.O. Yocum, right, superintendent of the Southeastern Field Research Laboratory,
.idisville, checks a new field corn hybrid developed by the Agricultural Expenment
;ation, the Pennsylvania State University: At left is Penn State corn breeder Walter I.
\omas. Known as Pa 825, the new hybrid was designed primarily for southeastern
nnsyivania. Last year, this new hybrid produced 15 bushels more corn per acre than
her Pa 820 or Pa 807, competitors.
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Lancaster Farming. Saturday, November 4. 1961—13
• Feed Conversion
(Fromjoage 1)
were put down on June 23
was warm but not hot eno
ugh to affect their appetites.
Of the 1,700 broiler chicks
started, a total of 1,680 or
about 99 per cent reached
market.
Miller, who milks a 16-
cow dairy herd has been
contracting batches of 1,700
birds with the Lancaster Co.
Farm Bureau Cooperative
Association since March 6,
1958
“This is the first time I
ever had a batch like that,
and it may never happen
again,” Miller said. He took
no special precautions with
the flock, but there was
“just no disease problem”
with the birds he said.
Mark Hess, contract pro
duction services manager
for the cooperative said the
two pound feed conversion
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Our Penna. 820 and our Rll5 growers axe re
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• These varieties stand a high population and
should be planted 18 000 to 20,000 plants per acre
• They withstand drought (Can get along in dry
weather better than other corns)
• Stand up well when, others go down tYou cannot
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• Less moisture at husking time.
• Uniform height eais that stay on stalk until pick
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mark has been reached ex
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