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. He soaks the leaf in a 10
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Plant clinic to
percent bleach solution, then he
dries it. After sterilizing the knife
with a flame, he cuts a small
section from the leaf; part green,
and part brown. He places four of
these small samples in a culture
plate. Fungus will grow. In a week
or so, Ms. DeMarco will know why
her leaves have brown spots. 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
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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. Peplinski opens up the
clinic’s refrigerator, which is full
of plants, leaves and branches
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MIUERSBUR6
Steve Snyder
Phone (717) 692-4385
MfUHAU
Webb's Super Gro Products
Phone (717) 726-3167
MORGANTOWN
Ira Nissley, Inc
Phone (215)286-9328
NEWBURC
Boyd Morrow
Phone (717) 423-5502
NORTHAMPTON
Edward Werner
Phone (215) 262-6552
RICHFIELD
Samuel E K nouse
Phone (717) 463-2885
SHADE GAP
Shade Gap Mills
Phone (814) 259-3258
SHICKSHWNY
Larry Barron
Phone (717) 864-3336
SPRING 6ROVE
Carlton Seed Co
Phone (717) 225-3730
TAMAQUA
Richard Koch
Phone (717) 668-3849
TURftOTVIUE
John Hershey
Phone (717) 649-5596
WARRIORS MARK
Helena Chemical Co
Phone (814) 632-5177
WEUSVtUE
Donald Knaub
Phone (717) 432-4509
RP Dealers in Maryland
KIYMA*
North Glade Feed
Phone (301) 775-7981
OAKLAND
Ernest Shrock
Phone (301) 334-9060
WESTMINSTER
Raymond Brown 111
Phone (301) 346-7209