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farmers In its sales territory
a chance to see the Ag
Progress Show by taking
advantage of a group travel
plan. The company took care
of all travel arrangements
plus accomodations. Ap
proximately 100 farmers
from this area went on the
trip.
the show was two-in-one to
say the least. Held on the
1,100-acre James Willrett
farm, the exhibition area or
“fairgrounds" took up an
estimated 60 acres, while the
entire farm (not including
Yes, in today's farming economic situation it is very im
portant for you the farmer to know what you have grown so
you know best how to feed it. Some people say "testing is
useless and not worth it", and we would be the first to agree
with them unless you use the results of these tests to balance
your feeding ration the AGRI-KING way. Some people say
"Averages are good enough". Averages are the best of the
worst and the worst of the best, and we hardly ever see an
average test go through our lab.
I'm sure you're glad that the shoe industry doesn't do what
the feed industry has done for years - just make an average
size shoe. Some of us would have awful big blisters before
the day was through. Or how about the clothing industry -
most people would look ridiculous in the average size
clothes. But yet for years we've been trying to feed livestock
by book value or "by guess and by golly". To be exact you
have a one in one thousands chance of being right by using
averages.
We've seen haylage samples running as low as 10.28
percent protein to as high as 23.17 percent protein. Calcium
varied from .69 to 2.04 percent and phosphorus ranged from
.21 to .52 percent
mlheastern Penna
George F Delong
Regional Manager
225 West Woods Drive
Lititz Pa 17543
Call Collect 717 626 0261
Pastern Lancaster Co
u : □ Henry Delong, Jr
RR2New Holland P* 17557 JWBox 1«
Phone 717 354-5977 phone 71 y 2 84 2683
Northern L»ny..QSL Southwestern Lancaster Co
Leo Elliott
3l3_Wynwood Or
Willow Street PA 17584
Phone - 717 464 4235
the several hundred acres
used for parking
automobiles, trucks, buses,
campers and airplanes) was
used to demonstrate
equipment. By mid-morning
on Wednesday, for example,
71 tractors were either
working or waiting in line at
Just one of several fields
used for demonstrations.
The show was so big that
the U.S. Postal Service set
up a temporary office and
additional power lines were
set up to provide electricity
for die lights and motors that
are a part of every fair.
As to what all was
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North Western Lancaster Co
Earl B Cinder
RD2 Manhemt PA 17545
Phone 717 665 3126
Southern Lancaster Co
Ben Greenawalt Cy Arnold
RD2 Conestoga PA 17516 739 Rosewood Drive
Phone 717 872 5686 Douglasville PA 19518
Phone 215 385 6249
available to see - it was, by
no stretch of the
imagination, too much for
one day, or even three. It
was mind-boggling, and
nearly everyone on the Penn-
Jcrsey tour made comments
expressing such feelings. A
professional photographer,
on assignment for USDA,
said it was impossible to
deliver the scope of the event
by way of pictures it was
simply too big. It was
something a person had to
experience himself.
Among the equipment
which received the most
attention from visitors was a
START TESTING BEFORE INVESTING
Chester Co
William Wmdle
ROl Atglen PA 19310
Phone 215 593 6143
Lebanon Co
Marvin Meyer
RD2 Box 157
Annville PA 17003
Phone 717 867 1445
joinery & SE Berks Co
Monti
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plow with fourteen 18-inch
bottoms pulled by a 600-
horsepower tractor, which
was powered by twin Detroit
diesel engines one over
each axle.
Every major combine
manufacturer had one or
several of its models in
operation, with some of them
taking up to eight rows of
com at a time. I counted nine
in one area of the farm, and
that’s not to say there
weren’t more. Grain was
hauled away in 13 trucks, but
trying to keep up with the
picker-shellers was
hopeless.
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On hay we've seen samples run from 22.44 percent protein
to as low as 6.81 percent protein. Calcium varied from 2.06
to .64 percent and phosphorus from .53 to .22 percent. In
corn silage we've seen protein range from 12 percent
protein to 4.8 percent protein, Calcium from .96 to .40
percent and phosphorus from .46 to .19 percent. Some
experts would say these variances don't make much dif
ference but if you ever figured what it takes to balance a
ration using first one figure and then the other, you would
realize what a big difference it does make.
These tests are an example of how they vary throughout the
country from one neighbor's farm to another. There are
many reasons why they vary - some we can help and others
we can't. The fertility of the soil, weather conditions, variety
of seed, maturity of the plant at harvest, and proper fer
tilization are some of the things that determine.test results.
We must work with what you have in YOUR hay mow and
silo in order to balance your ration the AGRI-KING
way. What is correct for one farmer is hardly ever right for
his neighbor.
Northeast Berks Co
Roger Heller
RDI, Robesoma, PA
Phone 215 693 6160
.ehigh & Northampton Co
Thomas Heist
Mam Street
Alburtis PA 18101
Phone 215 965 5124
Belleville Area
Louis S Peachy. Sr
RDI #5B C
Reedsville PA 17084
Phone 717 667 3291
Once the iifldi 'Were
picked clean, the remaining
stalk* were chopped, raked
and baled, and then the
tractors with tillage
equipment behind them
rumbled on to the scene as
though they were declaring
war on the Illinois soli. With
a dozen or more planes In the
air, approaching the landing
strip, a person could get the
impression that an Invasion
was taking place. The sky
looked like a scene from a
war movie, with squadrons
of fighter planes closing in on
their target.
Chased by a cold north
wind which was expected to
send temperatures in the
Midwest to the freezing point
by last Wednesday night,
IS TESTING
Adams Co Area
South Central Penna
James L Yoder
Regional Manager
RRI Box 81
Chambersburg PA 17201
Call Collect 717 264 9321
Charlie Campbell
—n— : Newville PA
n Jf artin , DJI Phone 717 776 7573
RDS Waynesboro PA 17268
Phone 717 762 3576
Eastern FranHm fn
Earl H. Moyer
Menno N Rissler RDS Box 277
RR4 Gettysburg PA 17325 Hagerstown MD 21740
Phone 717 528 4849
probably the same chilly
weather which arrived here
Thursday night) the com*
blnci, tractor*, plows, and
other equipment cleared off
and turned over several
hundred acres of the rich,
black Illinois soil. And it was
done on a “part-time” effort.
No one ever worked in both
directions because then it
would have gone so fast that
the show would be over too
soon.
Although Lancaster
Farming has a 9«-page issue
this week - the biggest we
can make without going into
three sections time and
space do not allow for full
coverage of the Ag Progress
Show today. We’ll have lots
more next week.
Cumberland Co
Marlin E. Ebersole
R 5 Carlisle PA 17013
Phone 717 776 7324
Western Washington Co , Md
Eastern Washii
don Co. MD
Phone 301 739-5199