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THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1958 PAGE SEVEN Adams County Farm Building County Agent Urges Fruit Growers To Display Apples At Farm Show Next January By FRANK S. ZETTLI Adams County Farm Agent Last year five counties, Adams Erie, Franklin. Lancaster, an Lehigh, had county associatio displays of apples and othe fruit at the State Farm Products Show in Harrisburg. All fruitgrowers of Adams County are urged to enter some of their best fruit at the nex show in Harrisburg, January 1959. The prize money is attrac tive.

but the opportunity for ad vertising is unsurpassed. The bountiful crop of apples in the county this year shouli be enough to assure a splendid exhibit of this popular fruit a the State Farm Products Show next January. Plans are under way for a beautiful display from all parts of the state. Expect Many In past years not only fruit growers but apple consumers -and that means or should mean everybody have seen the apple displays. This year the generous premium list is expected to bring out this beautifu fruit in profusion.

For the person who has never seen an apple show it is quite a revelation to stand at the head of the stairs and look down the long table covered with the most perfect and beautiful and apples the state of Pennsylvania can produce while the racks covered with trays and boxes of different colored apples give a suggestion of plenty and add to the colorfulness of the room. In addition to the attractive- FARM MACHINERY EQUIPMENT and SUPPLIES New Idea and Case Farm Equipment ness of the exhibit there is an educational value not to be despised. The fruit grower who views the exhibit sees what can be done in the production of perfect fruit. The exhibitor in selecting his exhibit and in comparing it with the exhibit of his neigh bor learns why it is that one man can get several dollars a bushel for apples when his neighbor cannot sell his at a dollar. For the consumer there is the opportunity of learning the different varieties so that the huckster can no longer sell Ben Davis apples and call them Delicious.

Mulch Protects Beds Killing frosts, which already have occurred in the county, should serve as a warning to growers to prepare for putting strawberry patch to bed the winter. Although plant- ngs need not be mulched until he temperature drops to 20 de- jrees, normally In late Novem- er, it is well to make prepara-: tions early. I Be sure there is enough good mulching material on hand to do he job. Seed free 'wheat straw the ideal mulching material. ut other straws, early-cut hay.

chopped cornstalks, leaves, and ine needles are often used. An jf these materials will do i hey are free frpm seeds, anc not too heavy, or too light. Have enough mulch to cover the plants a depth of 4 or 5 inches when irst applied, or about 2 inches when packed down. This re quires about 3 to 4 tons of wheat per acre, or 16 pounds per 100 quare feet. Frequent warm periods melt the snow and thaw the top 3 or 4 nches of the soil several times uring the winter months in most Pennsylvania.

This means that trawberry plants not only are artially heaved from the soil, ut also have no protection in many cases when temperatures The Weeders Guide By CYNTHIA LOWRY AP Newsfeetures Writer CHAPPAQUA, N. Y. The season for fresh-pulled corn has long gone, and the green tomatoes, each wrapped in its package of torn newspapers, are ripening slowly in the cool cellar for eating next month or, with luck, even the one after that. The narcissus are in the ground, the peony and iris stalks have been cut and burned, not composted, the perennial garden has been dug over and fed. There are still some shrubs lp plant, a couple of oak saplings to move from a nursery bed out to che border, the tulips to set in and for perhaps another couple of weeks, the hedge to clip, the grass to mow (no lower than two inches this late) and he fallen to sweep.

It is, except for maintenance chores, the end of the season, and a curious season it has been. For SCHWARTZ'S FARM SUPPLIES 200 Hanover St Gettysburg, Pa. Phone 541-Z are below 15 degrees the ritical temperature for injury the tissues of the crown of the lant. That makes mulching even more essential in the state than arther north, where the snow tays on all winter, or farther south, where temperatures do not drop so low. Value Of Using Manure What fields should be topdress- ed with manure this fall and winter? This is one of the questions very often asked.

Where supplies are limited, it is important that manure be applied where it will do the most good. Give next year's corn fields top priority. The poorer the sod being plowed under for corn the more important it is to topdress them with manure. To produce top yields of corn large amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are needed. A 10-ton application per acre of manure is equivalent to about 50 Ibs.

of 10-10-10 per acres. once, in our locale at any rate, we never lacked for rain all he watering I did all season long vas from the watering can and only when setting in and estab- ishing transplants. For the first time within my memory, the lawn grasses never had a mid-season dormant period, the deciduous trees never once looked dry and tired. For some seasons I've fretted about a big elm which towers over the garage. Usually it started to turn yellow early, and each year--like all elm owners--I've worried about its health.

But this year, with all the rain and coolness. 1 KHOW that at the moment at least, the elm so far has escaped the fatal beetle-spread blight. A neighbor of mine, also an elm-worrier, has had the same experience. She. however, was so convinced that the elm was fighting a losing battle that she had a fast-growing sapling planted beside the old tree so that there would be something to take its place.

The rain and the coolness was for grasses, trees and shrubs jut it certainly slowed up the lowers and vegetables. Our tomatoes were smaller than usual and about three weeks behind their usual schedule. The dahlias were late in blooming and so were asters and chrysanthemums, but never have I seen such a fine display of fall roses than my hy- rid teas put forth. Belter Spraying Maybe it was better spraying, jut maybe also it was the weather, but although the aphids were present on their favorite plants roses, lupine and nasturium) here seemed less than usual. was a light year for Japanese )eetle and i didn't find a single spider all season, even on the glow But mildew turned ip on the phlox, the lilacs and A Farms, Homes, Motels, Stores, Restaurants, Gas Stations, Etc.

Us Before Buying J. C. MEAM Phone 6S-Y Gettysburg, Po. Now $495.00 F.O.B. Plant ALL HANDS MAN YOUR spray sun siimu Other places to use manure to advantage are winter wheat iekls that will be overseeded icxt spring to legumes.

However, ise only light applications (S to tons per acre' of a well- hreckied strawy manure. Apply his in the winter after the ground las been frozen. Pastures Will Benefit Permanent pastures which are i predominately grass will also (benefit from manure application this fall and winter. The best rate of application is 10-12 tons per acre. In general, good legume stands, should not be topdressed with manure.

The nitrogen in the manure fs not needed and can do some harm by stimulating grasses which will then push out the legumes. If the field is to be plowed next year this is not a problem. In all cases, reinforcing manure with superphosphate at the rate of 2 Ibs. per cow per day or 50 Ibs. per ton of manure is recommended.

even touched the butterfly bust if you skipped on scheduled dust ing. And. of course, the slugs-those slimy garden snails--had a wonderful summer and have a head-start on next season's gar den unless they can be tempted this fall with fresh poison bait Mulching Attachments Mulching attachments on rotary lawn mowers come in handj at this time. They can chew up leaves so that, left to break down into rich mold, the process takes much less time than if they were merely heaped in a shady spot to let nature take its chourse. Best however, not to use anything bu oak leaves or evergreen needles for garden mulching, for leaves of elm, mapie, and such are like ly to become heavy, smothering blankets.

Incidentally, save the mulching material--whether it leaves, peatmoss, straw or what but don't apply the winter blanke on the garden until the groum has become deeply and thoroughly frozen. Keep Frost In Ground Then use it to keep the frost in the ground; to prevent the destructive heaving which winterkills so many otherwise hardy plants by exposing their root systems. If cold weather threatens and you still have your tulip bulbs to plant, a good plan to cover the empty bulbs beds with a thick coating of leaves which will prevent the ground beneath from freezing and thus make work possible, even if not very pleasant. Tulips of course can be planted well into winter weather almost anytime up to Christmas if the soil is workable. CHAPPAQUA, N.

Y. 1 have a little fall problem I can never solve. It is called "Autumn Leaves." which is nice for a song title, but something less than charming if one has a large lawn area which includes a large as sortment of trees, mostly deciduous. Everyone who has picked up a hand cultivator known that one of Nature's most precious materials is leaves. You can compost them into rich, nutrious leafmold.

You can save them as a blanket for your borders. You must never, never burn them because it's like burning money. But, on the other hand, you must not let the leaf- fall get ahead of you because if you must let them stay where they fall, they will smother the grass. This is my dilemma. I've got a lot of trees and they all drop their leaves except for a few yews, hemlocks and jackpines.

We'd be waist-deep in leaves if I didn't have my lawnsweeper out almost daily in leaf-dropping season. I can save some of them, but I sure can't keep all of them. What do you do with the left-over? I don't know anybody you can give leaves to all my neighbors complain the way I do. Even the garbage man rejects them. There's nothing left to do except burn them and then the neighbors and the fire department get nervous.

I wouldn't even mind their nerves, either, if I didn't feel ashamed of myself for destroying all that good potential leaf-mold and mulch. However, I just don't see any other thing to do And one more thing before I move on to something 'else: everybody By EDWARD S. KITCH CHICAGO (AP.i Buying a house is a neadache that begins when you first decide to buy, hurts most at buying time and asts a lifetime if you've bought unwisely. It pays to be cautious both in vour selection of a realty agent and in the house. Your world of dreams shatters easily with a poor location, poor inancing and poor construction.

Vhat you need most is advice, not money. That is the reason William Alter, president of a Chicago realty firm, made a survey of .000 home buyers. He wanted to Snow how they went about find- ng the house of their dreams and if later they figured they made a good purchase. "Better Deal" He found that 37 per cent felt hey could have made a better' deal. I Alter says the important factor in house buying is look before you leap.

When you get tired of the looking, bargaining and deciding, you are apt to rush in where apartment dwellers fear to tread. "Too many buyers made the major decision at a time when they 'Were simply too tired to look any further," Alter said. mows that you should collect the jak leaves separately and save I hem for such purposes as making an acid mulch over the roots he broadleaved evergreens and form a non-smothering blan- cet over the flower borders. Well, have tried, but it simply can't done successfully on my place, 'he maple, the hickories, the tu- ip tree and all the rest drop their eaves, too, and a wind comes along and mixes them all up. I an save a few oak leaves, but not 11 of them unless I organize a eries of oak leaf-picking bees, which I don't think would be poplar.

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