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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
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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,
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