IR —Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 6,1971
Conservation and Alfalfa Are Among Topics at Soils Day
Oival Bass, Lancaster County
•soil conservationist, spoke on the
reed foi good soil conservation
practices last week at the an
nual Crops and Soils Day
He explained that forest land
loses 20 to 100 tons of soil in a
stoim, compaied with 100 to 500
tons from crop land and 1,000 to
2,500 from land in urban use
He noted that the Pennsylvania
•clean Streams Law has ledefmed
sediment as an industrial pol
lutant and manure as a sewage
pollutanL making the farmer
subject to fines of $lOO to $l,OOO
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formerly had a carrot to lead
the farmer to better conservation
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more corn ” While strip crop
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The strips are now so narrow
they are ineffective on many
farms, Bass said
As Lancaster County farmers
have in the past five years gone
toward a continuous corn crop,
he said that terraces and sod
waterways have become the type
ot conservation practices that
have been effective with this
type of land use
Terraces and sod waterways
make production of continuous
corn feasible on slopes of up to
four per cent, he said.
Alfalfa Potential
Dr John E Baylor, Penn State
Extension agronomist, spoke on
new ideas in silage and hay mak
ing He was introduced by
master of ceremonies John Yo
cum of the Penn State Reseal ch
Faim at Landisvile, as “one of
the country’s foremost forage
specialists ”
Bayloi noted that the type of
conservation programs as out
lined by Bass make much more
intensive type of farmin’ piac
tices workable
The two crops that the
most potential use for farmers,
according to Bayloi, are corn
ard alfalfa
The essential ingredients of a
sound feeding piogiam, Baylor
no ied, are er-n’gy, piotein vi
tamins and minerals
Coin is the best source of
energy and alfalfa lanks highest
m protein, he said
Bayloi emphasized that the
highest potential for both coin
silage and alfalfa is much great
e 1 tlnn is now being lealized by
faimers , While faimeis produce
an average of about 12 5 tons of
corn silage per acie, the poten
tial is 30 tons and some faimers
Con possibly achieve 45 tons
Savior said While alfalfa
yield is now an average of about
2 5 tons per am e, Baylor thinks
the potential is an aveiage of
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cessaiy to achieve long lived
stands, he emphasized
Baylor said”the time and fre
quency of cutting is also an
important management practice
with alfalfa.
The first harvest for maximum
production should be at the early
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