Al6-Lancast*r Faming, Saturday, July 12,1956
Inter-State Schedules
Annual Picnic at Bland Park
SOUTHAMPTON - Inter-State
Milk Producers’ Cooperative
Districts 13, 18, 20 and 21 have
scheduled their annual picnic at
Bland Park, Altoona, from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Thursday, July 17.
Guest speakers will be Inter-
State General Manager Paul E.
Hand and Member Relations
Manager James R. Barnett.
Members will also hear reports
Shear Pine Trees Now
Homeowners wishing
to control the growth of
pine trees may follow
the same procedure as
commercial producers
follow in shaping their
trees, says Jeff Jabco,
Delaware County
Cooperative Extension
agricultural agent.
Shearing pines should
be done in the period
from early June to mid-
July after the new
branches finish
growing. Spruce and fir
may be sheared in late
summer, fall or winter.
Pine trees shold be
sheared for the first
time when they are two
to three feet high. This
is usually the third year
after planting. Then
Put more
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even a $2O value like this
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you the knife. Call today.
Now available at
from 1986 Young Cooperators John
and Cynthia Keith, District 13, and
Glen and Cathy Over, District 20.
Picnic registration will be held
from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Milk and
ice cream will be provided.
Inter-State Districts, 13, 18 , 20
and 21 cover Bedford, Blair,
Centre, Clearfield, Fulton, Hun
tingdon, Juniata and Mifflin
counties and parts of Clinton and
Snjfder counties.
they need yearly Other top branches,
treatment. called top laterals,
A sharp hedge shears should be cut five inches
with eight or nine-inch long. New branches
blades is an efficient over the rest of the tree
tool for shearing pine are sheared back so that
trees. A new tool now the taper of the tree is
being used is a light about half as wide as it
meat slicing knife with is high.
'l2 to 14-inch blade and For the homeowner
razor edge. Special wishing to limit the
safety precautions must growth of a tree more
be taken when using this closely, cut the top
tool. leader back to six in-
The top leader of the ches, top laterals to
tree is usually cut to 10 three inches, and new
inches in length, at a 45 side branches to 2 in
degree angle, this ches. Don’t make the
eliminates spindly beginner’s error of
growth at the top. If shearing only the upper
there is a double leader, branches; this makes a
remove the weaker one 'squatty tree, too wide
or cut back far enough and sparse at the bot
to suppress its growth, tom.
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TUNKHANNOCK - This year’s
Sire Power Sale promises to be an
outstanding and successful event.
The 1986 Sale is scheduled to take
place at 11 a.m., on Wednesday,
August 6 at the Kutztown
Fairgrounds, Kutztown, Penn
sylvania.
Sire Power’s commitment to
excellence is evident in the
ulage distributor
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• PTO Wind-up
• Wheeled cart
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credentials of each consignment.
We continue to uphold our tradition
of offering top quality cattle from
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sound breeding.
The sale managers, Remsburg
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MOWERS, BALERS,
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4 to 80 H.P.
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Service After The Sale...lhof's Usl
DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED
And now you have the
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Associates, were very selective in
choosing the “Sire Power kind”
that combine type and production.
The Sire Power Sale is known for
the exceptional quality of animals
that have been sold and gone on to
perform in their buyer’s herd.
Ned Boy, Chairman, Spirit, and
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represented by outstanding con
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daughters of Jemini, Elvate,
Sammy, and Stewart, in addition
to many others.
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Box 91A, R.D. 3
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