Order Forest Tree Seedlings Soon EPHRATA (Lancaster) Pennsylvania landowners can purchase forest tree seedlings from the Department of Environ mental Resources for wood pro ducts and watershed protection. The landowner must have suffi cient open ground to plant the minimum order of seedlings. These seedlings cannot be used for Christmas trees or for orna mental purposes. In order that a seedling application can be pro cessed for spring delivery, it is recommended that an application be submitted as early as possible. Orders are granted on a first come, first-served basis. Usually, at the state tree nur O Season’s Purina®* Calf Pura-Lyte®* Oral Electrolyte Replacement • Conv or storage problems • High Energy - provides energy rich nutritional support • Easy to Use - no need to measure or weigh • Quick Acting-most dehydrated calves will return to normal feeding in 5 days. Contact Your Farm Consultant For More Information 6S. Vintage Rd. Paradise. PA 17562 (717)442-4183 (717)768-3301 Registered trademark of Ralston Purina Company series, seedlings are lifted and pre pared for shipment between mid- March and May Ist. The distribu tion to landowners also occurs at this time. The Bureau of Forestry prepares and distributes its list of “Planting Stock Available” each August Between August and the time shipping begins (the follow ing spring), one species after another is sold out. TTierefore, the closer to spring that an order is submitted, the less chance there is of selecting from a complete list of species. Now is the time to apply for spring 1989. Two types of planting stock are available: Regular Stock are seed lings grown from seed that was purchased from commercial deal- mient Packagini kssMus h.ihmoj ers and local collectors to meet production schedules, with only a minimal consideration of source and related performance. Seed lings and cuttings designated as Improved Stock are grown from selected hybrid poplar trees, or from seed selectively collected or purchased from above average natural stands or plantations, or from seed collected from tree seed orchards that were established from grafts or seedlings from selected individual superior trees. Seedlings of the following spe cies are available for spring 1989: Evergreens - Regular Stock: red pine, Norway spruce, Austrian pine, white spruce; Evergreens - Improved Stock: Virginia pine, white pine, Japanese larch; Hard woods - Regular Stock: black locust, European alder, other hard wood seedlings; Hardwoods - Improved Stock: hybrid poplar cuttings, other hardwood seed lings. Seedling nursery stock applica tion and price lists can be secured in person or by mail from Bureau of Forestry district offices, state nurseries, and some county exten sion offices. In Lehigh County, phone 820-3085. J -no waste, spoilage Rt.B2 Unionville, PA 18375 (215)347-2377 30 YEARS AGO The Lancaster County 4-H tobacco and com roundup will be Tuesday afternoon at the Bayuk Cigar company warehouse, 850 N. Water St., Lancaster, Winthrop Meriam, assistant county agent reports. All exhibits must be in position by 1 p.m. on the exhibit day. Com exhibits will consist of 10 ears of the hybrid club members selected for 1958 projects. Yields will be reported in pounds and exhibits will be accompanied by completed records of the project, Merriam said. Striking a clear note to round out 1958 Lancaster Farming, we have asked a number of county farm leaders, technical advisors and outstanding farmers to summarize in their own words the results of 1958 and what they look for in 1959. One of the first things the reader will note in the following state ments is the constant brevity of 1958 summaries and the concent ration on the future. It is as though to say, “The past is over and done with; let’s look to next year and what it may bring and-What we may offer it.” Lancaster County’s Soil Con servation District completed 1958 with a total of 1.702 conservation cooperators, an increase of 98 for 1957. The 98 district-cooperator agreements signed during 1958 brought 7,081 more acres of coun ty crop land under SCd practices.. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, December 24,1988-Al* Tins WEEK With 1,248 acres in 19 new cooperators’ farm, East Earl town ship led the local area parade for the year. -Value of Pennsylvania’s prin cipal crops during 1938 is reported by the State Department of Agri culture at 317 million, al6 per cent increase over the 1957 valuation of $274 million. Nearly all of the Common wealth’s major crops, except pota toes and apples, recorded an increase in value of production, according to the Pennsylvania Crop Reporting Service. Com production was valued at $lO3 million and spearheaded the State’s increase with a gain of $26 million over the previous year. All hay output was valued at $ 101 mil lion and dollarwise was the second most important crop in the Key stone State. -Some squirrels fround compet ition roughy for hickory nuts this fall. Most of the choice ones were being gathered by Pennsylvania farmers to be entered in a “Best Hickory Nut” contest sponsored by Penn State and the Pennsylvani a Nut Growers’ Association. Three judges this month will select the best ten from the more than 350 entries of 30-nut samples submitted by Pennsylvanians. Winning hickory nuts will be on display at the 1959 Pennsylvania Farm Show Jan. 12-16 at the State Farm Show Building here.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers