—Lancaster Farming, Saturday. February 24, 1973
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Farm Calendar
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Center.
7:45 p.m. - Chester County Soils
meeting, “Soil Testing and
Soil Improvements”, vo-ag
room, Owen J Roberts High
School.
Fulton Grange meeting, Oakryn.
DHIA Quarterly Directors
meeting, Farm and Home
Center.
7th International Bird Game
Conference, Penn State
University, February 26-27
Tuesday, February 27
Central 4-H Tractor Club
meeting.
7 p.m. - Gourmet Cooking Wor
shop. Farm and Home Center.
7-30 pm - Ephrata Young
Farmers Crop Production
Management and Analysis
course, vo-ag classroom,
Ephrata High School.
7 45 p m - Garden Spot Young
Farmer Swine Breeding
Seminar, vo-ag classroom,
Garden Spot High School.
8 p.m - Solanco Young Farmer
meeting, “Updating Weed
Control Procedures”, Fowl’s
Feed Service, Wakefield.
Dairy Herd Management Con
ference, Penn State, February
27-28
Thursday, March 1
9am- Solanco Young Farmers
Annual Spring Tour.
9 30 a m - Garden Spot Young
Farmers Dairy tour.
12 15 pm Lancaster County
Farm Equipment Dealers
Association luncheon, Bird-in-
Hand Motor Inn
7 30 p m - Poultry Educational
meeting. Farm and Home
Center
7 - 30 pm - Manheim Young
Farmers Animal Nutrition
Seminar, vo-ag classroom,
Manheim Central High
School
730 pm - Ephrata Young
Farmers Officers and
Committees meetings, vo-ag
classroom, Ephrata High
School
Friday, March 2
7 -30 p m - Silver Spurs 4-H Horse
and Pony Club meeting, home
of Roxanne and Roberta Stein
Twin Valley FFA Banquet,
Elverson Fire Hall
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Corn
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farmers who didn’t cultivate at
all. They averaged 131 bushels
There were 286 farmers who
cultivated once, and they also
averaged 131 bushels. The 68
farmers who cultivated twice
averaged 132 bushels, which is
only a one bushel difference,”
McGahen said.
He also noted that there didn’t
seem to be any yield difference
between fall and spring plowings.
Weed control was one very
important factor in corn
management, and it was stressed
by both McGahen and Willis
McClellan, another Penn Stater
who talked to the group about
herbicides
Com Club figures quoted by
McGahen showed that farmers
reporting good weed control
averaged 136 busheld yields.
Those with average weed control
had a 120 bushel yield, while
those reporting poor control had
only 108 bushels on the average.
McGahen concluded with some
observations on the future of com
growing as well as its im
portance, “Growing degree days
are being used by more and more
FEATURING OUR SECURITY FREE STALL
We make a high Security Free Stall from high grade
boiler type steel that will last and last. A bedding board
is installed and the stall is elevated above the scrape
area. Extra floor space is given to each animal and a
maximum drinking area is provided. A step along the
feed trough allows easy access to the feed but prevents
manure from falling into the trough.
• VAN DALE, INC.
• MADISON SILOS
CALEB M. WENGER,
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farmers as a management tool
for growing more corn. It’s a
good tool, too, because it lets us
base our hybrid selection on
something other than guesswork.
I predict, though, that growing
degree days will be replaced by a
system that will let us calculate
radiant energy as well as heat.”
McGahan saw a great need for a
vast number of corn hybrids. “If
we had only a few stains of corn,”
he said, “we’d run the risk of a
disastrous crop failure. Different
strains are resistant to different
diseases and pests. We need that
kind of insurance.”
Concluding his talk, McGahen
said that 65 percent'of the world’s
population'was dependent for its
food on three grains - corn, wheat
and rice.
Other speakers at Tuesday’s
meeting included Alan Bair,
assistant Lancaster extension
agent, who discussed farm
machinery management; John
Yocum, superintendent of the
Landisville research farm, and
A G. Lueck, associate Lancaster
extension agent, who talked
about soybean production; and
Dr. John E. Baylor, a Penn State
extension agronomist who talked
about forage management.
SOLAIR BARNS
DISTRIBUTORS FOR:
Young's Say Thanks
Young Bros, of Fulton Town
ship who lost their barn by fire
last week wish to thank the 50
men who came Thursday and
cleared away the debris. Neigh
bors and friends as far away as
Kinzers and Atglen came with six
trucks and a wagon and hauled
away the slate, manure and trash
to the Fulton Township dump and
the steel to the junk yard at
Coatesville. Kinzer Equipment
Co. sent a crawler-loader and
together with Young’s crawler
loader, two cutting torches,
scoops and pitchforks, all except
the foundation walls were cleared
CUSTOM BUTCHERING
Hogs Processed the old fashioned way.
Sausage, pudding, scrapple. Hams and Bacon cured.
Beef cut, wrapped and frozen.
Dried beef and bologna.
WE ALSO SPECIALIZE IN U.S.D.A.
GRADED SIDES AND QUARTERS.
CALL PAUL A. HESS
464-3711 or 464-3127
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• MECHANIZED FEED LOT SYSTEMS
Security Stall
'Extra scrapep
All welded joint*'"'
Header board
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away. Young’s also wish to thank
friends who sent food to help feed
the volunteers.
Inc.
PHONE 548-2116