Ephrata Young Farmers Elect Officers
The Ephrata Area Young Farmers Association elected new officers during their
monthly meeting Jan. 20. They will be installed at the organization's annual banquet
scheduled for Feb. 7. The officers are, from left, Francis Uhland, president elect; Mike
Pfautz, president; Tim Pfautz, secretary; Kevin Smoker, public relations director; and
Gerald Martin, treasurer.
Turkey Production Expected To Increase In 1987
HARRISBURG - Pennsylvania
turkey producers raised a record
7.8 million turkeys in 1986, up
SHORT NOTICE
PUBLIC AUCTION
FRIDAY, FEB. 6,1987
AT ll:OOA.M.
WELCON CONNECTOR COMPANY
Exit 15 off I 83 between Hbg., & York.
Due to relocation & consolidation the
following will be sold:
MACHINERY
Van Dorn 200 Ton Injection Molding Press
Model 200514, 2 Van Dom 125 Ton Injection
Molding Presses Model 12558, Minster 22 Ton
Punch Press Model B-l-22, Whitlock Dryer
Model 202, Thorenson McCosh Temp Unit
Model D2ST, Bridgeport Milling Machine, 3
Boyar-Shultz Surface Grinders, Frohring Mini
Injector Model 70VC95, Perkins 20 Ton
Stamping Press, Excello XLM Turret Milling
Machine, Benchmaster 5 Ton Press, Perkins 28
Ton Press, Several Other 5 Ton Presses, Wire
Machines & Heelers, Dust Collectors, Path
finder Units, Unibelt Conveyor Systems,
Polymer Grinder, Temp Controls, Rockwell
Drill Press, Many Other Parts & Misc. Items!
OFFICE & SHOP EQUIPMENT
25 Formica/Steel Work Tables, 6 File Cabinets,
25 Steel Chairs, 6’ Floor Model 2 Door Safe, 8
Office Desks, Office Chairs, Lamps, Metal
Shelving, Lockers, Bookshelves, Metal
Cabinet, Steel Carts, 12 Fans, Telex Machine,
Tool Chests, 2 Skids Heavy Shelving, Toledo
Scale 100 lb cap., Piping, 2x4 Lumber, Hun
dreds Other Items!
NOTE: Inspection Thurs. Feb. 5,1987 9 AM - 4
PM. Removal by Feb. 8, 1987. NO OUT OF
STATE CHECKS WITHOUT LETTER OF
GUARANTEE FROM ISSUING BANK.
Auction Indoors. If Roads Impassible Due to
Bad Weather. Auction Will Be Saturday
February 7,1987.
AUCTION FOR
WELLS ELECTRONICS CO.
nearly 10 percent from the 7.1
million raised in. 1985. The Com
monwealth producers intend to
AUCTION - AUCTION - AUCTION
Thursday, March 5, 1987
ll A.M.
119 Acres, more or less, with
approximately 85 tillable Neshaminy
soils.
Barn #1 93 Tie Stall, 4 Rows, 50% with
Mats
Upper Level - 4 Bays, 2 Mows; 1200
Gallon Bulk Tank; 8 Milkers: Pipe Line;
Sweep In Tile Troughs: Gutter Cleaner.
Barn #2 38x120’ 38 Tie Stalls plus 3
Section Loose Housing.
Upper Level
Storage.
Barn #3 40'xl50’ 38 Free Stall with
Bunk Feeder; Feed Mixer.
Silo: 16'x50' -Poured Concrete
Silo: 24’x80’ - Tern Hill
Silo: 24'x80’ - Rib Store (leased)
** Plus Other Buildings
Home 4 Bedroom Farm House
DIRECTIONS: Farm is located on
Quarry Road. From Jonestown Square,
go South on Grace Avenue cross
Swatara Creek, Turn left, First Road
which is Quarry Road. Look for sign on
right. From Lebanon on Route 72, North
side of Lebanon, go North on Jonestown
Road, watch for "Y" in the road, bear
left, go past Power Station then turn
right. Sign on left.
TERMS: 10% Down day of sale,
balance due in 45 days.
Auctioneer; Harry H. Bachman
License No. AU000033-L
Conditions by: Federal Land Bank
of Baltimore - Shown By Appointment
MANAGEMENT
2230 sth Street Highway. Reading, PA 19605
717-274-3622 215-378-1122
raise a record 9.1 million turkeys
in 1967, a 17 percent increase over
the 1966 estimated production.
Turkey producers in the 20
major states intend to raise 222
million turkeys in 1987, up 11
percent from the 200 million raised
in 1986.
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Equipment & Hay
Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, Jaaaary 31,1M7-A39
Beneficial Molds Wage War
Against Soil-Borne Plant Disease
WASHINGTON - A new crop
protecting technology which relies
on beneficial molds taken from the
soil to kill other molds that cause
diseases in farm and garden crops
is emerging from the laboratory.
Scientists ferment the good
molds so they multiply and put
them in powders, sprays or pellets.
They are then returned to the soil
to attack the disease molds that
jeopardize harvests.
Emerging after years of
research, this technology amounts
to a “soil war” against crop losses.
Crops succumb to some 50 kinds
of soil molds and a few types of
bacteria, says U.S. Department of
Agriculture plant pathologist
George Papavizas. About $4 billion
worth of crops a year are lost,
never making it to harvest.
Papavizas and colleagues in
USDA’s Agricultural Research
Service have been identifying
bacterial molds to help reduce
such losses. Also, they have been
developing the fermenting and
packaging technology to get the
molds back into the soil - enough
of them so the molds can wage a
successful soil war.
How would the war be fought in
the future? A farmer or gardener
would select a good mold to attack
a specific fungal disease of crops.
A company would package and sell
the mold, for example, in nontoxic
pellets.
“Safe, nonpolluting disease
control sometimes lasts
several seasons,” Papavizas says
of greenhouse and field tests run at
the Soilborne Diseases Laboratory
at the Beltsville, Md., research
center. Laboratory researchers
have been at the forefront for
nearly 20 years in finding en
vironmentally safe organisms
instead of depending only on
agricultural chemicals to control
disease.
According to Papavizas, the
laboratory's soil war technology
has prompted commercial interest
1987 SWINE FINISHING
FOR PROFIT
BY
Dr. Robert Graybill and
Dr. Timothy P. Trayer
at
ROTHSVILLE FIREHALL==
Friday, February 27, 1987
8:45- 9:00 Introductions
9:15-10:00 Grower-Finisher Unit
Problems
Dr. Barbara Straw,
Cornell University
10:00-10:45 “Are You Tired of
Coughing With Your
Pigs?" Dr. Dan Meyer,
Penn State University
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Lice and Mange A Problem
of the Past - Ivomec®
11:45-12:15 Strep Suis II and Alpha
Strep - A New Health
Problem?
Dr. Timothy P. Trayer
12:15- 1:30 Lunch
1:30- 2:15 Grower-Finisher Solutions
Dr. Barbara Straw
2:15- 3:00 Analysis of Unit Problems
Dr. Dan Myer
3:00- 3:30 Records and What They
Show. Mr. Mike Miller,
Penn State University
* For reservations please call
-1 -800-222-4084^^^
before February 13,1987.
Limited to the first 200 (no charges).
by drug and other industries that
use vats for fermentation - similar
to the process the laboratory uses
to grow the good molds.
Laboratory findings to date
include:
• Powdered beneficial molds,
Trichoderma and Gliocladium,
reduced disease on potato plants
for two consecutive years. Only in
the first year were molds applied
to test plots.
• A patented strain of
Trichoderma called T-1-R9
lowered disease damage on
greenhouse crops of chrysan
themums and carnations by 50 to
60 percent and on potato crops by
10 to 20 percent.
• Sporidesmium mold, used in
different delivery systems, is
effective against disease-causing
molds on onions, lettuce and
numerous other vegetables,
livestock foraging plants, and oil
seed crops. This patented mold
persists for years as it invades and
destroys dormant forms of several
harmful fungi.
• A pelletized mold,
Talaromyces has controlled a
serious wilt disease on potatoes
since 1984. The mold’s population
has grown by 10-fold in the soil
With no pellets added in 1985, 14
percent fewer potato plants had
disease.
• A Talaromyces powder added
to pots of eggplants, a crop often
started in greenhouses, reduced
Verticillum wilt disease by 75
percent.
• Gliocladium, added to potting
soil as a fresh culture or in
granular form, controlled two
molds that cause 10 percent
disease losses in bedding plant
crops.
• A combination of Trichoderma
powder and a chemical fungicide
helped bean and pea varieties
survive molds that destroy up to 20
percent of these crops yearly.
Bean yields jumped to 60 percent
and peas 50 percent.
Public
Auction
Register
FEBRUARY
FRI. FEB. 6 - Interstate
Milk Producers Sale at
Solanco Fair Bldg. J.
Everett Kreider, Bucher &
Heaps, Aucts.
FRI. FEB. 6 -10 AM New
Holland Sales Stables
Special Mule Sale. 1 Load
of Good, Big, Young
Mules. Consigned by
Norman Kolb
FRI. FEB. 6 -11 AM
Machinery, Office & Shop
Eq. at Welcon Connector
Co.. Exit 15 off f-83
between Hbg. & York. For;
Wells Electronics Co.
Kerry Pae Aucts.