—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 22. 1972
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What’s New?
Automatic Mushroom Machinery
Economy-minded mushroom
growers can now sidestep the
capital investment of total
automation by installing the
same machinery, a modular
section-at-a-timefor a fraction of
the final cost according to the
manufacturer, Mentor Products,
Mentor, Ohio The firm builds
and distributes its own Tray-Pak
line of automatic mushroom
machines and systems to the
multi-million-dollar international
mushroom market
For under $20,000, the three
basic modular units of a Tray-
Pak automatic mushroom
system can be put into operation
Additional modules for further
automatic operations in the
system cost about $5,000 to
$lO,OOO per unit
A complete multi-station Tray-
Pak mushroom machine, as a
turn-key system, requires an
investment ranging from $50,000
to $85,000. Mentor’s modular
concept permits growers to
“grow” into total automation at
relatively low cost, adding
modules as they see fit without
interrupting operations.
Product Reliability Center
Consumer protection was given
another boost when International
Harvester Company announced
the establishment of a equipment
and consumer product lines
The new facility at Hinsdale,
Illinois, will be IH’s “action
center, USA” organized to
assure the reliability of all
products marketed by the
Company’s Farm Equipment
Division The main thrust will be
directed at four major customer
oriented objectives, the Company
said
1 Development of a closer,
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more efficient coordination
between customer, dealer,
engineering and manufacturing
in product performance and
improvement,
2 Faster retrieval of data from
the field on the performance of
new or modified machines in line
with customer recom
mendations,
3 Further reduction in elapsed
time between the discovery of a
potential difficulty with a product
in the field, and possible remedial
action,
4 More expeditious customer
senvce in connection with the
Company’s warranty policies.
New Spray Heads for Effective
Low-Volume Application
Of Insecticides Described
A new line of spray heads
which give precise control of
droplet size to permit low volume
or ultra-low volume applications
of insecticides and fungicides is
described in a new four-page, two
-color, illustrated bulletin issued
by the manufacturer, Beeco
Products Company, Fort
Washington, Pa. Low-volume
application of insecticides and
fungicides cuts application costs,
reduces captial expenditures,
minimizes ecological danger to
the environment and provides
more effective insect, pest, and
fungus control.
Two models are covered: the
Beecomist Model 275 which
mounts on large, ground air-blast
type sprayers or on helicopters or
fixed-wing aircraft and is used
for economical large-scale
operations, and the Beecomist
Model 150, a junior size spray
head, which is used with small
back-pack mist blowers by the
smaller fruit grower or farmer.
Ph. 397-3539
The bulletin discusses several
different applications of the two
models, shows strobe-light
photographic evidence of con
trolled uniform droplet size, and
gives specifications of the
equipment.
For a free copy of this bulletin,
write to Beeco Products Com
pany, Fort Washington, Pa.
19034.
Supracide Insecticide
Registered for use on Alfalfa
Supracide 2E, new Ciba-Geigy
insecticide for use on alfalfa and
cotton crops, has been registered
by the Environmental Protection
Agency
Field tests on alfalfa crops
indicate excellent control of
alfalfa weevil, aphids,
leafhoppers and lygus bugs.
Supracide 2E is an emulsifiable
solution containing two pounds of
active ingredient per gallon. It
can be applied either by ground
rig or by air. Mmumum agitation
is required
Applications for alfalfa weevil
control should be made to
standing alfalfa when 20 to 30 per
cent of the growing tips show
feeding damage Stubble ap
plications should be made im
mediately following a cutting.
For other alfalfa insects,
Supracide 2E should be applied
as soon as insects appear.
New Broad-Sprectrum Horse
Wormer
Banmmth (pyrantel tartrate),
a new anthelmintic, has been
approved by the U. S Food and
Drug Administration for the
control of a wide variety of worm
parasites that infest horses of all
ages, Pfizer Agricultural
Division has announced
The new compound was in
troduced previously in several
international markets, and is now
available in the United States.
The horse population here
numbers more than seven million
and is expected to reach 10
By far, the lowest cost feeder-bunk
combination you can buy. This rugged
all-in-one Van Dale shaker feeder
costs as little as $23 a foot plus in
stallation. Expert engineering allows
silage to be delivered up to 102 feet
with only a 3 H.P. motor. You save
added dollars through lower main
tenance because its unique design
virtually eliminates moving parts (no
auger, feeder chain or belt).
Your rations travel along a (12" X
33 Vz") self-polishing, stainless steel
trough by shaking action. The variable
speed heavy-duty drive is safely
It Shakes.
It’s Stainless Steel,
ft Handles All Feeds.
It’s A Combination Feeder & Bunk.
And, It’s Lew Cost.
It’s A Stainless Steal.
CALEB M. WENGER
million by 1975.
Banminth, which can by used
in foads, weanlings, yearlings,
studs and bred mares, offers the
opportunity for a year-round
control program as well as spot
treatment. One of the product’s
major benefits is that it is not
contraindicated in animals
treated with muscle relaxants,
tranquilizers, insecticides, and
drugs which depress the central
nervous system. In safety tests,
Banminth was used at several
times the recommended dosage,
with no toxicity.
Unrelated chemically to all
other available anthelmintics,
the new wormer belongs to the
family of chemicals,
tetrahydropyrimidines. This
chemical difference has
minimized problems that plague
some horse wormers. In Ban
minth field trials here and in
other countries, the broad
spectrum attack by pyrantel
tartrate was effective against
large and small strongyles, large
roundworms and pinworms. In
critical tests in horses, Banminth
proved 98 per cent effective
against Strongylus vulgaris, the
most harmful of large strongyles,
and 96 per cent effective against
large roundworms.
Easy to use, the product is
sprinkled on the grain ration, its
sweet sucrose base insures its
palatability, and in most cases no
mixing is necessary. The com
plicated use of stomach tubes is
eliminated.
Banminth is packaged in
hermetically sealed foil pouches
for simplified administration at
the rate of five grams of product
per 100 pounds of body weight. It
is available in 10, 25 and 50-gram
packages.
A comprehensive descriptive
brochure on worming horses with
Banminth is available at no
charge from the Pfizer
Agricultural Division, Dept. B,
235 East 42nd Street, New York,
New York 10017.
Drumore Center R. D. 1, Quarryville, Pa,
shielded under the feeder. There's
no feeder like it for handling such a
total variety of feeds ... including
baled hay. Build any length feeder
with 10' sections and using a drive
unit every 102 feet. Van Dale's low
cost quality will make your non-stop
feeding a stainless steal.
VAN PALE
Box 337, Long Lake, Minnesota
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