JWhat's New . .
, Combine Monitors
OAK BROOKE, 111.
Electronic performance
monitors are the hottest
items in farm machinery
today.
They enable the farmer to
increase his productivity by
assuring him of optimum
performance - day and night
- and by substantially cutting
downtime.
They help reduce repair
costs.
And they save a
tremendous amount of
aggravation by forewarning
the farmer that an equip
ment problem may occur,
and by pinpointing toe cause
of the problem rather than
UNIQUE SURFACTANT K|gg t I
assures superior results J
with ag-chemicais
■ Makes water wetter
■ Reduces foaming of ag-chemicals
■ Helps suspend wettable powders
■ Causes greater saturation
■ Improves coverage and penetration
■ Aids compatibility of specific ag-chemical
combinations
Proven on millions of acres
during five growing seasons
NUTRIENT RELEASE AGENT
helps you feed your crops
Wex helps your crop achieve its genetic potential by
■ Releasing more soil nutrients
■ Increasing trace nutrient uptake
■ Enhancing fertilizer activity
■ Distributing nutrients throughout the root zone
Thereby increasing your real yield at harvest
Like all living things
your crops should be fed properly
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J. NEVIN BOLL
Lititz, PA (717) 626-0954
WILBUR D. GRAYBILL
Mililintown, PA (717) 436-2574
JAMES A. LENTZ
Manhelm, PA (717) 665-2809
SHOLLENBERGER FARM SUPPLY
Centerpott PA (215) 926-2722
KARL VAN DYK
York, PA (717) 755-8849
force the farmer to search
for it all over the machine.
At the same time, im
provements in * and
capabilities of performance
monitors are expanding
rapidly.
In mid-1975, White Farm
Equipment Company was
among the first manufac
turers to offer a choice of
performance monitors on its
combines. The company
made a seven-function
monitor standard equipment
on its larger machines.
White Farm Equipment also
provides a four-function
electronic tachometer as
standard equipment.
Essentially, what the four-
channel electronic
tachometer does is “keep
watch’’ over these functions:
Threshing cylinder RPM,
The combine’s ground speed,
Engine RPM, Cleaning fan
speed.
Without ever leaving toe
cab, toe farmer can main
tain a visual check on toe
condition of the grain, both in
the grain tank and in the
return elevator. If anything
appears to be out of the
ordinary, he can monitor
each of the four machine
functions, simply by turning
a dial.
If an adjustment is
necessary, he can change the
fan speed, change the
cylinder speed, or make a
concave adjustment in
stantaneously - and precisely
- without leaving the cab and
without ever stopping the
machine.
That way, the farmer can
prevent crop losses caused
by machine adjustments
that are inaccurate for the
current crop conditions,
which often vary hour-to
hour.
In previous years, farmers
used to gauge the per
formance of a machine by its
sound. Most of today’s
machines are equipped with
cabs which make this
practice impractical.
The new seven-channel
monitor assists the farmer in
detecting those machine
variations, and even tells
him where the variation is
occurring. It watches over
the: Clean grain elevator
drive, Tailings return
elevator drive, Straw walker
drive, Straw walker
overload, Cleaning fan drive,
Cleaning shoe drive, and
Crop chopper drive.
All of these functions are
important to coordinated
capacity - and top produc
tivity.
During operation the
operator will bring the
machine to operating speed
and a green light on the
monitor will go on to indicate
that everything is func
tioning correctly. The green
light will stay on throughout
harvesting unless one of 'the
six shaft speeds slows down.
With the White monitor, a
reduction of 20 per cent in
shaft speed causes a hom to
sound, and a red light signals
the source of the trouble.
With other monitors, the
reduction in shaft speed
must amount to 26-30 per
cent before the operator
receives a warning. In any
event, the operator - thus
warned - can correct the
slow-down before a belt
breaks and the machine gets
plugged.
If the clean grain elevator
drive begins to slow down,
for example, it will worsen
until the drive belt fails. This
will result in plugging the
elevator and the cross auger,
and can cause a great deal of
downtime, as well as a trip to
town for parts.
With a monitor installed,
the buzzer and red light
would alert the operator and
indicate the source of the
problem before the failure
occurred. In most cases, the
operator would simply
tighten the drive belt and
continue harvesting.
Of course, belts will
continue to stretch aiid wear,
and eventually wear out; but
a good belt - with proper
tension - will have a better
chance of lasting several
seasons.
Most operators, once
accustomed to using a
performance monitor, will
run their machines to the red
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light limit when they begin
harvesting, and then back
them off a little so that the
green light appears. That
way, they are assured that
their equipment is operating
at peak performance.
The benefit of using a
performance monitor, in
terms of productivity, can
vary tremendously. At 10 to
15 per cent increase in
productivity might be a
reasonable expectation.
Performance monitors are
a new and useful tool for
farmers. Many manufac
turers now offer them as
standard equipment, and
almost all of them offer them
as optional equipment.
Farmers who are looking
for increased productivity
and reduced costs will give
them careful consideration.
KOCIDE FUNGICIDE
HOUSTON, Texas - Kocide
Chemical Corporation an
nounces new and improved
Kocide 101, a fixed copper,
wettable powder
agricultural fungicide
currently registered on some
40 food crops.
According to Dr. Graham
A. Stoner, vice-president
marketing and development
for Kocide Chemical, for
Turkeys at record high
HARRISBURG - Penn
sylvania farmers are ex
pected to raise a record
3,343,000 turkeys in 1976, 18
per cent above last year and
13 per cent above the
previous high of 2,951,000
raised in 1974.
Heavy breed turkeys
raised in 1976 are expected to
toal 2,774,000, up 20 per cent
from the 2,313,000 in 1975.
Light breed turkeys raised
during 1976 are estimated at
569,000, an eight per cent
increase from the number
raised a year ago.
Nationally, a record 137.9
million turkeys are expected
to be raised in 1976. This
level is 11 per cent above last
year and four per cent above
the previous high of 132.2
million raised in 1973.
Heavy breed turkeys
raised in 1976 are expected to
total nearly 120.2 million, up
10 per cent from the 109.3
million raised in 1975. Light
breed turkeys raised during
1976 are estimated at 17.8
million, a 19 per cent in
crease from the number
raised a year ago.
Turkeys poults hatched
from September 1975
mulatlon changes in new 101
substantially improve
performance of the material.
“The quantity of surfactants
and dispersants has been
increased so that new and
improved Koclde 101 gives
better performance in the
spray tank and better
coverage on plant surfaces.”
Kocide’s Research and
Development Department
has worked for some time on
improving the formulation of
the company’s well known
and widely accepted
fungicide. “What we’ve
really accomplished with the
improved formulation,” said
Stoner, “is a product that
gives more consistently
effective disease control,
even though the old for
mulation gave excellent
protection.”
Improved Kocide 101 still
contains the same highly
active microporus copper
hydroxide as before in the
form of literally millions of
unique, needle-like particles
that provide an available
surface area four times
greater than other copper
fungicides. Field tests
conducted on new and im
proved Kocide 101 showed
that it consistently out
performs all other copper
fungicides.
through July 1976 were 12 per
cent above the correspon
ding period a year ealier.
Heavy breeds were up 10 per
cent and light breeds up 19
per cent. Turkey eggs in
incubators on August 1,1976
were eight per cent below the
number in incubators a year
ago.
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