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Goad Conservation Can Mean More Efficiency , Scientist Explains tMVMICL.*- £K. - New Techniques to Increase Farm Output on Reduced Acreage Frank Viets Jr, chief soil scientist for the United States Department of Agriculture re gional soil and water conserva tion laboratory at Fort Collins, Colorado, is worried about the attacks on fertilizer as a pollu tant of streams, lakes and water supplies. Restricting fertilizer use so we_would have to expand our intensive cropland base would be a national disaster, he warns. However, Viets doesn’t give nitrogen and phosphate ferti lizers a completely clean bill of health as non-polluters. Proper Land Use Rather, his theme is that soil erosion and uncontrolled rain runoff are the real villains when it comes to agriculture related pollution. He feels farm ers, generally speaking, should aim for top yields and use more, not less, fertilizer, on their best fields. Then, they can con centrate production on land ’p / v We’ll give you ten pounds of Furox lO to prove it’s the best scours preventive you’ve ever tried Here's what you do: Buy a 50-lb. sack of Furox 10 from your participating dealer. He will give you a 10-lb. sack to go with it. Lay the 50-pounder aside and use the ten pounds as directed. If you aren't con vinced that Furox does what we say, return the unopened 50-lb. sack to your dealer and get your money back. Ten pounds of Furox 10 is enough to treat three sows and their litters un til the pigs are five weeks old. Or it can take eight feeder pigs through the stress of being moved. Furox fits your operation 4 ways 1. Fed to sows daily, starting one week before farrowing until Mo weeks that is least subject to erosion and retire poorer land to less intensive use. Hie great strides made in erosion control and in increas ed agricultural productivity during the past 20 years have let us retire more than 50 mil lion acres to grass and less in tensive use where the hazards of erosion and pollution are less, he reminds. He predicts by further intensifying agriculture, we can retire another 20 mil lion acres. This last, he believes, will re quire more use of technical know-how by farmers, larger capital inputs into farming, and probably a continuing trend toward consolidating smaller farm units into larger ones. Thomas Beaver, vice presi dent and general manager of the North American Division of Sperry Rand’s New Holland farm equipment division, locat ed here in one of the nation’s after, Furox helps break the sow-to pigs infection cycle. 2. Included in the starter rations dur ing the first five weeks, Furox helps prevent scours outbreaks triggered by E. coli. Norwich. Agricultural Products Division of Morton-Norwich Products, Inc. Norwich, NY. 13815 finest agricultural areas, says that throughout the nation, farmers anod teams of agricul tural scientists are working out the shape of things to come in conservation and better land use. Their efforts are directed toward new and different ways to “harvest” more of the rain that falls, and to tillage and management systems that im prove soil structure and reduce erosion. They are studying the uses of chemicals to directly and in directly promote the cause of conservation. The Soil Conservation Ser vice has high hopes that no-till, minimum-till and modified till age systems for row crops will make a great contribution to ward protecting soil and water resources and increasing farm productivity during 1970’5. An SCS spokesman reports [CKiisPPOUMPS I Harvest The Rain 3. When you bring in feeders, start them immediately on feed medi cated with Furox to combat stress triggered infections. 4. If scours should break out, feed Furox at the treatment level. Dose baby pigs with Furox Suspension. Furox works because it is a specif ic against E. coli and Salmonella, and bacteria do not appear to build up re sistance to the nitrofurans, as they do with general-purpose antibiotics. See your participating dealer today and get your free Furox while supplies last. Try it as suggested. The only way you can lose is by not trying it. •Rejistered trademark for furazolidone developed and manufactured by Morton-Norwich Products, Inc. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 14,1971—7 about 7 million acres were planted under the no-till mefthod last year, compared with less than 10,000 acres just five years ago. And no-till can cut soil erosion 65 to 95 per cent. In Oregon, agronomists are building a herbicide safety zone for weed-free grass seed plantings by applying bands of activated charcoal directly over 'the seed rows at planting time. And, a Beltsville, Maryland, USDA research center biolo gists and soil scientists have found chemical additives for herbicides that may lead to more effectiv weed control with fewer applications at lower her bicide rates. Air pollution and soil losses from wind erosion are still with us in the 1970’5. But tests in humid Ohio and in dryland sec tions of Nebraska show mini mum tillage of such row crops as corn, along with a sod or crop > residue cover on the field, can prevent wind erosion and bring higher yields, even on highly blowable soils. In the Nebraska Sandhills, 150 bushels of corh to the acre, and more, have been grown recently under irrigation on soils that wouldn’t support a corn crop before. The secret is not irrigation alone. Sod planting of corn to control blowing on these light soils is what makes the irriga tion workable. 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