Growing Need (Sontinucd from Pi|i 521 1080, or 16 percent. Anhydrous ammonia is the source material for moking urea. Heat and power energy requirements for urea production for all purposes will gain 54 percent between 1972-73 and 1980. Of the estimated 10.6 trillion Btu • De Laval MILKERS sales & service • Topline Transfer System • Full. Line Cleaning Detergents • Installation Pipelines & Parlors CALL FOR FREE ESTIMATE J. B. ZIMMERMAN & SONS Rt 23 - West of Blue Ball Phone |7l7| 354-4955 BEACOnVeEDS Does my present feed supplier compete with me for’consumer feed dollars by growing or processing turkeys? Does my present feed'supplier have "soft" financing terms that encourages inefficient producers to remain in turkey production? Would I like to do business with a company specializing in nutrition? Would I like to have open lines of communication to the "decision makers" with the feed supplier I am doing business with? 5. Am I interested in getting both a quality product and good service from my feed supplier? If your answer is "yes" to the above questions, please call collect to the following Beacon Marketing personnel. R. E. RUDSSILL Phone 854-2281 needed in 1980, production of solid form urea will account for 35 percent, solutions for 65 percent. Ammonium nitrate is also produced as a solid and as a solution but information is available only on solids, for which energy needs arc projected to rise 14 percent by 1980. Natural gas is also the mainstay fuel for many of the input supply and food let’s Talk I M , TURKEY WHY NOT ASK YOURSELF, THESE QUESTIONS AS TURKEY PRODUCERS?? Beacon Fe BEACON REPS. RICHARD B. KENDIG CHESTER WEIST Phone 302-478-3058 BEACN^EEDS ds, York, PA processing firms. Con version of power plants to coal or oil would be costly. Inevitably, consumers would pay for it. ERS economists figure that by 1980 the market share of liquid petroleum fuels will decline from 50 percent to 48 percent of Btu use, against an increase in natural gas from 30 percent to as much as 32 percent. Circular exports One way to case the fuel crunch on the food and fiber industry would be to cut down on farm exports. After all, why import costly petroleum only to export it again in the form of farm goods? If we cut back on farm exports, our balance of payments ledger would be in a mess, since farm exports contribute strongly to the positive side. 7-843-9033 Phone 71 Farming Pesticide Cost Tops n bil. The high cost of pesticides is bugging farmers. latest available date for 1971 pegged farmers’ Dollar for dollar, petroleum is one of the most efficient energy resources we have today. In 1970, ERS found that for each unit of energy that com fanners employed-including human energy--they got back 3 times more in cash returns. Significantly, the return from petroleum products alone was much higher-a ratio of 5 to 1. BEACQ^EEDS Phone 741-2600 Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Feb. 1,1975 spending on pesticides at over $1 billion-up 80 percent from 1986. The jump in ex penditures was due to a combination of farmers using more expensive pesticides, particularly herbicides, and farmers using a 40 percent larger volume of pesticides. Of that billion dollars, $943 million went to protect crops. Sixty-two percent of the- crop pesticide ex penditures were for her bicides, over 25 percent were for insecticides, and 6 per cent, for fungicides. Livestock pesticides cost $44 million, and another $l5 million was spent on pesticides for other uses. The most money was paid out for the protection of com -$325 million. With $l3B million spent on soybeans and $132 on cotton, these three made up 63 percent of total expenditures on crop pesticides. Two-thirds of the money for herbicides was for weed control in com and soybean production. Half of the outlay for insecticides went to control insects on com and cotton. Of fungicide ex penditures, more was used on peanuts than any other crop. Fruits, nuts, and vegetables also required sizable outlays. Acre or acre, the most expensive crop to protect from pests is apples at $ 51.20 per acre. On the other hand, some grains required as little as $.70 an acre for Think Big. 318 bushels That’s the capacity of New Idea’s big Single Beater PTO spreader—buiU to make short work of those big spreading jobs Optional Upper Beater —i Bleaks up big hunks, shreds the load for better spiending pattern adds load-carrying capacity, as |P well y|^ 2-Year'Warranty on Chain. When you think big, think conveyor chain This giant has a super Heavy Duty Cham (20,000 lbs tensile stiengthj that’s backed bv this lull 2-year warran Stop in. We’re think! big on trades ... right now UMBERGERS MILL RD4 Lebanon (Fontana) 717-867 8221 A L HERR&BRO Quarryville 717-786 3521 CHfIS 1 McCOMSEY & SONS Hickory Hill Pa 215-932 2615 STOLTZFUS FARM SERVICE Cochranville Pa 215-593 5280 ABC GROFF, INC New Holland 717-354 4191 pesticides. Though farms with gross annual sales of over $40,000 constituted only 11 percent of all farms, they accounted for 58 percent of total pesticide expenditures. Farmers bringing in less than $lO,OOO made up 63 percent of all farms, but accounted for only 9 percent of pesticide expenditures. Seventy-eight percent of all crop pesticides were sprays, 16 percent were granular forms, and 4 percent, dusts. More than half of the money for livestock pesticides went to protect beef cattle. Conservation Are Signed Agreements A total of six new con servation cooperators were signed up at the most recent meeting of the Lancaster County Conservation District board of directors. The new cooperators, the township in which their property lies and the acreage are: Binkley & Ober, Inc., East Hempfield, 220; Pennfield Farms, West Cocalico, 104; Edwin S. Martin, Earl Twp., 62; J. Lloyd Stehman, Pequea, 118; Lyman’s Funny Farm & Kennel, Providence, 14; Aaron J. Brubaker, East Hempfield, 132. WE DO ALL KINDS OF BLOCK & CONCRETE WORK FARMILL CONSTRUCTION & REPAIR SOUDERSBURG. PA 687 7659 <s.f < V ROY H BUCK, INC Ephrata R D 2 717-859 2^41 LONGENECKERFARM SUPPLY Rheems 717-367 3590 N G HERSHEYSSON Manheim 717-665 2271 LANDIS BROS, INC Lancaster 717-393 3906 53 & I; *4
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