here Pellets is • • low that the profit, if there is any, must come from the milk uction from every cow in the herd is necessary. Miller and I Pastures Dairy Pellets are designed to keep every cow's jp by stimulating the milk glands and keeping the cow healthy use of these facts you'll discover Green Pastures Dairy Pellets i your top producers longer and keep the entire herd in good ling regularly. try Green Pastures Dairy Pellets call Miller and Bushong la PPy to work with you on a program calculated to increase NG * MANAGEMENT Specialist, or call us i-2145 SHONG J., S- S** * t <vv^J here # mMm* r<t^«iscKSS^ Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 29, 1908— Fall Good Time To Test Soil, But Risky Time To Apply Fertilizer The fall season is an excel- spiing. lent lime of year to lake soil On steep slopes, or other samples, accoiding to Maryland places where ciosion is .1 soil specialist, Dr. V. Allan problem, fall plowing is a dan- Bandel. geious practice because the Soil analysis in the fall gives land has no cover to hold the you plenty of time to plan soil in place, he stated. next year’s lime and fertilizer On a few extremely heavy, program, Bandel said. clay soils, where erosion is not However, he added, winter a problem, fall plowing docs weather in many eastern sec- have some advantages, Bandel lions of the country will rob said. “For one thing, it Ids Soils of much of the nitrogen you get into the field earlier Applied in the fall. Many farm- in the spring, and the fiec/.- ers have been following this mg and thawing during the practice, Bandel said. winter will help to break up Bandel criticized this prac- clods, he said “The clay and lice, saying, “Much of the ni- humus particles react chemi trogen is subject to being lost cally with the fertilizer nutn before spring Some states ents and hold them firrrfly have reported over 50 percent even during rainy weather” of fall-applied nitrogen lost Bandel also pointed out that during the winter,” he said. fall fertilization of com If fertilizer is to be plowed ground helps spread a farm down in the fall, the agrono- er’s work load. mist said, apply only phos> phorus and potash The nitro gen should be disced in prior • Wheat StOCKS to corn planting time next (Continued from Page 1) i f i . j level since 1955 Hybrid WhCclt All wheat in storage on Oc |-i j » j _ tober 1 totaled 1,440 million r 66Q Advantages bushels—ithe smallest October o p 1 stocks since 1952. Holdings iJ661l Jr Or r enna* were 16 percent less than a year earlier and 31 percent Development of hybrid wheat follow the October 1 average, could revolutionize the eastern Most 0 | fche decline from last wheat industry, declared Rob- occurred in off-faim ert P. Pfeifer, small grains stocks Off-farm stocks, at 899 breeder for the Agricultural mi iiion bushels, were 22 per- Experiment Station at Penn c€ nt below a year earlier and State University, during tihe the lowest in 14 years Faim annual meeting of the Inter- stocks totaled 541 million bush national Crop Improvement As- e ls, 4 percent below last year sociation held recently in Ro- hut 16 percent above average Chester, N. Y. _ About 30 percent of the total Not only will hybrid October 1 stocks were either wheat increase farmers’ owned by the Government or yields over present varieties, under Government loan com he claimed, but it will also pared with 47 percent a year create a market for 50 mil- ear i ier . lion bushels of hybrid seed old corn carryover stocks on in the United States each October 1 totaled 866 million ye» r - _ bushels—26 percent less than With present varieties, most a y oail ear i le r, 48 percent less farmeis buy a small amount than average, and the small of wheat seed and use this to esi t October stocks since 1953. giow their own seed for sue- indicated disappearance of 948 ceedmg crops With hybrids, million bushels during the all seed wheat will be grown July-September quartei is 24 and processed rnnually by the percent larger than for the seed industiy, a major change, same months in 1965 and 10 Pfeifer pointed out. He added percent larger than in 1964. that the wheat seed require- PENNSYLVANIA STOCKS nient for the world could ex- all grain stocks stored in ceed 400 million bushels a hoth on-farm and off-farm pos year. itaons on October 1, 1966 to- He pi edicted that hybr id t, a | e( j 44 4 niillion bushels, ae wheat may be available lor cording to the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania by 1971 In trials Crop Reporting Service This at Penn State, 21 experimental 1S 0 percent less than the Oc hybnds yielded 67 percent tober 1965 s t o eks figure Feed more gram than the seven par- grain, stocks (coin, oats, and eirt varieties used to make the j> a rley) declined 7 percent and hybrids food grains (wheat and ive) Yields of 100 bushels per declined 9 percent from a acre, believed possible, yea , r eaill j iei should enable Pennsylvania WHEAT farmers to feed their wheat to their own animals and poultry and also sell to the food grain market. With present yields ranging from 30 to 70 bushels per acre, most Pennsylvania farmers sell their wheat for flour. • Melvin Stoltzfus (Continued iiom Page 6) a record of 315 d, 15,160 m, 623 f And a pan of two-yeai olds, Cheiryciest Superior Chaim and Cheiryciest Su per 101 Patsy, have- completed lecoids of 577 and 528 pounds of butteifat, respectively, un der milking parlor conditions in 326 days, or less Melvin Stoltzfus likes his new system “The main thing that I had to learn though was that you can let a cow out in the cold of winter and she will still come in and give a bucket of milk,” he con cluded. were at the highest October 1 Wheat stocks of 13 1 million bushels in all positions weie down 9 peicent fiom Octobei 1965 Stocks in on-faim posi tions weie up 11 peicent but m oft faun positions down 20 peicent. CORN Old ciop coin stocks in oil positions totaled 8 8 million bushels Off-farm stocks wc:e 8 peicent less than a yeai eai her but on-faim stocks weie 68 percent moie than October 1965 Coin stocks vveie the highest since 1961, the last year Pennsylvania faimeis enjoyed adequate piecipitation dining the giowing season OATS A sharp drop in oats produc tion reduced oats stocks 29 percent on October 1966 com pared with a year eaikei To tal oats stocks of 154 million bushels were the lowest since 1943, when a very poor oats crop was harvested. 7
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