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MORNING SESSION 10 A.M.
For clients end their guests
A workshop to help clients:
+!nterpret their soil reports
+Work out the mechanics of implementing tillage, cropping
and materials application.
ADVANCED AG
is a consulting service which makes specific
recommendations for fertilization based on a sophisticated
“Albrecht Formular" soil test. We advise clients of optimum
tillage practices, working with existing tools or recommending
alternative implements. We supply sophisticated crop catalysts
and tracemineral fertilizers for specific cases.
Increase your Net Profit through integrated management of
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ATTENTION FARMERS:
ADVANCED AG’S 2ND ANNUAL
CROPS & SOILS DAY
MONDAY, JANUARY 19,1976
the man who is 25 years ahead of his time in practical and profitable agriculture.
WORK SMARTER
THE LEVERAGE OF BALANCED AGRICULTURE
Marietta farmers score
high in corn contest
Harold and Herbert Frey,
Marietta, have harvested an
exceptional com crop for
this area.
The Freys’ yield of 162 bu.
per acre places them high in
the scoring for the 1975
Project:2oo corn growing
program, although all of the
entries have not yet been
received.
The nationwide corn
growing program is spon
sored by the Producers of
Funk’s G-Hybnds and is the
largest program of its kind in
the country.
The Freys’ yield was with
Funk’s G-4646. It was ad-
Only one record price
paid at FS lamb sale
HARRISBURG - Only
one record price was
established during the an
nual Market Lamb Sale at
the 60th Farm Show as
Patricia Merritt, of State
College, sold her grand
champion pen of lambs,
Suffolks, for $4.25 per pound.
The previous record price of
$3.50 was paid in 1972. Buyer
of the champion pen was
George’s Foodliner Market
of Bethlehem.
The grand champion in
dividual lamb, a 128-pound
Suffolk exhibited by Sarah
AT THE MORG
EVENING SESSION 7:30 P.M.
Talk and slide presentation to show prospective clients how
Advanced Ag’s consulting service can lead the way to increased
profits.
TALK AND SLIDE PRESENTATION BY
DONALD L. SCHREIFER
justed to No. 2 corn at 15.5
percent moisture from 2.1
acres. To qualify as an of
ficial entry, the Freys had to
harvest shelled com from
not less than 4 adjacent rows
running the full length of the
field.
The Freys’ crop was
planted on May 2 in 30-mch
rows at 23,000 plants per
acre. It was harvested on
October 27 at 20.3 percent
moisture.
The Freys applied 125
units of nitrogen as a
preplant, and 150 lbs. of 10-
34-16 as a starter in their
fertilizer program. They
Lynn Brubaker, of 2418
Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster,
sold for $lO per pound, well
below the record price of $32
set in 1972. Buyer was Fox
Foods, Inc., of 101 South
Union Street, Middletown.
Margaret Herr, Narvon
R 2, sold her 52-pound grand
champion carcass lamb to
W. Donald Templeton, of
Ebensburg, for $2.00 per
pound. The record price in
carcass classes is $5.00 per
pound. '
The reserve grand
champion individual .market
NTOWN FIRE HALL
- LUNCH AVAILABLE -
tillage and fertility. Learn how and why the use or misuse of
different tillage tools can affect the profit or loss of your farm.
Each tool has its own proper timing.
Properly managed soil is more productive of quality produce,
more independent of weather extremes, earlier and easier to
work, requires less fertilizer - more profitable.
Get better control of your farming enterprise.
AFTERNOON SESSION 1 P.M.
Talk and Slide Presentation to show present and prospective
clients how tillage and fertility management can be integrated
for maximum long term profit.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 17.1976
hsed AAtrcx and Paraquat
for weed control. The yield
was verified by a disin
terested witness
More than 25,000 corn
growers have entered
Project.2oo over the past 4
years. Each year Funk
Seeds International
publishes computerized
summaries of the
management methods
employed by the Project;2oo
entrants, giving the nation’s
com growers a comparison
of their own growing
methods with those of other
top producers in the country.
lamb, a 113-pound Suffolk,
shown by Patricia Merritt,
was sold to Whiteford Sales
Co., of Eagle, for $1.75 per
pound.
The reserve champion pen
of lambs, Dorsets, exhibited
by Kenneth Staver, Palmyra
Rl, brought $l.OO per pound.
The buyer was George’s
Foodliner Market.
The reserve gram
champion carcass lamb,
consigned by Anrea Fought,
of Carlisle R 6, was sold to
Raymond Seidel, of
Richland, for $1.40 per
pound.
NOT HARDER
Seed
orders
taken
The Schuylkill County
Cooperative Extension
Service is taking group
orders for the Governor’s
Bicentennial Garden
Vegetable Seed Kits. Each
kit contains 10 packets of
seeds. The seeds in the kit
are lettuce Leaf Grand
Rapids, beets Detroit
Dark Red, carrots Dan
vers Half Long, turnip
Purple Top Light Green,
radish Scarlet Globe,
sweet corn Yellow Golden
Bantam, bush pea Triple
Treat, green bush bean
Tender Green, squash
Zuchini Summer, cucumber
disease resistant variety.
Group orders must be
received by January 14 by
4:00 p.m. at the Cooperative
Extension Service, P. 0. Box
404, Schuylkill Haven, PA or
call 385-3431. Minimum order
is 25 kits. Cost will be 50
cents per kit payable in
March when the seeds
arrive. Any group of in
dividuals, neighbors, civic,
or community organizations
may place an order. Groups
may also contact the Penn
• sylvania Department of
Agriculture directly at the
Bureau of Rural Affairs, 2301
North Cameron St.,
Harrisburg, PA. Minimum
orders are 100 kits through
the Department of
Agriculture in Harrisburg.
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