Want to Find a New Recipe? Read Home on the Range. WATCH FOR OPEN HOUSE 10% off ON PARTS MARCH 3 thru 7 J.COPE & WEAVER CO. ■H New Providence 786-7351 NOW IS THE TIME TO SAVE DOLLARS INSTALL A . ’ Furnace Fuel Saver in Your Present Oil Heating Unit. « ■ut file high cost of heating 10 to 30%. CONTACT KELMANADA, INC. RDI, Box 4210, Grantville, Pa. Phone 717-469-2864 Some Dealerships Available 0 '’’dairy equipment company is proud to announce ITS NEWEST ADDITION TO ITS BULK MILK TANK LINE. DARI-KOOL MODEL DKO FLAT TOP MILK TANK If you are interested m saving fuel in your milking and milk cooling operation, you can’t afford not to look at the new flat top Dan-Kool fully insulated high capacity direct expansion milk tank. Our Dan-Kool flat top tank has the largest cooling capacity of any tank on the .market. Check on our special introductory offer price. SHENK'S FARM SERVICE ALLENSVILLE PLANING MILL Lititz, PA 17543 Phone: (717) 626-4355 |717) 733-1224 answering service DARI-KOOL Introductory Offer Expires March 15,1975 R.D.4 if no answer: Lewisburg Farmer Robert B. Hublcr of liwlsburK. with a yield of 158.6 bushels per acre, has been named the 1974 Funk's- G Project: 200 winner for the state of Pennsylvania. His authenticated yield was made with Funk's G-4465. Hublcr will receive an engraved plaque in recognition of his out standing yield. Project: 200, America’s largest high yield corn growing program, was designed to challenge growers to increase com yields for greater produc tivity and profit. During the past four years more than 20,000 growers have sub mitted Project: 200 yields. The program is sponsored by The Producers of Funk’s G- Hybrids. Hubler’s state cham pionship yield of 158.6 bushels per acre was machine harvested from 2.1 acres. In preparing the land for planting he spring plowed and disked. Hubler’s fertility program consisted of 213 pounds of nitrogen, 103 pounds of phosphate and 58 pounds of potash per acre applied as preplant, starter and sidedress fertilizer. Hubler’s contest com was planted on May 17 in 38-inch rows, at the rate of 21,500 kernels per acre. A com- FROM binotlon herbicide and in secticide were used for crop protection. The Pennsylvania champion harvested his corn on November 26. Ti;c moisture content was 24.7 percent. Plant population at harvest was 19,800 per acre. The qualify for Projec ts, participants harvest as shelled com, a minimum of 2 acres from not less than four adjacent rows running the full length of the field. Information on the area harvested, grain weight and moisture-content is verified by a disinterested witness. Final yields are reported on the basis of No. 2 com at 15.5 percent moisture. The .1974 National Winner of the Funk’s-G Project;2oo program is the Peter Cook Estate of Rio Vista, California. They harvested a yield of 282.2 bushels per acre of Funk’s G-4737. Regional Project:2oo winners are Jacob J. Walter, Ovid, Colorado, with 258.5 bushels per acre using Funk’s G-4444; Lloyd A. Johnson, Houston, Min nesota, 233.8 bushels per acre from Funk’s G-4444; Ashby Farms, Fairmont, Nebraska, 240.5 bushels per acre with Funk’s G-4444 and Arthur M. Marlowe, Lons, South Carolina, 225.3 bushels per acre from Funk’s G-5757. Allensvilte, PA 17002 Phone: (717)483-6386 OR Or call salesman after 7:00 p.m. Leonard Yoder - [7l7| 935-2063 % Lancaster Farming. Saturda Wins Corn Each Project:2oo par ticipant receives special recognition from The Producers of Funk’s G- Hybrids. Information gained from the 1974 Project; 200 nrogram is being sum marized by Funk Seeds “Let’s Keep Growing” Agricultural Theme "Maryland Agriculture - Let’s Keep Growing” is the official slogan for the 1975 Maryland Agriculture Week being observed February 2 through 8. Selected from over 200 entries, the slogan was submitted by Mrs. Mary C. Godfrey of Sudlersville, Queen Anne’s County, who, ♦ with her husband George, knows well of what she speaks. , The Godfreys are everyday growers of Maryland agriculture 3s they farm four tracts totaling about 650 rich Eastern Shore acres. They are primarily contract vegetable growers raising such crops as lima beans, peas, snap beans, and tomatoes. They also have about 150 acres in asparagus. Besides farming, they are active in 4-H work and serve as Queen Anne’s hor ticultural judging leaders. Mrs. Godfrey, the mother of two boys and two girls, when not' busy writing slogans, helps her husband run their Crater farm. She sumbitted several \ crater is the bowl or funnel other slogans in this year’s shaped hollow found at the sum contest, two of them being mit or on the side of a volcano It among the top six considered ls L th ® mouth of a volcano from by the Ag Week Committee’** which the eruptlon takes place PICKUPS & VANS CHECK ON OUR SPECIAL “GASH BACK” $» PETTICOFFER DODGE, INC. Route 230 East, Next to Shopping Center Elizabethtown, Pa. On the Job, Fast We make sure your tank is never low. Efficient service is just one asset of LP-Gas. It's also clean, economical and dependable! AGWAY PETROLEUM CORP. BOX 1197, DILLERVILLE ROAD, LANCASTER, PA Feb. 8.1975- Award International. This in formation will be made available to all corn growers. With this agronomic information, producers can compare their growing methods with those used by other lop corn growers. judges: “There’s a Farmer Behind Every Forkful,” and “Food is Fuel For Living.” The Godfreys will be special guests at the February 6 annual Maryland Agricultural Banquet honoring members of the General Assembly. Ag Week, chairman Robert Rawlings • said, “This year’s slogan contest brought out many good ideas and means to get. people to think about agriculture’s vital role in Maryland and the nation. fc The Committee joins me in sincere thanks to all who contributed their thoughts. * Also 6n, the program for 1975’s Ag Week are agricultural exhibits at regional shopping malls. Security Square Mall will .host the exhibits the week of February 3-8; Salisbury Mall will take over on the 19 through 22, and Montgomery Mall will be the scene the week of February 24 through March 1. The Ag Week exhibits are coordinated by Roy Porter, Extension Service, □ 47
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