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Walter Binkley & Son
Brown & Rea, Inc.
Elverson Supply Co.
Henry E. Garber
B. D. 1, Elizabethtown, Pa.
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Refton Strasbarg
American Potash Institute
Gives Some Keys To Fall
Forage Fertility Questions
I—How can I cut costs . . .
make more profits from forage?
You can shoot for a higher
yield from each acre. In Penn
sylvania a 4-ton hay yield cost
around $l9 per ton to produce.
But the 6-ton yield cost only $l2
—or $7 LESS per ton when the
yield increased 2 tons per acre.
2—Quantity of forage Is not
the only answer, is it?
No, sir. True forage value is
determined by quantity AND
QUALITY. You can best express
feeding value through the energy
and protein your crop can give
animals. Say you are testing four
fertilizer rates, for example.
Yields from the third rate (next
to top) showed most profit from
yield—s2B.32 per acre. But when
you add the value of digestible
protein to the profit picture, the
fourth or highest rate becomes
Red Rose Free-Choice Mineral is recommended where there is
heavy use of corn silage. Red Rose Super Mineral is designed for
dairy herds where legume roughage is fed. Be sure include
Red Rose Minerals in your feeding program.
Lititz
Atglen
Elverson
Uanheim
most profitable $171.07 per
acre, Texas tests showed.
3—How important is QUALI
TY in forage, really?
Quality measn the difference
between profit and loss. It af
fects the performance of your
animal PLUS the amount of
grain you must purchase. Take
an alfalfa-brome hay, for ex
ample. With GOOD quality, a
farmer had to add only 3 lbs
grain per day to insure 41 lbs
milk per day. With POOR quality
hay, he had to add 18 lbs grain
to get only 20 lbs. milk—Oß 50%
LESS MILK WITH 6 TIMES
THE GRAIN. That clearly says
one thing: “Profit depends on
quality.”
4—How does forage stack up
with grain as a quality feed?
Great! Take alfalfa, for ex
mo your com
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Take Red Rose 14 Test-Cow Feed, for example. This
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ing cows, dry cows, calves and bulls. You can feed it all
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Other Red Rose Dairy Feeds are available in many protein
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K. D. #2, Mt. Joy, Pa.
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R. D. 3. Ephrata, Pa.
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Mountville
ample. A 10-ton yield gives the
energy (TDN) found in 315 bu.
of corn or 10.5 tons of corn sil
age PLUS the protein in 713 bu.
of corn or 150 bu. of soybeans.
That means even a 5 ton alfalfa
yield adds up to a lot of corn and
soybeans!
s—Which management step
will pay best for me?
That’s hard to say. But experts
agree most dairy and livestock
farmers can increase forage pro
duction . . . grow it more effi
ciently, more economically . . .
by doing a better job of liming
and fertilizing.
6—How big a difference can
fertilizer make?
A big difference! It takes just
as much money and labor to
plow, plant, spray and fence for
low yields as for high jields—
and just as much land' It costs
about $55-65 per acre to establish
alfalfa Figure $2O for feitilizer
and lime out of this- 50 lbs P 205
Musser Forms, fnc.
Columbia
Musser's Mill
The Buck
Chos. E. Souder & Sons
Terre Hill
Ammon E. Shelly
Litltz
E. P. Spotts, Inc.
Honey Brook
H. M. Stauffer & Sons,
Inc.
Whiner
Lancaster Farming. Saturday. August 9,1969
and 225 lbs. K2O. The other costs
are essentially fixed. So, it pays to
fertilize enough to do a top-yield
job with all the other costs in
volved.
7—What about fertilizing pas
tures? Will it pay me?
Yes. Leaders say the evidence
is clear For example, fertilizing
Coastal Bermudagrass increased
beef production from 259 lbs. to
684 lbs. per acre per year. In net
profit, this meant $3O per acre,
$3OO every 10 acres, $3,000 on a
100-acre operation. In other
words, the $35 spent for fertiliz
er produced an ADDITIONAL
425 lbs. of beef from each acre.
This Georgia grass was fertilized
with 200 lbs of nitrogen and 500
lbs of 0-10-20 yearly
In another study, $l4 worth of
fertilizer per acre on alfalfa
brome pasture returned $55 33 in
additional beef gain—S3 69 re
turn on every dollar invested
In another trial, $2l worth of
fertilizer boosted permanent pas
ture profit more than $77 per
acre
Fertilizing clover-grass pas
tilles can produce big dividends.
About Sl5 worth of fertilize! and
lime per acre—sometimes more
—can produce up to 2 tons EX
TRA forage under many condi
tions COST: $1,500 fertilizer bill
each year on a 100-acie opera
tion RETURN: 300,000 EXTRA
lbs of milk or nearly $lB,OOO in
crease This could happen IF the
extia forage is piopeily used,
experiment station agionomists
say
B—How much nutrition will
my forage crop need?
All high-yielding foiages have
a big appetite for plant nutrients.
But they vary in their demands.
Foi example, 8 tons of alfalfa
lemoves 982 lbs of nitrogen,
phosphate, and potash per acre
30 tons of com silage 525
4 5 tons of clover-grass
6 tons of cool season
lbs . .
420 lbs,
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