c There’s plenty to see &doat Ag Progress Penn State’s support of the state’s $3 billion ag industry, is “Agriculture: Growing for You.” “A record number of exhibitors will display their goods and service,” reports Joseph Harrington, Penn State agronomist and Ag Progress general manager. “Everything from large silos to small seeds.” New Penn State President Bryce Jordan will be in. attendance all three days. He will address the College of Agriculture Alumni Society at the Tuesday luncheon. He also will speak at the House and Senate Ag Committees meetings on Wednesday. The Ad Advisory Council will be special guests on Thursday. Lt. Gov. Bill Scranton will be a special guest on Tuesday. Free bus tours of the Reasearch Center are planned every 20 minutes'between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. from the uphill end of the “midway,” across from the Pasto Ag Museum. AG PROGRESS - “It’s always nice to know what’s causing the problem,” says John Peplinski, the man who usually has the answers. As manager of the Plant Disease Clinic at Penn State, Peplinski offers diagnoses to owners of nearly 2,000 ailing plants a year. In a small laboratory in the Buckhout Building on Penn State’s main campus, he received odd-looking brandies, leaves, or entire plants from residents and businesses around the state. His tools are not those of a surgeon, but his methods are. Lori DeMarco of the Star Roses Nur sery in Chester County sent the clinic leaf samples with brown patches covering most of their surfaces. Peplinski holds one under a microscope and quickly focuses in on the spots, fc .“Phyllosticta,” he explains. a fairly common leaf spot causing fungus on maple trees.” He has his tools ready a razor edged knife, tweezers, and a paper towel. 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With Peplinski’s recommendations, maybe next year the spots will be AG PROGRESS More and wlb take place throughout the more farmers are realizing that even t 6 the computer age is here, and that Vomputer adoptlon 1S stUl at computers can be useful in the early stages,” says Graham decision making. But many Bell) Pen * Sta { e farm questions stiU remain. Is it management agent, and coor u 11 to ° dmator of the computer exhibits at S B ' H ° W mUCh can reaUy Ag Progress Days. “Only the more oesaved. „ adventurous fanners are buying Come to Penn stales Ag them. However, if you spend time Progress Days and get the an- ln tbe farm offlce making swers. Demonstrations on how management decisions, a computers can benefit the farmer ithora lytopl Ask the Penn State specialist AG PROGRESS - Do you wonder why your six-year-old apple tree still is not bearing fruit? Do you lie awake at nights trying to figure out the best way to get rid of Japanese beetles? Perhaps you have a strange fungus on your wheat and don’t know what to do about it? Dear Abby won’t have the an swers, but Penn State specialists will. The specialists will be on hand at Ag Progress Days. “Ask- the Specialist” is the popular program where Penn state faculty who specialize in specific areas of agriculture will be available to answer your in be featured at Ag Progress gone. Sometimes, as with the phyllosticta, Peplinski can diagnose the problem im mediately. (He often goes through the process “just to be absolutely sure.”) Other times, he must isolate and culture the disease organisms. When the damage is discovered, the plant owners are referred to Is a computer Ahead in yields and anthracnose • Fights “summer decline” caused by anthracnose • Proven yield leader • Early maturity; fast regrowth • Good bacterial wilt resistance • Fine stemmed, leafy forage • Available with GroZone™ Seed Coating SMOKETOWN, PA17565 PH.717-299-2571 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 20,1983—A19 dividual questions. Specialists will be located around the outside of the College of Agriculture tent and will be ready to give you answers and help you solve your problems in several areas, including hor ticulture, flowers, fruits, vegetables, ornamental plants, home grounds, insects, turf grass, small-scale agriculture, soil management, agriculture preservation, farm buildings and energy, plant diseases, and computers. “Ask the Specialist was one of the most successful Ag Progress Days features last year,” says Dennis C. Scanlon, assistant materials that help them wipe out, fight, or adjust to the problem. If no definite answer can be given, Peplinski tries to make a few suggestions to the homeowners about possibilities. “Gardeners and homeowners know if they have a problem, they can turn to us,” he says. So do commercial growers. Almost 50 percent of the specimens right for you? microcomputer allows you to manipulate data and make sound propnately called the "Secretary financial decisions.” of Agriculture." Computer information was one "Once the information is entered of the most popular exhibits at Ag in the computer, you can generate Progress Days last year with more numerous reports such as balance than SO percent of the exhibit sheets and profit and loss visitors expressed an interest in , statements," Bell says. “The farm accounting programs. This computer enables you to more year, Kon Bower, vocational quickly generate precise figures to agriculture teacher from Get- aid in decision making. But you tysburg, will be demonstrating a have to be prepared to put the time farm accounting program' ap- into it.” BEDFORD Fred Claycomb Phone (814) 623-8375 BELLEVILLE Union Mill Soil Service Phone (717) 935-2770 BERLIN RobertO. Poor Phone (814) 267-5187 BIG COVE TANNERY Clyde Bivens Phone (717) 485-4277 COLUMBIA CROSSROADS Longenecker Feed Store Phone (717) 297-3864 DOYUSTOWN Schmalz Brothers Phone (215) 794-7259 GETTYSBURG John J Hess Phone (717) 334-8553 HAMBURG Jim Landis Phone(2ls) 562 8347 HARLEYSVILU Abram G Metz Phone (215) 287-7588 LANCASTER Farmer's Supply Co Phone (717) 394-7127 MAXATAWNY Siegfried Bros. Phone (215) 682-7549 MERCERSBURG Glenn I Martin Phone (717) 328-2092 MEYERSOALE Twin Springs Farm Phone (814) 662-2262 MIDDLETOWN John Ahwme Phone (717) 944-6270 CHURCHYIIU Tharp* and Green Phone (301) 734-7772 FAINfUY Kevin Cllpp Phone (301) 582-0363 HAGERSTOWN Nelson Miller Phone (301) 824-2311 Martin's Elevator Phone (301) 733-2553 professor of agricultural education who chairs the "Ask the Specialist’’ committee. “We will be providing information that people may not be able to find elsewhere at Ag Progress Days. This is an ideal opportunity for people to get their individual questions answered and I really hope they take advantage of it. ” Not only can you get your questions answered, but you can get your plants examined. You can bring a plant or plant sample to the plant disease clinic, which is part of the specialist program. Experts will try to identify the problem, and make suggestions about what to do. the clinic receives are from commercial farm and garden operations. This summer, he says, he has received many strawberry samples that have Red Stele, a root rotting disease. Summer, of course, is the peak season. 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