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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1956
Page
7
A dense reader shows varied items from farm work and real estate to animal stock and home goods. Listings include Nubian goats for sale, a 74 acre Mt Pleasant George town farm, a Cope and Weaver spread, Avon direct sales in Quarryville and Lancaster, and supplies like poultry feed from Salisbury's.
Catalog of local sale notices includes ten Jamesway nests used one season twelve units for sale. One or more $1000 contact Clar W N Bomberger Lititz. Also dog collection over 100 pieces, Way of Cross Leads Home engraving cross and walnut book ends. Turkey orders and other farm notices. Rental ads for two modern apts and seven room farm house near Manheim.
Norman E. Reber of Pennsylvania Farmer praises electricity as essential to farm efficiency at the Reddy Kilowatt award ceremony for the Stoltzfus farm in Morgantown. Louis G Stoltzfus receives the award with PP&L officials noting electrification as a blessing and a sign of self-reliant family farming.
Rates for classified ads with box numbers 25 cents extra. Repeats of 3 or more consecutive insertions billed at four cents per word with an 80 cent minimum. Send copy to Classified Advertising Dept Lancaster Farming Quarryville PA. Deadline Wednesday morning. no ads accepted after 10:00 a.m. Wednesday.
A six page Farmers Bulletin from the U S Department of Agriculture explains clover leaf weevil control for alfalfa and white clover. It notes weevil damage is common but rarely total and that humidity favors a fungus that keeps the pest in check. The bulletin recommends fertility and fungal-supporting practices to protect clover and alfalfa.
The bulletin promotes vigorous plant growth and humus for moisture, recommends alfalfa and clover in rotations, notes fungous disease aids growth, and suggests fall spray with methoxychlor at 1 lb per acre in the South. Free copies of The Clover Leaf Weevil and Its Control FB No 1484 available from USDA Information Office Washington 25 D.C.
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