Lancaster farming. (Lancaster, Pa., etc.) 1955-current, October 25, 1975, Image 59

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BALLY
LONGACRE ELECTRIC
845-2261
BEDFORD
BENCE FARM EQUIPMENT
CAMP HILL
LLOYD SULTZBAUGH
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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
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CLAIR SANER &
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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.
The Michigan scientist Anyone wishing to utilize
called for “a public reap- this unused resource should
praisal of what constitutes first check with local high
practical safety and a way departments and secure
rethinking of the regulations a permit, if required,
that are needed to achieve
this goal.”
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