—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March'26, 1966 12 Double Row Corn Planting Boosts Silage Yield, Penn State Says Farmers are hearing a lot this Spring about a double row system of planting corn sil age, a method yielding up to 21 percent more, silage per acre than yields from single rows in four years of experi ments at Penn State Univer sity. This innovation in corn planting arranges the double rows 8 inches apart, with 40 inches from the middle of one double low to the middle of the next double row Planting rates in the experiments were increased from 25.700 plants to 33.700 plants per acie. • Cattle Meeting (Continued from Pag e 1) animal shows when it fails to react to its environment, when it can no longer tolerate -that environment,” Guss said. As the amount of stiess an animal shows increases, its re sistance to disease decreases proportionally, the veterinarian said. He pointed out that this is why it is particularly important to buy cattle that look right. “Avoid those animals that ap pear listless; stand by them selves with head or ears droop ing. show signs of rapid or difficult breathing Such ani mals may be experiencing ship ping fever, or woise,” Guss wained. He described some of the contagious diseases aflecting cattle Infectious Bovine Rhmotiacheitus (IBR) Bovine Vuus Diauhea (BVD) —parti culaily A good general mle, he ob seived, “is nevei put bleeding and leeding cattle togethei, the faithei apait they aie, the better Eithei the vaccines, 01 the infectious diseases them selves, can cause aboition in bleeding heids ” He listed stallings as one of the pi line suspected cameis of IBR, and lecommended vac cination and buying feeder cat tle close to home as means of avoiding some of the moie pie valent disease problems Guss discussed seveial in ternal and external paiasite pi oblems which are common to this aiea He said that cat tle bi ought in fiom the wild, rough range countiy in the west seldom aie infested with woims, but “it is almost im possible to buy uninfested cat tle in 01 aiound Pennsylvania,”) he said * It pays to woi m new feed er s,” Guss said, “but not be-1 foie they aie well on-feed It' will take at least thiee weeks | to build up a satisfactory bac tei lal paunch population, then I woi in them ” He suggested the least ex pensive woimer was phenothia zme but it has diawbacks “It j is so unpalatable that you pi o-' bably won’t get them to eat 1 it a second time,” Guss said j He mentioned “Thibenzole” as ' an effective wonnei, but said! it was relatively expensive — 1 about 30 cents pei head { The veleimauan iecommend-i ed a shot of a cbmbmation of vitamins A, D, and E as a good tiealment foi nngwoim He also cautioned tho cattlemen against feeding antibiotics to j matin e cattle “Theie is no conclusive evidence,” Guss I said. ‘ of any value at all Nine tv peicent ol the lepoiled le seaich on this had no pi open conti ols,” ne concluded The wmtei cattle fcedei meetings have become an an nual affan in Lancastei Coun ty, and accoiding to County Agent M M Smith, who oi gamzed and moderated the meetings, the extension sei vice will continue this infor mational approach. Despite three years of drought at University Park, the 33,700 plants grown in double rows produced 24 tons of silage per acre at 70 per cent moisture basis, compared with 21 tons for the same number of plants in single rows. OUR CmRATUAIWHS T 0... Ralph E. Sellers, R. D. 1, Annville Quaker Oats Co. Certificate Of Merit For SUPERIOR PRODUCTION The Atlantic Breeders Cooperative is pleased to recognize the outstanding pro duction by the Ralph Seilers dairy herd during the 1964-65 testing year. 32 cows average 15,627 pounds of milk and 584 pounds of butterfat. This level is at least 15% above the state breed average. Record of mother and daughter: Betty Daisy The Sellers Herd Is 100% Atlantic Sired And Fed Exclusively Ful - O - Pep XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX^XXXXXXXVVXXXXXXXXXXXXXV The findings by Jotyi. B. Washko, agronomist, and Wil liam L. KJelgaard, agricultural engineer, are featured in the Spring issue of "Science for the Farmer,” the quarterly magazine of the Agricultural Experiment Station at Penn State. Harvesting the double rows was done efficiently with a corn harvesting machine using a row crop attachment. Pa. hybrid 602 A was grown at University Park and Pa. hybrid 820 was planted at Hershey Estates Farms, Hershey. Ralph Sellers with Betty (left) and Daisy Born Doys Milk Fot Test Oct. 2, 1955 305 20,300 742 3.7 June 9, 1961 305 16,934 612 3.6 Harold H. Good Terre Hill S. H. Hiestand & Co., Inc. Salunga Grubb Supply Co. Elizabethtown FROM THE FOR RECEIVING THE SttHH SU HMHNHH A* * V < >4.*, ********* Dairy Feed Prior to planting, a 10-10-10 pectively, for single and iw, fertilizer was disked into the rows. tt ® soil at the rate of 1200 pounds per acre. Starter fertilizer was applied in a band midway between the double rows, at a rate of 300 pounds per acre. Seeding was done with four unit planters. Boosting the plant population to 41,800 plants did ho better than the 25,700 plant population. Grain yields at University .Park, like the silage yields, •were highest at the 33,700 plant population, averaging 96 and 98 bushels per acre, res- Ful-O-Pep Feed Kirkwood Feed & Groin Kirkwood H. M. Stauffer & Sons, Inc* Witmer Stevens Feed Mill, Inc. Stevens, Penua, Weather Forecast Temperature* are e*p ect .. to average below normal j.: the next five days. It will u cool over the weekend, milt er Monday and Tuesday then colder again Wedn«! day. Showers are expected Sal. nrday night or Sunday, ail j again about Wednesday, t*. tal moisture is not expected to exceed Vvinch. '-’Zd* «B>- >•"
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