Ml2—Lmcaster Farming, Saturday, Fabraary 23,19t0
Corn-soybean day
draws record crowd
HERSHEY The annual
Corn-Soybean Day at Her
shey last week was attended
by 175 farmers and farm
business men. The affair is
sponsored jointly by the
Dauphin and Lebanon Coun
ty Extension Service and
Milton Hershey Farms.
Attendance at the meeting
qualified farmers and others
for re-certification as cer
tified pesticide applicators.
David Thompson, ad
ministrator of the Depart
ment of Agriculture Cer
tification program, in
structed the group on the
necessary procedures for
renewing their certification.
Donald Daum,
agricultural engineer from
Penn State, outlined several
procedures for cleaning, ad
justing and calibrating field
sprayers.
Penn State’s Bill Mc-
Clellan, extension
agronomist, spoke on new
methods of weed control, us
ing both cultural and
chemical methods.
Soybean varieties are
tested each year at the Penn
State Southeastern Field
Station at Landisville. John
Yocum, Director of the Lan
disville Station, reported on
the current varieties, their
characteristics and yield
potential. He also described
some special disease pro
blems and their control.
A new method of controll
ing Johnsongrass in soy
beans was described by Guy
Braxton, Field Represen
tative for the Monsanto
Chemical Company. It in
volves a re-circulating
sprayer which recaptures
the herbicide above the bean
crop and recycles it back
through the sprayer without
damaging the crop.
The noon meal was sub
sidized by the Hamilton
Bank, Lancaster.
Montour Co.
sets
priorities
DANVILLE Priorities
were set for the studies of
five watersheds within
Montour County as a result
of a public meeting this
week.
The meeting, sponsored by
the Montour County Con
servation District, was the
first phase of the county’s
responsibility under Act 167,
the Storm Water
Management Act.
Five watersheds will be
studied, covering more than
90 per cent of the county’s
land.
They are, according to
priority, Mahoning Creek,
Sechler’s Run, Chilhsquaque
Creek, Limestone Run and
minor tributaries in
Mayberry Township. The
latter grouping includes Big
Roaring Creek, Little
Roaring Creek and Logan’s
Run.
Walter Loncosky, district
chairman, noted the
Sechler’s Run study is
-already completed and will
only need minor additions
and updating.
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Ribbons were presented to Lebanon County win
ners in the State 5 Acre Corn Contest by Lebanon
County Agent Newton Bair, left. Pictured left to
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Dauphin County Agent John Harris congratulates the Dauphin winners of the
1979 5 Acre Corn Contest. Pictured left toright are: David Coble, Alfred Dugan,
Tom Williams and John Harris.
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right are: Bair, Daryl Alger, Amos Balsbaugh,
Gerald Hotter, Richard Bomberger, Christian
Seaman, Ray Sattazahn and Richard Kreider. .
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