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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1958
Page
6
Chpmagro Corporation announces Guthion 12 percent wettable powder is registered by the US Department of Agriculture for use on deciduous fruits. It targets 11 major apple pests, promising to simplify spray programs by replacing multiple chemicals with Guthion and a fungicide.
Dairymen consider raising bull calves to seven weeks as young veal fetches up to 40 cents per pound in Lancaster. Day old calves sell for 1 to 15 dollars. Milk replacers allow veal with feed costs under 20 dollars, total investment near 35 dollars. Apple pests listed include Aphid and Codling Moth, plus European Red Mite and others. fruit pests for peaches, nectarines, apricots, quinces also noted. Pear pests include Plum Curculio and Codling Moth among others.
During the week of January 1925 the Crop Reporting Board reports 5 289 000 people employed on farms a 2 percent drop from the comparable week in 1957 and about eight percent lower than December 1957 This marks the first time since 1925 that hired farm workers fell below 900 000
B Savely Garber of Willow Street a director of Eastern States Farmers Exchange will attend the annual meeting in Springfield Massachusetts on February 28. About 1200 farmers from nine states will gather for the event the fourth of its kind.
The Ralston Purina Co announces a $500 scholarship program for one senior at each of 48 land grant colleges in the United States and three Canadian agriculture colleges. Scholarships are chosen by school faculty, with the program in its fourth year, plus graduate fellowships for agriculture students.
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