B—Lancaster8 —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July IG, 1960 COMPARING THE DIFFERENCES m cultural practices in this experimental plot of corn at the Manheim Central High School, shows Joseph McGahen, teacher of vocation al agriculture, that cultivation and fine seedbed preparation have made very little differ ence in the size of the corn or the incidence of weeds Rough soil m the foreground shows that the corn was planted right behind the plow without working the soil down To the right of McGahen, soil was disced several times and worked down with the culti packcr before planting The corn has been cultivated once The wheel track planted plots do ha\e some weeds, but McGahen believes the corn has enough headstart to crowd most of them out. L F. Photo Now Available AT ROHRER’S Dithane M-22 and other ROHM & HAAS PRODUCTS Retail & Wholesale Distributors SMOKETOWN. PA. Ph. Lane. EX 7-3539 Profitmakers the World Over TRIED AND PROVEN IN THIS AREA. Gei more eggs while still getting maximum feed effi ciency and top egg quality. REDUCED PRICES ON JULY HATCHED PULLET CHICKS. J. HOWARD MOORE, Sales Mgr. Second Avenue LITITZ, PENNA. Phone; MAdison 6-5408 Windle’s Hatchery HAROLD G. WINDLE COCHRANVILLE. PA. Phone: Alolen LY 3-5941 GRASS IN SHADE The grea test number of Creeping red fescue, Chew- ~ , . , , „ . ing's fescue, Poa trivialis, accidents involving tractor and Kentucky 31 fescue are hpovers occur in level land, the most shade-tolerant Excessive speed, unevenly grasses, report Jack Harper, adjusted brakes and ditch Penn atate extension turf banks are more dangerous specialist. than steep hills. Maine's John C. McCall gro with up-to-date equipment •■V , t-v ' v<,/ s* <r ~ ftfa' % <-*>« John C. "Tex" McCall uses two-way radio to check progress, of a spraying operation on another of the farms which make up Dupram F® Flag fiies over the large Garrison Colonial farm home of McCall and hit McCall maintains a modern, wdUequipped office on wife, Ardis, shown on steps. to conduct business reaching many distant points in lh* lo Wheeitrack Corn Plots Planted By Manheim FFA Farmers in the Manheim area will have a chance to "t-arvo at h i ‘ <) f fc- tnces in c'.Jii. r .ii p-actic s .n the con e. ' Students a' Manheim Cen tral high school under the guidance of Joseph McGah en, teacher of vocational ag riculture have set up demon stration plots on the ground adjacent to the vocational agriculture shops at the rear of the high school buildings. The purnose of the plots is to show the results of three different cultural practices on the growth of corn. Using' one variety of hy brid and one fertilization pro eram, the plots will test the value of planting in the tractor wheel track versus complete cultivation of the seedbed and cultivation of the corn after it is up and growing. All plots were pl anted on the same day ZARTMAN’S ROLLER MILLS Buyer Of Milling Wheat and Grain Storage LITITZ. R. D. 1 k > ✓ N All the plots recei\p ( | p same treatment beloie pi ow ° mg Super phosphate at u,' rate of 525 pounds pci nc e and u)0 pounds of Ai-^ Ol , e um Nitrate per acr w ' spread on the plots plowing began. In the fw of three r.lols the com \ V a plan!ed In the plowed fi without working the soil down at all after the pi ow In the second of the pi ots the disc v.as broug'it ln ai)( J taken over the field only once to smooth out the seed bed slightly. In the check plot a normal Lancastei Co unty program of three clisc ings and onre over vuh the culti; acker was used An apolication of 200 lbs of 5-10-10 commercial feti lizer was put beside the row in each plot at planting All three pots were sprayed with atnzme at planting ti (Turn to page 9) E. F. ZARTMAN. PROP, i;%, -t *¥ , W^l\' > 4 ;A> , < s Ph. MA 6-2296 y - ' »♦ 4 \ * x< i
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