gation Might Easily Double
lited States Crop Production
n
regressive rise In soil produc
y has been brought about by:
I) Mechanization; (2) Hybrid
d; -(3) Chemical Fertilizer;
Sprinkler irrigation.
ome of the farmers caught m
current cost-price squeeze are
Jing their own ways to in
ase 'profits by lowering unit
ts, Dr. Gciald G- Williams,
il recently an agronomist at
•due University, points out.
; latest wnnkle, he says, is
inkier irrigation
These farmers, like their
lers who traded horses for
tors, created' revolutions in
ning. They befuddle efforts to
[trol production by cutting
cage and upset Malthusian
dictions of a starving world,
t Now Making Own Rain
First it was mechanization.
>n, a couple of decades ago
\ discovered hybrid seed,
m around J94U consumption
chemical fertilizers climbed
Siard with tarm income and
'the past four years fertilizer
[ has continued to climb de
te the decline m total farm
these production-minded
-s are making their own
result’ Many produce
as much and more per
as do their neigbors who
in nature to provide enough
*.ure and other elements to
;e a crop
Williams, now manager of
ion research for Olm Ma
ui Chemical Corporation,
’ts that m another decade
ler irrigation systems will
commonplace on Ameri
irms as combines are today,
decade ago Olin Mathieson
\ supplying irrigation sys
because farmers sure of
to make their ccop are
inclined to use the opti
amount of chemical ferti-
litigation systems are one.
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lions of dollars, are expected to
increase rapidly as more farmers
discover the economics of high
acreage yields
Many Tutu to Sprinklers
Flood irrigation for decades
has been commonplace in Cali
fornia and ether and states in
the West, all hough even there
many farmeis are turning to
sprinklers
In the humid East, only the
truck farmers used irrigation un
til the end ol World War II;
farmers forgot from one year to
the next that even in wet years
there were pei iods T of drought.
Now, more and more farmers
are irrigating corn, cotton, tobac
co, pastures and other field crops
They find it pays.
Sprinkler irrigation has spread
to every section of the country.
In 1946 less than 250,000 acres in
a few isolated areas were spnnk-
Circulation Director
Robert J- Wiggins
Robert J. Wiggins, Quarryville,
has joined Lancaster Farming as
circulation director, it was an
nounced today by the new Lan
caster COuuty farm weekly.
Bob, a native of Lancaster
County, is a con of Mrs Morton
R. (Alma C.) Bowman and the
late Arthur Wiggms He was
born in Refton, and has lived in
that neighborhood as well as on a
Drumore Township farm for two
years, before moving into Qarry
vile-
He was graduated from South
ern Lancaster County Joint Com
munity High School in Quarry
ville in 1954, and since his days
as a Freshman has been well
known in the County as a com-
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ler irrigated This year, it is esti
mated, 3 5 million acres are be
ing irrigated by this method-
Farmers wno try it soon learn
to look to irrigation which
they can measure and control
as the basic source of moisture
for their crops They look upon
any rainfall as supplementary to
u
Probably foi the fust time in
America, a national sales meet
ing of irrigation specialists was
staged in Little Rock, Ark., this
fall by Ohn Mathieson.
Di Williams pulled three work
ing farmers from their fields for
p day and let them tell irrigation
salesmen what water does for
field crops
Yields Prov" Astounding
Riley Allen of Blackshear,, Ga ,
said he produces 3,100 lbs of
cigarette quality tobacco per acre
by using irrigation The state aver
age is about 1200 lbs per acre.
J W Pruett of Inverness, Miss,
several times has won the state
five-acre cotton contest with
j lelds ranging above four bales
per acre. Most cotton farmers in
the Mississippi Valley would, be
mercial photographer. During
high school, he held the unusual
record of being vice president of
his Freshman class and president
of his Sophomore, Junior and
Senior classes- In that time and
since, many of his photographs
have appeared in the High School
yearbook and in dedicatory book
lets, for elementary schools
throughout townships in the
Southern End.
Since graduation he has worked
for L- H- Warfel in Quarryville
as a driver, and as a clerk at
Raub’s Supply. He attends the
Fairview Church of God
He will be making many calls
in Lancaster County, and will be
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happy to produce one bale per
acre.
Don Bezy of Sullivan, Ind,
produced 130 bushels of corn
per acre on test plots in 1954 by
using irrigation supplemented by
12 inches of rain In 1955 he an
ticipates producing 114 bushels
per acre on 150 acres His neigh
bors on similar land without ir
rigation commonly average half
of this
Talk of 200 bushel and even 300
bushel corn doesn’t raise eye
brows among the farmers who
have run test plots on heavily ir
rigated and heavily fertilized hy
brid corn, says Bezy.
Protein Piimary Problem
lingating pastures seems like
wasting good water, time and
money to the uninfoimed, says
Dr Williams But the farmers
who aie doing it are getting some
of the most amazing results of
all.
“One of the nutritional bar
riers of the centuries has been
man’s inability economically to
increase protein content in plants
Now, we’ve found that by good
farm management which includes
following a balanced fertilizer
program and usmg plenty of wat
er, we can grow pasture grasses
that are much higher in protein
content than pastures not so
treated,” says Dr Williams.
“This may not sound very ex
citing unless you’re a farmer who
has been buying protein meal as
a supplemental feed for livestock.
Then, the idea ot pastures mat
provide cheap protein takes on
meaning, witli a dollar sign Ulti
mately, it means higner protein
diets tor all ol us ’
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!lion’s dhare of awards in Aber
deen Angus bull classes at the
Eastern National Livestock Ex
position here Wednesday Grand
idbamipion Angus hull was An
konians 32129th shown imnt
ly by Ankony and Holmby 'Farms,
and reserve bull Championship
went to Ankony Farms and Mil
liard en Farms of Aramlle, Pa.'
In females grand champion
was Blue Blood Lady of Ratty,
shown by Heckmere’s Highlands
Valencia, Pa Reserve grand
Chamlpior female was shown 'by
KmloCh Farms, Supply, Va
When final Shorthorn results
were tallied, three of the four
top positions went to the consist
ent winners, Mathers Bros, of
Mason City, 111., whose Leveldale
Critic —a well known winner—
/topped the bulls as grand Champ
ion Reserve was another Mathers
entry and Grand champion heifer
also came from the Illinois firm,
Leveldale Augusta Lass, while B
Hollis Hanson of Connersvile,
Ind , scored reserve grand champ
ionship in heifers.
Judging of Herefords was con
cluded Thursday