X4—Lancaster Farming, Friday, March 29, 1957
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REA Makes Record Phone Loan
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To Improve Brookville Service
{'The largest telephone loan ed subsidiary of Telephone Utili
ver made by the Rural Electri- ties of Pennsylvania. It expects
fication on Administration in to use the funds to provide phone
Pennsylvania h&s been granted service for the first itime to 1,425
to tHe Brookville Telephone Co., prospective subscibers and to im-
Export Pa. prove service for 4,223 exixting
The ’loan is for $2,460,000 to subscribers in its operating ter
improve and extend telephone nt ?P r .. .
service in Armstrong. Clarion, A } aame Ioa « s ere
Elk, Forest and Jefferson Coun’ “£! °
*= other companies in lowa, Ten
: The company is a wholly own- Texas for ° total of
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Band Seeding Proves Best Pasture
Establishing Method at Beltsville
Placement of fertilizer and for
age seeds in separate “bands”
within the seedbed may prove to
be the farmer’s trump card in
establishing a good pasture, say
forage t crop specialists of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture.
Results of experiments con
ducted since 1952 at the Agricul
tural Research Center, Beltsville,
Md., indicate that the most ef
fective method of forage-plant
establishment was a combination
of drilling fertilizer IVi inches
deep and and seed V* inch deep.
Several advantages of this new
concept were revealed in com
parative tests between broadcast
and band-seeded plots of spring
planted orchardgrass .with Seri
cea lespedeza, and fall-planted
tall fescue with Ladino clover.
Increased yields of up to ,130
per cent at low seeding and ferti
lization rates was the most spec
tacular selling point reported, but
another recently discovered ad
vantage may be of even more
economic importance to the farm
er. Latest experiments with Sen
cea lespedeza and orchard grass
in band-seeded and broadcast
plots show that band seeding will
give good stands, even when
planting is done considerably
earlier or later than is usually
recommended. By comparison,
broadcast plots seeded "much
earlier or later than usual had a
very low survival rate and gave
poor yields.
In fall planting of a mixture of
tall fescue and Ladino colver, bet
ter establishment was noted in
three out of four years as a result
of drilling fertilizer below-drilled
seed. Establishment was measur
ed by emergence, development of
seedlings, and first-year yields.
In these plantings, poor mois
ture conditions in most cases re
duce stands materially in broad
cast treatments three out of the
four years (1 £(52-1955). However,
excellent moisture conditions
prevailed in the fall of 1955, and
USDA agronomists noted little
difference in emergence, although
band-seeded plots still showed
more vigorous seedling growth.
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The researchers found that in
no instance were fall stands of
broadcast treatments superior to
drilled treatments within the
same groups of fertilizer and seed
rates.
On spring-planted plots of or
chardgrass with Sencea lespedeza
drilling fertilizer below drilled
seed has a depressing effect on
establishment in two out of three
years, except in the case of phos
phate fertilizer alone.
Phosphoric acid and complete
fertilizer stimulated early growth,
but recent results seem to indi
cate that applications of nitrogen
or potash, alone or in combina
tion, are apparently detrimental
to germinating seeds and seed
lings.
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Commercial band-seed' ng-equip
ment embodying thepnnciples
of machines designed by USDA
engineers and agronomists for
experimental purposes may be
purchased from several farm im
plement companies.
Converted gram drills may also
be used for band seeding. Three
boxes are essential, and a com
bination fertilizer-grain drill
equipped with a legume box
makes a good piece of machinery
for planting legumes, timothy,
and other small pasture seeds.
USDA researchers point out
that considerable work remains
to be done on fertilizer ratio,
fertilizer placement, degree of
precision necessary, and type of
band-seeding machinery • that
gives best results. Further study
is also required to determine the
species and practices best adapt
ed to soil and weather conditions
of particular areas.
Research is underway to deter
mine the advantages and disad
vantages. of seeding forage grass
and legume plants between the
rows of a companion crop, and
the fertilizer placement that will
give adequate yields of the cam-
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