54 Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Feb. 1. 1975 Herbicides Aid No-Till No-till corn and perennial legumes such as birdsfoot trefoil or crownvctch can simultaneously produce corn while maintaining a cover crop for pasture, silage, or mulch, declared a weed scientist from The Penn sylvania State University recently in New York City. The key to this double cropping is to suppress legume sod with herbicides at com planting tune while allowing adequate recovery of the legume by the fall, stated Dr. Nathan L. Hart- wig of the College of Agriculture at The Penn sylvania State University. He addressed annual NOW IS THE TIME TO SAVE DOLLARS INSTALL A Furnace Fuel Saver 9n Your Present OH Heating Unit. Cut the high cost of heating 10 to 30%. CONTACT KELMANADA, INC. RDI, Box 4210, Grantville, Pa. 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Under best conditions, the sod recovers after suppression to provide winter cover and a living mulch for next year’s crop. This system does not work with alfalfa since alfalfa is too competitive, he said. The most consistent herbicides were com binations of atrazme and simazine, atrazine and For Small or Large Operation \ > *• •* >»«* cyanazinc, or cyanazinc alone. Corn yields from the best treatments averaged over 100 bushels per acre. After harvesting the corn for grain, stalks plus cover crop regrowth produced over 7,000 pounds of dry matter per acre. Birdsfoot trefoil not only gave the best corn yields but was also the easiest perennial legume to sup press, followed by crown vetch. Smoothbrome grass was the most difficult to Farmer’s First Reports Earnings Farmers First Bank, Lititz, reports earnings before securities gains for 1974 of $1,034,523; up from $860,851 in 1973. This figure represents a per share in come before securities gains of $1.54 or an increase of 16 percent from 1973. In ad dition to paying a 5 percent stock dividend in 1974, Farmers First also in creased their cash dividend 12 percent. Total assets totaled $145,742,580 at year end, an increase of 7.9 percent. Loans increased 10.9 percent to $95,851,464. Trust Department activity again produced exceptional gains in 1974. Personal trust assets increased by $4,115,387 to a total of $12,687,975; an increase of 48 percent over year-end 1973. Farmers AgCredot Corp., a newly organized sub sidiary of Farmers First Com suppress. Dr. Hartwig said crownvctch was the easiest to manipulate without danger of losing the sod from too much herbicide. The ideal situation in double cropping, Dr. Hart wig said, is to provide a perennial cover crop that can be suppressed so as not to compete excessively with the corn but still recover in the fall to provide winter cover and a living mulch for next year’s crop. The control of redroot Bank, had a great start according to its President, George M. Lewis. The corporation had year-end total assets of $1,386,435 which includes $1,072,754 of agricultural loans providing area farmers with a much needed source of financing. Loans are available to persons actively engaged in farming. The Board of Directors of Farmers AgCredit Corp. are Henry L. Bomberer, William Brubaker, Aaron H. Denlinger, JohnE. Esh, Joel Habeggar, Robert Heilbron, George M. Lewis,' Ralph Longenecker, H. Glenn Nelson, Kenneth Sensenig and Jack S. Watson. 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