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Some fields of winter oats,
barley and wheat still look
dubious, reports Joseph L.
Newcomer, Extension
agronomist at the University
of Maryland, here.
Newcomer urges fanners
to check their fields
carefully and make a
decision within the next
week or two about possible
replanting to another crop.
If it hasn’t been done
already, immediate top
dressing with a
high nitrogen fertilizer is
also recommended. This
procedure will give zip to the
developing small grain, and
it will be of benefit even if
the field is replanted to corn.
Apply at the rate of 30 to 40
pounds of actual nitrogen per
acre.
There is one exception to'
this advice, however,
Newcomer warned. Don’t
top-dress a field with high
nitrogent fertilizer if you
have definite plans to replant
with long-season soybeans.
The Maryland Extension
specialist offered this rule
of-thumb for farmers trying
to decide whether they
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should replant a field of
small grain:
Don’t replant if there
seems to be a population of
at least 112 plants per square
foot. Even a population as
low as six plants per square
foot might make a decent
crop of oats, barley or wheat
under ideal circumstnces
with plenty of fertilizer, he
commented.
Replanting with Spring
wheat is not recommended
anywhere in Maryland.
Spring barley is not
recommened for any area of
the state except Garret and
Allegheny Counties, he
notes, and Spring oats should
be planted only north and
west of a line between
Washington, D. C.,
Baltimore and Elkton. But
even in these areas, the
Spring seeding should be
done immediately.
Otherwise, corn and
soybeans ate the recom
mended crops where it is
deemed advisable to replant
fields of small grain.
A final factor to consider in
making a decision to replant
Winter-damaged small grain
is the weed situation,
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t- ? Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, April 9*1977
Newcomer cautioned. If the than six per square foot,
current poplulation of newly forget about tryng to save
emerged perennial and the small grain,
annual weeds like garlic, Rather, make plans to
corncolke or cowcockle, control the weeds by diking
ragged-robin, corn* an application of proper
chamomile, chichweed, herbicides in connection with
kawel (German moss), plans to grow com or
daisies and dogfennel soybeans in the affected
(maywweed) numbers more field.
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Washington-Secretary of
Agriculture Bob Bergland
recently directed agency
administrators to begin an
“immediate review” of all
Washington office
agriculture personnel to
determine whether the work
they do “can be terminated,
combined with other work,
or streamlined and sim
plified.”
Bergland said the purpose
was “to operate the
government as efficiently
and effectively as possible
with the minimum nnmhw
of federal employees.”
The secretary said he did
not plan any reductions in
force. “We are convinced
that through attrition and
reassignment we can con
tinue to carry out our work
without disrupting
operations internally or
diminishing the services
provide the public,” he said.
Agency administrators
were asked to report by April
15 the number of positions, or
jobs, that could be
eliminated, plus any
recommendations they
wished c to submit on
reorganization of their
agencies. .New Jofe ceilings
will be established'for each
agency as a result of this
review, he said.
Mr. Bergland said the
review may be extended
later to include regional and
state offices.
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“I want to stress no one
will lose his or her job as a
result of this review,” the
secretary said. He said
unnecessary positions would
be abolished “as they
become vacant.”
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