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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1958
Page
12
An illustrated graph shows food costs rising over the past twenty years with about half the increase from services and transportation. Farmers note that prices received for their products have not kept pace with overall cost escalation.
Penn State plant pathologist L Burke notes anthracnose in tomatoes can be halted by applications of maneb or ziram though the current threat level remains low. Hot dry weather lowers late blight risk. maneb controls late blight, ziram less so, while early blight is largely absent in fields. Pink and green aphids rise in many fields with flea beetles and Colorado potato beetle larvae present. an insecticide should accompany the first fungicide.
Apply spray after the first hand of tomatoes forms. Use fungicide plus an insecticide initially, then fungicide alone at 10 day intervals. Fungicides include 3 lb of 70 percent Wettable Powder Maneb per acre or 3 lb of 25 percent Wettable Powder Ziram per acre, with Parathion or Malathion as the insecticide. Parathion or Malathion doses are specified per product form, and Parathion requires container precautions.
University of Minnesota tests show eight steers fed pelleted 70 percent barley and 30 percent oats outgained those on unpelleted mix and earned about 540 dollars more profit per head.
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