30—Lancaster Farming. Saturday. .September 5.1970
On Overcoming the Blight
(Continued from Page 4)
and feed costs but no serious damage to the
agricultural community.
What concerns individual farmers, of
course, is that their personal losses may be
far greater than the average, or that they
will be stuck for more than the average
share of increased feed costs.
There is also some concern that the
national loss will exceed 5 to 10 per cent.
This would make the overall situation much
more serious.
Looking ahead, the major concern is
how serious the blight will be next year and
the >ear after.
How well will the blight winter over?
Reports indicate the blight will winter over,
but to what extent? Will the blight get an
earlier start next \ear and do more dam
age'’ Perhaps this will depend in part of
what t\pe glowing season occurs.
In this respect, tanners should peihaps
strongly consider the achice ot Arnold
Lueck, associate countj agent Lueck stales
the blight has been most se\eie in fields
wheie the corn crop has been under stress,
either from not haung enough or too much
ot \anous tjpes oi nutrients, wheie the
crop has been weakened b\ lootwonn.
where the plant population has been too
high, where a hea\j stand ot weeds has
been allowed to compete with the com
Rci iew Management
It Lueck's anahsis is lahd. it would
indicate that tarmeis next mar should
caiefully renew their management piac
tices before planting time to sue corn
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Why is important to you
that GLEANER combine
from the other ten?
BIC \USE Gkahcr combiner .ire the o ilv combines
s>pecitic,ill\ designed to L.u thresh and sepaiate undci
tod.i\ s changing hold and crop conditions. With a
Clcanei combine vou take inoie and cleaner grain out ol
the field nt luvw 01 light uops-di\ or wet conditions
Di'icieiKes start noun iionl with Sinc-Fccd \n Allis-
Chalmeis exclusive' Conuols all ciops Like this—
Header augei lecds into a cylinder width beater. Re
tractable inigcix tomb and spiead crop over the entire
cylinder width (ileanci combines use evciy inchofiasp
barfoi lull threshing tulUapacily morning or afternoon
in hea' \ oi light uops
’btour eiop s undei full control. Eniue acuon takes
only 15‘i inches o! ciop travel. This is the shortest
lieadei-10-cvlindei delivery of all-e\ery "cut'’ is under
full mechanical comiot to within one melt of the cylinder!
Keiult-feeding accuracy and threshing capacity un
matched even by the heavyweights.
Our down-front design puts pivot point behind the
cylmdei-material always feeds at the same angle even
While the headeis move up or down.
All others pivot ahead of cylinder—resulting in over
®r under-threshmg. They have a 50 to 98-mch comeyor
The Future
it
crop the best possible growing conditions.
The corn rows shouldn’t be too close, the
plantings shouldn't be too frequent within
the row, the soil should bo tested in advance
and the proper ratio of nutrients applied,
proper precautions should be taken against
such pests as rootworm where they have
been found to exist this year, proper weed
control should be used. In short, the farmer
should be extra careful to use the kind of
practices which he should already be using
anyway.
Seed C«rn Firms
Also for the future, all eyes will be
turning to the seed corn firms.
Can the firms supply enough resistant
seed corn to avert a crisis? Reports on this
so far are contradictory, with some sources
citing huge seed corn crop losses to' the
blight and others citing such factors as
foreign seed corn production as a salvation.
Farmers should be able to count on an
all-out effort by both goiernment and pn
late firms to deielop resistant seed \ery
lapidlj. Various sources indicate it will
take from one to thiee years to de\elop
adequate supplies of resistant seed. But
perhaps by next year, farmers can already
expect a significant trend toward elimina
tion of the most susceptible laneties.
The speed with which the job is ac
complished ma\ ultimately determine how
serious the blight situation is tor the farm
er and the nation.
With so many unknown factors and so
much depending on what happens in the
lulurc. it is impossible to say how serious
the blight really is.
The farmer shouldn't lull himself into
not being prepared for the consequences
ot the blight, but as the same time there
are many bright signs. Like many another
disaster which has befallen the farm com
munity in the past, it may soon be found
that this too shall pass.
feed \ny conveyor tends to bunch material at its center, shoe la the Gleaner combine, the upper fan directs a
causing uneven >_\linder wear. heavy an blast thiough the gram stream as it comes off
It s easy to see how 6 leaner combine down-front the raddle—pie-cleans ciop before it ever reaches the
crhndci design gives you a much gieatci separating area, shoe Blows dust, dut out rear.
and mote capacity eveiywheie it touches the crop. Second fan tuush-cleans the uop at the chaffer and
Separation begins as wing heatci behind the cylinder shoe. One fan befoie the shoe, one fan at the shoe; a big
agitates, flulfs the crop blast liom lotating cyhndet ger, cleauct ciop with Gleanei combine,
and beater meteases crop agitation Giam, dust, cliaff fall " Sme-Feed system, controlled feeding; down-front cyl
thiough the stiaw evenly' onto the raddle below That’s mder, gieatei sepaiatmg area; two-fan cleaning system!
eaily sepaiation,ready for Gleanei combine pre-cleaning. These aie only some of the Gleaner combine differ-
Here’sanothei difference-two-fan cleaning The others enccs See us foi mote details. Out credit plans make a
don't pie-clean—they try to do all the cleaning at the Gleaner casici than ever to own!
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