Fertilizer Use & Management Of
Roughage Hit At Crops & Soils Day
by Everett Newswanger,
Staff Reporter
A battery of Pennsylvania
State University specialists, a
new movie on lime, and ex
hibits ot area seed, fertilizer,
lime and farm supply dealers
pi ondeJ the latest unlomia
tion aiailable on 'crop pro
duction and soil improvement
toi the 175 Lancaster Coun
ty fanners attending the
Ci ops and Soils Day program
last Fnday, at the Guernsey
Sales Pavilion.
James Bakin, extension
agronomist, speaking on the
subject “Keeping up with
fertilizer technology and us
age,” said, “Liquid fertilizers
are fine products but no bet
ter than conventional types
of dry fertilizer.” He said
you can also use gas ferti
lizer by injecting it in the
soil while plowing, or toy
sidedressing while planting.
As for applying fertilizer on
the foliage, Bakin said, “It
is very hard to get enough
fertilizer into the plant
through the leaTes.” -
Early winter nitrogen ap
plication may 'be practiced
il your s'oil 'has a Ine texture
and the soil. temlperature is
lees than 50' degrees. “You
will still. h*,y«-i.«ome lessee,”
he said. “Maybe 10 ’to 20 ...per
cent. But yoU- should, have
less than 10 percent if you
stick to the heavier soils.”
There are many Ways to
fertilize com. You can plow
dowh all the fertilizer, nr
Leroy Bupp, Seven Valleys
2nd place, 220.6 Bu/A
Pioneer 323
Tom Carman, Glen Rock
4th place, 219.1 Bu/A
Pioneer 3306
put everything on the row if
you have the right kind of
planter But over a long pe
riod the praotice of plow
ing dow'n most of the ferti
lizer and using a small
amount m the row would
come out on top
“Balancing lime and fer
tilizer is most important in
keeping corn from lodging,”
Bakin said
Discussing “What’s ahead
in forage insect control,”
Henry Mennsan, Jr, exten
sion ehtom’ologast, said that
with the great insect popu
lation build-up we now have
“you must spray alfalfa ”
And the quicker you learn
how to do it, the better off
everyone will be.
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COUNTY FARM WOMEN
BD. OF DIRECTORS MEETS
The County Board of the
Lancaster Off. Farm. Women
met. Tuesday, March 1, at the
home’ of Miss Lela Coble with
Mrs. Milton Bberly as Co
.HfosteSs, both of Society #6
at Elizabethtown. The meet
ing iwias called to order by
the president Mrs, Paul
Weidman.
Society #7 and #8 report
ed on. their visit to the Coun
ty Home at which time they
gave the guests bananas and
Life Savers, muteh appreciat
ed by all. A new society #26
was organized last m'onth in
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Carroll Rohrbaugh,
3rd place, 219.2 Bu/A
Pioneer 312 A
Dennis McWilliams, Seven Valleys
sth place, 217 80/A
Pioneer 312 A
-- agi
al economist, showed dairymen what had happened to the price of Cutter grade
cattle in 1965. When the meat price for dairy cattle rises that much, dairymen
will cull heavily, he said. He attributed part of the rise in milk prices to the
national reduction of cow numbers. Standing at the right of the chart is asso
ciate county agent Victor Plastow, who helped organize the annual dairyman’s get
together. L. F. Photo
Shorter Work Day For Economist Expects Dairymen Will
Hens, But Longer Yeor J-Jave Good Financial Year In ’66
.Scientists at Beltsville, Md.,
are trying to make a flock In explaining his thoughts prosperous year with a variety
of chitekens think day chang- on today’s milk marketing of charts, and explained the
es into night every 18 hours, situation to nearly 300 dairy general economic factors which
Hf they can do this, chickens farmers attending the annual effect farm prices,
would have 486.fi short days Lancaster County Dairy Day at . x
per year in which to lay the Guernsey Sales Pavilion There are two major types
eggs, instead of the conven- on Tuesday, an agricultural of pressures which effect farm
tionil 365. economist said 1966 looks like prices directly, he said. The
a good year for dairy fanners. f i rst °* these is inflation which
Although it is .too early inevitably pushes prices up.*'
for results, the flock on IS- Dr- C. William Pierce, pro- We've certainly had inflation
hour days so far is holding fessor of agricultural econo- in the past year, the economist
its own, against those on a mics at Penn State University, said, as evidenced in the 3-S
(Continued on Page 22) substantiated his claim for a (Continued on Page 16)
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 5, 1966
Corn "know-how" and
PIONEER® hybrids earn them
BRAND -
top state yield honors
Pictured here are four of the five top state winners in the 1965
Pennsylvania Corn Club Contest, who teamed their corn growing
skills with Pioneer hybrids.
All in all Pioneer users really had a field day. Just look at
Pioneer’s outstanding record in the Pennsylvania Corn Club
Contest:
• Besides four winners out of five top places in hand harvesting
(shown here). Pioneer corn growers took two of four top places
in machine harvesting.
• Pioneer users captured top yield honors in 15 county con
tests—as much as the next two closest competing corns combined.
• Of 14 Corn Club contestants harvesting yields of 200 or more
bushels per acre —seven used Pioneer hybrids.
What sets Pioneer hybrids apart from the pack? Consistant
year-after-year big yields of dry ripe harvestable grain.
So, do what more Pennsylvania corn growers do each year—
put Pioneer high-yielding corn in your spring planting plans.
Whether you need corn for grain or silage—early, medium or
full-season varieties—Pioneer has the hybrids to give you extra
bushel, extra-profit yields. Order now.
PIONEER is a brand name; numbers identify varieties.
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SECOND SECTION
PIONEER.
BRAND
SEED CORN
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