E22>Lanc«st«r Farming, Saturday, August 14,1993
Livestock
ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.)
Livestock producers and other
fanners face a perpetual battle
with insects, struggling to protect
their crops, their animals, and
themselves from these pests.
Increased concern about the en
vironmental and human health ef
fects of pesticides and new federal
regulations about pesticide use are
leading farmers to change the
ways they cope with six-legged
invaders.
Visitors to Penn State’s Ag Pro
gress Days, August 17-19, can
learn about changing pest control
strategies by attending pesticide
re-certification workshops. At the
same time, they can earn two
pesticide update credits necessary
to maintain their state pesticide
applicator certification.
‘This is the second year we’ve
offered re-certification credits at
Ag Progress Days,” said Dr. Win
and K. Hock, professor of plant
pathology and director of the Pes
ticide Education Program in Penn
State’s College of Agricultural
Sciences. “Participants will leant
about livestock pest control op
tions and about new pesticide re
gulations that may affect their
operation.”
Two workshops will be held
each day of the event. Each will
feature a formal presentation fol
lowed by time for the audience to
ask specific questions. Officials
will be on hand to register partici
pants and award credits for attend
ance.
Dr. Charles Pitts, professor of
entomology, will discuss controll
ing pests related to livestock pro
duction at 1 p.m. in the College
Exhibits Building theatre at the
Ag Progress Days site.
“Insects, particularly flies, can
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be a serious problem in animal fa
cilities ranging from poultry hous
es to milking parlors,” he said.
“We’ll discuss how to use existing
pesticides properly in order to
avoid resistance in flies and other
pests.
“We’ll also consider alternative
control strategies, such as preda
tors and parasites and changing
cultural practices such as manure
management to help minimize
Pasto Museum Depicts
ROCKSPRING (Centre Co.)
Imagine washing your clothes by
churning them in a tub with a
wooden plunger, getting your
milk from a wooden ice box or
harvesting grain with a horse
pulled reaper.
Visitors to Penn State’s Ag
Progress Days, August 17-19, can
tour the Pasto Agricultural
Museum and get a taste of what
life was like before gasoline
engines and electricity reached
rural America.
The museum houses mote than
300 implements from “the muscle
power era” of farming and home
making, which ended during
World War 11. Items on display
range from a 6,000-year-old clay
sickle used for grain harvesting, to
a 175-year-old mechanized apple
peeler, to a tum-of-the-century
foot-pedaled milking machine.
Sections of the museum are
devoted to harvesting grain, cut
ting and handling hay, planting
and harvesting com, plowing and
cultivating soil and caring for ani
mals. Recently acquired items
include a pulley-operated fork for
unloading- hay from wagons and
equipment for cutting and bans
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pest problems,” Pitts said. “Final
ly, we’ll survey current research
on mechanical pest controls, in
cluding vacuum systems that re
move pests while leaving benefi
cial insects.”
At 2 p.m.. Hock and other spe
cialists from the Pesticide Educa
tion Program will discuss the En
vironmental Protection Agency’s
new Worker Protection Standard.
“Nearly every farm with at least
porting ice.
“Before refrigeration, people
harvested ice from frozen ponds
and kept it packed in sawdust,”
said Pasto. “Every home had an
icebox for storing milk and other
perishables.”
The museum also has house
hold items from days past, includ
ing devices rex' washing and press
ing clothes. These include primi
tive wood plungers, slatted metal
plungers and scrubbing boards.
More “modem” clothes washers
are featured, with lever-operated
tubs and wringers. A collection of
irons for processing clothes
includes flatirons, irons with
heated inserts, some that bum
charcoal and have chimneys and
adjustable drafts, and one that is
gasoline powered with a tiny
carburetor.
“Many of these irons are hand
foiged,” said Dr. Jerome Pasto,
museum curator and associate
dean emeritus in Penn State’s Col
lege of Agricultural Sciences.
“When you study how intricately
they were designed, you can see
that someone put a lot of care into
making them.”
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, one non-family employee will be
affected by these regulations,”
said Hock.
Starting April 15, 1994, em
ployers must provide workers
with decontamination facilities,
pesticide safety training and infor
mation, notification of applica
tions and information about pesti
cides used, clean and safe personal
protective equipment, and emer
gency assistance if required. The
rules will be enforced by indivi-
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sweepers shows how homemakers
kept carpets clean before vacuum
cleaners were invented. “The fore
runner of the vacuum cleaner was
a rug sweeper operated by a hand
pump,” said Pasto. 'The suction
pump worked much like a set of
fireplace bellows in reverse."
Also on display are devices
used to separate cream from milk.
The collection includes cream
skimming pans used in Colonial
times, a tum-of-the-century hand
cranked cream separator, and a
1920 s centrifuge cream separator.
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“These standards are meant to
reduce the risk of harm from pesti
cide exposure for workers who
handle, mix, load and apply them,
as well as workers in pesticide
treated Helds, forests, nurseries
and greenhouses. We’ll examine
the steps various, types of agricul
tural operations must take to com
ply with the new regulations.”
The Pasto Agricultural
Museum is arranged in chronolog
ical sequence to show technologi
cal progress. Many artifacts have
been restored to working order so
visitors can turn the cranks and
pull the levers. “I consider the
museum a hands-on history
book,” said Pasto. “There’s a story
behind every item here.”
The museum will be open to the
public'during all three days of Ag
Progress Days. Tours also can be
arranged. To schedule a tour, con
tact the Office of Agricultural
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