A Gardner s Notes On flowering shrubs for home landscapes
On home grounds flowering shrubs offer color and form variety with minimal care. Small compact shrubs require little pruning while large types like forsythia and potentilla suit banks and foundations, reducing mowing and grading costs. Visit nurseries to see container grown plants and plan with a local specialist.
Ayrshire Cow Sets Official Milk Record in Trumansburg
Otter Creek D R Betty Bernie, a Junior 4 year old registered Ayrshire cow from Burr Ayr Farms, completed an official milk production record of 13530 pounds with 508 pounds of butterfat during a 305 day DHIR test. The record reflects growing entries in the Ayrshire Breeders Association program and is 17/8 times the national average for dairy cows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trumansburg
Charles E. Burr Burr
Ayr Farms
Otter Creek
Betty Bernie
Bernie
Ayrshire
Grape Insurance Opens for Seneca County Growers
Grape insurance via the U S Department of Agriculture FCIC is available for a limited time in Seneca County. In 1968 over 10 000 acres were insured with nearly 4 million dollars in coverage, a 25 percent rise from 1967. Representatives will visit area growers to explain the program and its benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Federal Crop Insurance Corp
Seneca County
Gail Abbott
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
FCIC
ASCS
Holsteins Earn Production Credits For Local Cows
Interlaken report from Holstein-Friesian Association shows Lawara Span Jerry 6029552 yielded 18 260 lbs milk and 665 lbs butterfat in 365 days while Lawara Bell Jean 66339 38 produced 16 100 lbs milk and 658 lbs butterfat. Both are in Lewis S Bell Lawara Farm herd at Kidders with comparison to US average 8 82 1 lbs milk and 325 lbs butterfat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawara
Jerry
Lawara Bell Jean
Lewis S. Bell
Lawara Farm
Kidders
VanVleet honored for service to Farm Family Insurance
Stanley VanVleet of Ovid received the Builder Agent Award for outstanding service to Farm Family Insurance Co. in a Seneca County Farm Bureau meeting at James Wilkins home in Interlaken. He runs a 1,000 acre livestock crop and fertilizer business in Lodi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Knight
Ovid
Stanley VanVleet
Farm Family Insurance Co
Seneca County Farm Bureau
James Wilkins
Interlaken
VanVleet
New York
Hemme Huttunen
Ithaca
Farm Family
Huttunen
Lodi
Alfred Cobb
Waterloo
Helen Dean
Canoga
Edward Kime
Geneva
Ray Dean
Covert
Harold Batl
Fayette
Robert Long
Seward Dodson
Junius
David Mollenhauer
Clarence Ward
Rodney van Vleet
Romulus
Harry Warne
William Hudson
Seneca Falls
Carl Swanson
Tyre
Norman Cole
Varick
Elmer Somerville
Howard
Burt Burgess
Kenneth
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Ithaca Farm Equipment, Inc
Mecklenburg Road
Ithaca, NY
Holstein-Friesian Assoc
America
U.S
National Holstein Assoc
Holstein- Friesian Assoc. of America
Dean
N.Y
Wilkins
Dale Buck
Paul Judd
George Covert
Canoga Presbyterian Church
Montour Falls Rendering Works
Montour Falls
Allis Chalmers
Berry’s Garden Tractor Service
Reynoldsville, N.Y
Rumbey Street
Seneca Palls