Conservation guidelines offered Cora Damaged In Chester County Com may feed a hungry world but growing corn causes problems in Chester County when the rains come. “Walt 'til farmers start picking com - and find the gulleys that have been washed across the corn fields during the past few weeks; that will be rough on the com picker,” said Frank Mcßerty, a Conservation District Director from Oxford. “Where com has been chopped for silage, the ground is bare and needs a cover crop” chimed in Robert Hodge, a Director from Marshallton. Conservation District Directors at their monthly meeting this week, were discussing the large number of acres planted to com in Hie county, and the resulting loss of conservation prac tices. The shift from grass and hay crops to com has taken place in the last two or three years. Drought and short grain crops have hit in Russia, India and many other parts of the World. Foreign governments have been buying grains - car bohydrates from the U.S. Increased demand means higher prices for all grains, including com. Chester County is ideal for growing com. Excellent soils and -usually favorable . NEW CHECK - NEW - THESE NEW - FARM - - INDUSTRIAL - FORD 9600 D DUAL POWER 2-FORD 7500 LOADER BACKHOE FORD 7000 D ALL PURPOSE DUAL p ORD 4500 LOADER BACKHOE POWER FORD 550 LOADER FORD 7000 D ROW CROP POWER * 2- 5000 D TRANS. 3- 4000SU FORD 3000 D FORD 2000 G CL-20 SKID LOADER CL-40 SKID LOADER - IN-BETWEEN TRACTORS - 30 - KUBOTA'S -12 to 24 HP. Diesel - 2 & 4 Wheel Drive USED CHECK - USED - THESE USED - FARM 3 FORD 5000 D FORD 4000 D JOHN DEERE 2010 JOHN DEERE 60 INTERNATIONAL 706 FERGUSON 35 WITH LOADER ALLIS CHALMERS WD ALLIS CHALMERS B FORD 640 FORD 8N FORD 340 SKID LOADER - NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY - ★ Avoid Further Price Increases ★Good Selection KELLER BROS. TRACTOR CO. 949-6502 BUFFALO SPRINGS 949-6502 BETWEEN SCHAEFFERSTOWN & CORNWALL ON RT. 419 LEBANON CO. weather means good crops. Corn can produce more dollars per acre than forage crops. Com can be grown using machinery instead of expensive hired labor. The more acres of a farm in com, the higher the income per farm. Farmers and renters of farms are plowing up con tours, diversion terraces, strip crops and other soil and water conservation prac tices. These practices were installed in cooperation with the Conservation District and the Soil Conservation Service over the past twenty seven years. Contours, strips and short rows do not lend themselves to the use of large machinery used today. The drive is for more income per acre of land or per farm. Income necessary to pay the ex penses and the taxes. Growing com leaves the soil denuded when the rains come. Valuable top soil is washed down the hill sides. The roads and streams are covered with silt. Valuable fertilizer is carried away - a total loss for the fanner. Robert Struble explained that yields would be less on highly eroded land. “The valuable top soil with its humus, soil organisms and fertilizers is washed away. The com roots are unable to obtain the nitrogen, phosphorus, potash and LOOKING FOR TRACTORS? DUAL SELECT-O-SPEED Calls pertaining to this ad may be COLLECT trace minerals that they need for maximum growth. Hidden hunger sets in. The farmer can actually reduce his profit per acre or per farm by ignoring good conservation practices,” Struble said. Pownall Jones, Chairman of the District said that southern Chester County has had twenty inches of rain in twenty-one days. He said that continuous com with chemical weed control and poor management could add to the problems. “A fanner is applying weed control chemicals. He is racing to beat the storm that’s coming up on the horizon. He can save a minute or two by not shutting off the control valves when he crosses the waterway. The chemical knocks out the vegetative protection in the waterway. Then the storm has a chance to cut the soil out of the waterway, leaving a gaping gully. Then the township has to get out the road graders to scrape the mud off the roads”, Jones pointed out. Directors indicated that farmers should make every attempt to seed a winter cover crop in the next few weeks. This would provide short term protection. For long term protection, the Directors advise plowing on the contour. If diversions - LAWN & GARDEN - 6- 7 HP. GEAR 7- 10 HP. GEAR 8- 12 HP. GEAR 8 FORD 12 HP. HYDRO. 11 FORD 14 HP. HYDRO. 8 FORD 16 HP. HYDRO. 3 FORD 5 HP. RIDER MOWERS 2 FORD 8 HP. RIDER MOWERS - INDUSTRIAL - FORD 801 LOADER & BACKHOE FORD 5500 LOADER & BACKHOE - LAWN & GARDEN - FORD 12 H.P. HYDRO FORD 10 H.P. GEAR (2) CUB CADETS 12 H.P. HYDRO WHEEL HORSE 18 H.P. HYDRO. ALLIS CHALMERS 10 H.P. GEAR HOMELITE 10 H.P. GEAR G. E. ELECTRIC 8 H.P. GEAR WHEEL HORSE 6 H.P. Useo have been plowed out, they should be rebuilt. Contours should be maintained or reestablished. (Contour strips are one hundred foot wide alternating strips of grass and open ground.) The grass strips will sort out any of the silt that is washed off the open strip above. “Land owners who rent their land should make sure that good conservation practices are followed,” Jones recommended. “The rental agreement should contain a statement that conservation practices will not be plowed out. If con servation practices are not now on the land, the renter should agree to establish these conservation measures, and follow them, to make sure that a minimum amount of valuable top soil is lost.” Marshall Jones of West town has planted some of his acres of com with a ’no-till’ method. Using ‘no-till’ a farmer leaves the grass sod in place. A chemical weed killer is sprayed in a band, Ayrshire cotv sells for *llOO HARRISBURG Twenty nine cows brought $13,970 at the Ayrshire sale at the recent All-American dairy show sale held here at the Farm Show Building. Cows averaged $558, while bred heifers sold for an average of $495. Prices were down substantially from last year. A top price of $llO was paid by Edward Tunilo, an Ayrshire breeder from New om A cat dreams of garbage. START 'EM RIGHT ★ Terramycin Crumbles ★ Hoffman’s Livestock Powder ALSO: : ★ CATTLE WORMERS ★ 3-1 MINERAL BLOCK ★ TYLAN 200 INJECTABLE ★ CATTLE & HOG MINERALS * IMPROVE CORN SILAGE USE "SILAGE SAVOR" AARON S. GROFF & SON FARM & DAIRY STO»F R D. 3, Ephrata, Pa. 17522 (Hinkletownj Phone 354-0744 Store Hours 7 A M to 9P.M Closed Tubs. & Sat at 5:00 P.M. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Oct. 11,1975 each aide of the com row. The seed com is placed In a furrow, between the chemical bands * Just deep enough so that it will be covered with earth. The chemical stunts the growth of the vegetation Just enough so that the com plant can get started. The vegetation between the row is not distrubed. Com production may be Just as good and sometimes better than where com is grown on land that is plowed and harrowed. Several farmers in the county are using ‘no-till’ this year. Glenn Shirk of the County Extension Service is keeping track of corn production using ‘no till’methods. He will have information available for interested farmers and land owners later in the winter. Struble said that the rains had been especially heavy during the past few days. He saw, “erosion in the woods where there had never been any erosion before.” Milford, for “Ardrossan S V C Hilda’s Eve," a five-year old cow consigned by Mrs. H. M. Scott, Villanova. Another five-year-old cow, “Mentzer Homestead Oracle Jewel,” sold for $675, second highest price paid at the sale.'The cow, consigned by Ray Mentzer, New Holland, was purchased by Harold C. Rader, Connoquenessing, Butler County. Bumper (Conttnued from Pat* 1| “extremely good.” Gene Martin, of Sauder’s Mill, New Holland, told us that farmers in his area are describing their yields as being as good as last year’s. With more acres planted, some are considering building more cribs to hold the bumper crop. The crop isn't quite 10 per cent harvested yet, ac cording to reports, in fact it's not much more than just begun, says Heistand. Heistand reports an average moisture content of 16% per cent for com en tering his elevators. “It’s a little high,” he remarked, adding that the range is between 23 and 34 per cent. He’s also receiving some corn from Maryland’s Eastern Shore, where the moisture seems to be down to around 21-22 per cent. Pennfield Corporation’s Landis believes the moisture content this year so far is better than it has been for tiie last several years. It’s running between 22 and 28 per cent for him. He remarked that the yield per acre may not be as high this year, but the additional acreage will make up for it. He estimated that somewhere around 10 per cent of tiie crop is in. The big question remaining, or course, is what’s the price going to be. The latest national grain report is scheduled for release Friday afternoon, and will most likely have an effect on prices during the coming weeks. Then there’s the possibility of more grain going to Russia, as was in dicated in Predisent Ford’s speech on Thursday night Thirdly, there’s a big crop out in the Midwest. Add all that up and you have what might be called a puzzle.' Expectations are that com prices will break in the near future, and then go up again. Take Soil Samples During Fall Lime, phosphorus and potash can be applied during the fall months, reminds James H. Eakin, Extension agronomist, The Penn sylvania State University. Since plant nutrient levels in the sou are always low at the end of the crop season, fall is an ideal time for taking a lime and plant food in ventory of next year’s crop needs. The bathroom is one of the most hazardous areas in the home Many bathroom ac cidents are linked to bathtub and shower till stalls These two struc tures account for more than 180,000 injuries like falls, burns, elec trocutions, and drown mgs every year 29
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