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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
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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
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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.
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