H l-nncnsUT Farming. Saturday. April 4.1970
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Plan Change to Narrow Rows
Any Pennsylvania coin growei
■who is not consistently pi educ
ing 123 to 150 bushels of shelled
com pci acie with his conven
tional 36 to 40 inch row spacing,
should not be pnmarily concern
cd with switching to nanow lows
as the panacea for his production
pioblem
The most oppoitunc time to
change to narrow iows is when
maximum yields have been ica
ched with piesent spacing and
one or moie of the majoi mach
ines tor com production has
worn out and needs replacing
accoiding to Bui ton S Horne
Penn State agi icultural engmeei
How many acies of coin aie
needed to economically justify a
change ovei to nairow rows 9 The
numbei of acies would depent
on many factors including le
placement ot conveision of old
equipment This is an individual
cntupnse pioblem and the de
csion to change must be an mdi
v.dual decision made bv the faim
opei atoi
The leason foi changing to
moie nation lows is to obtau
moie and bettei spaced com
plants on an aue of giound, so
that Melds can be incieased with
h ghei plaiiL populations
Faimcis who aie not aheadv
planting to obt "n 20,030 stalks
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pci acie can inciease .yields
much easiei by heaviei feililiza
(ion and planting higher popula
tion at then present standaul
spaced corn rows
Coin producers who have a
huge pioportion of their acreage
on level or gently sloping land
aie in best position to go to nar
iow ioyvs
Less than half of Pennsylvania
fai m land is sufficiently level for
operation of nauoyv ioyv equip
ment Field size and total acie
age in com will deteimine the
amount of nanow iow cultuie
on some of this land
Button listed the following
machineij management factors
1) The cost to change to nai
tow rows is influenced primarily
b> a producer’s machmeiy situa
tion Replacement with new
equipment could go as high as
$l5 000 to $20,000 A suivey of
ovei 200 faimeis who changed
to nanow lows indicated an
aveiage “change ove.” cost of
$2,500, with a lange fiom $1,500
to $4,000
FARMERS’
FERTILIZER
WORKS, INC.
365 W. Bainbridge Street
PROUDL Y ANNOUNCES
SMITH & WISSLER
2 ) Unit or Ilex type plantei
aie lecommended The units sue
easily adjusted on tool bai ai
rangements for various ioyv spac
mgs. and can be teadily adapted
to nauoyv iows Oldei model
planteis aie usually adjustable
in tyvo inch mciements fiom 34
to 42 inches.
3) Becau c e of the heavy yvei
ght when loaded for planting,
planters over four units aie most
easily handled as a tiailer type
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Set New Record
The Forest Sei vice repoi Is
18 9 billion boaid feet of tim
bei was sold in 23.418 sales dur
ing fiscal yea- 1969
Moie than 20,000 of these
sales weie designed foi the
small timbei opeiatoi
Timber icceipts in 1969 weie
at a iccoid level of $306 8 mil
lion an increase of $lOl2
million ovei the pievious yeai
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PESTICIDES FOR THIS AREA!
401 STONY BATTERY ROAD
LANDISVILLE, PA.
PHONE 898-7233
planter Plantei s of foui units
can be real mounted on the I Jig
ei tiactois
4 ) One planter model when
adjusted to a 32 inch spacing oi
le'.s must use the Hal type seed
corn boxes to achieve this spac
ing
5 ) A foui row 40 inch planter
plants 160 inches (13 1 i feet) pei
pass thiough the field A 4 iow
30 inch plantei plants 120 inches
(10 feel) pci pass This differ
ence effects planting capacity, ie
quiung thiee moie “turn
a.ounds” per acie when fields
are 3 times as long as they aie
wide Lost time piles up heie
and this is one of the icasons for
the tiend to six and eight ioyv
nanow iow planteis
6) A six low 30 inch plantei
will mciease planting capacity
12V'2 pei cent one eighth over a
four row 40 inch plantei and an
eight iow 30 inch system will in
ci ease planting capacity 50 pet
cent This met eased planting
capacity is desnable
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7 ) Tractor rear tread must fit
system of narrow rows selected.
T»eads should be adjustable to
cover 60. 90 or 120 inches for a
30 inch system. Chock individual
tractor specifications (Note; To
exceed a 100 inch tread, axle ex
tensions are noimally required).
For a 20 inch system, treads of
60, 80 or 100 inches should ba
available.
8) Ti actor tire width may be
a icstiiction An 18 inch wide
tn e in a 20 inch row has practi
cally no “mancuvenng-room.”
9) Cultivators most popular
foi nanow row operations will
be the rear mounted, tool bar
type frameworks on which indi
vidual cultivator shanks (or
teeth) can be adjusted for var
ious nairow row spacings.
10 ) Heibicide costs (when ap«
plied in a band) increase 33Vs
pei cent or one third when
changing from a 40 inch to 30
in heibicide costs when the over
inch system there is no increase
all bioadcast spiay is used in
both systems
'fST AW Bf*
Elizabethtown, Pa. 17022
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