THERMOSTAT- [ CHECK THIS m.L FOR. N OPENING MP CLOSING. DEFECT CAN RESUL T /N SLOW WARMUP, DECREASED ENGINE EFFICIENCY, AND ( NOT ENOUGH INTERIOR HEAT. □RTZ I sit .ft iiwinanPß BALLY LONGACRE ELECTRIC 845-2261 BEDFORD BENCE FARM EQUIPMENT CAMP HILL LLOYD SULTZBAUGH 737-4554 ELLIOTTSBURG HAMBURG HONEY BROOK ZOOK’S FARM STORE 273-9730 KIRKWOOD LANDIS &ESBENSHADE 786-4158 LEBANON 623-8601 CARL BAER 582-2648 H DANIEL WENGER 488-6574 MARVIN HOR 272-0871 Hay taken Farmers and ranchers who arc short of hay or want low-cost forage might consider harvesting forage from along highways and median strips. Studies by the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Depart ment of Agriculture show that adding fertilizer to these McALLISTERVILLE CLAIR SANER & 463-2234 MILLERSBURG LEO LANDIS 692-4647 MILTON LANDIS FARMSTEAD AUTOMATION 437-2375 NEWVILLE FRED B. McGILLURAY 776-7312 PIPERSVILLE JOSEPH MOYER 776-8675 STREET MD WALTER WEBSTER 452-8521 THOMASVILLE KENNETH LSPAHR 225-1064 from median strips areas produces up to three ARS started the research Grafted whaatgrasa was times more forage than by selecting several plots, the dominant species with similar unfertilized areas, ranging in size from 16 by 60 some alfalfa, yellow blossom Other advantages of using feet to SO by 104 feet in sweet clover, and this forage arc also forseen medians and roadsides along mlscellaneuos grasses and by ARS scientists. Scenery is Interstate 90, west of forbs. Wheatgrass was the improved for motorists Gillette, Wyo. The fertilized dominant plant closest to the because the fertilizer keeps plots received 80 pounds of highway, roadiseds greener, longer nitrogen per acre as am* Conducted cooperatively into the summer. Harvesting monium nitrate, and 56 with the Wyoming State the forage would save pounds of phosphorous per Highway Department, County and State highway acre while others served as Cheyene, and the Wyoming departments time and checks and received none. Agricultural Experiment money spent mowing the Fertilized plots produced an Station, Gillette, the right-of-way. average of 11,762 pounds of research shows that crude Snow often blocks high- forage per acre at 12 percent protein of crested ways where uncut grass moisture An average of only wheatgrass increased from from the preceding summer 639 pounds of forage per acre 6.4 percent on unfertilized acts as a natural snowfence was harvested from un- areas to 11.4 percent on for drifting snow. Removing fertilized plots. fertilized areas. The calcium this grass allows the snow to Range scientists Frank and phosphorous levels in blow across the road rather Rauzi, says "Much more both fertilized forage were than collecting on it. Har- forage was harvested from adequate for livestock vesting the hay also cuts areas closest to the highway nutrition, down on fires. Harvesting is than areas further away, Soil textures of medians especially important now 2,241 pounds per acre versus and roadsides varied con that new cars are equipped 1,306. The rain ran off the siderably because of mixing with catalytic converters, imprevious surface of the caused during road con- These devices get extremely highway and provided more struction. Some were clays, hot and can start fires if a mositure for forage closest others loams and sandy car is driven onto dry, tall to the highway.” loams. Soil acidity (pH) was grass areas. nearly neutral on all soils except where weathered coal was mixed with the soil fill. Pesticide curbs viewed as peril to food supply WASHINGTON, D.C. - An agricultural scientist and author said last week that food production will be greatly jeopardized and food shortages are almost certain to occur in the United States “if regulatory officials continue to demand more and more picayunish research.” Dr. Keith C. Barrens, author of the new book “The Food in Your Future” and a development scientist with Dow Chemical Company, said the present regulatory system “threatens to become a bureaucratic monster.” Barrens spoke at the annual meeting of the Agricultural Research In stitute. He is a former president of the institute, a current board member of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology, and has served on a number of committees of the National Academy of Sciences. “If over-regulation eliminates many of our chemical tools and blocks extended uses of those remaining, research that could help make the next century a time of continuing food abundance will dry-up wither on the vine,” Barrens said. “We have already seen some disturbing evidence of Lancaster Farming. Saturday. Oct 25.1975— W this withering. Is the inches, approximately 2-% ultimate price tag on safety- inches below average. Had it any-cost the greatest cost of been average or above, all; that is, a shortage of .forage yields would have food? been greater. 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