Maryland Editor’s note: Despite assurances from many that all U. S. corn should be of the N type which is resistant to Southern corn blight by next year, debate will certainly continue on the blight and the lessons to be gained from it, as well on what actuaUy happened during the past two years. This is one such appraisal from the Maryland Extension Service. It’s all over but the harvesting in Maryland agriculture’s 1971 bout with Race T and other forms of Southern corn leaf blight. Commercial aerial spray ap- PROTECT YOUR FARM WITH A PINCOR PTO TRACTOR DRIVEN ALTERNATOR • 50,000 watts sarze capacity • 11,000 witb cutimus d«ty . • Star speed—lloo RPM opcratlcn • Cml raining triple chain drive transnissiw • Htavy My motor starting • Class voltage regulation • Meets NOU cedes • Heavy doty construction • Indietisa hardened Input shaft • Reia pnaf contraction • Completely wired central hex • Three phase available -SEE IT AT . : .11.. HAVERSTICK BROS. 2111 Stone Mill Rd. Lancaster, Pa. 17603 Ph. (717) 392-5722 L tHKCOm"^ BETTER FEEDS for cows pay off handsomely to dairymen The best feeds you can buy for your cows are the best invest ment that you can make! FLORIN FEEDS have been tried, tested and proven suc- cessful as a means of increas ing milk production and main taining good health. You’ll ap preciate the difference they’ll make ... in the size of your milk checks! WOLGEMUTH BROS., me MOUNT JOY, PENNA. Extension Service Looks at Blight and Future plicators have moved into states farther north, and the time for .realistically assessing next year’s prospects is at hand. Latest information from Ex tension agronomists and plant pathologists at the University of Maryland indicates these salient points through me haze of spore dust sure to envelop many corn fields at harvest time. Some small hybrid seed corn companies which gambled everything on Texas male-sterile com in the hope that spores from last year’s infestation would not overwinter face economic ruin or loss of prestige. Their gloomy prospect is shared by most Maryland farmers who planted T com. Planting blends of T and N corn proved to be a mistake in most cases. The T corn in such fields is already dried out and needs immediate harvesting, while N corn in the same fields is still mostly green. Some farmers who pur chased what they were led to believe was blight-resistant N seed now find fields completely brown, a dead giveaway that it was really nonresistant T seed. Fields of T corn with five applications of spray were saved from blight. But current market prices for corn make the cost of this much spraying not economically feasible. Damage from corn borers and Northern corn leaf blight, although not as serious in yield reduction potential, have com pounded the Southern corn leaf blight harvest problem. Northern com leaf blight was especially noticeable in central Maryland. This fungus-borne disease at tacks both T and some varieties of N. or normal cytoplasm corn. Contrary to expectations, there was more blight-resistant N Ph. 653-1451 seed com available for late plantings man mere was early in the season. This fact, coupled .with early August rains which came too late for some drouth stricken early-planted corn, makes late-planted fields generally look very promising. Joseph L,. , Newcomer, University of Maryland Ex tension agronomist, speculated that the late-season N seed com which showed up in Maryland came partly from South America but largely from left-over dealer warehouse stocks in me South where commercial hybrid seed companies, by general Grange Plans for Large Turnout at Convention With over one- third of a 60,000 total membership located within easy driving distance, the Pennsylvania State Grange may register an all-time high at tendance at its 99m annual convention in Somerset, October 25 to 28, A. Wayne Readinger, master, recently. Masters and their spouses from the 621 subordinate granges in 65 of the 67 counties will serve as official delegates. Attending with them will be men and women guests, including fellow subor dinate officers, officials from the state's 56 pomona districts, state officers and committees, junior members, convention speakers, representatives of various supporting agencies and organizations within the com munity, and key figures from kindred farm and other related groups. Readinger said attendance at recent state meetings has averaged near 2,000. He ex pressed confidence - this year's roll may equal or exceed the best previous mark. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 25,1971 — agreement, had concentrated their N seed lots at me beginning of me 1971 planting season. ' Newcomer commented mat me South American flint com ap pears to have done much better man most professional observers expected. One farmer in Howard County alone planted 30 acres of such it was doing well at last report.