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... If your organization didn’t make our.farm calendar
this week, it’s not because we don’t like you or your or
ganization.
We may have missed it in the rush. Or maybe you for
got to toll US.
Either way, we’d like to extend our farm community
service to you.
nnA To get on the Farm Calendar, remind us by calling
or 626-2191 or by writing to Lancaster Farming, 22
E. Main St., Lititz, Pa. 17543. And help us serve you better.
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Bowmansville
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They’re Shocking
To Get Higher Yields
Electromagnetic treatment of
field-crop seeds may have the
potential of influencing plant
germination, growth and yield,
according to a Western Illinois
University agricultural engineer.
“First-year research raises
enough interest to continue the
study of this phenomenon and its
potential for increasing food
production,” reported Dr. Safwat
M.A. Moustafa, associate
professor and head of the
engineering-mechanization
section of the department of
agriculture here at WIU.
While cautioning against
scientific reliance on a single
year of testing data and the need
for more research before
reaching concrete conclusions,
he offered some “general ob
servations and conclusions”
indicating that electromagnetic
energy may have the potential of
influencing play germination,
growth and yield.
Using both climate control
chambers and field replications
of corn and soybeans, Moustafa’s
data indicated some trends that
suggest the following; 1) an
accelerated rate of germination,
2) improved percentage of
germination on lower quality
seeds, and 3) larger total leaf
MUSSER FARMS, INC.
Columbia
CHAS. E. SAUDER
& SONS
Terre Hill
SHELLY BROTHERS
RD 2, Manheim, Pa.
E. P. SPOTTS, INC.
Honey Brook
H. M. STAUFFER
I. SONS, INC.
Witmer
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 9,1972—11
area for plants which had been
enagized, especially at earlier
stages of growth when subjected
to the favorable growing con
ditions.
Averages of yield data obtained
during this first year of testing
seem to indicate higher yield in
corn and soybeans as a result of
the seed exposure to the
magnetic field, he said.
Observations also revealed a
trend toward lower moisture
content in corn which could
suggest early maturity.
(Soybean plots were harvested
late and all plots were at low 12 to
12.4 percent moisture levels.).
Moustafa and his assistants are
conducting continuing research
on a considerably broader scale
on the 1972 field crops. Elec
tromagnetic seed treatment is
being applied by an equipment
Rural Areas Harbor
Bulk of Poor Housing
Rural America has less than
one-third of the country’s houses
but two-thirds of all those in poor
condition, according to a report
by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture.
The 1970 Census of Housing
showed the Nation had 63.4
million occupied housing units.
USDA’s Economic Research
Service determined that of the
19.6 million units located outside
of our metropolitan centers, 12
percent didn’t have sufficient
plumbing, which classified them
as of poor quality. About 3 per
cent of the metropolitan houses
were in this condition.
Half of the Nation’s 4 7 million
housing units, without sufficient
plumbing were in the South,
about a fourth were in the North
Central, and less than a tenth in
the West. About 3.8 million of
these dwellings were occupied.
Of the Nation’s 6.3 million
houses lived in by Negroes, 17
percent lacked the necessary
plumbing. Among the 57 million
white households, 4.7 percent
were listed in poor condition.
Nearly half of the Negro
occupied housing in the non
metro areas of the South did not
have complete plumbing.
The country has some 5.2
million vacant houses, many
potentially useable if necessary
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commercially known as the
“seed energizer,” invented by R.
D. Amburn of Sterling Heights,
Mich., and distributed by Agra-
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Des Moines, lowa. Patented, and
later improved, the Seed
Enagizer is currently in com
mercial use on several hundred
U.S. farms
The equipment permits the
control of intensity of the
magnetic field. Moustafa’s tests
covered a wider range of in
tensities ranging up to 700 gauss.
His research is supported by a
grant from Agra-Tronix, Inc.
Details regarding the research
procedures and data on the first
year studies may be obtained
from Moustafa at Western
Illinois University, Macomb,
Illinois 61455.
repairs and improvements are
made. More than half these
empty units are in rural areas
Researchers found the median
value of all owner-occupied
homes was $17,000 in 1970, in
rural areas it was $12,400, against
$19,100 in urban sectors. A fur
ther breakdown revealed 6
percent of all units were valued
at less than $5,000, with over
three-fourths of these outside the
larger cities
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