FARM SHOW - Though the week is long and the schedule if full of early mornings and late nights, every year many of the same faces can be seen in the showring of the Penn sylvania Farm Show What makes the show so appealing that these animal buffs keep coming back year after year 9 "It’s the excitement and the familiar faces I like to come back to see people I know,” says 42 year veteran Kenneth Moore of Bradford County. “1 first started showing at Farm Show in 1938 and have showed every year since, except for the year it was closed after the war,” Moore said Moore operates a sheep farm of 500 Shropshires, Dorsets and Rambomllets m Nichols, New York FISHER'S PAINTING ■ SAND BLASTING ■ SPRAY & BRUSH PAINTING ■ ROOF COATING ■ CEMENT COATING ■ RESTORING \ " iii. • m*. .Sm NOW - Winter Rates On Interior Painting Commercial • Agricultural • Residentai ALSO - WILL DO SIGN PAINTING AT OUR SHOP. 667 Hartman Station Rd. Lancaster, PA 17601 717-393-6530 Showman 1 live so far north in Pennsylvania that my ad dress is New York and yet I still brought 34 sheep down this year. I just enjoy it, that’s all,” Moore added. Perhaps, amongst other reasons, it’s the feeling of being a champion that brings Moore back The first year he participated he received a ribbon for Champion Shropshire ewe This year he received awards for Champion Hampshire ram. Reserve Champion Dorset ewe, Champion Rambomllet ram, Reserve Champion Ram bouillet ram, Champion Rambomllet ewe and Reserve Champion Ram bouillet ewe. 1 couldn t begin to tell you what all I’ve won After 42 years, it s hard to keep count,” he smiled. But though the years have been many, Moore denies leaves ring after 42 years any tales ut t arm Show changing through the years I don’t think Farm Show has changed that much It’s bigger and there are more people participating each year, but that’s all,” Moore, said ‘lf there were any changes at all, they are that for BELTSVILLE, Md - USDA geneticist Thomas E Devine, told science writers here recently that he expects to increase soybean productivity using a soybean plant that was once thought to be of no economic value The plants were con sidered practically valueless because they are incapable of fixing their own nitrogen At a seminar held by USDA’s Science and Education Administration, Devine explained that soybeans, as well as other legumes, are infected by helpful soil bacteria called rhizobia These bacteria can change inert nitrogen gas, through aprocess called “fixing,” into a form that the plant needs for growth The plant provides the bacteria with nutrients from photosyn thesis and with a place to grow within a rounded root enlargement or nodule This type of mutually beneficial relationship, called sym biosis, reduces the need for fertilization of legume crops. In most sods there are indigenous Rhizobium japomcum bacteria which readily infect soybean roots and form nodules However, these Rhizobium vary m% U.S. GOV’T. BACKED BUSINESS & FARM LOANS *lO,OOO To *1,000,000 FOR QUALIFIED APPLICANTS Payback Time To 30 Years JOHEBIME FINANCIAL <215)735-5323 1530 Locust St Phila PA 19102 ' d Conestoga Fireplace Insert $C Including ***** FREE FIREPLACE SCREEN -SlB Value WOOD BURNING SALE PRICE: • ” bJ,sterp H******#! • Tfrr noslat — *"i " vj nti'e speed blower w ,r -* iron &i fold doors & Available Wood/Coal r nt L •) » || * Hydro Heaters * Baker stoves * Freestanding * Inserts the prices are higher and there used to be a lot more room for the sheep Now we’re pretty crowded ” Moore, who raises his sheep with the help of his daughter, Dons Powell and his son Robert Moore, said his interest in sheep all Breeding soybeans enhanced productivity greatly in their ability to fix nitrogen Many indigenous strains are less efficient inf fixing nitrogen than the better strains m available Devine a plan to use a soybean that excludes most indigenous Rhizobium and to inoculate this plant with strains of Rhizobium that would infect it ex clusively His goal is to create a symbiosis that fixes nitrogen more efficiently with these rhizobia than the indigenous rhizobia In 1954 researchers reported a seemingly valueless soybean plant that would not fix nitrogen in the presence of most Rhizofaium. The gene responsible for the non-nodulation is called rjj Devine is backcrossmg soybean plants having the USDA to increase poultry, egg fees LANCASTER Effective January 25, the U.S Department of Agriculture will increase the fees charged to industry for voluntary grading of egg products, eggs, poultry and rabbits to reflect higher costs of the grading service. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Carol Tucker Foreman said the new fee schedule raises rates for voluntary grading of eggs, poultry and rabbits on a non resident basis from $14.72 to $l6 52 an hour. Rates charged to plants with resident graders to cover the grader's salary and fringe benefit costs have also been increased from $8 34 to $ll 68 an hour ‘Fees tor the voluntary services have not been in creased since 1977, and for the mandatory services since 1978, despite ste, Make Your Fireplace _ v - rate with even the best airtight stoves in efficiency J & A STOVES 3752 East Newport Road Gordonville PA 17529 Along 772 mile East of Intercourse PH 717 768 8913 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 17,1981—83 began when he was 16 years old That was when 1 bought my first sheep I just decided I wanted to show sheep, so I purchased six Shropshire sheep from a guy who trusted me for the money I didn’t have it for a while, but '■•hen I final!} ■'ivpd him 1 rjl gene with commercially used soybeans to create cultivars that would exclude the less-efficient indigenous rhizobia Devine, with associates in SAE’s Cell Culture and Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory, is searching for highly efficient strains of rhizobia that have the genetic potential to nodulate the new cultivars carrying the rj l gene In 1977 he planted soybeans with the rjl gene in a field known to contain many Rhizobium An examination of 30,000 plants disclosed only 34 root nodules In a similar test in 1978 he found only 123 nodules on 182,000 plants Under normal conditions all the soybeans would be "odu’ated increasing operating costs of the program,” said Foreman. Legislation requires fees be collected from the in dustry requesting voluntary or mandatory service. USDA sets grade standards and provides official grading and inspection for many food products. USDA’s Food Safety and Quality Service also will increase overtime and holiday inspection fees charged to industry for mandatory inspection of egg pi oducts, Foreman said DID YOU EVER SEE aTHEI AFTERA^, msnFffi corurolled still had money left to purchase more. From there my farm just grew ” And so did his years as shower and champion at the Farm Show But Moore says now when he comes back it will be strictly as spectator, not showman anymore.DK The nodules were removed from the rj l plants and the Rhizobium were' isolated from them Young plants were then infected with the isolates Although some strains formed nodules, the number was insufficient for economic use Since some of his new isolates form more nodules with the rjl plants than the rhizobia strains previously available, Devine is en couraged He is continuing to search for rhizobia that will nodulate the rjl plants and outperform other soybean rhizobia combinations. This could result in a soybean-Rhizobium relatio nship that produces more nitrogen for plant vigor and increased productivity Legislation provides fees for holiday and overtime work required for the mandatory egg products inspection service meet the cost of this extra service. The new fees for this service have been raised from $l2 to $16.28 and $l3 08, respec tively USDA will continue to pay for the inspectors’ regular working hours on mandatory inspection. The new schedule of fees appears in January ; Federal Register, available in most local libraries
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