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Newspaper
Bennington Banner
Location
Bennington, Vermont, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1976
Page
10
In Bennington Vermont since 1972 street trees have nearly doubled in size despite poor sites. The piece urges residents to plant new trees this bicentennial year, stressing lower cost saplings, proper species like sugar maple or white pine, and early spring planting with mulch and stakes to ensure growth.
Extension horticulturist notes that overwatering deprives roots of oxygen and fosters root rot. Water needs vary by container, plant size, soil, humidity, and temperature. A practical rule is to water when the soil is dry to the touch and ensure the entire soil ball is moistened.
Farmers may enroll in the Agricultural Conservation Program and share in the cost of approved conservation practices through the 1976 program, as announced by Charles Palmer, chairman of the Bennington County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee.
BELTSVILLE Md for the first time successive generations of selection produced a 2 4 D tolerant birdsfoot trefoil strain called T-68. It is 3 to 5 times more tolerant than Viking and, though 2 4 D slightly damages leaves, the plant recovers quickly. Enrollment for cost share programs runs through March 31 with meetings on March 16 23 and 31 at county sites for producers in northern areas. The program offers 50 percent government cost sharing on most practices and 75 percent for woodland improvement and streambank stabilization. A soil test is required and fertilizer is available at contract prices. Palmer urges interested farmers to contact the county office.
The Vermont Beef Producers Association held its annual meeting in Barre on January 27 with 31 members. Officers elected were Albert Kittredge president Edwin Gast vice president Everette Filgate secretary Richard Koehne treasurer and several directors and honorary directors named. Dr A E Janowicz spoke on the brucellosis outbreak traced to cattle from Canada. Programs include a short course at UVM April 10 a Spring Sale May 8 and Field Day July 24. Membership remains 5 with junior dues at 2. Robert Rudd Jr. will run the county office in Bennington.
A conservation planning meeting is set for Monday March 1 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Schodack Town Hall Wynantskill. The Rensselaer County Soil & Water Conservation District sponsors to explain the 1975 state law urging landowners with 25 acres plus in East Greenbush and Schodack to prepare a conservation plan with district technicians' help.
Vermont landowners can boost maple sugar efficiency by selecting sweeter trees. Extension forester Ray Foulds explains that higher sugar content reduces sap per gallon, cutting energy and labor. Testing uses a refractometer, with color coding from yellow to blue to mark sweetness levels.
A UPI report summarizes an Agriculture Department analysis warning family sized egg farms face possible extinction against factory style operators unless they accept lower returns. It compares costs for cooperatives versus integrated complexes and notes limited progress of farmer owned production chains.
Termites arriving in the United States in imported goods from Taiwan are larger, breed faster, and have about 45 percent greater appetite than American termites, according to findings by the National Geographic Society.
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