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
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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
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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
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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
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Scheps bounced prior to the
bankruptcy.
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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
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amount certified by the NY
Commissioner of Agriculture
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