• Penno. Foods Narrow-Row Corn her of plants in a row, avail
(Continued from Page 20) able moisture and the particu-
Keseorch Reported lar hybrid used are all close .
of States Exhibit at the Lon- Corn ei-owers can choose ly related, according to Dr.
don Trade Center October 12 fl>om mo f e than 5Q corß ™ William Mitchell, extension
to 20. bdds testod by , agronomists for agronomist at the University
Pennsylvania exhibitors and performance in narrow rows of Delaware - A change in any
their products. Confections, Narrow rows show promise one factol ' alters the whole pic-
Hershey Chocolate Co., Her- 0 f pushing corn yields higher, ture '
shey; snack items, Keebler Co., bu t they aren’t the only factor The particular research was
Philadelphia, grape juice, Key- involved. Row width, the num- designed to show how different
stone Co-op Assn., North East; hybrids respond to variations
honey, Lancaster County Dutch w]f R T p T . in row width and plant popu-
GOM Apiaries. Lancaster. of win£, lation t , in sandy .Mitchell
Cooking wines and flavoring, Y ork Countv net foods Alien says there 18 S ood evidence to
Chelten House Products. Phila- Products Inc’., AllentoSi- frS beli f ve 30-inch rows are Prac
delphia; canned mushrooms, en foods , Eastern Freeze Dry tlcaL
Gixjcery Store Products Co, Corp., Lanoas ir; bubble gum, The lack of moisture that of-
West Chester; processed chick- p r ank Fleer and Co. Phila- ten prevails is a limiting fac
en, Longacre Poultry Farms, d e]pbia, ’ tor. Although midwestern corn
Francorua; candies, Pennsylva- j n addition, two export firms growers are experimenting
nm Dutch Co., Mt Holly Wl ll attend They are Jerome with 20-inch rows, Mitchell toe-
Spnngs. W. Doner Company, of Bala lieves somewhat wider rows
Caimed fruit, Musselman, Cynwyd, and Martin Brothers will prove most effective here
Inc., Biglerville; canned goods, Tobacco Company, Inc., of The hybrids being grown in
H. J. Heinz, Pittsburgh, tobac- New York City. the 600 corn plots have widely
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varying characteristics “We
won’t know for sure whether
narrow rows and higher plant
population give better yields
with tall or short hybrids or
with spreading leaf or “pine
apple-leaf” hybrids until har
vest this year,” Mitchell points
out.
However, agronomists are
certain that nutrients also play
a large role in determining
yields from narrow rows and
higher plant population. Un
der these conditions, nitrogen
deficiencies show up rapidly,
especially if weeds compete
with corn for nutrients
On the plots, corn was fer
tilized heavily in recent years.
The crop was a failure in 1966,
according to Mitchell. This con
tributed to a buildup of phos
phorus and potassium in the
soil evidenced by very high
phosphorus and high potassium
soil test values For these rea
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to this area in 1967 was 100
pounds of nitiogen supplied as
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Narrow rows, in themselves,
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PLANT PERENNIALS
September is a good tame to
plant many perennials, re
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those which can be set Try to
buy plants locally or from very
nearby mail order firms, so
that such plants will have less
adjusting to do before winter.
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