B—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 11, 1973
Take Time to Store
Your Planter Properly
Aside from weather, nothing
affects financial success of a crop
like the way it is planted.
Nothing. Even the most carefully
applied herbicides and fertilizers
can’t make a poorly planted crop
provide great yields, so if you
don’t do anything else when
you’ve finished planting, take
time to put your planter away
properly so it will be ready for
next year.
To help guide you through the
maze of lubrications, ad
justments and checks to be made,
Massey-Ferguson’s planter
engineers have developed the
following suggested list;
1. Carefully check over entire
planter. Correct any obvious
problems Replace (or order
replacements for) worn parts.
2 Clean all ground-engaging
parts, apply grease or heavy oil
to all polished surfaces to prevent
rusting.
3. Empty seed hoppers and
clean them thoroughly. Coat
moving parts at the bottom of the
hoppers with heavy oil.
4. Remove all seed hoppers,
planting mechanisms and seed
plates and store in a dry place.
Follow manufacturer’s
recommendations for planters
that do not use plates.
seed tubes
5. Clean
thoroughly.
6. Empty fertilizer hoppers
and thoroughly clean them inside
and out Coat inside and outside
surfaces with oil. Set collars on
lift rods to hold openers off the
ground
7. If liquid fertilizer is used,
flush tanks well and clean
dispensing system thoroughly.
8. Remove and clean her
bicide and insecticide dispenser
augers and hoppers, but be
careful where you dispose of
herbicide or insecticide waste.
9. Remove all roller chains
and store in a can of light oil.
10. Coat all detachable link
chains with oil.
11. Store in a shed or cover
with canvas in a protected place.
Don’t however, let this post
season servicing be the only one
your planter gets. Be sure to
check it over again next season
and follow the manufacturer’s
recommendations for taking it
out of storage. That way you can
expect to get all the good service
and long life the manufacturer
has built into the most important
machine you own.
“FARMERS”
- Black plastic covers for
silage piles-silos, crop
cover & building.
- Silage preservatives.
- Rot proof silo rope.
- High Pressure Cleaners
Portable 700 lb. pressure
- Cattle Tags and Chains
- Handy Hoof Trimmers
- Kamar Heat Detectors
- Maes Inflations
- Mineral Feeders
- Cattle Dust Bags
- Fly Sprays - Jet Foggers
- Farm Gates - Hog Feeders
Electri? Fencers
THIBENZOLE + TRAMISOL
Cattle & Sheep Wormer.
TYLAN-10 SP-250, TM-50
Livestock Conditioners.
A heavy coating of grease on ground-engaging parts of
your planter will protect them from rust while stored bet
ween seasons.
-WL3OS ALFALFA HAS ALL THESE
RESISTANT TO BACTERIAL WILT, AN
THRACNOSE, SPOTTED ALFALFA & PEA APHIDS
FINE STEMMED & LEAFY
PRODUCES “TOP QUALITY” HAY
STRONG STAND ESTABLISHMENT
RAPID GROWING
IN QUARRYVILLE AREA
RED ROSE
FARM SERVICE. INC.
MAIN OFFICE
N. CHURCH ST.
QUARRYVILLE, PA.
786-7361
Red Rose Dealers Listed
Complete Selection of Alfalfas - Clovers - Grasses -
Seed Wheat and Barley
TO FIT YOUR NEEDS IN FERTILIZER.
WE OFFER AGRiCO WITH A WIDE SELECTION OF ANALYSIS
IN EITHER BAG OR BULK
Truck or trailer spreading service available
YOUR LOCAL INDEPENDENT RED ROSE DEALER
MR. FARMER
HAVE YOU TRIED WL 305 ALFAIF
IN YOUR ROUGHAGE PROGRAM?
BUCK, PA.
284-4464
All seed hoppers should be emptied completely am
thoroughly cleaned before storage. When the cleaning i
completed, don’t put them back on the planter. Store them ii
a dry place until next season.
DESIRABLE ADVANTAGES;-
6. FAST RECOVERY
7. SEMI- FALL DORMANCY
8 ADEQUATE WINTER HARDINESS
9. GOOD PERSISTENCE
10. HIGH YIELDS
below Stocks a
IN ATGLEN AREA
BROWN & REA, INC.
ATGLEN, PA.
215-593-5149