D26—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 13,1981 NEWARK, Del. Many insect pests escape easy notice because of their small size or secretive habits. Not so for the tent cater pillar, whose huge, silken webs are an unwelcome sign of spring and an annual eyesore. Tent caterpillars are large - about two inches long when mature. They have a black body with rather Jong hairs, blue and Longhorn sale totals $216,160 ELKO, Nev. The increasing popularity of the Texas Longhorn is taking hold as over 300 buyers attended the fourth Annua Western America Texas Longhorn sale recently in Elko, Nev. and watched the grand champion senior cow sell for |10,600. Top buyer Joe Brisbois, Fnutland, Wash., purchased Miss Wildlife 73, consigned by Bob Franklin tour on July 7 CHAMBERSBURG - The Franklin County Conservation District will be conducting it’s annual conservation tour on July 7. The tour group will travel to the Edenville area to survey Gypsy Moth damage. Phil Wert, Service Forester with the DER Bureau of Forestry, will be pointing out problem areas. The tour also includes the Schoenberg farm at 14596 Clover Hill Road, Shippensburg, to see the barn flushing system. A third stop will be at Paul Bert’s farm at 8543 McClays Mill Road, Tent caterpillars strip trees of foilage white side markings and prominent white stripe down the back. Don’t confuse them with the notorious gypsy moth caterpillar - a non-web spinner that goes about its dirty work in a less visible fashion, at least until later in the season when its damage starts to appear. In the spring as trees leaf out,. Garrett, Deeth,Nev. for the record browse utilisation, longevity-up purchase pnce at the sale. Eighty to 20 and 25 years of a productive lots of registered Texas Longhorns hfe, high fertility, and easy and 20 lots of roping steers were calving, moved through the arena. This year's sale totaled an all The Texas Longhorn, once time high for the Western America almost extinct, is making a strong Texas Longhorn Association or comeback in the cattle industry as $216,160. The sale averages were displayed by this remarkable sale. as follows: 11 lots of heifers They carry exemplary traits of averaged $2,409,9 lots of bred cows high disease resistance, high averaged $3,589,3 lots of open cows averaged $2,100,31 lots of cow and calf pairs averaged $3,023,9 lots of yearling bulls averaged $1,478, and 15 lots of senior bulls averaged $1,940. The roping steers averaged $460. Newburg. Featured will be a cannery tour and a look at the terrace system. The July 7 tour will be leaving, by bus, from the Norland Shopping Center parking lot at 9 a.m. and return by 3 p.m. Cost-for the tour will be $l.OO per person. Also planned is a lunch stop. Lunch will be “dutch treat”. Those interested in attending should contact the Franklin County Conservation District office, 550 Cleveland Avenue, Chambersburg, or phone 264-8074. Reservations should be made by July 1. colonies ot tent caterpillars con struct their familiar “tents” or nests in the forks of trees growing along roadsides, in brushy pastures, and m other waste places. They sometimes also infest trees in home plantings. Tent caterpillars just love wild cherries. But they may also attack apple, pear, hawthorn, and various other fruiting trees, as well as t® BUYING or SELLING coins please consider WISE'S COIN & GIFT SHOP we have 3 in-house teletypes keeping us up to the minute on current market prices. We are full time professionals & your satisfaction is our full time concern. 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