LANCASTER The Farm and Home Foundation of Lancas ter County will celebrate its 25th anniversary at its annual banquet on Thursday, January 26 at the Farm and Home Center, begin ning with a social at 6:00 p.m., followed by dinner at 6:30 p.m. Speaker for the anniversary Schlosser, SoUenberger Honored By Pennsylvania Dairymen’s Association Schlosser (center) and his w. >, >(k t) ryi. sion Award at the 118th annual meeting held in Harrisburg on Tuesday evening. Dairymen’s President E. Wayne Beshore (right) made the pre sentation. Schlosser is the Crawford County agent and has served on the Penn State Extension staff for 28 years. PRO • CUT vs. POPULAR COMPETITIVE ALFALFA VARIETIES PRO-COT Dart Crown Blazer Sparta Sure Magnum + Magnum 111 DKI2O G-2852 Big 10 Elevation Chief Arrow Fortress Commandor 532 5432 Saranac AR Vernal Wrangler L Herned AgnPro Cargill Cenex/LOL Cenex/LOL Cenex/LOL Danyland Dairyland DeKalb-Pfizer Funks Creak Lakes Jacques Jacques NAPB Northrup King Northrup King Pioneer Pioneer Public Public Public Chemgro s®s Farm & Home Annual Banquet Set celebration will be WGAL-TV’s Wendall Woodbury who will entertain the audience with stories of work on his television com mentaries, “Wendall’s World.” Musical entertainment will be pro vided by the Hempfield High School Jazz Band, under the direc tion of Gary Luckenbill. /* / Chemgro P.O. Box 218, State Street East Petersburg, PA 17520 1-800-346-4769 (GROW) Disease Ratings 1 HR HR Ml MR HR m HR HR HR MR 1-717-569-3296 Lancaster County’s agricultural community has been attending meetings at the Farm and Home Center since January of 1968, exactly thirteen years ago when the fourth annual meeting of the Farm and Home Foundation was held in the basement training room. The dream of holding meet VERY HIGH DISEASE RESISTANCE PLUS RESISTANCE TO APHIDS. PRO-CUT IS VERY LEAFY AND IS BECOMING A FAVORITE AMONG DAIRYMEN IN OUR AREA. PRO CUT IS OUR MOST POPULAR ALFALFA VARIETY BECAUSE OF ITS QUALITY STANDS. /// R R R LR R R LR MR R MR R R R MR R LR ings in a centrally located office, large enough to meet the needs of Lancaster’s dynamic agricultural industry began long before that time. The first recorded meeting at which an agricultural facility was proposed was held on February 9, 1954 at the farm Bureau Coopera- Norman Sollenberger of Franklin County was honored at the Pennsyl vania Dairymen’s Association 118th annual meeting In Harrisburg on Tuesday evening. Sollenberger (right) was presented with the Charles Cowan Award for outstanding contributions and leadership to the Pen nsylvania dairy industry. His son Lane (left) and his wife Lois (center) joined Norman for the presentation. Sollenberger began farming In 1941. PRO-CUT ALFALFA Insect Ratings 3 s [». a* What Will YoUr Stand Look Like 3 Years Plant Pro-Cut FootnotM: 1. The disease ratings for competitive vaneties were checked against the ‘Alfalfa Varieties for ‘BB’ article which appeared in the November 1987 issue of the Hay and Forage Grower magazine. The ratings for PRO CUT are shown as presented for the Plant Vanety Pro tection Certificate and as presented to the Alfalfa Vane ty Review Board HR - Highly Resistant R » Resistant MR - Moderately Resistant LR - Low Resistant «* % % > SO r * 2. The Disease Rating Index is a cumulative measure of a variety's disease resistance to the five diseases listed. For each disease that a variety is Highly Resis tant to, it receives a rating of 5, Resistant to a 4, Mod erately Resistant to a 3, Low Resistant to a 2 and Sus ceptible to a 1 rating The ratings are then added to determine the Disease Rating Index. A total of 25 would be ideal. The varieties in the chart with a—shown for a particular disease were tabulated as a 1. - ||| * ilii' tft : ' >vjyM < V. ' **V > ■.*&* V Wf\ ** ■ 3. The Insect Ratings were taken from the same sour ces as described in footnote 2. From Now? High Disease Resistance tive with J. Robert Hess, president of the Senior Extension Club, presiding. At that meeting it was pointed out that a group of agri cultural leaders had met in the summer of 1953 at a com roast at the home of Allen Risser to dis cuss the potential for an agricul- (Turn to P«a* A4l) S = Susceptible