Extra Profit In Hoy
For Soybean Growers
Many farmers are satisfied
to produce a soybean yield al
most twice the state’s average
. . . but when a farmer does
this and still reaps an extra
fifty dollars per acre return,
it’s reason enough to be happy.
A report from North Caro
lina State University tells of
one farmer who did this last
year.
W. A. Avery of Kinston har
vested more than 46 bushels
of beans per acre last fall. The
state average is 25 bushels. In
addition, says the report quot
ed by National Plant Food In
stitute, Avery harvested 77
bales of stubble hay per acre
from the field valued at 65
cents per bale an additional
fifty-dollar return per acre. If
sold, notes the report, the hay
could pay all the costs of soy
bean production and harvest.
Avery planted nearly one
bushel of adapted certified seed
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Irrigation Costs Per Acre Drop
As Larger Acreages Are Treated
Costs per acre to irrigate in many sections of the Corn
farm crops normally become monwealth during the past
lower as the acreage increases seven years, many crop pro
providing sufficient supplies of ducers, particularly those grow
water are available, Fred A. ing vegetables, may find it ad-
Hughes, extension farm man- vantageous to employ irriga
agement specialist, said this tion practices,” the farm man
week at a Sprinkler Irrigation agement specialist reported
Conference at Penn State Uni- “Experiments have proven that
versity. vegetable crops usually respond
Speaking to farm advisors better to irrigation than field
and equipment dealers, Hughes crops. Irrigating field crops
pointed out recent studies show will not always help in pro
that it costs about five times ducing a sufficient increase in
as much to irrigate 25 acres as yield to pay for irrigation
it does to supply water to 150 costs.”
acres
“Due to the lack of rainfall One major factor when con-
sidenng the use of irrigation
per acre in 42-inch rows. He is the initial cost of equipment,
applied 500 pounds per acre of the extension official reported
a mixed fertilizer high inphos- farmer first has to deter
phate and potash The soybean has the necessary
crop followed tobacco, and corn , .
will be planted on the land supply of water nearby, then,
this year, he says. he must decide whether his ac-
uts a
-foot swath
reage is large enough to war- Some 580,000 cases of can
rant irrigating for the crop he cer will be diagnosed this year.
hopes to produce. He then must Only one-third of the patients
decide upon the purchase of will probably be saved, against
new or used equipment. a potential saving of one-hailf.
_ . . ~ __ n The American Cancer Society
Research studies on 52 Penn- needs funds t 0 continue its
sylvanu farms revealed that forts to reach who might
investments in irrigation equip- have been Mved had
J treatment been received in
$15,000, Hughes said. This time
range was influenced by the 1
source and location of the wa-
ter supply, investment in equip- Parents who are afraid to
ment, adaptation of equipment put their foot down usually
to farm use. and the number have children who step on
of acres being irrigated. their toes
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 15,1967 —21
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