A24—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 31,1984
LANCASTER - Gerald Garber,
the 20-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Garber of R 2, Willow
Street, is the 1984 District II
recipient of the American Guern
sey Cattle Club’s (AGCC) Out
standing Guernsey Youth Award.
Garber is employed on his
family’s 200-acre farm, Willows
Farm, with 63 milking Guernseys
and a custom silo-filling business.
“Eventually my brother and I
plan to take over my father’s
farm,” he said, indicating plans to
remodel the bam in 1985.
Chosen to included in Who’s
Who Among American High School
Students, Garber has earned a
state FFA degree, three FFA
proficiency awards and was
named his chapter’s star farmer.
Two of Garber’s cows have
Avian flu Q
scheduled at
GETTYSBURG - Poultry
producers with questions con
cerning avian flu should plan to
attend a question and answer
session with Dr. Gerald Fichter,
USDA Task Force Director.
Centreport Milk
Hauling Co-op
more milk is needed there. “But
there are new accounts coming
in,” he said.
Bernard C. Morrissey of
Morrissey Insurance, Inc., was
also on hand to discuss the in
surance aspects of the new an
tibiotic policy.
“Good management is your
secret to handling the antiobiotic
problem,” Morrissey stated.
Most larger farm insurance
agencies do include a product
bability clause to protect a
dairyman from negligence, ac
cording to Morrissey. But,
Morrissey continued, “each claim
is taken on its own merit,”
“Normally, if you are negligent,
you made the mistake, you will be
Garber wins
& A session
Gettysburg
Sponsored by the Adams County
Extension Service, the meeting is
scheduled for 7:30 p.m., on April 9,
at the Vo-Ag department of the
Gettysburg Senior High School.
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covered for the product in the tank
truck, less your milk.” “It’s very
questionable. You should talk to
your agent,” he concluded.
The banquet room was filled
with dairymen on March 23 as they
took part in the functions of their
co-op.
“When you belong to a coop, you
are actually hauling your own
milk,” Jacoby stated.
From the determination of
several neighbors, Centreport Milk
Hauling Cooperative proved what
can be accomplished when far
mers band together. “We have
good cooperation,” Jacoby stated.
“The directors were determined to
keep it together and there has
never been a sqabble.”
Guernsey outstanding youth award
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Gerald Garber
produced 305-day lactations over
20,000 pounds of milk, with another
cow that has over 17.000 M ap
praised 90 points.
Garber uses the top 10 active-AI
sires or young bulls from sire
proving programs, with corrective
mating practices followed when
selecting mates. He is active in all
aspects of the farming operation,
but “fortunately my main
responsibility and enjoyment is
for blending herbicides in
UNIVERSITY PARK - In an
update report on weed control, the
tandem disk still appears to be the
best tillage tool for blending
herbicides into the soil. The report
comes from Nathan L. Hartwig,
research agronomist at Penn
State.
In their experiments, Hartwig
and associates used fluorescent
dye to determine the most efficient
tillage tools for blending her
bicides into the soil.
“For best control, the herbicide
should be in the soil surrounding
the seed, nutlet, or rhizome when
germination or growth is under
way,” he affirmed.
The tandem disk did an excellent
job of incorporating the herbicide
down to 3 inches following a plow
and tandem disk. Blending into the
soil was also excellent down to 3 ; a
to 4 inches after a chisel plow, and
equally effective down to 4 to 5
inches after plowing.
Control of annual grass and
yellow nutsedge was good with the
tandem disk. Hartwig said this tool
seems to be best where both
shallow-germinating annual
grasses and deeper-germinating
yellow nutsedge are problems.
“It appears,” Hartwig noted,
'that the rougher the surface to
which the test dye was applied, the
deeper the incorporation. ’
"If we look at trends, im
provement in control of annual
grass was generally better in
plowed ground than on chisel-
working with Guernseys,” he said.
‘Since graduation my father has
given me the opportunity of
managing our herd.”
In addition to showing animals
successfully at county, district and
state shows, Garber has topped
judging contests and been an of
ficer of the Pennsylvania Junior
Guersney Breeders’ Association,
FFA, 4-H and church groups.
“I hope that by keeping in-
Tandem disk rates best
plowed or heavy-disked ground,
regardless of the incorporation tool
used,” he said.
Incorporation of herbicide with a
cultimulcher was very good down
to 2 inches with the herbicide
applied after a single tandem
disking on plowed ground.
Mixing of herbicide into the soil
with a spring tooth harrow was
shallow, 1 to 2 inches. However,
annual grass control was still very
good. The spring tooth harrow was
not used where yellow nutsedge
LANCASTER A decision soon
to be released by the USDA
regarding the depopulation of low
pathologic and serologically
positive (antibody) birds is ex
pected to accompany news of an
upward adjustment in indemnity
rates.
One new outbreak was reported
on Sunday in a flock of 3,300 broiler
breeders near Kleinfeltersville in
Lebanon County. This was the first
outbreak in 13 days, with no ad
ditional outbreaks since then.
Currently 102 flocks have been
repopulated with 5.9 million birds,
with only two reinfections
recorded to date.
Avian Task Force
awaits USDA decision
Although the quarantine zone in
- lined, making careful decisions
and breeding selections that the
Willows Farm can continue as a
top-producing, top-quality
Guernsey herd,” he said.
Garber represented Penn
sylvania in the national AGCC
Outstanding Youth Contest. He and
the other district winners were
honored on March 25 at the AGCC
Convention in Louisville, Ken
tucky.
soil
was a problem.
The heavy disk resulted in
uneven incorporation, and there
was a concentration of the test dye
at the full depth of disk blade
penetration. Control of annual
grass and yellow nutsedge was fair
when the disk was allowed to
• float” or penetrate to its full
depth. Annual grass and yellow
nutsedge were controlled
somewhat better when the disk
was raised slightly so that it
penetrated only 4 inches.
Maryland may be dropped within
the next two weeks, one infected
flock of 10 to 12-week-old pullets
discovered in Mathias, West
Virginia, on Tuesday will probably
cause an expansion of the Virginia
quarantine zone.