B22—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 22,1983 Plastic bags are useful Plastic bags are an essential tool for today’s indoor gardeners. They are not only terrific babysitters when you skip off to some glorious winter weekend resort, they also help when your plant is feeling poorly. Dennis Wolnick, Extension horticulturist at Penn State, says you can keep houseplants without water for several weeks in a polyethylene plastic bag. That’s the common type most of us use as freezer or storage bags. The day before you leave (or the hour before if you are not well organized) water your plant PETERSHEIM'S STORE USED MACHINERY BARGAINS No. 103 Norton 6xlB Manual Surface Grinder, 1941 No. 128 JET 14x30 Gap Lathe Taper Att, Chucks. AlorisT.H No. 101 Gray 24x6’ Planer 5 HP, 3 PH, 220 V No. 120 South Bend 10x20 Lathe Taper Att. 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Instead find a tem porary location with indirect or artificial light because sunlight hitting the plastic will creat high temperatures in the bag and may injure your plant. The plastic bag works because air goes through the plastic but water won’t. As the water evaporates, it condenses in the plastic, runs down, and is reab sorbed by the plant. What you have TRUCKLOAD fcjrv OF CITRUS fruit SHRIMP & _ OYSTERS istmas gifts available! \J Visit Our Bargain Room RD 1 Christiana, PA 1 mi. East of Nickel Mines Hours: Mon.-Fri. 7-7; Sat. 7-6 NEW MACHINES ca ea ea DIRECT FROM FLORIDA ca •1795 00 •6495°° s *M9s°° , 1395 00 *2695°° *Boo°° •3575°° *l77s°° *6l9s°* iTfcrVf £MksU - 1884 I is a miniature greenhouse! It’s easy to see how plastic bags can help houseplants suffering from air that’s too dry. Humidity is an essential condition for the health of most plants yet today’s houses are often too dry for both people and plants. The best remedy is to lower your ther mostat and increase your humidity by using a centralized automatic humidifier or a small one placed near your plants. But, sometimes even that isn’t enough. Misting during the day helps and placing potted plants on wet gravel in metal or fiberglass trays helps also. However, if your plant has soindly growth and limp leaves, give it the plastic bag boost. Just cover it with a plastic bag, that has a few small holes in it and close the bag around the pot rim with a rubber band. You should notice an improvement in a week or so. Boxed beef is 49 percent of USDA slaughter WASHINGTON, D.C. - A U.S. Department of Agriculture study shows that boxed beef accounted for 49 percent of all federally in spected slaughter of steers and heifers in 1979. Boxed beef is a process in which primal major cuts or sub primal cuts are sealed in air tight plastic bags and shipped from WANT TO INCREASE YOUR DAIRY INCOME? - Over 2000 Dairymen In Pa. and Md. Have - And Are Getting 2 lbs. to 5 lbs. More Milk Per Cow Per Day. INTERESTED? N.Y. Hereford Assn, elects officers ITHACA, N.Y. - The New York Hereford Association met recently in Ithaca to conduct its annual business meeting and election of officers. Robert Generaux, Canandaigua, was elevated to the office of NHYA president for 1983. Generaux succeeds J. Henry Elzenga, West Henrietta, as president. Vice president of the NYHA for 1983 will be Peter Jackson, Clarence. David Cole, New Hampton, will continue as secretary of the organization, and Clara Luteyn, Marion, will serve as treasurer. Elected to serve three-year terms on the NYHA board of packing plants to distributors and retailers in boxes rather than in carcass form. B.H. Jones, bead of USDA’s Packers and Stockyards Ad ministration, said the agency compiled the study from data obtained from slaughterhouses and fabricators because of widespread interest in this fast growing form of marketing. A fabricator is a meat packer that breaks carcasses into primal cuts. “This is the first study of this type on boxed beef,” Jones said. “It is descriptive rather than analytical. Our objective was to obtain much needed basic in formation and to provide a reliable data base for possible further research." The study shows that 54 firms with 82 plants located mostly in lowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Texas, and doing both slaughtering and fabricating accounted for 86 percent of all boxed beef production. Another 51 single-plant firms mostly in larger eastern cities and engaged only in They Supplement Their Feed With (Liquid Energy Blend) PENN NUTRIENTS INC. Box 169-A, RD 1, Rt. 422 Robesonia, Pa. 19551 Telephone: 215-693-5848 LEB Call or Write for Fast Action: directors were Boyce Herella, Geneva and Elaine Swiler, Cameron. In the business meeting, the NYHA members discussed plans to join with the New York Polled Hereford Association to co-sponsor a spring breeding stock sale scheduled for April 30 in Ithaca. The organization also plans to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the New York Hereford Association during 1983. For more information about the New York Hereford Association and its activities, contact David Cole, R.l, Gardnerville Road, New Hampton, New York 10958. fabricating accounted for 14 percent. Prices were negotiated at the time of sale for about 85 percent of all boxed beef included in this study, Jones said. In contrast, 35 packing plants surveyed in 1977 by USDA sold 70 percent of their steer and heifer on a formula basis. A negotiated price is determined by one-on-one bargaining at the time the product is sold. A formula price is usually the price published for a product by a specified market nears service. Although the boxed beef process was first fried in the 1960’5, it did not become commercially suc cessful until the past decade, Jones said. Free single copies of the study are available from; Packers and Stockyards Administration, USDA, Washington, D.C. 20250; phone 202/447-7051. More than 90 percent of the land n the United States is rural or non jrban.
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