—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
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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
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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.
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