ANOTHER SATISFIED USER OF STA-RITE Milking Equipment Lewis H. Dentinger, Paradise, Pa., says his Sta-Rite milking equipment cuts his milking time almost in half. Also his wife likes not carrying the buckets and they both think the Sta-Rite milking equipment is “just great". See these men for expert help in designing o milking system to fit WILMER MARTIN Home Phone (215) 445-5652 ED HART 11l at? SEE THESE MEN FOR EXPERT SERVICE AND INSTALLATION. PHONE (717) 397-4761 24 hours a day. MELVIN STOLTZFUS Home Phone (717) 392-0066 AVONDALE SALESMAN SUPPLY CENTER 1027 DILLERVILLE ROAD, LANCASTER, PA. PHONE 717-397-4761 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct 19,1974 New Alfalfa Variety Released A new, pest-resistant of the Middle Atlantic states, variety of alfalfa named Arc the Southeast, and southern has been released this fall by portions of the Midwest. In the U.S. Department of these areas, anthracnose Agriculture and agricultural reduces annual yields on experiment stations in about four million acres of Maryland, North Carolina, alfalfa. Virginia and Pennsylvania. Arc also posses moderate Arc could increase the value of the nation’s No. 1 forage crop by more than $2OO million annually, ac cording to scientists of USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) at Beltsville and agronomists at the University of Maryland in College Park. In several Maryland test locations, Arc, with good management practices, yielded one to two tons of hay more per acre than other varieties of alfalfa, ac cording to Dr. Neri A. Clark, Extension forage crops specialist at the College Park campus. Similar results have been obtained in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The chief Maryland test locations for the new alfalfa variety have been the university’s agronomy-dairy forage research farm on Folly Quarter road in the Ellicott City-Clarksville area of central Maryland (Howard county) and at the Wye Institute on the Eastern Shore (southern Queen Annes county). Outstanding resistance to antbracnose, a fungus disease, is the main ad vantage of Arc over other varieties- For this reason. Arc is well adapted to most YOUR PIONEER SALESMAN IS READY WITH SUPERIOR SEED AND SERVICE • Hybrid Corn - high yielding single and special crosses. • Alfalfa Seed for any rotation or plowdown. • Forage Mixes - A mix for every need (pasture, hay, haylage, greenchop or green manure plowdown). • Hybrid Sorghum grain, forage, and sorghum - sudangrass hybrids. i Don't Delay. See Your Pioneer '• Salesman To-Day! Corn, Sorghum. Alfalfa ® Registered trademark of Pioneer Hi Bred International Inc Des Moines lowa USA resistance to bacterial wilt disease and to the alfalfa weevil. In addition, it is highly resistant to the pea aphid. The vigorous growth habit and disease resistance of Arc protects the crop against encroachment from weeds. Tests show that weeds took over 50 percent of the plot areas seeded to seven commonly grown varieties, but only 15 percent of the plot areas seeded to Arc. An additional advantage of Arc is stand persistence, owing to its combined resistance to anthracnose and bacterial wilt. These diseases eliminated stands of Williamsburg, Glacier, Cherokee and Team alfalfa in field tests. Arc yielded three additional years of good forage after the loss of the other varieties. Seed of Arc has been released to commercial seedsmen. The Agricultural Research Service has no seed available for in dividuals. Additional information on the new alfalfa variety will be available in a for thcoming issue of Agricultural Research, ARS magazine published monthly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 47
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