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Sorghum-Sudah
Cattle Forage
Use Increases
Use of aorphum-sudan hy
brids ;or cattle feed has in
creased .20-told in Pennsyl
vania during the past five
year-, according to ngrono.
mists at Penn State Univer
sity. John E. Baylor and
John B. Washko of the Col
lege of Agiiculture suggest
using Piper sudan-grass for
pasture and the sorghum-Su
dan hybrids for green chop
or si!age.
Dr, Washko, research
agronomist, compared a sor-
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true sudangrass hybrid withr
Piper sudangrass under both
a pasture and slingo system
of management. AH throe __
varieties yielded more total
dry matter ns slingo than ns
hay or posture. The yield in
crease was fil -percent for
silage fronf the sorghum-su
dan hybrids and 3>2 percent
increase for the sudangrass
hybrid. For Piper sudangrass,
the yield increase of silage
over hay -or pasture was only
12 percent.
Yield differences among the
three were small under the
pasture or hay system with
all three -producing about 3V6
tons of dry matter per acre.
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ago was also similar for all
three varieties. At most lo
cutions all varieties were har
vested three times annually
for p i‘ttnre or hay.
in oiaer studies several
i.iplat<es were cut at differ
ent stubble heights to com
pare yields per acre and rate
of recovery after cutting. In
general, total dry matter
yields for all varieties were
greater when cut at a stub
ble height of two inches as
convpared to the four or six
invh stubble height. On the
other hand, speed of recov.
ery was more rapid with the
higher stubble height cut.
Both sudangrass and the
hybrids can be used for hay,
they add, but are difficult to
cure. Planting at heavier
than normal seeding rates
will cut down on stem size
and may make curing less of
a problem. Conditioning the
crop with a crusher or crimp
er at cutting and again the
following day will also help
to speed up drying.
While the hybrids outyield
sudangrass for silage, they
are no more productive than
corn and produ'ce a silage
considerably lower in feed
value than good corn silage,
the agronomists state.
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Godfrey, Dallastown. Freeman
Stoltzfus of Grassland Chap
ter, with 377.4 points, round
ed out the quartet of area
boys whp will compete in the
state contest during FFA
Week .at Penn State Univer
sity.
Other platings: '5 th and
6th—Kenneth Leaman and
Irwin Widders, both of Lam
peter-iStrashurg High School;
7—. Kenneth Fritz and Dean
Kessler (tied), both from
Warwick HS ; B—another
ti between Warren Buch,
Warwick, and Robert Fisher,
Garden Spot HS.
Other schools repiesented
included Bphrata, Penn Man
or, and Elizabethtown
. . . bigger milk checks for you!
Lancaster County Has
Lowest Bedding Plant
Price In S.E. Pa.
A recent survey of bedding
plant prices among growers
In southeastern Pennsylvania
showed that Lancaster Coun
ty aieraged as mu'-h as IS 7
cents per dozen lower than
the highest-priced county.
In the five-county area,
pi ices lo florists ranged from
G 8.3 cents in Lancaster to 87
cents in Lehigh, according to
Penn State marketing spe
cialist Alvi O. Voight.
Some of the explanations
offered for this situation are'
surplus production; many and
relatively smaller growers
choosing to sell loyally;
growers’ failure to locate bet
ter maikets; lack of market
ing knowledge, which results
in florists paying 5 to 20
cents more per pack in near
by Greater Philadelphia area;
groweis’ satisfaction with
lower prices
Voight points out that if
Lancaster County has simi
lar quality and sufficient vol
ume, the price difference is
such that someone could ben
efit by purchasing Lancas
ter’s production at wholesale,
market it within 50 miles,
and make a tidy profit.
If that happened, the re
sulting shortage of supply in
Lancaster should result in
price strengthening there,
Voight speculated. Unless
some very unusual consumer
price resistance developed, he
added.
There are many alterna
tives to the “low-price Lan
caster situation,” Voight said,
but the solution depends upon
each grower-marketer in his
own market environment.
Generally, bedding plant
pnLes are at least as high as
in past years, and the over
all market situation looks
strong with prices steady to
higher in spite of large vol
ume advances, Voight pre
dicted.
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Industries Join
In Air Pollution
Research Plan
The 'bituminous coal and
electric utilltj industries
have announced plans for a
broad piogram of air pollu
tion research that may in
volve more than $4 3 million
in the next five years
The expanded program,
which has been under con
sideration for a number of
months, will emphasize con
trol ot sulfur oxides produced
at coal-burnang electric gen
erating stations. Primary
aims of the program will be:
1 — To determine the maxi
mum concentiation of sulfur
oxides m the air at ground
level that is compatible with,
good public health
2 To find economically
feasible means of controlling
sulfur oxide emission from
power plants, while avoiding
excessive costs for electric
service to the consumer.
The National Coal Associa
tion, representing the 'bitum
inous coal industry, and the
Electric 'Research Council,
representing the total electric
utility industry and support
ed by Edison Electric Insti
tute, said the new program
will sharply accelerate efforts
of the two industries in con
tributing to cleaner air.
Public health authorities
agree that air pollution
comes from many sources —•
motor vehicle exhausts, open
dump burning, manufacturing
and industrial processing, in
cineration, road construction
—in addition to fuel burning.
Turkey Promotion And
Information Programs
■Several 'conclusions were
drawn at a recent meeting of
the National Turkey Federa
tion-Poultry and Egg Nation
al Board Coordinating meet
ing
I—Anticipated1 —Anticipated demand for
turkey will continue through,
the summer, due particularly
to a shorter supply of red
meat.
2 In spite ot an appar
ent record-bieaking turkey
crop this yeai the industry
is not going to go broke.
3 The supply of turkeys
indicates that July and Au
gust will be the best period,
to promote tin key
It was also agreed that
turkey as a feature of out
door living will be empha
sized in special informational
pr'ogi'amß to be held for food
communicators in New York
and Chicago
■Plans weie made to work
towaid better display case®
to set off tuikey to best ad
\antage in the stores.
Final Date Set
For CAP Signup
.May 13 is the final date to
sign u'p 'for the new Cropland
Adjustment Program, James
W. White announced Wed
nesday.
White, chairman of th«
p e n n sy 1 vama Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Committee, reported that 2,»
040 'farm operators have ap
plied foi agieements under
CAP, and 224 agreements
have been signed Cropland
signed up totals of about 14,*
745 acres, he said.
White said there will bO
no e\tension ot the final dato
for registering for the CAP*
.pri.