Farm
by Dick Wanner
This writer, along with
some 50 other farm writers
and broadcasters, spent a
few days last week in
Dekalb, Illinois, as the guest
of Dekalb Agresearch Inc.,
producers of hybrid corn,
sorghum and wheat seed as
well as hybrid layers. The
occassion was Dekalb’s
annual communications
days conference.
The assembled journalists
talked to company officials,
toured the research farms
and witnessed the awarding
of three Dekalb Oscars in
Agriculture. Oscars are
presented each year to a
farm newspaper writer, a
farm magazine writer and a
farm broadcaster.
This year’s winners were
Don Razee, managing editor
of the California Farmer
magazine, San Francisco;
Cliff Adams, farm service
director of radio station
KMA, Shenandoah, Iowa;
and Dick Wanner, Lancaster
Fanning editor.
Several Dekalb officers
reported on crop conditions
across the country, using
information -supplied by
company seedmen on their
particular areas. As ex
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AT NEW HOLLAND SALES STABLES, INC.
If you need 1 cow or a truck load, we have from
100 to 200 cows to sell every week at your price.
Mostly fresh and close springing Holstems.
Cows from local farmers and our regular
shippers including Marvin Eshleman, Glenn Fite,
Gordon Fritz, Blame Hoffer, Dale Hostetler, Bill
Lang, H. D. Matz, and Jerry Miller.
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PUBLIC SALE
SATURDAY, SEPT. 28,1974
FAIR VIEW FARM & STABLES
Turnpike Road, three miles west of Elizabethtown, Pa.
FARM AND CHICKEN EQUIPMENT
Furniture, 10.00 a.m. Real Estate, 2.00 p.m.
REAL ESTATE consisting of Approx Vh acres of Field. Trees and
Spring with a lot of Frontage on' Hard Road "A good quiet spot in the
country" Will be sold at Fair View Farm & Stables 200 p m Real
Estate location Turnpike Road from Elizabethtown turn left at first
road after passing “Fair View Farm & Stablesturn left at next road,
see Sale Sign
Oliver 0 C 3 Crawler with Loader JD Hay Conditioner 14 Rubber
tired Flat Wagon I H 28 disc Harrow Spike Harrow T Cultipacher
D B Rubber tired 4-bar Sidedelivery Rake Circular Saw Frame for
A C -B, Trailer Axle, Ford Tractor Jack N 1 12 A
M Spreader w/Extra New Tire 4-hole Hog Feeder Grindstone,
Circular Saw Blade. Wheel Weights for A C Metal Water Tub Small
Tractor with Hydraulic Lift and Scoop to clean out chicken pits Wire
Cages for 5,000 chickens, Cage Troughs Metal Chicken Nests
Chicken Feeders, 2 Egg Carts, Metal Feed Bins Chicken Crates. 55-
gal Drums Herrmatic Cage Feeder (self propelled) Berry Boxes
Window Sashes, Double Wash Tubs Old Doors
STALLION TWIN-7, Mower
Small Trailer Shaves Single and Double trees Horse Collars Hay
Hook Straw Cutter Fruit Drying Pan Old Heatrola (Oak Bengal 460),
Milk Cans Elec Stove Desk roll top Old Cupboard Crib Coffee
Table Lamps many other items
Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Ressler
Aucts.: GEORGE E. STONE, JR., Bainbridge, Pa.
JOHN D. KILMER, Manheim, Pa.
Clerks: STONE & REED.
“No Sale Too Large or Too Small,
We Handle Them All. ’ ’
For your sale call us.
Food Stand: Sequoia Riders 4-H Club
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Writers Tour Dekalb Facility
pected, prospects in general,
especially in the Midwest,
were for grain crops
markedly under the
predictions of earlier in the
year. Late planting because
of wet fields was a cause,
drought was another factor,
and early frost provided a
triple weather “whammy”
for many parts of the Mid
west. Growing conditions in
the' Northeast, however,
were generally
acknowledged to have been
favorable.
The nation’s seed crop, of
course, is Dekalb’s main
area of concern and their
main area of expertise. The
com seed crop will be down
from last year but supplies
should be adequate, we were
told by Carroll Christensen,
the company’s vice
president for seed
marketing. “There’s no
cause for panic,”
Christensen said, “but there
is a real need for urgency.
Farmers who don’t order
their seed supplies early
may find themselves without
anything to put in the ground
next spring.”
“Throughout our industry,
the output of seed com will
be down about 26 percent this
New Holland, Pa.
Terms by:
year," Christensen noted.
“Supplies were hurt this
year when farmers were
forced to replant their fields
two or three times because of
wet weather. And we were
hurt by the drought, too, just
like other crops. Drought
reduced the national com
crop by about 26 percent, and
it reduced the seed crop by
about the same amount.
"Industrywide production
this year was expected to
total about 20 million bushels
and we expected to have a
six million bushel carryover
from last year. Instead, we
find ourselves with a 14.8
million bushel crop, and a
five million bushel
carryover. We’ll also get
some seed ‘coming out of the
cracks’. It’s out there in
warehouses, in barns, in rail
cars. We don’t know where it
is, but it’s there, and a tight
year brings it out. It should
add another 300,000 bushels
or so to the available seed
supply.
“Normally, we use about
20 million bushels of seed
com in this country every
year, so we’re going to have
just enough to meet the
demands for the 1973 crop. It
will be more expensive seed,
but it will be available for the
farmer who orders it early.
The supply and demand
situation will have
something to do with the
higher cost, of course. But
the big factor will be the fact
that seed companies simply
had to pay more this year to
produce a bushel of seed
com. And our prices have to
reflect those higher costs.”
Some other highlights of
the two-day event are
recapped below.
CONSIGNMENT SALE
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2
9;30 A.M.
Location; Vz mile North of Route 23 on North
Maple Ave. in Leola, Lancaster Co., Pa.
Corn Binders, Corn Pickers, Harvesters, Silo
Fillers, 300 pcs of Panelling, 15 insulated new
house windows, insulation, large variety of used
Lumber _
~ Tractors, Farm Machinery, Horse Drawn
Implements, New Tools, Lumber, etc., etc. We
have buyers for hay and straw.
We sell on Commission
DAVID H. GOOD
717-656-9024
F. Snyder, R. Martin, C. H. Wolgemuth, Auct.
Next Sale Wednesday, November 6
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS
The Dekalb corn physiology through the development of proiifics
research program includes a number (multiple eared plants) as shown by
of projects designed to increase the Dr. Ron Castleberry, Dekalb research
productivity of the corn plant such as agronomist
■ Two-Eared Com Research
Com growers and com
researchers alike have long
waited the day when
multiple eared com would
become a reality.
Lancaster Farming. Saturday, Sept. 21.1974
DeKalb recently an- been one of the big
nounced that some of their challenges with research
research and testing work on work on prolific corns in the
proiifics or multiple eared past. Many of the hybrids
com looks very promising, having the prolific tendency
Dr. Basil Tsotsis, director of will produce two or more
com research, explains that ears at low and sometimes
maintaining a second good moderate planting densities,
ear at high populations has (Continued on Page 54]
PUBLIC SALE
OF FARM EQUIPMENT
TUESDAY, SEPT. 24,1874
At 12 O’clock
-Located 5 mile east of Elizabethtown, alone Harvest Road. Take
Elizabethtown Road to Dnimheller Garase, go north on Trail Road to
Harvest Road. From Colebrook go south to Harvest Road. Watch for
JOHN DEERE 2520 DIESEL
700 hrs. Fully Equipped
J.D. F 325 Auto. Reset Plow
Allis Chalmers WD-45 wide front end. A.C. manure
loader, J.D. No. 34 com harvester, J.D. 494 four row
com planter, N.H. 68 Hayliner baler (w) bale thrower,
J.D. 30’ elevator, J.D. No. 953 running gears (w) bed,
A.C. side mounted mower; N.H. 404 crusher, M.H. No.
36 rake, M.H. Spreader PTO, Kil Bros, gravity bin (w)
6 T. running gears, M. M. transport disc, Case spring
harrow, Case 9’ cultipacker, N.H. blower, 32’ silo pipe,
J.D. goose neck, N.I. wagon (w) flat bed, 3 pt.
cultivator, weeder, I.H. potato digger, J.D. model 14
chain saw, 2-Wheel Horse Tractors - 6 h.p. & 7 h.p. both
(w) electric starters & mowers, Toro 920 tractor &
mower. Simplex 7 h.p. mower (w) elec, starter, Wizard
riding mower, Wizard 22” mower, Merri tiller,
Eliminator high pressure washer, 3 hydralic cylinders,
air compressor, tractor chains, anti-freeze, log chains,
motors, elec, fence chargers, dehorner, cyclone
seeder, sizing boxes, used tires, 9’ truck bed,
wheelbarrow, 275 gal. tank, 55 gal. drums, shop vac.,
liquid sup. feeder. Sunbeam clippers, treated posts,
forks, tools, Surge alamo 30 plus vacuum pump, 2
Surge milking units, S. S. buckets, strainer, Watkins
jet sprayer, milk cans lathe (w) motor, fertizler, Barn
Dri, picnic table, Vesper coal heater, duo-therm
heater, many more articles.
34 TON HAY
7 TON STRAW
SALE BY
Thomas C. and Jeon Koser
Aucts. Raymond Miller
Rufus Geib
Food by Locust Lane Chapel
Not responsible for accidents
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