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32—Lancaster Forming, Saturday, January 2, 1965
Forage Hybrids,
Grasses Lower
In Prussic Acid
Sucking rats sorghum hybrids,
the fat mors bust summer an
nual ctops foi rotational pas
tine and gieen feeding, can be
high-yielding and i datively
Jtee of dangerous levels of
ptussic acid, farmets and crop
specialists heard recently dur
ing (he fifth annual Grassland
Conference at The Pennsylvan
ia State University.
Experiments with various su
dangi ass-sot ghum hybrids in
1964 found that Suchow 34,
for example, produced excel
lent yields of about four and
tinee-qu.it ter tons of dry mat
ter per acie with fan ly low
levels of pi ussie acid This was
leported by Joseph D. Hamng
ton, of the depat tment of agio
nomy at Penn State who said
farmeis are aware of the poten
tial danger of prussic acid poi
soning
While Piper sudangrass had
much less piussic acid than
any of the hybuds, yields of-
Piper weie consideiably lower
than the sudan-soi ghum hy
buds. Di Hainngton pointed
out His experiments have
found that di ought increases
the piussic acid content of the
hybrids He said these forages
should not be pastured or used
for gieen chop until the plants
aie 30 inches or more in
height Stunted sudangiass
should not be used under pro
longed di ought conditions
Lawrence F Maniott, re
seal cher in soil technology,
said peienmal glasses have
the ability to survive and glow
undei conditions that would
kill alfalfa As pi oof, he said
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much hilly land would be near
ly bare if all grasses were to
disappear suddenly.
While alfalfa is queen of the
forages, grasses will tolerate
acid soil conditions which al
falfa will not tolerate, Dr.
Marriott stated. He said he
was not iccommemling acid
soil farming but was pointing
out that Pennsylvania has a lot
of acid soil.
Dunne Joins Federal
Animal Research Team
Howard W. Dunne, profes
sor of veterinary science at
The Pennsylvania State Uni
versity, has been assigned to
a new task force on livestock
lesearch of the state Agri
cultural Experiment Stations
and the US. Department of
Agiiculfure.
The task force was organ
ized at the request of the
Senate appropriations commit
tee. The objective, says Dr.
Dunne, is to study and re
poit on meat animal research,
underway and proposed, by
the state Agricultural Experi
ment Stations and the De
partment of Agriculture
The task foice report will
emphasize the economic value
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of livestock research, the na
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cilities needed, and potential
value of new knowledge gained
from research.
As a phase of the task force
project, directors of land
grant Agricultural Experi
ment Stations in the North
east met recently in New York
City to discuss their current
and projected livestock re
seal ch programs
Chairman of the New York
meeting was Alex Black, As
sociate Director of the Station
at Penn State. Attending as
resource persons, in addition
to Dr. Dunne, were Macklin
E. John, head of the Depart
ment of Agricultural Econom
ics and Rural Sociology; Don
ald V. Josephson, head of the
Department of Dairy Science,
A. J. G. Maw, head of the i
Department of Poultry Science,
and Russell C. Miller, head
of the Department of Animal
Industry and Nutrition.
- The overall task force in
cludes 9 scientists from the
state Agricultural Experiment
Station staffs, 9 scientists from
the staff of the Cooperative
State Research Service in the
U.S.D A., and 15 scieni s rep
resenting U.S D.A. divisions
doing livestock research.
YORK, PENNSYLVANIA
To All Of Oar Many Lancaster County Customers and Friends:
Thank you for giving us the opportunity of doing business
with you and for the fine cooperation you extended to our
company this past year.
As we start a New Year, it is usually customary to look
back over the past year and see what we have accomplished. As
we did this, we found that more HOHNCO feed was used, by far,
than ever before in our company's history. For this we can
thank only you, our many fine customers. It is indeed a
pleasure to do business with the people of Lancaster County. A
finer group of business-minded farm people I am sure could not
be found anywhere else in the country.
During the coming year our company will be doing
everything in our power to make HORNCO Feed and HORNCO Services
even better than they were in 1964.
We are indeed looking forward to another year of pleasant
business relations.
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January 2, 1965