315 take annual Pa. Hort Tour in Adams BY JUDY HULL BIGLERVILLE - Having traveled through nearly 100 miles of orchards in two days, visitors taking part in the annual Penn sylvania Horticultural Association’s summer tour con cluded their activities June 26 at the Penn State Fruit Research Laboratory near here. Three hundred and fifteen individuals representing seven states registered to take the tour this year, the first time it has been in Adams County in nearly 20 years. The tour began Monday, June 25, from the South Mountain Fairgrounds. Riding on buses, participants traveled 90 miles on the first day and viewed the fruit growing operations of 56 local growers. Adams County fruitgrowers served as guides, presenting detailed information on nearly every orchard operation which the buses passed. Stops at predetermined orchard sites were made throughout the Personnel at the Penn State Fruit Research Lab describe studies to visiting growers STUD RAM & EWE SALE A Lamb Roast And Square Dance Catered by Bob Fmkenbmder Will Be Held On Friday Evening Following The Show. An All-You-Can-Eat Dinner for $7.00 Reserved Price. Please Send Your Reservation To BLM No Later Than July Bth. FEATURING: Suffolks, Hampshires, Dorsets, Oxfords, Southdowns, Montadales, Corriedales, Columbias, Ramboullets, Merinos, Cheviots, Over 500 En tries! , I I I NAME ADDRESS SEND TO: KEN BRUBAKER Box 149 . Westtown, PA 19395 Phone: 215/696-5483 day allowing participants to view trickle irrigation systems, local nurseries, rootstocks, and fruit market operations, close-up. All visiting growers were also given a tour of the Knouse Foods plant in Orrtanna. Monday evening the fairgrounds again served as a meeting site for the group. The Adams County Poultry Association provided a chicken barbeque dinner and Apple Queens were on hand to distribute juice. A panel composed of local growers and represen tatives from processing plants and research personnel answered questions. During the session, growers discussed tree fruit varieties, trickle irrigation, rootstocks, planting techniques and 1984 production estimates for the county. Winter kill of fruit trees was also a topic for discussion. Growers differed in their opinions as to the amount of damage ex perienced this past year, but Sponsored by PA SHEEPS WOOL GROWERS SHOW! FRIDAY - JULY 13th - 8:00 A.M. LE: SATURDAY -1 SPECIAL HO-D* CARLISLE FAIRGROUNDS CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA Ith -9:00 A.M. IWN Sale Managed by SHEEP BREEDER SALE MANAGEMENT Box 796 Columbia, MO 65205 Kenneth Hickey of the Fruit Research Lab said according to a statewide peach survey, winter injury is a major culprit causing loss of trees in the state. The second day of the tour began at the Biglerville lab with half of the visitors touring test plots at the lab, while the other half rode to a machinery demonstration. In the afternoon, the agenda was swit ched. Test plots of apples, peaches, pears, cherries, grapes and blueberries were viewed with research personnel on hand to describe in detail the work being done. Administrative represen tatives from Penn State’s College of Agriculture were also in at tendance to meet with the visitors. The women’s auxiliary of the association had a separate schedule of events for part of the two-day tour which included a visit to the Gettysburg battlefield. Franklin County apple queen Jill Edwards passes out sparkling apple cider to growers attending hort tour. At left is 1984 State Apple Queen Elizabeth Etter. NY dairymen reach settlement in Scheps case SYRACUSE, N.Y. Nineteen Southern Tier New York area dairy farmers who belong to NEDCO’s Penn York and Empire Keystone Milk Producers’ Cooperatives, have reached set tlement in a lawsuit with the New Jersey-based International Fidelity Insurance Company, which will pay the producers $186,000 as a result of the bankruptcy of the Scheps Cheese Company, according to NEDCO General Manager Robert For sythe. The monies are being paid under a bond issued by the insurance company on behalf of Scheps as is Area Field Consultants John Peachy Harold Eby RD 2, Box 73 Rt 3, Box 159 Mifflmburg, PA 17844 Clearville, PA 15535 PH: 717966-0465 PH: 814-767-9651 Dan Martin Casey H. Small RD 1, Box 395-8, Black Creek Dev RD 4 Box 437 East Earl, PA 17519 Blairville, PA 15717 PH: 215-445-7161 PH: 412-459-5008 Regional Field Consultant Leslie Yoder RD 2, Parksburg, PA 19365 PH: 215-857-3744 Star Rt.-Millersburg, Ohio 44654 Telephone 215-893-2732 required by New York law. The 19 producers were among many whose last milkchecks from Scheps bounced prior to the bankruptcy. The insurance company filed suit in November of 1983, in New Jersey Federal Court against the farmers and the NY Commissioner of Agriculture, claiming it did not have to pay under the bond. NEDCO Attorney David P. O’Hara filed a counter suit for the entire amount owed under the bond. The settlement is the entire amount certified by the NY Commissioner of Agriculture under the bond. Why Farmers Like Silo Sym On Baled Hay: allows you to bale less problems with tougher Gandy Applicator a definite hedge ■ non-toxic to live agamst the weather stock saves more leaves non corrosive to the higher protein con baler tent it really works on enhances palat- square bales, round ability of hay bales and stacks easy to apply with Gandy Applicator Silo Sym can also be applied on haytage. For more information and special early order prices on Silo Sym and Gandy Applicators, write or call us collect. 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