Ferretti (Continued from Page D 6) over a longer period than most of the above, so it may be especially good for pmk-npes, red npes, and bedding plants sales to gardeners. Calypso fruits are quite smooth and maintain a consistently uniform, medium-large fruit size for pmk-npe and red-ripe sales. The fruits tend to lose their firm ness too quickly for extensive greenwrap use. Royal Flush should be more THE THE ■ Poured Solid C Reinforced Wa ■ The Wall is 0 as the Materi • Manure Pit Walls • Hog House Walls • Chicken House Wa • Concrete Decks • House Foundation • Cistern Walls • Barnyard Walls • Concrete Pit Tops • Silage Pit Walls • Retaining Walls Take the questions out of your new construction Call: Balmer Bros, for quality engineered walls. Invest in Quality - 410 Mam St. • Akron, PA 17501 • (71 7) 859-2074 or 733-9196 Call NOW For New Springtime Building. discusses widely grown for pink and red-ripe markets and as a bedding plant variety. It has no cracking or anthracnose and was the most productive fresh market variety m 1980 in Erie County despite the wet weather. - Floradade has become a “standard” greenwrap because of its extreme firmness. However*. Floradade cautioned growers to go slowly with it because of only medium to medium-large fruit STRENGTH IS IN CONSTRUCTION All sizes available Round or rectangular CONCRETE WORK, INC. It will last a lifetime. sizes. It appears to be far more promising as a machine or hand harvest processing vanety, he said. Both Fioradade and Count should be superior to Heinz 1370 for hand-harvest processing, ac cording to Ferretti. Ace-Hy is a late season tomato with about the same fruit size and yield as Duke and a vine size best described as vigorous but deter minate (larger than Freedom). In the strictly-processing varieties, Campbell 38 V, F was similar to C-37 but much more productive. In a once-over destructive harvest of plants in Erie Co., the estimated yield was 42.1 T/A reds; 3.1 T/A greens; and 2.2 T/A rotted. Like C -37 it has medium-large fruit (4.26 oz.) which are jointless but hard to Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, February 14,1981—D7 pull; good foliage; excellent crack resistance and good storage on the vine. USDA hybrid 77-B-68 (just named and released as US-68), was the next highest in yield in Ene County with 32.3 T/A reds estimated from 5 adjacent plants, Ferretti reported. At Landisville it produced the highest yields (25 T/A mean) with the most reds (80 percent at the first picking on September 8). Fruits of this heavy, early yielder closely resembled Red Rock in internal and external characteristics, except that it is slightly smaller. Ferry Morse’s E 6203 is an early variety with good yield potential. When grown in the Nor thumberland area, it was larger than Red Rock but not quite as firm In a once-over destructive Penn Manor FFA wins contest LITITZ Penn Manor FFA took both the top team and individual honors at the Lancaster County Farm Mechanics Contest at Warwick High School. The Warwick FFA finished in the runnerup team spot. Topics covered in the contest mcluded tractor maintenance, tractor operation, arc welding, power tool operation, small gas engine repair and forge work. 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In replicated Landisville yield plots, US-141 had the highest marketable tonnage over two harvests (26.7 T/A), except for Red Rock. “Although the above varieties appear to be quite promising based on research data demonstration plot results, and prior experiences of some commercial vegetable growers, the ultimate value of a variety must be determined by the grower under management and environmental conditions. A small trial planting which includes current standards is always recommended before adopting any variety not previously grown,” Ferretti concluded. The competition featured 75 test questions, 24 problem solving activities and 12 demonstration skills. Individual winners were Jim Musser, Penn Manor; Jim Malone, Penn Manor; Gerald Hess, Penn Manor; Cliff Weaver, Ephrata; Daryl Martin, Ephrata; Harold Eberly, Warwick; Todd Miller, Warwick, and Dean Allison, Warwick. 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