Organic Acids for Corn Preservation Becoming Popular your picture on your checks for instant identific gPfismas m* mgm si m i nri piMmianm 17603 FULT ON BANK ~~ i—~ ______ What a great idea! Face Checks. Your photo on your checks. What better identification can you have when you cash a check! You are matched with your Face Check. (We can even print your driver's license number on each check, too.) If it’s a joint account, pictures of both indi viduals may appear on each check. Cost? About IV2-0 per check. Get photographed now. (We’ll get you at your good-looking best!) Face Checks—the checks that are easier to cash and safer to carry because they look like you. Face Checks, available at all Fulton Bank offices in Lancaster and Dauphin Counties FULTON BANK SERVING LANCASTER AND DAUPHIN COUNTIES MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM / F.D.I.C. ce Ch CKS IO! 12-345/678 is ■ '^°Uar s Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 3,1973—23 Preserving corn by using organic acids is becoming an accepted alternative to dried corn storage, an Extension agronomist at The Pennsylvania State University declared. Joseph H. McGahen, speaking at the annual Lime and Fertilizer Conference on the Penn State campus January 26, pointed out that in 1971 over 100,000 bushels of shelled corn were acid treated. Storage losses occurred in less than 2 percent of the treated grain. “Organic acid preservation offers several advantages,” the agronomist said. “Application is rapid, storage facilities need only protect the treated grain from the weather, and treated grain can be moved from storage and restored.” In the fall of 1971, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of certain acids for preservation of feed grains. These acids are propionic and acetic. Application rates and costs vary with the grain moisture content and they appear to be comparable to drying costs, Mr. McGahen noted. A range of $1.94 to $8.40 per ton has been reported. “Acceptance and use of an acid preservative may well depend on a feasible method of treating ear corn,” the Penn State agronomist said. “Chopped or ground ear corn has been successfully preserved with acid treatment, however, the economics of acid preservations of corn and cobs are not well defined at this time.” Help Us Serve You 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 yovt for got to tell us. Either tfay, we’d like to extend our farm community service to you. •Jo get on the Farm Calen dar, remind us by calling 3943047 or 626-2191 or by writing to Lancaster Farm ing, 22 E. Main St., Lititz, P«. 17543. And help us serve you fetter.
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