Fertilizer Help Available
Tools and analytical
procedures which farmers
can use today in planning
and deciding the kind and
aipount of fertilizer for the
best use of money and fer
tilizer on a particular field
and specific crop are
available. “These tools in
clude soil tests, research
data on crop response to
fertilizer, worksheets, and in
some states, even computer
programs,” report Buel
SPECIAL SALE
FEEDER CATTLE
and CALVES
FRIDAY NIGHT, DECEMBER 13
At 7:00P.M.
BLUE RIDGE LIVESTOCK SALES, INC.
Charles Town, W. Va.
Billy F. Owens, Mgr, Phone: 304-725-5021
CONSIGNMOfT SALE ]
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21!
9:30 A.M. I
Location: Vz mile north of Route 23 on North t
Maple Ave. in Leola, Lancaster Co. Pa. f
WATCH FOR SALE SIGNS. I
TRACTORS—2OIO John Deere Crawler with loader; I
Melroe Bobcat. FARM MACHINERY John Deere X
24T Baler; 6 bottom Int. plow automatic reset; 2-3 T
bottom plows, 3 pt. Hitch; Wagon with hydraulic Y
dump; 10’cultimulcher; Easy-Flow lime drill; Int. pull f
type grass mower, like new; Int. 2-row com planter; ▼
New Idea late model Hay Conditioner; Horse drawn 4
implements; Nails 8-10-12-16; lots of lumber, plywood, ♦
red oak house flooring (new), lot of doors, nice pool 4
tables with %” slate bottom, new hardware and tools, 4
etc., etc. 4
Trailer Load of Citrus Fruit direct from Florida. 4
We sell on commission. 4
J 717-656-9024 J
♦ F. Snyder, R. Martin, C. H. Wolgemuth, Auct.
♦ Next Sale Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1975 ♦
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCIDENTS
GOLDEN HARVEST and
GARDEN SPOT SALES
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12
LANCASTER, PA.
Sale held at the Guernsey Sale Barn on Rte. 30 only 4 miles East of Lan
caster, Pa.
140 REGISTERED HOLSTEINS
All eligible for interstate shipment immediately. All tests up to date.
MANY HAVE BEEN HAND-PICKED BY EARL L. GROFF AND WALTER MC
CLURE!!
DAUGHTERS AND SONS SELL BY FAMOUS SIRES!!
Including - Elevation, Kingpin - Arlinda Chief - Astronaut - Graduate - Fond Matt
and many others.
MANY SELL WITH FINE RECORDS UP TO 1000-LBS. FAT!!
Fran-Lan Fury Princess, “VG” sells with 1004 fat, 23,754 M. at 4 yrs. She is by
“Fury” and due Jan. 5 to “Astronaut”. Consigned by Geo. Williams, W. Winfield,
N.Y.
24 SERVICE AGE BULLS SELL IN THIS HARVEST SALE!!
A TERRIFIC GROUP with 3 out of over 1000-lb. fat dams up to 1214 fat and 32,000 M.
Nearly all by popular sires and write top pedigrees. As you are aware, only the ones
from top cow families and by proven sires are raised today and here you have your
pick from 24 bulls. A rare opportunity.
SEE NOV. 25 HOLSTEIN WORLD AND PA. HOL. NEWS
FOR MORE PICTURES AND DETAILS!!
Sale must start 11:00 A.M. Lunch Available
- Catalogs
R. AUSTIN BACKUS INC. EARL L. GROFF
Sale Mgrs. & Auctioneers Local Rep.
Mexico, N.Y. Strasburg, Pa.
Lanpher and Harold Owne,s
farm management and
agronomy specialists, Ex
tension Service, U.S.
Department of Agriculture.
The combination of tight
fertilizer supplies, higher
fertilizer prices, and
variable returns from dif
ferent crops makes k more
important than ever that
farmers utilize these
decision-making aids in
planning for the 1975 crop
DAVID H. GOOD
year.
Some states are using new
computer programs which
arc available by remote
terminal to help make
decisions on fertilizer use
have been developed.
Michigan State University,
Cooperative Extension
Service specialists have
developed a computer
program which calculates
the most profitable nitrogen
fertilizer rate to apply to
maximize income for com.
This computer technique
also indicates how a
restricted supply of nitrogen
fertilizer might be allocated
between fields to obtain
optimal results. Michigan
has also prepared some
worksheets for individuals to
use fertilizer to maximize
income from corn and
soybean acreage com
binations.
Virginia Polytechnic In
stitute and State University,
Cooperative Extension
Service staff developed a
computer program which
provides a simultaneous
solution to the rate of
nitrogen fertilizer per acre
that should be applied to
com on five different soil
productivity groupings, and
the optimum combination of
com and soybean acreage.
This computer program is
stored on the computerized
management network
(coordinated by VPO staff).
Tables to help plan op
timum nitrogen rates for
crops are now available. For
example, Kansas State
Cooperative Extension
Service has recently
prepared tables to help
farmers select optimum
rates of nitrogen to apply to
the soil producing wheat,
com, or grain sorghum. The
com and grain sorghum
tables are based on response
data of these crops produced
under irrigation. Kansas
agronomists state efficient
use of nitrogen on wheat in
the Plains States should be
based on soil tests for
residual nitrogen. A test lets
the farmer include nitrogen
available in the soil in
calculating the amounts of
nitrogen to add.
Worksheets have been
developed by several states
which can be used to com
pare several fields or crops
with the objective of ob
taining an equal return for
the last marginal increment
of fertilizer applied to each
field and-or crop. Successful
use of these planning and
decision-making techniques
depends heavily on the
farmer's understanding of
production response curves,
i.e. the increased yield ex
pected for additional
amounts of fertilizer. The
farmer needs to make ac
curate estimates of yield
responses expected from his
particular fields and crops.
Cropping history, soil
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I DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS, SALE WILL BE i
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► VIRGINIA FEEDER CALF i
► and YEARLING SALE <
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DUBLIN LIVESTOCK MARKET
DECEMBER 11, 1974 7:30 PM.
Sponsored by the Dublin Feeder Cattle Association
and the Virginia Beef Cattle Association.
All Cattle State Graded
For further information, contact Reggie Reynolds, 703-992-1009
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Dec. 7,1974
treatment records, soil tests, pcrience arc valuable aids in
soil surveys, and the far- the planning and decision
mer’s knowledge and ex- making process.
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