLA, PA. 17061 or - 717-393-2390 product that can be sold cessible to hqpd roads, some without a government in- with the added attraction of spection and grade stamp. a “back lane" getaway. So Numerous rustling in-' far, most of the rustling also cidents have taken place iif seems to be taking place on this rolling rural section of very late Saturday or York County during the last- Sunday evenings. twelve months. While both dairy and beef animals are involved, there are similarities in the thefts: most have been fairly ac- J< S * <t * V < *A v *■ y * Jr ' j., . t* ’'> ■H as//s 'r-cr-.-, vi*/- 3 '',”’ -/* v, k x -1 * t f Anyone with information on possible cattle rustling or questionable meat sales is urged to contact the York Barracks of the State Police. '2, H " • -
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