THIS VIEW OF THE FIELD-READY TOBACCO PLANTS on Martin farm shows the plastic cover in the background that helped seed in early and the plants off to a fast start. The variety Martin sively this year was Pennbel-69 which was locally-developed at the eastern Research Laboratory. The Farm Bureau Cowculator is a minia ture electronic brain that computes the precise Maximum Profit Feeding level for every cow in your herd. It compares, scientifically, such data as: Price of milk and cost-of feed; the weight, age and reproductive stage of the cow; the daily milk production and butterfat content; the nu trient content of forage and feed, and the weight of hay and silage fed. It then computes, precisely and accurately, these important answers to your dairy feeding questions: Ask your Farm Bureau Feed Serviceman for complete details about this revolutionary new method of finding the Maximum Profit Feeding level for your herd. 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Die FARM BUREAU • The amount of feed necessary for maximum profit. • The pounds of nutuents required for milk production with any quantity of milk and fat content at any given feeding rate. • The pounds of nutrients obtained from for age hay, silage and pasture, or any com bination of these. • The optimum feeding rate based on current milk prices in your maiket area. He also can assist you in getting an analysis made of your forage. From this information, the Cowculator will furnish precise recommendations for Maximum Piofit Feeding. Extra Hi Energy 14% Dari Flo Pellets 16% Dari Flo Pellets FARM BUREAU • Early Tobacco (Continued from Page 1) sene to gas lor heat. Mai tin bent the pipes to span a sixifoot wide bed, at a center height o£ eighteen inches, and spaced the pipes fom feet apart. The pipes weie about BVi feet long, but he felt a stionger stiuc luie could be made with 10- foot pipe so it could be an choied deeper into the giound This extia anchoung mav be an impoilant facloi in icsistance to wind dam age It has been icpoited that scveial faimeis had Incd the plaslic-couned to b< cco beds this ycai and some of these weic not able to withstand the fieak gale that swept thiough the county ear ly in Apnl. Mai tin /planted his hed Mai eh 16, and was no soon er finished than he had a 5- ineh snow coveung on it. He found that load of snow put enough rooistuie into the giound that he didn’t need to water the bed for the first the Ben F. him get his used exclu- PSU South- L. F. Photo “Cowculate” For More Information Call and Ask For RICHARD HANN Manager Feed Sales and Services Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 22, 1965—' FARM BUREAU Supplements 24% Milkmaker 36% Milkmaker 40% Milkmaker 50% Pro Blend four or five weeks. The plas tic cover of couise stopped the moisture fiom escaping and also held the lenspci a- Hue at an ideal level lie used no ieitih/.ei on the bed Ventilation is one of the cutical pioblctms with this method of giowing plants if the giowei doesn’t ventilate soon enough tempeiatuies may get so high undei the plastic covei that scalding may occin neai the center ot the bed on a bnght da; If ventilated too soon, lem pciatmes may be loweied to a point wheie the advantage of plastic ovei muslin oi glass may be lost At the Mai tin hum ventila tion was begun b> opening the covei at the ends about mid-Apiil Then a few dais befoie the fiist of May six to eight inch slits weie cut at fouiifoot inteivals near the ndge About one week before ti ansiplanting, the plastic cover was taken off completely. 'Several days 'after the plants weie moved to the field, Mai tin began to notice some cut-worm damage He sipiayed his 5,000 plants with Toxaphene, and replanted wheie some plants weie killed What aie some of the problems with this method of giowmg plants’ According to Martin’s experience this year he would recommend using longei pipe foi his bows, and would use 9 foot plastic instead of 8 foot for a 6-foot bed to allow moie material to be anchoied at the edges He hopes to find a belter way of spi inkling his plants undei the covei. He seemed satisfied with Ins lesutts, and will piobably use this method again next year. Hemy Engle ofteied some geneial lecommendations to any groweis intei ested in tiying the plastic-covei meth od for staitmg their tobacco plants 1 Use 10-ifoot sections of %-mch galvanized pipe for a 6-foot bed so that the center of the bow will be about two feeit above the plants ,He feels this greater height un der the plastic will help keep tempei atures down, and will piovide more spiead for the water pattern 2 Pieplant spraying with Chlordane to prevent out Worm damage Avoid "Substitute" Pesticides On Forage Crops, Bull Cautions Pennsylvania farmers, par ticularly dairy faimers, weie cautioned against the use of “substitute” pesticides for spiaymg forage crops recent ly 'State Agriculture Secretary Leland H Bull said dauymen should be “absolutely ceitam that their hay fields aie spiayed only with approved materials at recommended lates of application” If in doubt about eithei the prod uct oi the amount that should be applied, he said, tarmeis should consult then county agent befoie spiaymg 'Secietaiy Bull pointed out that the Agucultuie Depart ment is engaged in an exten sive icseaich pioject in con junction with the Pennsylvan ia State Umveisity, constant ly testing milk foi traces of pesticide residues “The ipurpose of this pio gi am is twofold” he ex plained “Fust to safeguaid oui milk supplies and assiue consumei s a safe wholesome ■7
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