If% T « » - •« n • 32—Lancaster Forming, Saturday, January 2, 1965 Forage Hybrids, Grasses Lower In Prussic Acid Sucking rats sorghum hybrids, the fat mors bust summer an nual ctops foi rotational pas tine and gieen feeding, can be high-yielding and i datively Jtee of dangerous levels of ptussic acid, farmets and crop specialists heard recently dur ing (he fifth annual Grassland Conference at The Pennsylvan ia State University. Experiments with various su dangi ass-sot ghum hybrids in 1964 found that Suchow 34, for example, produced excel lent yields of about four and tinee-qu.it ter tons of dry mat ter per acie with fan ly low levels of pi ussie acid This was leported by Joseph D. Hamng ton, of the depat tment of agio nomy at Penn State who said farmeis are aware of the poten tial danger of prussic acid poi soning While Piper sudangrass had much less piussic acid than any of the hybuds, yields of- Piper weie consideiably lower than the sudan-soi ghum hy buds. Di Hainngton pointed out His experiments have found that di ought increases the piussic acid content of the hybrids He said these forages should not be pastured or used for gieen chop until the plants aie 30 inches or more in height Stunted sudangiass should not be used under pro longed di ought conditions Lawrence F Maniott, re seal cher in soil technology, said peienmal glasses have the ability to survive and glow undei conditions that would kill alfalfa As pi oof, he said Ritchie Dealer For Hogs And Beef Cattle New Livestock Book Shows How Extra dairy profits of $2,310 with 30 caws? 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Colorful New \AjliA\i6 page livestock book t \jry \ Just off the pre«s Valuable and \ profitable readme for every live* stock man Come m and ask for Y-- your FREE copy. Wilson M. Scott R. D. 1, Willow St. much hilly land would be near ly bare if all grasses were to disappear suddenly. While alfalfa is queen of the forages, grasses will tolerate acid soil conditions which al falfa will not tolerate, Dr. Marriott stated. He said he was not iccommemling acid soil farming but was pointing out that Pennsylvania has a lot of acid soil. Dunne Joins Federal Animal Research Team Howard W. Dunne, profes sor of veterinary science at The Pennsylvania State Uni versity, has been assigned to a new task force on livestock lesearch of the state Agri cultural Experiment Stations and the US. Department of Agiiculfure. The task force was organ ized at the request of the Senate appropriations commit tee. The objective, says Dr. Dunne, is to study and re poit on meat animal research, underway and proposed, by the state Agricultural Experi ment Stations and the De partment of Agriculture The task foice report will emphasize the economic value TELEPHONE 854-7867 owv a. Gowpamj, MANUFACTURERS OF POULTRY AND ANIMAL FEEDS • j • *oi PUM* <V<i»«w of livestock research, the na ture of research and the fa cilities needed, and potential value of new knowledge gained from research. As a phase of the task force project, directors of land grant Agricultural Experi ment Stations in the North east met recently in New York City to discuss their current and projected livestock re seal ch programs Chairman of the New York meeting was Alex Black, As sociate Director of the Station at Penn State. Attending as resource persons, in addition to Dr. Dunne, were Macklin E. John, head of the Depart ment of Agricultural Econom ics and Rural Sociology; Don ald V. Josephson, head of the Department of Dairy Science, A. J. G. Maw, head of the i Department of Poultry Science, and Russell C. Miller, head of the Department of Animal Industry and Nutrition. - The overall task force in cludes 9 scientists from the state Agricultural Experiment Station staffs, 9 scientists from the staff of the Cooperative State Research Service in the U.S.D A., and 15 scieni s rep resenting U.S D.A. divisions doing livestock research. YORK, PENNSYLVANIA To All Of Oar Many Lancaster County Customers and Friends: Thank you for giving us the opportunity of doing business with you and for the fine cooperation you extended to our company this past year. As we start a New Year, it is usually customary to look back over the past year and see what we have accomplished. As we did this, we found that more HOHNCO feed was used, by far, than ever before in our company's history. For this we can thank only you, our many fine customers. It is indeed a pleasure to do business with the people of Lancaster County. A finer group of business-minded farm people I am sure could not be found anywhere else in the country. During the coming year our company will be doing everything in our power to make HORNCO Feed and HORNCO Services even better than they were in 1964. We are indeed looking forward to another year of pleasant business relations. (2* “Service makes the Difference” SAVE MONEY with • • Reists Seeds A Big Selection of ALFALFAS CLOVERS Freshly Inoculated (at no extra charge) VOLKMAN HYBRID SUDAN SORGHUM For fast growing silage green chopping pasture REIST SEED COMPANY Mount Joy, Pa. Phone: 653-3821 me/. Yours truly. D. E. HORN AND COMPANY, INC. E, 0. Horn, Sr, President FEEDS January 2, 1965
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