Young Farmers meet The Manheim Young Farmer! Association recently met in the Manheim vocational agriculture classroom. Following a short business meeting, the evening’s topic and panel members were introduced by James Kettering. The meeting’s topic was Corn Grain: How should I store it? Members on the panel were: Ray Shenk of Shenk’s Farm Service, Lititz * drying high moisture grains and drying systems; Nevin Gish of Agway • treating grains with organic acids; v t Beacon Silage Pre-Serv Is convenient. You can harvest and treat corn silage at 60-65% moisture. Apply it wet or dry, with an applicator, or just sprinkled over each load. You save labor because there's less lumping and bridging in the silo. it's economical. A ton of silage requires only % pound of dry Pre-Serv, or 1 pound of liquid Pre-Serv. It's profitable! Pre-Serv prevents heat build-up, controls oxidation, and greatly reduces spoilage and shrinkage. You'll get up to 30% more feeding value essential protein, carbohydrates and vita mins per ton. Provides more nutrients per ton of com silage. 'Trademark of Kamin Industries Inc. McCRKKEN’S FEED MILL, INC. THARPE & GREEN MILL H - STAUFFER A Manheim, PA ChurchvtHe, MD SONS, INC. WHmer, PA VAN-MAR FEEDS Leesport, PA EARL SMIDER, INC. New Holland, PA R. E. RUDISILL Phone 717-854-2281 and BiU McLain of Penn* Jersey Harvester - storing grain in sealed storage. Each panel member gave opening remarks about their systems and products. Following these comments, the panel members responded to questions from the twenty farmers present. The following Is some of the information brought up at the meeting by questions and answers. When com is dried the maximum temperature for animal feed is 140 degrees, commercial use: 130 BEACON FEEDS Beacon Feeds York, PA Phone 717-84 degrees, and for seed: 110 degrees. Dried corn can be held in a bln for one year when it is dried to 13 percent and for five years when it is dried to 11 percent. There are basically six ways to dry com which include: layer drying in the bln, bln drying with stirring augers, bin drying with stirring augers and floor augers, non circulating batch dryers, recirculating batch dryers and continuous flow dryers. Proper cleaning of the grain helps reduce the amount of fuel required, and heat spots Beacon Silage Pre-Serv used on your , corn silage will pay for itself three times over. And that's not all CLARK DAIRY SUPPLY Risinc Sun, Md. H. JACOB HOOBER intercourse, PA BEACON REPS. RICHARD B. KENDIG Phone 302-478-3058 W. L MUMMERT CO. GEORGE UNDERWOOD CHESTER WEIST Phone 717-741-2600 1-9033 are less of a problem. Costs for fuel per bushel is about JL‘ 9 cents for the recirculating batch dryer; 12-13 ceott per bushel for the Mn with stirrers, and 29-24 cents for layer drying. These figures do not include costs for depreciation for bins, dryers and other costs. The second method was using Chcmstore 11. Chem storc II is an organic acid which contains 20 percent acetic acid and 80 percent propreonlc acid. The acid kills bacteria and fungi and preserves the com at field conditions. The corn is usually at 22 percent to 28 percent when it is treated V’,. *, < Hanover, PA Northeast, Md. Lancaster Farming, Saturday. Stptembar 6,1975 and moisture' barriers maybe needed to prevent more moisture entering the grain. This com can be stored anywhere except in metal bins for up to one year. When the farmer contracts with Agway; the cost for acid, equipment, and labor is about 25 cents per bushel plus the cost for the storage area. The farmer can recieve a guarantee for the treatment. There appears to be an advantage in gains when using acid threated com as compared to dried com. One point to remember is that the com must be fed to animals, because there is no market for the treated com. The third method is storing the high moisture com in a sealed storage. Pound for pound of dry matter the high moisture com has a higher feed efficiency than dried com. The main reason for this is that the storing process does not seem to change the availability of the nutrients as much as drying. The first year cost per bushel is about |2.60, but this is reduced when it is divided by the life of the structure. This cost would be about $2,000 for 10,000 bu plus the costs of electricity, blowing and DION - COBET - BADGER ( ■,? i--— — Bam Cleaners, Feeders, BUILT TO LAST The Rugged Taylorway Disk Harrows, Chisel Plows, Subsoilers and many other items. Why Not See Us? A. C. HEISEY FARM EQUIPMENT INC. RDI, Jonestown, PA 17038 Phone 717-865-4526 Located 'h mile South of Fredericksburg off Route 343 LEVEL FLO SILAGE SPREADER IN TWO MODELS TO FIT 10 TO 30 FT. SlLO] “ 9" Steel or Vinyl Fill Pipe installed on any type Silo. . TERRE HILL TRIHBSTAYrSILOS •GOLEMAN OXYGEN WJHTROLIBTSILO! • CALUMET LIQUID MANURE EQUIPMENT • PAD SILO UNLOADERS AND • FEED LOT EQUIPMENT SALES & SERVICES STOLTZFUS SILO EQUIPMENT RDI, Box 77Kinzer, Pa. 17535 Phone 717-768-3873 lothers. The major problem la the high investment with this system when you first start. There is no one best system for everyone, so look into all of the possibilities and then decide. Lawn Care In answer to the question concerning the merits of broadcasting lawn seed over the top of an established lawn, I'd have to answer in .the negative; to do this is 'simply putting seed into a very poor seedbed with excess competition. However, if the lawn area was “de-thatched" in which case some loose soil would be brought to the surface and all old lawn clippings removed, then there would be a good chance of the new seeds getting started. Early September is an excellent time to de-thatch a lawn and to either make a new seeding or renovate an old lawn. De thatching machines are available that will dig up the old decayed clippings, which should be removed. Some extra attention to the lawn in early September (lime, fertilizer, and weed killing) will contribute to a better 17
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