Don’t Cut Drought-Damaged Corn,
Agronomist Advises Farmers
If you use tempted to cut grow it will continue to pile
dvoughfcstunAed com right up dry matter (feed value) as
now. don’t dc it. long as the corn stays green.
This is "be suggestion of is valuable feed that you
University <£ Maryland forage can put m the silo late in the
specialist, Dr. Wally Moline. *all
- says com crops have been Moline believes it might
hurt, but there is very little even pay to buy drought-dam
to gain by making silage now, aged corn fields from neigh
“ Chances are,” he says, bors if a farmer thinks his
“That rains will come, and feed supply will be low this
even if gra.n does not form, 'Winter.
most of (fee feed value will be But, don’t cut it now, he ad
in the fodder.” v vises. The stunted corn is not
With mufi of the area com worth much for silage now,
crop damaged by dry weath- but it could still make a great
ei, Moline says, fanners may deal of growth before frost,
see 'some corn turn a little As a further note of cau
purphsh because of the high tion, he adds that when corn
sugar content of leaves and that has been fertilized with
stalks. If the corn is left to nitrogen is damaged by
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Scouts' Conservotion
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As far as soil and water
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Boy Scouts of America are
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drought and then put in the
silo, oxides of nitrogen of
ten escape. These brownish
yellow gasses are extremely
poisonous to man and ani
mals. AVOID BREATHING
THE GASSES. Do not go
into the silo unless the silo
filler blower has been run
ning for 15 minutes or so.
The situation usually clears
up in about 10 days or two
weeks after the silage has been
put into the silo Af*er that it
is safe to feed the silage in a
normal manner, Moline stated.
7 minutes . • . switch units to cut corn
silage.
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-ancaster Farming, Saturday, August 13, 196#—
SECOND SECTION
This is indicated by the sub
stantial increase in the num
ber of Soil and Water Conser
vation Merit Badges awarded
to Pennsylvania Boy Scouts
and Explorer Scouts The
Merit Badge boom was point
ed out by Ivan McKeever,
state head of the US. Soil
Conservation Service located
at Harrisburg.
The number of conservation
Merit Badges granted to
Scouts across the country has
more than doubled over the
past five years. In 1961, 27,-
372 boys earned the Conserva
tion Badge. That figure has
climbed to 58,455 badges
awarded in 1965.
According to Charles Grif
fin, Assistant Dnector of Ru
ral Relationships for the Boy
Scouts of America, part of the
reason for the substantial in-
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Darvin Boyd To
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For One Year
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and his bride of two months,
the former Linda Jean Steh
man, will be winging their
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with a three-day stopover in
the Hawaiian Islands.
This will be a return visit
for Boyd who spent five months
in Korea under the Interna
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(IFYE) program in 1964. His
tour of duty this time will be
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working with the Amerieatt-
Korean Foundation as an ag
ricultural field representative.
His 30b will be similar to
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