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SemftiSprove Y oung Farmers
Award Top Honors to Bailey
Clyde Bailey, Winfield RDI,
has been named the Outstanding
Young Farmer of the Month of
the Selinsgrove Chapter. Bailey
was recently awarded a trophy as
top grower in the Selinsgrove
Young Farmer Corn Club for
1972.
Bailey and his wife Dot own
and operate a 242 acre na and
rent an additional 60 es. Of
this total acreage appr. unately
200 acres are tillable and Bailey
expects to plant 126 acres of No-
Till Com in 1973. This will be the
fourth successive year of No-Till
Cora on his farm.
In the 1972 Selinsgrove Young
Farmer Corn Club, Bailey’s top
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Besides velvetleaf, Maloran gives effective control of smartweed, lambs'
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yield of 154.59 bushels of dry
shelled corn was obtained with
29.538 plants. This No-Till Corn
was grown at an exceptionally
low cost of 32 cents per bushel,
which is due partially to the use
of high amounts of poultry
manure as a source of fertilizer
nutrients. Poultry manure is in
plentiful supply since there are
36,500 caged laying hens on the
farm.
In addition to the crop farming
and poultry enterprise, Bailey
also finishes out three batches of
hogs per'year making an average
of 450 fattening hogs that leave
the farm each year.
Bailey started farming in 1947
New for soybeans.
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and took over his present farm in
1949. By 1959 he realized the
importance of a Conservation
Farm Plan and to date has ap
plied all of the practices called
for in his original plan. This in
cluded 4,700 feet of diversion
terraces to walk the water
around the hills, about 15 acres of
tree plantings on steep slopes, the
use of a No-Till corn planter with
stubble mulch and rye seeded
after harvest as a winter cover
crop. With this type of crop
famine and an acreage of 115
acres of No-Till Corn in 1972,
there was very little if any
noticeable erosion during the
Agnes Flood in June.
Last fall a corn dryer was put
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Clyde Bailey, Winfield ROl, checks the corn hopper of his
No-Till corn planter in preparation for the annual spring
rush.
into operation on the farm to pm
the corn into a marketable
condition and keep it safe for
storage. The corn is stored in a
shed with a concrete floor and is
loaded with a payloader which
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being used to clean poultry
houses.
The farm pond, also a part of
the Conservation Farm Plan,
provides fishing fun and
recreation for the boys. It’s
stocked with large mouth bass
and bluegills.
The Bailey’s have two sons and
two daughters. Mrs. Bailey is
interested in home ceramics.
Garden Spot Club
Elects Officers
The Garden Spot Community 4-
H Club held its first meeting at
Conestoga Valley High School.
There was an election for new
officers.
The officers are: Dwight
Houser, president, Judy Risser,
vice-president; Jenny Wagner,
secretary; Margaret Canning,
treasurer; Lorraine Woodruff,
news reporter.
Roberta Myer and Tom
Trimble, song and game leaders,
Dwight Houser, Jenny Wagner
and Lorraine Woodruff, County
Council representatives.
Mrs Risser, Mrs. Myer, Mr.
Houser and members of the 4-H
group explained about the
projects to the new members.
• News Reporter
Lorraine Woodruff
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