14—Lancaster Farming, Friday, Sept. 20, 1957 Eshelman Opening New €eorgia Mill This Month; 60,000 Ton Capacity The new Chamblee, Ga., plant of John W. Eshelman & Sons, manufacturer of Red Rose Feeds into operation in mid-Sept ember with an annual milling cap acity of 60,000 tons of animal feed products. The mill, which cost $750,000, was erected in 13 months by the Gulf States Construction Company Atlanta. It is located on the South ern Railway System which affords a quick outlet to the plant’s pri mary market area of Georgia, Alabama, northern Florida and western South Carolina. H. Roy Eshelman, president of the Lancaster, Pa., company, said that Rajmond D. Benner, Atlanta, Dead Animals Removed Promptly Will Pay Full Value For Dead Animals Dealers in Bones, Tallow and Hides FRY’S RENDERING WORKS Prop,, John Fry 2114 Hollinger RD. Lancaster Ph. EX 2-4815 Toll Charges Accepted TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 1892* Native Hereford Steers, Yearlings and Twos TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8 1770* Native Hereford Steers, Yearlings and Twos TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15 1749* Native Hereford Steer and Heifer Calves TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22 1000*Native Hereford Steer and Heifer Calves TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 1794* Native Hereford Steers, Yearlings and Twos WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9 600* Native Hereford Steers WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16 600* Native Steer and Heifer Calves * Actual receipts for 1956 sales All cattle in the above sales are native Virginia cattle. Officially graded by Va. Division of Markets "Fancy Choice Good Medium Common —Cull Buy any weight or grade you want. Buy as many or as few as you want. Order buying service at nominal cost. Railroad and Trailer service to any point. will manage the plant, and New ton Allen, Colquitt, Ga., will be mill superintendent. Bepner join ed the Eshelman firm’s sales force in 1940 and has served as a ware house manager and salesman in the Georgia-Alabama territory. Approximately persons will be employed by the new mill. The Chamblee plant is the Esh elman company’s sixth milling operation. Other plants are locat ed in Lancaster and York, Pa.; Circleville, Ohio, Tampa, Fla., and Sanford, N. C. Eshelman said that the poured concrete mill building and storage tanks will house the most modern mixing and conveying equipment available for automatic and accu rate blending of food ingredient?, vitamins, minerals and drugs, and for fast bulk handling of all types of grains and feedstuffs. “The new plant contains equip ment that represents the latest de velopments m feed formulations,” Eshelman commented. “Almost a completely automatic plant, mix ers and blenders will accurately mix dozens of ingredients rang ing from tons to grams with labor atory precision.” The company executive pointed out that “The new Eshelman plant is an excellent example of what modern manufacturing re quires to properly serve today’s scientific agriculture in the pro duction of milk, meal and eggs.” The Chamblee plant will manu facture the complete line of Feeds including poultry, dairy, cattle, hog and horse in all a total of about 50 different products. Feeds from the new mill will be avail able-in both bagged and bulk form for either truck or rail dis tribution. The Eshelman firm, established in 1842, is one of the nation’s old est feed companies. Its products 1957 SPECIAL CATTLE Abingdon Livestock Market Inc. Tazewell Livestock Market Abingdon Livestock Market, Inc. Abingdon, Virginia TELEPHONE MArket 8-3551 Tazewell, Virginia (under same management) For additional information write or call A Federally Supervised Market Abingdon, Virginia. Oak Wilt Down 38 Per Cent From Year Ago HARRISBURG Attributed' largely to Pennsylvania’s inten sive fight against oak wilt disease since 1950, statewide occurrence this year was down 38 per, cent from 1956. The State Department of Ag riculture Monday completed its aerial and ground survey and eradication program for the 1957 season. Dr. Thomas L. Guyton, director of the Bureau of Plant industry, said 243 infection areas were discovered in 12 counties and all oak trees within a 50-foot root-grafting radius were de stroyed to prevent further spread of the serious disease which attacks onlv oak trees. In 1956 observers found and eradi cated the disease in 395 sites. Oak wilt is costly to Pennsyl vania farmers and lumbermen. It was first discovered seven years ago in Mifflin County but has never been found east of the River. Aerial ob servers have flown more than 300 hours this year. The gigantic campaign against the disease was begun this year in mid-June by teams of aenal and ground specialists. Some are not only sold from Maine to Florida and from Ohio to the At lantic seaboard, but in foreign markets as well. The company also maintains in Lancaster the Red Rose Research Center, which serves as a pilot plant in the development and im provement of its feeds; the Red Rose Experimental Farms, and quality control laboratories. Members of the third and four th generations of the founder, John Eshelman, now head the company. The president is H. Roy Eshelman and secretary- treasur er is Howard Eshelman, grand sons of the founder. Company vice presidents are H. R. Eshel man, Jr., Howard J. Eshelman, Jr., and John B. Eshelman, Eshel man’s great-grandsons. All sales start promptly at 1 P. M. EST * Tillage Practices May Influence Nutrient Percentages in Grains Amounts of certain nutrients in corn, oats, or whe&t may be in fluenced by tillage practices, the U. S. Department of Agriculture reports. This fact was brought out in cooperative Federal-State studies by tl\e Department’s Agricultural Research Service and the Nebras ka Agricultural Experiment Sta tion. The tests were made to'de termine the effect of subsurface tilling and plowing with and without fertilizer on the per centage of various nutrients in corn, wheat, and oats. The researchers found that sub surface tillage —or stubble mulching \yas usually accom panied by a slight decrease in nu trient uptake, compared with plowing, flowever, nutrient defi ciencies under subsurface tillage posibly may be overcome by use of fertilizers, the researchers re ported. _ln eastern areas of the Great Plains during dry years, crop yields are generally higher with the stubble-mulch system. How ever, during wet years or when rainfall is higher during the grow ing season, crop yields are usual- areas were aerial surveyed as many as six times. In addition, the entire State was covered once. The counties in which oak wilt was found this year include Alle gheny, Blair, Bedford, Butler, Cumberland, Fulton, Franklin, Huntingdon, Juniata, Perry, Mifflin and Somerset. Hunting don County had the largest num ber of infected sites, 73, while Franklin County had SSL and Bed ford County 54. Pennsylvania is the only state m the nation with a program which covers the entire Common wealth, Dr. Guyton said. It also is one of the few states to de stroy not only the Infected tree but all oak trees within root grafting distance. SALES 500 to 1000 lbs. 500 to 1000 lbs. 300 to 500 lbs. 300 to 500 lbs. 500 to 1000 lbs. 500 to 1000 lbs. 300 to 500 lbs. ly higher with plowing. The chief advantage of stubble mulching in western areas of the Great Plain* is the control of wind erosion, and yields are frequently but not consistently increased. Test results indicated that corn on plowed plots contained more nitrogen than on subtilled plots. The type of tillage had no signi ficant effect on phosphorus, po tassium, calcium, or magnesium amounts in corn plants. There wa* little or no difference in corn grain yield in these tests due to tillage or fertilizer (equivalent to 100 lbs. 40-40-0 applied at plant ing). Wheat plants also had a higher, content of nitrogen with plowing than subtilling Tillage practices alone had very little influence on, wheat yields, but fertilizer treat ments increased them consider ably. This increase was greatest on the subtilled plots. Subtillage had no significant ef fect on the nutrient content of oat grain or straw. However, nitrogen applied to both plowed and sub tilled plots increased the nitro gen content of the straw for both plowed and subtilled plots. Oat grain yields were about the same, regardless of the tillage practice or fertilizer application. THIS FALL USE VAPAM on your Tobacco Seed Bed Weed-Free Here’s how to do it. Sprinkle VAPAM®on your seed beds now. In the next 30 days it kills all those weeds and grasses, germi nating weed seeds, soil fungi and those invisible nematodes. Come seeding time you have the healthiest soil in the state! You get more seedlings per square yard up to twice as many. And only a few —if any! weeds. Your seedlings are really strong and vigorous. You can transplant fast for the best crop you’ve ever seen. Result is hundreds of dol lars saved in back-breaking work and weeding costs. Yet YAP AM costs only a penny per square foot. Make more profit next year! Don’t share your crop with weeds and soil borne diseases. Put YAP AM on your seed beds now. No special equipment needed. It’s so easy and safe to sprinkle on. You get stronger seedlings, weed control and more profit. Do it now for best results. Approved by the Depart ment of Agriculture for all food and fibre crops. HYBRID CORN - Check results of our H. 780 Hybrid Corn this fall before ordering for 1958 season. Growth has been outstanding during the dry summer. WINTER RYE Tetra Petkus Balboa SEED WHEAT pennoll Thorne Seneca WINTER OATS Le Conte Du Bois WINTER BARLEY Wong Kenbar Hudson FARMERS SUPPLY CO. 137 E. KING ST. Open daily 8:30 Friday till 9 i ♦
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