A3O-LancMt*r Farming, Saturday, August 6, 1994
State Sponsors Pesticide Container Recycling In Adams Co.
ASPERS (Adams Co.) State
Agriculture Secretary Boyd W.
Wolff visited a plastic pesticide
container recycling site in Adams
County today to observe a new
program that helps farmers prop
erly dispose of pesticide contain
ers.
“Growers in Pennsylvania are
some of the most responsible
users of pesticides in our society,”
Penn State, Turfgrass
To Dedicate Turfgrass
LEMONT (Centre Co.) The
Pennsylvania State University and
the Pennsylvania Turfgrass Coun
cil have jointly announced plans
for the dedication of a turfgrass
science museum, the “Mascara/
Steiniger Turfgrass Museum,” on
the college campus during the
Penn State Turfgrass Field Days,
scheduled for August 10-11 at
University Park.
According to a news release
from the Pa. Turfgrass Council,
which is headquartered in Lemont,
a town near University Park, the
40,000-square-foot museum is
being constructed on the campus
and is to display a number of turf
grass inventions, including those
developed by Thomas Mascara,
and also the collection of equip-
Walker To Address
Tobacco
LANCASTER (Lancaster Co.)
The Pennsylvania Tobacco
Growers will hold an educational
meeting on August 22 at 7 p.m.
The meeting will be held at Penn
State’s Southeast Field Lab near
Landisville.
Keynote speaker for the eve
ning will be the Honorable Robert
Walker, U.S. congressional repre
sentative from the area.
Congressman Walker will dis
cuss issues of importance to area
tobacco farmers, including the
proposed tax increase on tobacco
products to fund a National Health
Program.
In addition, there will be a de
monstration of a new soil fumi
gant to be used in the preparation
of tobacco beds. Pesticide credits
will be available.
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Wolff said. “Through this new
program we have already collect
ed and chipped more than 2,400
pounds of empty pesticide con
tainers.”
The state’s pesticide container
recycling program began earlier
this year and container drop-off
points have been designated in
Adams, Franklin, and Lancaster
mentof Eberhard Steiniger, a well
known golf course superintendent.
The actual dedication ceremony
is to be held 11:30 a.m., August 11.
The need for a museum was
conceived by Dr. Joseph Duich,
retired Penn State professor, who
worked hard to accumulate the col
lection of equipment and tools
from the past.
Of the museum namesakes.
Mascara was instrumental in the
development of modem tools for
use by golf course superinten
dents. He was president of West-
Point Products for 55 years. In
1986, he and his son John formed
Turf-Tec International, in Oakland
Park, Florida, a company that
designs diagnostic turfgrass
Growers
Other speakers from the tobac
co industry will be discussing the
tobacco marketing perspective for
1995. All tobacco growers and
other interested persons are invit
ed to attend. Refreshments will be
served.
The Southeast Field Lab is lo
cated on Auction Road north of
Route 283 just west of Lancaster.
For more information, contact
Larry Weaver, President, Tobacco
Growers at (717) 354-7477 or Bob
Anderson, Penn State Cooperative
Extension (717) 394-6851.
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Brillion has designed a 3 pt. S-tine field cultivator with a larger,
aggressively angled 12" diameter rolling basket, a 4-bar frame
that allows for either 4" or 6" tooth spacing and an adjustable
coil tine leveler bar. Gauge wheels are optional.
Pennsylvania
ADAMSTOWN
Adamstown Equip. Inc.
ALLENTOWN GREENCASTLE
Lehigh Ag Equipment Meyers Implement
BECHTELSVILLE LANCASTER
Miller Equip. Co. Landis Brothers, Inc.
BERWICK
C.H. Rinehimer & Sons
CARLISLE
Qutshall's, Inc.
DOVER
George N. Gross, Inc.
EASTON
.George V. Seiple
counties in the Erst phase. Some
drop-off sites began operation in
May, and will continue until No
vember.
Secretary Wolff visited the
pesticide ‘container recycling site
at the Adams County Nursery in
Aspers, Adams County. The nur
sery is also the location of a recy
cling site taking place on August
Council
Museum
instruments for golf course
superintendents.
The instruments allow superin
tendents to do a better job in moni
toring soil, moisture and nutrient
conditions. The job of a superin
tendent includes raising a variety
of grasses and landscaping plants
and trees and, in doing so, creating
a landscaped, recreational facility.
They also normally manage a work
crew.
Penn State University offers a
highly competitive and well
respected turfgrass management
course whose graduates are almost
all placed as superintendents or
assistant superintendents on golf
courses around the world.
The other man to whom the
museum is being dedicated, Steini
ger was a golf course superinten
dent at Pine Valley Golf Club, in
Clementon, N.J., for 57 years.
Steiniger is well known for con
verting a sand-waste layout with
only scrub pine, into the number
one golf course in the world. He
collaborated with Mascaro on all
of the more than 20 inventions
developed. Steiniger would test
and evaluate the performance of
the equipment.
He also had accumulated an
impressive private collection of
equipment which also is to be on
display at the museum.
For more information, call or
write to the Pennsylvania Turf
grass Council, P.O. Box 1078,
Lemont, Pa.. 16851-1078, (814)
863-3475.
CONTACT YOUR BRILLION DEALER FOR DETAILS
ELIZABETHTOWN
Messick Farm Equipment Co.
INTERCOURSE
C.B. Hoober & Son
LEBANON
Umberger's of Fontana
LOYSVILLE
Gutshall's, Inc.
LYNNPORT
Kermit K. Klstler, Inc.
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ClugsfonFarm Equipment SG - Lewl * * Son. Inc.
19 and October 11
All sites will be open from 9
a.m. until 3 p.m. on the scheduled
days. All plastic pesticide contain
ers must be triple rinsed or pres
sure rinsed and clean both inside
and outside in order to be accepted
for recycling. There is no charge
At a recycling pickup point at Adams County Nursery are
from left, Tom Oyler Jr., producer from Gettysburg, Agri
culture Secretary Boyd E. Wolff, and Brad Hollabaugh, pro
ducer from Blglerville.
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the usual formed steel bracket, incorporates a hardened steel
bushing AND a zerk grease fitting to lubricate the pivot point
to reduce wear. The result is thousands of acres of extended
life of the shanks.
NEW HOLLAND
A.B.C. Groff, Inc.
OAKLAND MILLS
Peoples Sales & Service
OLEY
Pfkeville Equipment, Inc.
QUARRYVILLE
Grumelli Farm Service
TAMAQUA
Charles Snyder, Inc.
ELMER
Pole Tavern Equip. Sales Corp
WATSONTOWN COLUMBUS
Deerfield Ag & Turf Center, Inc. Reed Brothers Equipment
to producers for the recycling pro
gram.
For more information about the
plastic pesticide container recy
cling program, contact the Penn
sylvania Department of Agricul
ture’s Bureau of Plant INdustry at
(717) 787-4843.
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