Milford chronicle., 1961-03-03
Farm And Home
Week Highlights


jects covered in this years Farm
and Home Week program on the
University of Delaware campus in
Newark, Feb. TO. Poultry was the
lead-off topic Tuesday morning
when the event got underway
Pellets-hay pellets fed TO horses,
that is. was one of the final topics
Thursday night.
Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse
took a holiday from his duties in
Washington. DC, to attend the
livestock sessions OF Farm and
Home Week. Senator Morse is
president of the American Devon
Breeders Club. The board of dir
ectors OF this purebred beef cattle
organization held its annual meet
ing in conjunction with the live
stock program on the campus.
Senator Morse greeted tn e
states livestock farmers and dis
cussed the history OF the Devon
cattle breed.
The Senator. who owns herd
of 225 Devon cattle. explained that
the breed Is the oldest among beef
cattle. They are the original cattle
OF the British Isles and from them
breeders developed the Hereford
and ShorthOrn cattle OF today. De-
vons came 20 America with the
Pilgrims and served them as multi
purpose animals for meat. milk.
and work. The Texas Longhorn
also had Devon blood.
Commenting on the proposed
new US. assistance program TO
Latin America, Senator Morse, who
heads the subcommittee on Latin
America in the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee. indicated.
that improved education. health.
and land reform programs were
needed in that area of the world
10 head off the spread of Commun-
ism.
He said that Communism his
torically is rural movement that
takes root in areas of extreme
poverty and ignorance. later
spreading to cities. He said those
who embrace il feel they have
little to lose anyway so they join
the revolution. The US. has pledg-
ed $500. .0OO, 900 to Latin American
countries TO be used in the areas
OF education and health, to build
farm-to-market roads and to assist
the governments in initiating land
ownership programs for farmers.
~GovernOr Ebert y. Carvel was
on hand TO present awards TO
Delaware's 1860 15-Ton Tomato
Club winners at Thursdays veg
etable sessions. The Governor pre-
sented the top prizes-a wrist
watch and a silver pitcher-to Mr..
Arthur Walker of s. II. Derby and
Co, Woodside. for producing an
average yield of almost 81 tons of
tomatoes per acre on % acres.
Second place prizes, a desk pen
set and a silver pitcher. went to
Joseph BergoId. Magnolia. for hit
ting a yield of 26.1 tons per acre
on II acres.
Third place prize. wallet, went
TO Hans Steffans, Camden. who
grew 24.27 tons per acre on 1872
acres.
Governor CarveI was surprised
by a tomato birthday cake"
Thursday was his 81 birthday
made up of Is candle-speared to-
matoes, presented by Mrs. Richard
Green. Middletown, secretary in
the department of plant pathology
in Agricultural Hall.
Others awarded 15-ton certifi-
Gates included: Bancroft and Tho
mas. Camden. 23.7S tons; Freder-
ick w. Haas & Son, Middletown,
23.51 tons. Fifer Fruit Farms,
Magnolia, 22.4 tons; Donald ].
Isaacs. Townsend, 22.4 tons; Mill
ard Dixon, Dover. 2I.0 tons: Dom
aid C.. Appenzeller. Magnolia, 210
tons: Nicholas Uniatowski e. Son,
Townsend, 20.53 tons; Paul Spear
& Son. Laurel. 1881 tons: Mechael
Cartanza, Dover. 1889 tons: Carle-
ton Lowe. Laurel, 1852 tons: G.E.
& S.H. Brooks. Middletown, 1875
tons, Joseph Jackewicz. Camden,
1912 tons. Dover Fruit Farms,
Dover, 17.42 tons; George ]. Pyott,
Dover, 1893 tons: Charles II. West
Frederica, 1874 tons: IT. Edward
Wheatly. Bridgeville, 1853 tons.
AGRONOMY
Alfalfa hay received the serious
attention of the first two speakers
on the agronomy program Tues
day morning. George p. Lippincott
Dorchester Fertilizer Co. Cam
bridge, Md, pointed to John An
glin, Lewes. Del dairy farmer, for
an example Of what alfalfa can
do. Anglin. the 1860 alfalfa champ
ion in the Delaware Crop Improve
ment Association yield contest,
grew $4,000 pounds of alfalfa hay
per acre with an analysis show
ing it to be rs percent digestible.
Lippincott said this means An
glin was growing 1898 worth of
milk per acre. He expressed a.
mazement that more farmers are
not growing alfalfa on the PENN
sula.
Lippincott said, at is a peren-
nial. you don't have to plant IL
for half the cost of starting a new
field, it's dependable in dry wealth
er, and anybody can raise four
tons per acre.
He recommended band seeding
alfalfa with an 0-1-3 ratio fertilizer.
This reinforced the stand taken
by DR.. William II. Mitchell, ex-
tension agronomist with the Uni
versity Of Delaware, who preceded
Lippincott on the program.
Mitchell said he visited 20 Del
aware farms last fall that had al
falfa showing potash deficiency.
This causes reduced yields and