Burpee announces five new vegetables for 1981 0 DOYLESTOWN - W. Atlee Burpee Company has introduced five new varieties of vegetables and seven new flowers to delight gardeners in 1981. These latest developments from Fordhook Farms are described in this year’s catalog. For a free copy, send your name and address to Burpee Seed Co., War minster, PA 18974. Here’s a glimpse at what’s new: NEW VEGETABLES Green Goliath Broccoli, great for home gardeners because it produces large, tight budded, blue-green center heads over a three week period After the main heads are picked, good side shoots develop to extend {mrvest further £ Streamliner Hybrid Cucumber, Crisp cucumbers for slicing, salads and relish tray in summer; for pickling to enjoy in winter Streamliner is a gynoecious (all female—no pollen), compact vmed hybrid that bears a bonanza of long slender cucumbers in one third less garden space that standard vmmg varieties Venus Hybrid Musk melon, a mouthwatering Honey Dew type with bright green, very thick, juicy sweet flesh. Unlike the Honey Dew melon, however, Venus fruits slip easily from the vine when they’re ripe and ready to pick No guesswork in harvesting, it’s easy to tell when Venus is at CHAMPION MARKET LAMB BUYER BUYER SCHADLER TRUCKING - HAMBURG RODNEY MUTHARD MEATS-TEMPLE CHAMI BERKS COUNTY 4-H LIVESTOCK MEMOIRS SAT "HAPPY HOLIDAYS A THANKS" TO THE FOLLOWING BUSINESSES & INDIVIDUALS WHO SUPPORTED THE 1980 4-H MARKET SALES SWINE BUYERS Schadler Trucking Hatfield Packing Co. Oscar Baumert Pioneer Grange Shirley’s Lunch Counter Shamokin Packing Co. Ken Leiby Ralph Zettlemoyer Lynn Schwalm Peter’s Bros. Meat Hamilton Bank John Frey Clarks Packing RESERVE CHAMPION RESERVE CHAMPION MARKET SWINE BUYER MARKET LAMB BUYER HATFIELD PACKING CO.-HATFIELD RODNEY MUTHARD-TEMPLE its peak of perfection to enjoy as an appetizer or dessert. Grenadier Pea, super flavorful fresh-picked from the garden. Grenadier vines grow 14 to 17 in. tall, are resistant to powdery mildew and produce a big crop of plump pods, each filled with 7 to 10 large, delicious green peas. They’re easy to pick and shell for tonight’s dinner or the freezer. Burpee’s Early Pick Hybrid VF Tomato, luscious fruit early and continuously throughout the summer Fans of Burpee’s Big Early Hybrid Tomato will be en thusiastic about new Early Pick Hybrid VF. It’s similar but even better because the plants are resistant to Verticillium and Fusanum wilts. Fruits average 7 6 oz , some up to 1 lb, and are solid, yet juicy, with a good old-fashioned tomato flavor NEW FLOWERS Blue Moon Hybrid Ageratum, lovely powder blue color alone or “pain ting” garden pictures with white alyssum, Nugget Hybrid Mangolds and Rose Starlet VP Zmma Blue Moon Hybrid Ageratum is especially attractive for edgings, borders, rock gardens and growing in containers Red Velvet Celosia Cristata, Brilliant standout cockscomb both in gardens and dried arrangements. Plants are sturdy, 2 to feet tall, and produce single, INE Hamburg Hatfield Herndon Mertztown Leesport Shamokin Hamburg Breiningsvilie Herndon Lenhartsville Lancaster Douglassville Shamokin SPECIAL THANKS Leesport Market & Auction Provider of facilities - huge CTested terminal heads 10 inches across and 6 inches deep. The color is a scin tillating crimson with a plush-like finish that makes this new cockscomb look and feel like Red Velvet. Earliana Geranium, Mixed Colors, sparkling shades for garden display and growing in containers. Earliana Geranium blooms fast from seed, is uniform, bushy and covered with flowers, yet economical to grow, especially for large mass planting. It’s an open pollinated variety with many of the good features of hybrids. Fireworks Triploid Hybrid Marigold, Mixed Colors, a brilliant colorama in the garden from early summer to heavy frost The bushy plants grow about 14 inches tall, start flowering fast and never stop Blooms are big and double, in shades of yellow, gold, orange and bright mahogany red Fireworks Marigold ex plodes with color in beds, borders and edgings, is just as striking to grow in con tainers, window boxes and pots. Sweet ‘N Gold Marigold, Odorless American Carnation-Flow ered, ideal for gardens and especially flower arrangements. Hedge-like plants about 24 inches tall, masses of bright golden yellow, double flowers starting early and con tinuing all summer, no Rodney Muthard William Hartman Ralph Zettlemoyer Metier Meats Harold Bingaman Marvin Kull Hamilton Bank Waiter Mendel Elmo Manieri Meats Tom Hornberger John Frey Leesport Market & Auction Laverne Richard Reading Bone Fertilizer Jack Kohler Leesport LANCASTER annual Lancaster County Tobacco Show for youth and adults will be held Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the Farm and Home Center, Extension basement meeting rooms. The show, as scheduled, includes 10-11:30 a.m. - F.F.A. and 4-H Club entries due; 10 a.m.-l:30 p.m. - Adult entries due; and 1:30 p.m. - Judging begins. The classes that are being offered for this show will be the same as for the State Farm Show: Class 1 - Wrapper B’s - Div. A - Long wrappers, over 26 inches; Div. B - Short wrappers, 26 inches and under. Class 2 - Filler B’s - Div A pungent odor in the leaves to get hands or clothes that’s Sweet ’n Gold Mangold, tops for both garden display and indoor enjoyment. Pink Splendor Hybrid Zinnia, a rich rose-pink color superb in gardens and bouquets. Pink Splendor Hybrid Zinnia grows about 21 mches tall, is vigorous and covered with big, fully double blooms for summer to fall. There are lots of flowers to pick, and still plenty left to highlight the garden. Snowbird Marigold, the first named variety of white marigold. Seeds are free if you order items totaihng $lO or more from the catalog a AMB BUYER Lancaster tobacco show scheduled Jan. 6 The Temple Limekiln Breiningsvilie Warren, NJ Millersburg, PA Stockton, NJ Lancaster Brewster, NY Betchelsville Birdsboro Douglassville Leesport Boyertown Reading Alburtis SPECIAL THANKS Ralph Zettlemoyer Auctioneer George D Frey Auctioneer Uncaster Farming, Saturday, Pecembf 20,1M0-A29 - Long fillers, over 26 inches; Div. B - Short fillers, 26 in ches and under. Class 3 - Binder Type - Div. A. - Long binders, over 26 mches; Div. B - Short bin ders, 26 inches and under. Class 4 - 4-H Club Wrap pers No length specified. Class 5 - 4-H Club Fillers No length specified. Class 6 - FFA Wrappers - Cl No length specified. Class 7 - FFA Fillers - C 2 No length specified. An exhibit of tobacco consists of a hand of 15 leaves tied with a tobacco leaf. Select leaves that are uniform in size, color, tex ture and free from insect, disease or mechanical damage A brief description of the classes Wrappers These leaves Jerseys to run milk price campaign COLUMBUS, Ohio - “Campaign Equity; 800 in ‘80” has reached its goal of having 800 dairymen financially supporting its efforts towards establishing a nationwide equitable milk pricing system. “Campaign Equity” was launched on January 1, 1980 to boost the number of financial supporters of equity pricing from 200 to 800 The money being invested bv these 800 dairymen is CHAMPION MARKET STEER BUYER T.M. LANDIS-MAINLAND T.M. Landis Hamilton Bank Erb& Henry Equip. National Bank of Boyertown Reading Bone fertilizer Leesport Market & Auction Marvin Frantz F.M. Browns Feed Adams Hotel Dietrich meat FMC Corp. Deutsch, Festger, & McFetridge Ass. Laverpe Richard Adam Butz, Jr. Baum Meat Pkg. Iron Horse Rest. Heintzelman Meat Kutztown Grange Peter Bros. Meat A.F. Moyer Pkg. RESERVE CHAMPION MARKET STEER BUYER HAMILTON BANK-LANCASTER should have a rich chestnut brown color; be of medium weight with good stretch; usually come from the middle of the stalk. Fillers Leaves can be similar to wrappers but are heavier in body, feel and texture; may be darker in color; usually come from the top of the stalk. Binders The deluxe leaves; are very thin with a silky feel; light chestnut in color and having plenty of life and stretch. Both FFA and 4-H Club members may also exhibit m open classes -1, 2, or 3. An exhibitor may enter only ONE hand of tobacco in a class. All exhibits entered in the County Show will be taken to the State Farm Show unless the exhibitor requests otherwise. being used to (1) Work towards the incorporation of an equitable (protein or component) milk pricing system into the Federal Order. (2) Contact dairy cooperatives, plants and other dairy groups about the need for an equitable milk pricing system For further information contact National All-Jersey Inc., Box 27310, Columbus, OH 43227, or phone. 614/861- 3636. EF BUY Mainland Lancaster New Berlinville Boyertown Reading Leesport Coopersburg Birdsboro Mohnton Lenhartsville Hammonton, NJ Allentown Boyertown East Texas, PA Lansdale Alburtis Lehighton Kutztown Lenhartsville Elroy, PA
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