MARYLAND BEEF CATTLE PRODUCERS, INC.
14th Annual SPRING FEEDER CATTL&SALE ,
(Feeder Calves It Yearlings)
1:00 p.m., Saturday, April 20, 1960
Four States Livestock Auction, Inc.
Hagerstown, Maryland
700 STEERS & HEIFERS
ANGUS HEREFORD SHORTHORN
All steer calves grading “Fancy” will be sold individually.
All animals meet health requirements for interstate ship*
ipcnt.
Pot additional information contact: Amos R. Meyer, Dept,
of Markets, University of Maryland, College Park, Mary
laud 20742
Auctioneer: Col. Charles Bachman
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Winners and Still Champions ...
Year After Year
Twenty tons of silage or 100 bushels of grain aren't the
magic goals they were a few years ago. Agway's Complete Crop
Program for Field Corn and Agway Corn Hybrids have helped
grower after grower break through to the plus-20 and plus-100
group.
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LIQUID
NITROGEN
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QTAISTI7I? High percentage of water soluble
phosphorus
FERTILIZRR Magnesium, Zinc & extra Boron
Apply 200 lb. per acre at planting time
SEED CORN - Top -yielding varieties
HYBRIDS C723X 800 CB76X 703
IND. 654 NE 912
Plus other proven varieties
Agwoy hybrids make a practice of topp
ing 100-bushel and 20-ton-per-acre
goals all across Agway territory.
WEED
CONTROL
Join the Plus-20 and Plus-100 Group
See your AGWAY salesman or contact your local
< AGWAY Store at any of these locations..
Lancaster
394-0541
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COMPLETE CORN
CROP PROGRAM
CORN-GROWING PRODUCTS
and SERVICES
Applied by AGWAY field spread service
High Analysis or Bulk Blends
AGWAY field spread service
AGWAY'S Niton 30
Applied with AGWAY'S model 300 or
650 applicator
Plow-down or topdress
Products that give results
Weedone LV4 Lorox
Atrazine Ramrod
Custom applicator of Weed Killers
alone or in combination with the
AGWAY model 650 applicator
. New Holland
, 354-2146 *
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Over The Back Fence
During the past week we have
received a number of phone
calls'trom property owners all
over the city and county regard
ing the dried condition of their
broadleaf evergreens such as
holly and azalea; the leaves are
turning brown and dropping off.
I know exactly the condition of
these shrubs because we have a
few of our own in similar trou
ble. This is winter injury to
these evergreens caused by ex
cess dehydration; last Febru
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Quarryville
786-2126
in a trench as well as in an up
,right silo./ If the silo is tight,
' there is rio reason why the sil
,-y when .he jw-d was hj» ffi
en and we nad extremely dry j a j n a trench that is tightly
weather with strong winds, sealed should also keep until
these plants could not get needed. In warm weather silage
enough moisture from the soil must be removed faster than in
to offset the loss of moisture cold weather to prevent surface
from the leaves: as a result spoilage.
parts of the plant became too
dry and will die; in severe cas
es the entire plant may die.
There is little to do at this time
because the damage is already
done: it might help to get a
more rapid recovery if the
ground around the plant was
thoroughly soaked with water
every 10 days for several times.
Pruning of the damaged area is
not recommended until later in
the spring when it is definitely
visible just how mpch of the
branches are dead
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With an excess of com silage
on many farms this spring the
question is presented legarding
whether or not this silage will
keep during the summer and un
til next fall, also, will it keep
L*dca>tenFarming; Saturday; April 13,1963
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The problem of broadleaf weed
control in lawns faces man:'
homeowners; in the near future
dandelion and plantum will b-*
showing ramd growth. The
cheapest way to control these
weeds is to spray the lawn with
the amine form of 2,4-D; how
ever there is some risk witn
this spray to other plants and
many folks do not have large
enough sprayers Therefore, the
easiest way to eliminate these
weeds is to buy a lawn fertilizer
containing the pow'der form of
2 -4-D This fertilizer is applied
with a fertilizer spreader m the
usual manner and sufficient
herbicide wall be applied to
knock out most of these broad
leaf weeds, this fall or next
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