READ LANCASTER FARMING FOR FULL MARKET REPORTS Ditfv Couinffg on your Starline Silo Dig OdVlflgS Unloader if serviced now! Savings also on service of all Starline Equip ment Custom built Taper Board feeders & wooden conveyors. •Authorized Dealer Madison Silos Experienced Serviceman DONALD R. Box 170, New Providence, PA 17560 Phone (717) 786-7654 How to make more milk the Cows vary greatly in their individ ual preferences for one forage over another. So while some of your cows may be getting the diet they need to maintain peak pro duction, others may be short changing themselves ... getting plenty of protein perhaps, but not enough energy to balance it. What can you do about it? The Agway Total Mixed Ration TMR is the best way yet devised for feeding a ration that’s perfect ly balanced for nutrient content. It eliminates cows’ preferences. But TMR feeding can be no better than the equipment used to mix the ration. Accurate measur ing and thorough mixing are musts. SILO NISSLEY DlilOl \ - N ■ SI V N same The "balanced bite ” is one key The Schwartz Mixer Wagon is the other Farm Systems {aGIA/Ay) Service V. AVONDALE SUPPLY CENTER LANCASTER SUPPLY AN STORE TEMPLE SUPPLY RD2, Wescosville, PA N - SI- Highway 215-395-3381 215 929-5264 Small investment pays off big NEWARK, Del. - All in dications are that the supply of fertilizer is going- to remain quite good this year. Prices are also remaining fairly firm, though there is a chance the cost of nitrogen will go up slightly. This should be good news to fanners, who have had their share of ups and downs over fertilizer over the last few years. Even so, the good manager will think twice about how he feeds his crops, the cost of production being what it is today. All this puts new emphasis on the importance of soil testing. The wise fanner invests his fertilizer dollar wisely, on the basis of a reliable soil test, points out Leo J. Cotnoir, Extension soil specialist at the University of Delaware. By testing soil and following recommendations of the soil test laboratory, a farmer can save from $lO to $3O an acre on phosphate fertilizer alone, Cotnoir estimates. This is because corn farmers have built up phosphate fertility in their from amount of feed Most versatile way to feed TMR ...the Schwartz Mixer Wagon It accurately proportions, thor oughly mixes, then transports and distributes nutrients m any pre scribed amount and formulation. So it’s easy to feed the right ration any place on your farm. Triple augers tumble and turn feed end to end to perfectly blend liquid, granular or pelleted sup plements into silage, chopped hay or ground gram. Five to seven minutes does the job. Controls are convenient—and positive. Solid construction assures trouble-free operation. Three sizes to choose from. An Agway salesman will be happy to discuss TMR with you. He can also arrange a demon stration of the Schwartz Mixer Wagon. Call Agway today Junction US 1 & 41 Avondale, PA 215-268-8238 fields to very high levels over the past 10 to 15 years. This was a common practice during the days of favorable fertilizer prices. Today some farmers are still using 50 to 100 pounds of phosphate per acre, when none to 30 pounds are needed. This is a costly practice indeed, with the opportunity ready-made to “cash in” on fertility built up when phosphate prices were low. , Only a soil test can tell a farmer just what his land needs. And now is an ex cellent time for taking samples. Fields are open and easily walked over. Moisture is usually adequate to make sampling easy. Laboratory recommendations from tests run now can be processed in time for growers to plan their fertilizer investment to their own best advantage. For example, fields to be seeded to alfalfa next year should be tested now for pH and lime requirements. If lime is needed, it can be applied before winter sets in. The soil specialist has a 1027 Dillervilie Rd. Lancastei, PA 717-397-4761 YORK WEST STORE 26 W MarketSt York, PA 717-792-2674 Lancaster Farming. Saturday, Nov. 27,1976 - caution about soil sampling procedures. The results of soil tests are no better than the samples you take, he points out. In practically all cases where test results appear to be inconsistent with known field history, the inconsistency can be traced to poor sampling technique. What are correct sampling techniques? For the regular tests, says the University of Delaware scientist, sample cultivated land to plow depth. Twenty cores should be taken from a 20-acre area and these should then be mixed into one sample. It is important that samples represent as much as possible areas of land that have been cropped, fertilized and limed in the same way. Fish HARRISBURG - Penn sylvania Agriculture Secretary Raymond J. Kerstetter announced on Monday that analyses of fish samples taken throughout the Commonwealth have shown tolerable levels of pesticides and heavy metal poisons. The Department’s Bureau of Foods and Chemistry took samples of fish sold at market in the Erie, Wilkes- Barre, Scranton, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Harrisburg, Lancaster and York areas for analysis. In addition, the Earth’s r - , iPonfinuel from.Pag£_Bol, -- inherent in the nature of fanning. These risks however win have to be reflected in more intense but more flexible management.” Soil conservation must also be taken into account. “There has been a shift in the distribution of flood patterns from a June peak to an early spring and fall peak. Concurrent with this is a measured rate of increase in sediment losses and growers’ management should extend to soil conservation practices of their own, because institutional programs now in effect are designed for a different climate situation than the one we are getting into,” Dr. Ross explains. There is no question that farming is becoming an in creasingly complex science, and even with the aid of com puters to map strategies and possible directions to take, the very nature of predicting climate change is extremely subjective, dependant on numerous uncontrollable variables. We can’t hope to predict exactly what will happen, but we can take precautions and directions based on realistic alter natives as to what statistically will not happen, namely continued non-fluctuating beneficial weather patterns for the production of agronomic crops. Areas that have had dif ferent crops of different treatments should be in dividually sampled. Avoid unusual areas, such as wet spots, sandy knolls, places where manure has been piled up, etc. If such areas are large enough, they should be sampled as separate units. A single sample should represent no more than 50 to 100 acres. Be sure to complete the “soil information sheet” for each sample submitted. Soil test bags are available at each county Extension office. They may be turned in at the county Extension office forwarding to the laboratory, or be mailed or brought there directly. Results are usually back in seven to 10 days. safe Department of En vironmental Resources submitted nine fresh fish (coho salmon and rainbow trout) samples taken from Lake Erie. “It was originally feared that the Kepone con tamination of the James River in Virginia would spread to the major fishing areas of the eastern seaboard,” Kerstetter ex plained. “The investigation resulted from our concern for consumers, and we began testing fish coming into Pennsylvania markets in February.” Climate 81
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